Curriculum for Environmental Engineering

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Environmental Engineering the student must complete 120 points and 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 05 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:

42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June
or
42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January

One of the following courses may replace the mandatory course 12100-series above:

12132 LCA Modelling of Waste Management Systems 5 point January
12240 Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics 5 point January
12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12773 Advanced life cycle assessment methods 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12774 Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts 5 point June

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses: 

12240 Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics 5 point January
38103 X-Tech Entrepreneurship 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)

Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)

12104 Environmental Modelling 10 point Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)

Core competence course - mandatory. Choose at least 10 ECTS from these program specific courses:

02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
12231 Applied Analytical Environmental Chemistry 5 point August
12237 Chemicals in the environment 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)

Choose 25 ECTS among the rest of the programme-specific courses: 

02409 Multivariate Statistics 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
02417 Time Series Analysis 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
02441 Applied Statistics and Statistical Software 5 point January
02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
02610 Optimization and Data Fitting 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
12109 Physico-Chemical Water Treatment Technologies 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
12115 Wastewater treatment and valorization 10 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) and Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
12121 Water Supply 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
12122 Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
12124 Urban Flood Risk Assessment 5 point January
12130 Solid Waste Technology and Management 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
12132 LCA Modelling of Waste Management Systems 5 point January
12145 Terrestrial Ecology for Engineers 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
12227 Regional and global air pollution effects 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
12228 Urban air pollution 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
12231 Applied Analytical Environmental Chemistry 5 point August
12237 Chemicals in the environment 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12238 Priority Organic Pollutants - Transport, Distribution and Transformation 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
12245 Water Pollution 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
12330 Contaminated Sites 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
12331 Field investigations of contaminated sites 5 point June
12336 Groundwater Quality 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
12345 Observation, Modeling and Management of Water Systems 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
12773 Advanced life cycle assessment methods 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
12774 Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts 5 point June
12859 Environmental Engineering in the Arctic 5 point Spring
28871 Production of Biofuels 10 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
30574 Earth observations for monitoring changes (EO4Change) 5 point June
30755 Climate change - physics and observations 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
30857 Extreme Climate and Physical Nature 5 point Outside schedule structure
38102 Technology Entrepreneurship 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
42014 Environmental and Resource Economics 5 point F7 (Tues 18-22)

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.