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LCL master cohort celebrates virtually the end of academic year

  • Département Sciences économiques et gestion
    26 juin 2020
  • Catégorie
    Recherche
  • Thème
    Sciences économiques & gestion

Students from the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management celebrated the successful completion of their studies on 25 June. They attended the so called ‘Research Fest’ virtually this year and in an extraordinary way.

The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) welcomed its third cohort of Master students for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In addressing participants, Prof. Joachim Arts, LSCM Study Director, underlined the students’ hard work and recalled the inspiring time spent together with them. Proud of the cohort’s achievements in this exceptional context and for their civic engagement in support to the Robert Schuman Hospitals, he further congratulated students on their thesis projects and on the value they generated for the companies they worked with.

These projects were carried out in cooperation with an industry partner. Cargolux Airlines, the city of Echternach, John Deere, Nexxtlab and Vodafone sponsored the 2020 projects. The theses covered a wide range of topics, including on-time performance for a cargo airline, the value of batteries in electric grids, long tail spend management, city logistics distribution, sustainable supply chain practices.

Dr. Josué Vélazquez from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) emphasised the even more important role that supply management plays for businesses during and after the COVID-19 crisis. He also reminded the value of human qualities and motivation in their career.

Students were warmly congratulated by the LCL faculty team, including their master thesis supervisors, who shared some of the memories they had gathered during students’ time at the LCL. Students received a certificate for the successful completion of their coursework at the MIT in January 2020 by blockchain for the first time.

In addition to joining the MIT SCALE alumni network, they will officially graduate from the programme at the University of Luxembourg’s graduation week in December.

Learn more about our master programme in logistics & supply chain management