Curriculum for Biotechnology

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc Eng degree in Biotechnology 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)
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

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - mandatory (5 ECTS): 

28485 Biobusiness and Process Innovation 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)

Core competence courses - choose 15 ECTS among the following courses (only 5 ECTS of the 7.5 ECTS will count as core competences for course 28857):

02411 Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17), Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
27230 Prokaryotic cell biology 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
27423 Metabolomics and proteomics 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
27430 Eukaryotic cell biology 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
27460 Synthetic biology 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
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)
or
28855 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

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

Choose 30 ECTS among the rest of the programme-specific courses: 

02443 Stochastic Simulation 5 point June
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)
23205 Fighting infectious diseases 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
26125 Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules 5 point June
27062 Protein science: Structure, interactions and molecular properties 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
27070 Immunology 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
27101 Assay Technology 5 point June
27220 Advanced prokaryotic biotechnology 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
27246 Applied enzyme technology and kinetics 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
27247 Experimental enzyme technology 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
27255 Advanced experimental prokaryotic molecular biology and ecology 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
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)
27419 Filamentous Fungi: Biology and Biotechnology 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
27422 Biosynthesis of natural products 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
27432 Experimental molecular biology of eukaryotes 5 point June
27455 Microbial adaptation to industrial processes 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
27470 Mammalian cell technology for manufacturing of biologics 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
27510 Biosensors and bioanalysis 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
27666 AI-guided Protein Science: From Design to Engineering 5 point January
28233 Recovery and purification of biological products 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
28345 Industrial BioReaction Engineering 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
28455 Process adaptation in Fermentation Based Biomanufacturing 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)

You may also obtain Program specific competences in Special courses, such as:

  • iGEM  International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (5 ECTS). See here for more information about iGEM. 

 

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

Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen

Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen Professor Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Phone: +45 45252632