Curriculum for Applied Chemistry

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Applied Chemistry the student must fulfil 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 Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point F7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12106 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
or
12105 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12101 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
42500 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

42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June
or
42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses - if you take more than 5 ECTS in this group they will count as electives: 

26620 Chemistry and Innovation 5 point June
28311 Chemical and Biochemical Product Design 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
28485 Biobusiness and Process Innovation 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)

Core competence courses - choose 20 ECTS among the following courses:
26231 Physical Chemistry 3 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
26317 Instrumental chemical analysis 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
26422 Biomolecular Chemistry 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
26433 Organic Chemistry 3 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
28212 Polymer Chemistry 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
28315 Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
47339 Solid state and structural chemistry 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
or
26134 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry 3) 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)

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

 

Choose 25 ECTS among the rest of the programme specific courses: 
02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
22117 Protein structure and computational biology 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
22210 Immune System in Health and Disease 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22281 Biomaterials 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
22508 Practical NMR spectroscopy: Making reactions in (bio)chemistry visible 5 point June
23522 Rheology of food and biological materials 5 point January
26125 Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules 5 point June
26130 Spectroscopic methods 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
26236 Statistical thermodynamics and reaction dynamics 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
26245 Applied computational chemistry 5 point June
26255 Molecular dynamics and machine learning 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
26261 Introduction to Quantum Chemistry 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
26263 Molecular electronic structure methods 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
26290 Chemistry at the Nanoscale 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
26416 Laboratory Course in Organic Synthesis 5 point January
26426 Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
26428 Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
26436 Pharmaceutical Drug Development 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
26438 NMR Spectroscopy 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
26444 Organic Chemistry 4 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
26446 Advanced Medicinal Chemistry 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
26455 Physical Organic Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms 5 point June
26510 Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
27325 Advanced protein structure engineering and analysis 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
27330 Quantitative analysis and modeling in protein science 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
27423 Metabolomics and proteomics 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
27430 Eukaryotic cell biology 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
28213 Polymer Technology 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
28214 Polymer synthesis and characterization 5 point June
28242 Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
28316 Laboratory Course in Colloid and Surface Chemistry 5 point January
28434 Membrane Technology 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
28443 Industrial Reaction Engineering 7.5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
28530 Transport Processes 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
28811 Polymers in processes and products 5 point August
28855 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
28857 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Practical version 7.5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
41737 Design of plastic products 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
41739 Experimental plastic and metal processing technology 5 point June
47301 Hydrogen energy and fuel cells 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
47302 Hydrogen and fuel cell chemistry - experimental course 5 point January
47304 Ceramic science and engineering 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
47305 Electrochemistry 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
47333 Electron microscopy for materials science 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
47336 Applications of X-ray and neutron scattering in biology, chemistry, and physics 5 point August

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.