Curriculum for Engineering Acoustics

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Engineering Acoustics the student must fulfill 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 - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses: 

34846 Environmental acoustics 5 point June
34847 Innovation Camp 5 point July
34848 Challenges in Acoustic Microsystems 5 point January

Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)

22001 Acoustic signal processing 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
22006 Acoustic Communication 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
34840 Fundamentals of acoustics and noise control 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)

Core Competence courses - choose at least 20 ECTS among these programme specific courses: 

22003 Auditory signal processing and perception 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
34850 Architectural acoustics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
34860 Advanced acoustics 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34870 Electroacoustic transducers and systems 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34880 Structure-borne sound 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)

Choose 10 ECTS from the following programme-specific courses (which can include an additional 10 ECTS of the Core Competence courses listed above):

02471 Machine learning for signal processing 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22002 Experimental hearing science 5 point January
22003 Auditory signal processing and perception 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
22007 Audiology and hearing devices 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
34846 Environmental acoustics 5 point June
34848 Challenges in Acoustic Microsystems 5 point January
34850 Architectural acoustics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
34860 Advanced acoustics 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34865 Numerical acoustics 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
34867 Acoustic conditions at the Roskilde Festival 5 point Outside schedule structure
34870 Electroacoustic transducers and systems 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34871 Nonlinear transducers 5 point January
34880 Structure-borne sound 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)

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 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