Operations Management

A business engineer has a thorough knowledge of the discipline of business administration and technology, i.e. technological products and processes. In this respect, a business engineer may act as a mediator between technical and businiess economic psoitions to conduct data analysis, modelling and decision-making. He is trained to develop and implement business solutions starting from a model to a business process. The Master of Science in Business Engineering is a programme in business administration that focuses on the following subdisciplines: Management science, Business processes and Technology. These three subdisciplines are educated throughout the two-year master programme in different manners through theoretical lectures, practical case studies and business games as well as guest speakers and company projects.

Where the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering mainly lays the (quantitative) foundation, the master programme studies different aspects of these subdisciplines in a more applied manner. The specific content of the study that links business analytics and business processes with technology helps to translate processes into business models and organisational structures into information systems. Business operations within a single company and between companies in a supply chain, that encompass processes and the logistical flow of products, services and/or information, are studied thoroughly by data analysis techniques, conceptual or mathematical modelling techniques and techniques of decision making. These tools support the efficient organisation of resources in companies towards its common goals and objectives.

The discipline of Operations Management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of resource use, and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements. It is concerned with managing the process that converts inputs (raw materials, labor, and energy) into outputs (goods and/or services). Important business concepts concerning Project Management, Total Quality Management, Production and Supply Chain Management will be highlighted from various angles and perspectives and their application will be illustrated in a real-world business decision making setting.

General Courses

• Strategic Management
• Environmental Technology
• Human Resources Management [en, nl]
• System Dynamics
• Business Skills [en, nl]
• Business-to-business Marketing
• Managing Service Organisations
• Implementation and Management of ICT within an Organisation
• Innovation and Technology Management
• Business Process Management
• Financing High Tech Entrepreneurial Companies
• High Tech Marketing

Courses Related to the Main Subject

• Advanced Production Management
• Project Management
• Total Quality Management
• Decision Making for Business
• Supply Chain Management

Elective Advanced Courses

• Analytical Customer Relationship Management
• Pricing and Revenue Management
• Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
• Big Data
• Investment Analysis
• Financial Risk Management
• Financial Planning
• Advanced Investment Analysis
• Valuation and Financial Risk Management
• Bayesian Statistics
• Econometrics: Time Series Analysis
• International Business Cases in IT
• Project-based Systems Analysis and Design
• Service Implementation
• Work Placement [nl]
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Data Science
• Clean Technology
• Discrete Algorithms
• Rational Use of Materials
• Heuristics and Search Methods
• Methods Engineering and Work Measurement
• Information Management [nl]
• Information Technology and Data Processing
• Machine Learning
• Network Modelling and Design
• Quality Engineering and Industrial Statistics
• Queueing Theory
• Simulation of Manufacturing and Service Systems
• Software Architecture
• Software Management
• Total Plant Automation

Elective General Courses

• Economics of Banking
• Economics of Financial Markets
• Advanced Econometrics: Non-linear Methods
• Microeconomics: Decision Theory [nl]
• Monetary Economics
• Insurances [nl]
• Audit
• Management Control
• Taxation
• Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
• Market Research Methods
• Corporate Social Responsibility [nl]
• Ethics, Engineering and Society [nl]
• Health Economics [nl]
• Economic Analysis of Law [nl]

Elective Courses

• The Teacher within School and Society [nl]
• Interaction and Communication in the Classroom [nl]
• Classroom Management and Reflection
• Powerful Learning Environments [nl]
• Psychology of Adolescence

Requirements

• The course is open to students with at least a bachelor's degree
• Reference letters
• A TOEFL-TEST with a minimum score of 90 (internet-based). Test participants should specify the "institution code" 2643 for UGent and 0749 for KULeuven, so that the score can be sent directly to the university.
• An original 'academic test report form' (TRF) from IELTS with a minimum overall band score of 7.0.
• A certificate awarded by the Ghent University Language Centre confirming proficiency in English, CEF-level B2
• Certificate Practical English 5, Upper-Intermediate Academic English or Preparing for an English test, issued by the Ghent University Language Centre.
• Cambridge-ESOL: First certificate in English (FCE)
• Enrollment fee of Ghent University for academic year 2016-2017 is 890 € for EER-students and students from OESO-DAC-list (developing countries), all other students pay an enrollment fee of 5330 €

Scholarships

• Ghent University Master grants