Curriculum for Biomaterial Engineering for Medicine

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc in Biomaterial Engineering for Medicine the student has to meet the following requirements:

  • Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 10 ECTS
  • Have passed Programme-specific courses adding up to at least 50 ECTS
  • Have performed a Master Thesis of 30 ECTS points within the field of the general program
  • Have passed a sufficient number of Elective courses to bring the total number of ECTS of the entire study to 120 ECTS

Curriculum

Polytechnical foundation courses (10 ECTS)

The following courses are mandatory

12100 Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point F7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12106 Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
or
12105 Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12101 Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
38402 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June
or
38404 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
38400 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point January

Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:

38401 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January
or
38405 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
38403 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - mandatory (10 ECTS): 

22203 Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate a Healthcare Product 10 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) and January

Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)

22283 Molecular thermodynamics, transport, and analytics 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)

Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:

22235 Drug delivery 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
22236 Immunotherapy 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
22281 Biomaterials 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
27510 Biosensors and bioanalysis 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)

The extra ECTS points in this group will automatically be a part of the overall ECTS points of the programme specific courses.

 

Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:

22206 Project in healthcare engineering, August 5 point August
or
22207 Project in healthcare engineering, January 5 point January
or
22205 Project in healthcare engineering, June 5 point June

Choose 20 ECTS from one of the following three groups of programme specific courses: 

Drug delivery systems engineering  courses 

Note: Students who lack basic immunology are recommented to take 27070 as elective. 

22201 Immune System, Anatomy & Development 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
22214 Technologies in Translational Neuroscience 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
22237 Preclinical drug development 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
22284 Living models of body barriers and organs 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
26241 Applied Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
28855 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

Healthcare Materials Engineering  courses

22284 Living models of body barriers and organs 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
22286 3D printing of soft matter and living tissue (bioprinting) 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
26422 Biomolecular Chemistry 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
28212 Polymer Chemistry 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
28213 Polymer Technology 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
47341 AI4Materials: Artificial Intelligence for Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)

Diagnostics Technology Engineering  courses

22058 Wearable Sensors: Designing and Prototyping 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
22603 Light microscopy for life science 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
27101 Assay Technology 5 point June
27665 LabChip: Design of Lab-on-a-chip systems 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
34430 Introduction to biophotonics 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
34431 Optical biosensors 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)

Cell therapy

22210 Immune System in Health and Disease 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22212 Stem cell technology for engineers 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
22240 CRISPR engineering of mammalian cells 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
27430 Eukaryotic cell biology 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
27470 Mammalian cell technology for manufacturing of biologics 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
28855 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

Elective courses

Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme specific courses in excess of the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as much as 10 credit points among the bachelor courses at DTU and courses at an equivalent level from other higher institutions. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad.

Head of Studies

Yi Sun

Yi Sun Groupleader, Professor Mobile: +45 26673998