Curriculum for Industrial Engineering and Management
Programme provision
To obtain 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 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:
| 42402 | Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management (O&SCM) | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
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| 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 (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - mandatory (5 ECTS):
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)
| 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 | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 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) |
| 42180 | Quantitative modelling of behaviour | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42186 | Model-based machine learning | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 42189 | Transport System Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 42380 | Supply Chain Analytics | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 42403 | Advanced Operations Management for Production and Service Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 42404 | Maritime Logistics and Management | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 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) |
| 63881 | Railway transport and sustainable logistics | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 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
Michael Bruhn Barfod Associate Professor Phone: +45 45251540 mbba@dtu.dk