Curriculum for Industrial Engineering and Management

Programme provision

To earn the title MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, the student must fulfil the following requirements:

  • Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 5 ECTS
  • Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 55 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 (5 ECTS)

42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June
or
42500 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point January

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
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August

Programme specific courses (55 ECTS)

Innovation course II - mandatory (5 ECTS): 

38108 Technology and Innovation Management 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)

Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)

42402 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management (O&SCM) 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
42417 Simulation in Operations Management 5 point June
42543 Management of organizational change 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)

Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS between the following courses:

42112 Mathematical Programming Modelling 5 point January
42114 Integer Programming 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)

Choose 30 ECTS among the rest of the programme specific courses: 

02431 Risk Management 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)
38102 Technology Entrepreneurship 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
38106 Developing an Entrepreneurial mindset through serious game 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
38107 Business Design for Sustainability 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)
41636 Design for Circular Economy 5 point January
41637 Mass Customization - application of product configuration 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
41638 Complexity Management 5 point January
42014 Environmental and Resource Economics 5 point F7 (Tues 18-22)
42015 Energy Economics 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
42016 Business Economics and Finance 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
42112 Mathematical Programming Modelling 5 point January
42114 Integer Programming 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
42115 Network Optimization 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
42117 Transport Optimization 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
42136 Large Scale Optimization using Decomposition 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
42137 Optimization using metaheuristics 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
42186 Model-based machine learning 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
42380 Supply Chain Analytics 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
42382 Industry 4.0 in Operations Management 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
42404 Maritime Logistics and Management 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
42417 Simulation in Operations Management 5 point June
42543 Management of organizational change 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
42879 Decision Support and Strategic Assessment 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
63851 Project Management 5 point August and January
63881 Railway transport and sustainable logistics 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)

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.

Head of Studies