Curriculum for Design and Innovation
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Design & Innovation, 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) |
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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) |
| 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 course may replace the mandatory course 12100-series above:
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Core competence courses - "Systematic Design" - mandatory (10 ECTS)
| 41639 | Holistic Design of Engineering Systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
Core competence courses - "Design for People & Society" - mandatory (10 ECTS)
| 02809 | UX Design Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 38110 | Staging co-creation and creativity | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Choose 30 ECTS among the remainder of the programme specific courses (select courses from both Course Group 1 and 2):
Course Group 1: Systematic Design
| 02830 | Advanced Project in Digital Media Engineering | 10 | 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 |
| 38113 | Applied AI for Entrepreneurs | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 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 |
| 41635 | Robust design of products and mechanisms | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41637 | Mass Customization - application of product configuration | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 41638 | Complexity Management | 5 | point | January |
| 63851 | Project Management | 5 | point | August and January |
Course Group 2: Design for People & Society
| 02266 | User Experience Engineering | 5 | point | January |
| 02806 | Social data analysis and visualization | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 02808 | Personal Data Interaction for Mobile and Wearables | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 12240 | Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics | 5 | point | January |
| 12250 | Next Generation [] Action - Sustainable by Design | 5 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
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| 38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
Electives
Any course classified as an 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
Josef Peter Helmut Oehmen Associate Professor Phone: +45 45256250 jooehm@dtu.dk