Curriculum for Biomedical Engineering
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Biomedical 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 including the mandatory courses
- 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) |
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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 |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - mandatory (at least 5 ECTS):
| 22449 | Introduction to Biomedical product development | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)
| 02411 | Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17), Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| KU101 | Pathophysiology | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
Choose 30 ECTS among the rest of the programme-specific courses (or 25 ECTS if 22435 Biomedical Product Development was taken):
| 02180 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 22003 | Auditory signal processing and perception | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 22052 | Applied signal processing | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 22053 | Principles of brain computer interface | 5 | point | January |
| 22058 | Wearable Sensors: Designing and Prototyping | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 22059 | Laboratory Course on Advanced Wearable Sensor Design and Prototyping | 5 | point | June |
| 22281 | Biomaterials | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 22284 | Living models of body barriers and organs | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22450 | Applied Biomedical Product Development | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 22475 | Tissue and movement biomechanics DTU | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 22485 | Medical imaging systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 22490 | Advanced Ultrasound Imaging | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 22506 | Medical magnetic resonance imaging | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22507 | Advanced magnetic resonance imaging | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 22508 | Practical NMR spectroscopy: Making reactions in (bio)chemistry visible | 5 | point | June |
| 22511 | Biomedical optics | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22525 | Medical Image Analysis | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22530 | Computational radiation dosimetry | 5 | point | January |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 27510 | Biosensors and bioanalysis | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34430 | Introduction to biophotonics | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 34440 | Novel optical fibers in life sciences | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34752 | Bio-inspired control for robots | 5 | point | August |
| 41656 | Materials in advanced applications and products | 10 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) and Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| KU103 | Biomechanics and Neural Control of Human Movement | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| KU105 | Advanced Physiological Modelling | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| KU180 | Medical Use of Radiation | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| KU181 | Radioactive Isotopes and Ionizing Radiation | 7.5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
ku1xx = Course given at University of Copenhagen. Other courses are given at DTU.
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.
Blocked Courses
Some of the mandatory courses offered at the University of Copenhagen overlap a number of courses offered at DTU as regards to content to a great extent. Therefore MSc students in Biomedical Engineering may not take the following courses:
| 22208 | Human Physiology | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 27002 | Life Science | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
Please note, that KU deadlines for registering for a course are not the same as DTU's. If you need to register for a KU course after deadline, contact the study administration at DTU.
Registering for exams at KU
If you are registered in a KU course, you are automatically registered for the next exam. Students who are not registered in a course and wish to register for an exam should do this through DTU. Students who wish to register for re-exams should do this through KUnet applying KU SUND's deadlines.
Head of Studies
Lars G. Hanson Groupleader, Associate Professor Department of Health Technology Phone: +45 45253686 lghan@dtu.dk