TPPE35 Operations Management Projects

Project task

Seminar Summary of half-time reports

1. Find a few other references, to reach the total number of 10-15. 2. Make summaries of each reference paper; each on about one single page (A4). These make up the half-time report. 3. Write a scientific paper (as the studied ones). This should include a discussion of the related literature (i.e. the papers that you have been studying), a comparison between the contributions from various authors (e g similarities and differences), and then a (e.g. differences) model of your own, that is based on current research but includes so e extension of your own. some e e s o o you ow . 4. Make a presentation in the last seminar of the course. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for about 15-20 minutes.

Grading structure

Selection of reference articles

Final report (scientific paper): 50% Half-time report: 30% p Presentations: 10% Activity/Participation in class: 10%

Some groups have a very good collection of articles

- 2-4 overview papers and then papers to relevant areas - Papers in relevant areas, and then well -combined p , - overview + technical papers (need to be more careful in the final report)

Some groups select articles based on keywords. But th ti l B t the articles are not providing a focus for topic. t idi f f t i

Writing a summary

Other issues

Organise the information

background/purpose/framework/methodology/findings methodology/findings/limitation/summary purpose/methodology/conclusion/further issues

Sources of references Figures (where is the source information?) Quotations English

Write in your own voice or only repeat the own voice repeat article contents?

Other issues

Rest of the project

When you copy things from one articles, it is called stealing ll d li When Wh you create ideas from several articles, it is id f l i l i i called research

Week 45, Wednesday (Nov 9): discussion Week 47, Wednesday (Nov 23), presentation
Each group gets 15 minutes to present the final report.

Final report

Project task

Final report needs to be submitted before 24:00 on December 5 by email to ou.tang@liu.se

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Evaluation of the final report (50p)

Mind mapping

Correctness 30% Thoroughness 30% Formulation 15% Communication 15% Other 10%

Think about
Motivation for study Structure: headings, Inforamation about article selection Categorisation: classes/dimensions, sub-areas, content analysis, chronological order (trends, periodic themes), journal distribution, Summary

Final report
Please indicate names and ID numbers of group members Please indicate the contriubtion of each memeber if applied