Curriculum for Communication Technologies and System Design
Programme provision
To obtain the Master of Science Degree in Communication Technologies and System Design, 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
Polytechnic foundation courses (10 ECTS)
The polytechnic foundation course consists of the following 10 ECTS points (5 ECTS Innovation course and 5 ECTS Quantitative sustainability course). Please note that polytechnical foundation courses cannot be replaced with special courses and cannot be credit transferred from other universities.
The following options exist for fulfilling the 5 ECTS for the Innovation course:
| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 |
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| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
The following options exist for fulfilling the 5 ECTS for the Quantitative sustainability course:
| 12101 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
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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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| 12100 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
The programme specific courses define the M.Sc. programme in Communication Technologies and System Design.
This consists of 5 ECTS Innovation course II, 10 ECTS mandatory for all students on this programme, 20 ECTS that can be chosen amongst a specified list, and 15 ECTS that can be chosen amongst the list of advanced programme specific courses. Please refer to the specialisations for guidance on course selection.
Some courses are listed as options in both Core competence specific and Advanced programme specific category; please note that they can only count in one category towards the fulfilment of the programme requirement.
Innovation course II (5 ECTS)
Choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 34365 | IoT Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34541 | Entrepreneurship in photonics and communications | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)
The following 10 ECTS points are mandatory for all students:
| 34368 | Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34369 | Project work in Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | January |
Core competence courses - specific (20 ECTS)
Choose 20 ECTS amongst the following four courses:
(N.B. 34231 and 34242 should be combined to reach 10 ECTS)
| 34130 | Fundamentals of fibre-optic communication systems | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34231 | Digital communication 1 | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34242 | Machine learning techniques for design and optimization of communication systems | 5 | point | January and June |
| 34249 | Synthesis Project for Communication Technologies | 10 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) and June |
| 34349 | FPGA design for communication systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
Advanced programme specific courses (15 ECTS)
Choose 15 ECTS amongst the following list of the programme specific courses:
(Courses exceeding 15 ETCS may be chosen, those will count in the elective category)
| 01405 | Algebraic Error-Correcting Codes | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 02203 | Design of Digital Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 02233 | Network Security | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02393 | Programming in C++ | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02471 | Machine learning for signal processing | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 30415 | RF communication circuits | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 30428 | Advanced electromagnetics | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30430 | Advanced antenna techniques and measurements | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 34032 | Optical properties of solids | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34034 | Lasers and photonic systems | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34051 | Nanophotonics | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 34130 | Fundamentals of fibre-optic communication systems | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34153 | Physical concepts in optical communication | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34156 | Advanced Optical Communication Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34231 | Digital communication 1 | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34240 | Data Science, Compression and Image Communication | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34241 | Digital video technology | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34242 | Machine learning techniques for design and optimization of communication systems | 5 | point | January and June |
| 34249 | Synthesis Project for Communication Technologies | 10 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) and June |
| 34250 | Advanced image and video coding | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34251 | Advanced forward error correction and iterative decoding | 5 | point | January |
| 34343 | Mobile backhaul networks | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 34346 | Networking technologies and application development for Internet of Things (IoT) | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34349 | FPGA design for communication systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 34351 | Access networks and home networks | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34359 | SDN: software-defined networking | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 34365 | IoT Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34366 | Intelligent systems | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 34367 | Project in Intelligent Systems | 5 | point | January |
| 34369 | Project work in Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | January |
| 34370 | Cloud Networking | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34371 | Communication Network Security | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 34373 | Introduction to microcontroller development for IoT using embedded C | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
Elective Courses (30 ECTS)
Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses above the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as many as 10 ECTS 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
Sarah Renée Ruepp Associate Professor Phone: +45 45253627 srru@dtu.dk