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) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 38402 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
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| 38404 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 |
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| 38405 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 |
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| 22207 | Project in healthcare engineering, January | 5 | point | January |
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| 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 Groupleader, Professor Mobile: +45 26673998 suyi@dtu.dk