You can find possible topics for your thesis in the following list. You can also submit your own topic suggestions (e.g. topics from lectures or practical work in cooperation with companies). Please note that you must prepare an exposé for your own proposals, which briefly describes the topic, central research question and the research method used.

Bachelor topics:

1. Planning of inductive charging infrastructure on airport aprons under consideration of an investment budget
2. A scenario-based approach to the planning of battery exchange stations
3. Programme planning under consideration of CO2 emissions - a multi-criteria approach
4. Route planning under consideration of environmental impact
5. Operative patient-bed allocation in large hospitals
6. Scheduling for flexible workshop production with sequence-dependent set-up times
7. Energy-efficient scheduling for flexible workshop production
8. Resource-limited multi-project planning of rail vehicle maintenance
9. Integrated planning of maintenance measures and workload distribution in the semiconductor industry
10. Capacity-orientated production planning in the semiconductor industry
11. Optimisation of put-to-light picking systems
12. Urban parcel delivery through public transport crowdshipping
13. Optimisation of food distribution in a canteen through simulation with AnyLogic
14. Dynamic-inductive loading of public transport buses
15. Route and workflow planning for technicians at a telecommunications company
16. Optimisation of cable laying for offshore wind turbines

Master topics:

1. Advanced solution methods for sequence planning in flat steel production
2. Local search methods for planning dynamically-inductively loaded buses on airport aprons
3. Planning of inductively loaded driverless transport vehicles in factory halls
4. Tactical maintenance planning of rotor blades on onshore wind turbines with flexible working time cycles
5. Planning a warehouse layout of non-rectangular halls with obstacles