Curriculum for Architectural Engineering

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Architectural Engineering, 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)

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)
42500 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point January
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June

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

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

One of the following courses may replace the mandatory course 12100-series above:

12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12773 Advanced life cycle assessment methods 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12774 Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts 5 point June
28870 Energy and Sustainability 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
41073 Development and operation of product/service-systems 10 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41636 Design for Circular Economy 5 point January

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses: 

38103 X-Tech Entrepreneurship 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
41636 Design for Circular Economy 5 point January
41938 Agile Prototyping 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)

Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)

41936 Advanced Building Design 10 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June

Core competence courses - choose 10 ECTS among the following courses:

02180 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12773 Advanced life cycle assessment methods 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
34844 Building acoustics 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
41463 High performance buildings 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
41465 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Buildings 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
41639 Holistic Design of Engineering Systems 10 point Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)
41934 Advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
41969 Probabilistic Modelling in Civil Engineering 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 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: 

Please prioritise taking Agile Prototyping (41938) This is designed to be a course where you choose which focus areas you work. It is designed as a safe (pass/fail only) course for you to test ideas that you may later wish to explore in your thesis. Similarly, Advanced BIM (41934) is also organised so that you can explore it from your focus area.

02282 Algorithms for Massive Data Sets 7.5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
12360 Indoor Climate 10 point Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)
12361 Ventilation and Climatic Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12362 Daylighting and Lighting 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
12363 Simulation of indoor environment and energy consumption using IDA ICE 5 point August
12611 Heat and mass transfer in buildings 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
12612 Concrete Technology 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12773 Advanced life cycle assessment methods 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12774 Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts 5 point June
12859 Environmental Engineering in the Arctic 5 point Spring
28870 Energy and Sustainability 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
34365 IoT Prototyping 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
34844 Building acoustics 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
34846 Environmental acoustics 5 point June
34850 Architectural acoustics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
41073 Development and operation of product/service-systems 10 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41083 Technology platforms and architectures 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
41084 Biologically Inspired Design 5 point January
41461 Building Integrated Photovoltaics 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
41462 Building Performance Simulation 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
41463 High performance buildings 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
41464 Solar Heating Systems 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
41466 Sustainable heating and cooling of buildings 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
41467 Development of solar energy systems 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41832 Experimental Structural Mechanics 5 point January
41881 Sustainable building in extreme environments 15 point Spring
41882 The Arctic Infrastructure and Society 5 point Spring
41931 Building Fire Safety 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41933 Structural Fire Safety Design 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12), Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
41934 Advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
41935 Super-light structures 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
41937 Structural design of precast concrete buildings 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
41938 Agile Prototyping 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
41961 Computational Structural Modelling 2: Non-linear Finite Element Method 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
41963 Advanced Concrete Structures 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
41964 Advanced Steel Structures 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
46411 Design of large composite structures 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)

Arctic Semester

The courses 30857, 41882, 12859 and 41881 are taught in Sisimiut, Greenland as the Arctic Semester https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/msc/about-dtus-msc-programmes/arctic-semester which is offered every spring. 

The Arctic Semester offers an opportunity for students to obtain an in-depth understanding of engineering challenges and opportunities in the Arctic. The students will obtain unique engineering-related qualifications in an extreme climate and another culture during the extended spring semester (13-week period and 3-week period in June).  

The courses have to be taken together as one package. Of these courses, the course 41882 can count as either a Core competence course or a Programme-specific course, while the courses 41881 and 12859 can count as Programme-specific courses.

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

Tim Pat McGinley

Tim Pat McGinley Head of Studies | Associate Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45251781