Logistics Engineering

In your first year, you discover how a product moves from raw materials and production to storage, transport and the customer. You learn about topics such as supply chains, purchasing, planning and data, and discover how these different parts are connected.

One day a week at a company

After your first weeks at HZ, you spend one day a week at a company. You talk to employees, see how logistics works in practice and look for ways to improve it. For example, you might redesign a warehouse so products can be collected faster or find a smarter and more sustainable way to deliver products to customers.

Technological and professional skills

You also learn how data and technology can improve logistics. You work with digital tools, explore solutions such as warehouse robots and try technologies such as 3D printing. Throughout the year, you also develop skills such as teamwork, presenting and giving and receiving feedback.

In your second year, you explore how new technologies and innovations can make logistics processes faster, smarter and more sustainable. You also learn how companies can successfully introduce changes and improve areas such as production planning and inventory management.

One day a week, you are at a company where you work on these topics in practice. You also explore maritime logistics and discover how goods move through ports and across the world, with Zeeland as your classroom.

Start your own company

During the Student Startup project, you start your own company together with Industrial Engineering & Management and Engineering students. You develop and produce your own product and learn about management, marketing and sales.

In your third year, you will do an internship and take a minor in the Netherlands or abroad.

Minor

A minor allows you to deepen or broaden your knowledge and skills. You can take your minor at HZ or at another university of applied sciences in the Netherlands or abroad. View the full range of HZ minors here.

Internship

During your internship, you will put your knowledge into practice. You will spend six months working with a company or organisation of your choice. This can be either in the Netherlands or abroad.

During the first semester, you work in a team on a real supply chain challenge in a sector of your choice. In the second semester, you complete your individual graduation project at a company or organisation.

Supply Chain Management

You learn how to look at the entire logistics chain and make sure all parts work well together, from purchasing and production to storage, transport and delivery. Together with your team, you analyse an existing supply chain and develop ideas to improve or innovate it. 

Graduation research

During your graduation internship, you do your own research for a company or organisation. You investigate a logistics problem, collect and analyse data and explore possible solutions. Based on your research, you give advice that the organisation can use.

Recent projects include research into how AI can help serve customers faster, how to improve the layout of a port terminal and how to reduce waiting lists in healthcare.

In the Netherlands, the standard of higher education is maintained through an accreditation system that ensures legal regulation and quality assurance. All programmes at HZ University of Applied Sciences are examined and approved by the accreditor, the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). This means that they meet the quality requirements for accredited higher education set by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, ensuring that you are always choosing a programme of high standard.