Internship: Dynamic Aircraft Maintenance Scheduling and Spare Part Management: From Mathematical Formulation to Real-World Benchmarks
Koninklijk Nederlands Lucht- en Ruimtevaartcentrum · Posted Nov 2, 2026
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Internship · Intern
- An internship allowance
This project formulates a mathematical framework for dynamic, joint maintenance scheduling and spare part management, starting from a small NLR use case and scaling up, and providing a comparative benchmark of several solution methods.
Responsibilities
- A literature study on dynamic maintenance scheduling and spare part management
- Selection of a use case provided by NLR and formulation of a mathematical framework that jointly handles maintenance scheduling and spare part management
- Developing dynamic solution methods for the framework and analysing the trade-off between computational cost and solution quality
- Applying the framework to the use case, starting small and scaling up, and providing a comparative benchmark of several methods against standard baselines
Requirements
- MSc student in Aerospace Engineering
- MSc student in Applied Mathematics
- MSc student in Operations Research
- MSc student in Computer Science
- Nice to have: Pyomo