Curriculum for Earth and Space Physics and Engineering
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Earth and Space Physics and 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)
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 |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose one of the following courses for 5 ECTS (surplus points count as elective courses):
| 30310 | Space Systems Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
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| 38106 | Developing an Entrepreneurial mindset | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17), 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) |
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| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory The mandatory project 30221 must be after both courses 30202 and 30230.
| 30202 | Measurement Technologies in Earth and Space Physics | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 30221 | Projects in Earth & Space Physics and Engineering | 5 | point | Autumn and Spring and January, June and July and August |
| 30230 | Data Analysis and Modeling in Geoscience and Astrophysics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
Measurement technology - choose at least 15 ECTS among the following courses:
| 02409 | Multivariate Statistics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 02506 | Advanced Image Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 02610 | Optimization and Data Fitting | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30021 | Digital Instrumentation | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30300 | Introduction to Satellite Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 30310 | Space Systems Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 30320 | Spacecraft Instrumentation Systems | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 30330 | Image Analysis with Microcomputer | 10 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) and Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30340 | Radar and Radiometer Systems | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 30350 | Remote Sensing | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 30510 | GPS, GIS and Setting out | 5 | point | June |
| 30540 | Mapping from Aerial and Satellite Images | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 30545 | Analysis of spatial and temporal data within geoscience | 5 | point | January |
| 30554 | Global Navigation Satellite Systems | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 30555 | Microwave remote sensing models and data | 5 | point | January |
| 30574 | Earth observations for monitoring changes (EO4Change) | 5 | point | June |
| 30760 | Inverse Problems and Machine Learning in Earth and Space Physics | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 30784 | Radiation Detectors for Space Instrumentation | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30785 | Scientific instrumentation for Astronomical telescopes | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 30794 | Astrophysical Data Analyses | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34061 | Optical measurement methods and signal analysis | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 34269 | Computational imaging and spectroscopy | 5 | point | July |
Physical large-scale structures and processes - choose at least 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 10405 | Theory of Relativity | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 25302 | Physical oceanography | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30428 | Advanced electromagnetics | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30552 | Satellite Geodesy | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30561 | Physical Geodesy | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 30720 | Space Physics - Physics of the space environment | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30742 | Exoplanets | 5 | point | January |
| 30745 | Earth and Planetary Magnetism | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 30752 | Cryosphere physics and observation | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 30755 | Climate change - physics and observations | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30757 | Atmospheric plasmas | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30791 | Physical processes in astronomy | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
If you choose "Theory of Relativity" (10405), it is recommended to take this course as early as possible.
Elective Courses
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 50-ECTS 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. Electives must amount to at least 25 ECTS, up to 30 ECTS, depending on the master thesis (30-35 ECTS).
Head of Studies
Jerome Chenevez Associate Professor Phone: +45 45259703 jerome@space.dtu.dk