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) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 Head of Studies | Associate Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45251781 timmc@dtu.dk