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Description of the title
The Master’s Degree in Advanced Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is a postgraduate program designed to train professionals specialized in improving efficiency in the areas of production and logistics, with a focus on engineering.
This official master’s degree focuses on the needs of companies, especially in the field of production management, transportation, distribution, etc., by comprehensively addressing the Supply Chain / Procurement.
Objectives of the degree
To provide advanced training in planning, scheduling and sequencing techniques applied in both industrial companies and supply chains.
To teach logistics procurement and distribution techniques, as well as logistics and supply chain engineering strategies.
Obtain a strategic vision of the Supply Chain and knowledge to be able to model it in its different areas.
To have a complete vision of the infrastructures and means of transport.
To promote the application of business process management, performance measurement systems and modeling and simulation techniques for production and logistics systems.
Establish knowledge and best practices in the use of advanced digitization tools such as ERP, WMS, TMS, and emerging technologies (IoT, AI, Big Data).
To offer a research itinerary for those interested in pursuing a doctoral thesis.
Career opportunities
This master’s degree is aimed at graduates in Engineering, preferably in Industrial Organization, and Business Administration and Management who wish to focus on industrial and service companies related to logistics, distribution and supply chain operations.
- Production/Logistics Engineer
- Operations/Supply Chain Consultant
- Procurement Manager
- Process Improvement Manager
- Manufacturing and logistics industry
- Transportation and distribution
- Logistics operators and warehouse management
- Retail sector
- High technology
Aimed primarily at
This master’s degree is aimed at graduates seeking to join the management teams of industrial or service companies.
- Graduates in Engineering, preferably in Industrial Organization.
- Graduates in Business Administration and Management with an engineering vision.
Structure of the master’s degree
Credits: 60 ECTS
Mandatory:32 ects | Electives:16 ects | External internships:0 ects | Final Master’s thesis (TFM):12 ects
Module 1. Production, logistics and supply chain engineering. Troncales32 ects mandatory
Subject:Transport, Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Minimum credits: 16 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Modeling, Simulation and Supply Chain Performance Management Systems
Minimum credits: 16 | Character: Mandatory
Module 2. Professional Specialty Logistics and transportation16 ects electives
Subject:Internal logistics and warehouse design and management
Minimum credits: 4 | Character: Elective
Subject:Foreign trade, international logistics and logistics outsourcing
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Elective
Research Specialty: Information and Communication Processes and Technologies and Tools for the Information and Communication Technologies and Tools for the Information and Communication Technologies and Tools for the Information and Communication Technologies and Tools for the Information and Communication Technologies and Tools for the Information and Communication Technology16 ects electives
Subject:Processes and Information and Communications Technologies for Supply Chain Management
Minimum credits: 8 | Character: Elective
Subject:Tools for decision making in the supply chain
Minimum credits: 8 | Character: Elective
Module 4. Master’s Thesis12 ects final degree project
Subject:Master’s Thesis
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Final Degree Project
Internships
You will have the opportunity to carry out professional internships in the many private and public companies with which the School has signed agreements. Our experience is that most of the students opt for this possibility and that they are usually quite satisfied with the experience, both students and companies.
Research and access to Ph.
You will be able to apply to the Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Production.
Where you will be able to propose a research project focused on the development of a proposal in one of the areas developed in the degree.
Academic exchange / agreements with other universities
You will be able to spend a semester in one of the universities with which we have a relationship and with which the School has signed academic exchange agreements. If you choose this option, the most practical way to do it in this master’s degree is during the period of the Master’s Thesis.
Facilities and laboratories
The degree has classrooms prepared for the academic training of students in its two specialties, as well as laboratories with specific software for the development of the practical field.
All of this is located in the Technical School of Industrial Engineering, as well as in the departments of Business Organization and Transportation and Terrain Engineering.
Master’s Thesis
Application:
The Master’s Thesis (MT) is one of the most important academic activities, in which the student must combine various skills acquired throughout the program. For this reason, this type of work relies on the student’s personal initiative. Based on available projects from previous courses, proposals suggested by professors, or personal experience gained through company internships or professional practice (if applicable), the student must propose a topic for their MT. To develop this proposal, students may seek advice from both the Academic Director of the Program (DAT) and the faculty members.
Once the student has one or more ideas, they must contact the professor they consider most closely related to the topic, so that this professor may act as supervisor. Again, the student can rely on the support of the DAT in this process. Once the student–supervisor relationship is established, the formal assignment of the Master’s Thesis proposal must be carried out through the EBRON application. The request can be submitted either by the supervisor or the student. It is particularly important that, if the student submits the request, the supervisor reviews and gives formal approval (Vº Bº) to the proposal.
Those professors who have taught, or are currently teaching, in the master’s program within the last two academic years, as well as professors affiliated with the ETSII, may act as main supervisors of MTs.
New Master’s Thesis proposals can be submitted at any time during the academic year, provided that they are submitted at least three weeks before the start of the defense request period for the chosen defense session. The proposal will be reviewed by the Academic Committee of the Program, and, once approved, the student will see the corresponding information reflected in the UPV Intranet / Virtual Secretary.
Evaluation:
The evaluation of the Master’s Thesis will take place after the student’s presentation before a committee composed of three professors from the ETSII. These committees are rotational, meaning that their composition will not be known until the day of the defense session.
The procedure is as follows:
- The student submits the defense request through the application available in UPV Intranet → Virtual Secretary → Master’s Final Project. (It is essential to have completed all credits, have all grades recorded in the transcript, and ensure that a defense session is open.)
- Once the request is submitted and the documentation is verified, the supervisor will receive an email containing a confidential evaluation form, in which they may suggest a grade for the thesis.
- When the defense request period closes, the ETSII will assign the student a specific date and time for the defense. This information will be communicated by email to both the student and the supervisor.
- The student must appear on the assigned date and time (arriving 15 minutes early) to carry out the defense, after which they will be informed of the final grade obtained.
Note: Updated defense session dates can be found in the News section of this website.
Additional information and answers to frequently asked questions about the TFM are available here.
Collaborating companies and more
The degree collaborates with different companies in the industrial and logistics services sector that participate in different activities of the master’s degree, such as lectures, company visits, student internships, etc.
This contact with the business reality within the academic activity has always been highly appreciated by the students of the degree, so it is considered a great asset.
