Curriculum for Engineering Physics
Programme provision
In order to obtain the MSc Eng degree in Engineering Physics 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) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17), E7 (Tues 18-22) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 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, however, 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 |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - 5 ECTS among the following courses must be chosen (surplus points count as elective courses):
| 10750 | Innovation Projects at the Physics Department | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 34541 | Entrepreneurship in photonics and communications | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Core experimental competences - 5 ECTS points among the following courses must be chosen (surplus points count as other programme specific courses or as elective courses):
| 10304 | Experimental Surface Physics | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 10386 | Experimental Techniques in Quantum Technology | 5 | point | June |
| 10855 | Advanced fabrication of micro- and nanostructures | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) and Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34553 | Applied photovoltaics | 5 | point | June |
| 47333 | Electron microscopy for materials science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
Core numerical competences - 5 ECTS points among the following courses must be chosen (surplus points count as other programme specific courses or as elective courses):
| 10302 | Electronic Structure Methods in Material Physics, Chemistry and Biology | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 10316 | Materials design with machine learning and artificial intelligence | 5 | point | January |
| 10325 | Quantum mechanical modelling of nanoelectronics | 5 | point | January |
| 10350 | Numerical studies in physics | 5 | point | August |
| 22112 | High Performance Computing in Life Science | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34053 | Numerical methods in photonics | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
Core theoretical competences - 5 ECTS points among the following courses must be chosen (surplus points count as other programme specific courses or as elective courses):
| 10112 | Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 10122 | Statistical Physics | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 10321 | Nanosystems engineering | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 10346 | Advanced Continuum Physics | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 10380 | Quantum Optics | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34032 | Optical properties of solids | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34051 | Nanophotonics | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
Other programme specific courses
Must add up to at least 50 ECTS together with the programme specific core courses and the Innovation course II
| 10200 | The structure and dynamics of materials studied with X-rays and neutrons | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 10255 | Advanced 3D X-ray imaging | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 10306 | Theory of 2D materials and Strong Light-Matter Interaction | 5 | point | June |
| 10314 | Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 10315 | Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - with project | 10 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) and Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 10318 | Many body methods in condensed matter physics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 10337 | Theoretical microfluidics | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 10339 | Concepts in heterogeneous catalysis and applications to energy conversion | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 10384 | Quantum information | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 10385 | Quantum Information Technology | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 10400 | Plasma Physics | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 10401 | Experimental plasma physics | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 10405 | Theory of Relativity | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 10411 | Nuclear reactor physics | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 10521 | Physics and technology of two-dimensional materials | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 10730 | Research Immersion MSc (June) - Department of Physics | 5 | point | June |
| 10731 | Research Immersion MSc (July) - Department of Physics | 5 | point | July |
| 10732 | Research Immersion MSc (August) - Department of Physics | 5 | point | August |
| 10850 | Advanced micro- and nanofabrication technology | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 10852 | Introduction to cleanroom-based microfabrication | 5 | point | June |
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| 10851 | Introduction to cleanroom-based microfabrication | 5 | point | January |
| 10862 | Polymer micro fabrication | 5 | point | June |
| 22117 | Protein structure and computational biology | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22203 | Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate a Healthcare Product | 10 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) and January |
| 22283 | Molecular thermodynamics, transport, and analytics | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 22285 | Applied Biomaterials | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 22485 | Medical imaging systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 22506 | Medical magnetic resonance imaging | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22507 | Advanced magnetic resonance imaging | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 22508 | Practical NMR spectroscopy: Making reactions in (bio)chemistry visible | 5 | point | June |
| 22511 | Biomedical optics | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22512 | Optical biosensors | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22530 | Computational radiation dosimetry | 5 | point | January |
| 22610 | Physics in Health Technology | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 27510 | Biosensors and bioanalysis | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 27665 | LabChip: Design of Lab-on-a-chip systems | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34034 | Lasers and photonic systems | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34041 | Waveguide optics | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34042 | Quantum photonic communication | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 34043 | Projects in Optics and Photonics | 5 | point | Spring and Autumn |
| 34046 | Experimental methods in photonics | 5 | point | January |
| 34051 | Nanophotonics | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 34052 | Nonlinear optics | 10 | point | Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 34060 | Ultrafast optics: fundamentals and applications | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34153 | Physical concepts in optical communication | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34269 | Computational imaging and spectroscopy | 5 | point | July |
| 34430 | Introduction to biophotonics | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 34440 | Novel optical fibers in life sciences | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34451 | Nonlinear mathematical physics | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 34539 | Design, fabrication and characterization of optical planar waveguide components | 5 | point | June |
| 34540 | Light emitting diodes and photovoltaics for energy applications | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 34551 | Thin film photovoltaics | 5 | point | January |
| 34552 | Photovoltaic systems | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 47319 | Functional materials | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 47330 | Energy storage and conversion | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 47336 | Applications of X-ray and neutron scattering in biology, chemistry and physics | 5 | point | August |
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.