Master of Science in Operations Research Engineering (Sustainable Mobility Analytics)

The focus of this master program is to analyse, optimise, and design complex operational systems, with the aim of improving their effectiveness and efficiency, thus increasing their productivity in a sustainable manner. Such operational systems are found across all kinds of industrial organizations but also for example in health care, urban mobility, and energy grids.

Sustainable Mobility Analytics aims to improve urban mobility in our cities and around the world. This requires not only the improvement of transport infrastructure but also a system approach towards a better planning, execution and operation. Today, new data coming from smartphones or intelligent transport systems are becoming available. As we continue to urbanise and gather more data on our mobility patterns and urban systems, the challenge is not simply the amount of data, but also how to manage it, critically understand its quality, and utilise it to support decision-making on our cities’ most pressing challenges.

There is an expanding need to forge a new generation of engineers, capable of analysing complex flows and relations in an urban environment and extracting meaningful insights. Such work is critical to support cities’ strategic decisions and push towards a more sustainable future, centred on efficient resource use, a clean environment, equitable citizen engagement, and a healthy, low-carbon society. The Sustainable Mobility Analytics programme is designed in an interdisciplinary fashion to analyse, start and manage new and emerging transport and mobility technologies and services for citizens and logistics.

The track is a double degree programme. You will spend each year at a different university - the “entry” university (first year) and the “exit” university (second year). You will be able to choose from leading European universities in the field of urban mobility: Ghent University, TU Eindhoven, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, UPC Barcelona, the University of Tartu, and the University of Lisbon. Graduating students will be awarded two Master’s degrees, one from each university where they carried out their studies. Moreover, the programme is designed so that students attain a certificate awarded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

The programme consists of a general module, main subject modules, elective course units, and a Master’s dissertation. The track has integrated technical content and business content (on Innovation & Entrepreneurship). The general module contains thirty credits of course units that cover the core competencies of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. The main subject modules cover thirty credits of specialist course units in the discipline of Sustainable Mobility Analytics. Through thirty credits of elective course units, students can further deepen and/or broaden their knowledge and skills in technical and non-technical subjects. In the Master’s Dissertation, students conduct academic research in close collaboration with a company or organisation in transport or mobility.

Between the first and second year, students will participate in a Summer School applying new skills to two different cities in Europe, with all students active in the EIT Urban Mobility Master School.

You will have a wide range of career opportunities, within the public and private sector, as well as the business know-how to start your own business or conduct rigorous research.