Curriculum for Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, 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) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 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 |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
The following course may replace the mandatory course 12100-series above:
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 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) |
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)
| 41656 | Materials in advanced applications and products | 10 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) and Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41740 | Digital Manufacturing - Industry 4.0 | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 41662 | Physical metallurgy | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41747 | Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - heat transfer and diffusion | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
The extra ECTS points in this group will automatically be a part of the overall ECTS points of the programme specific courses.
The rest of the programme-specific courses are divided into two groups: Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering, respectively.
25 ECTS among the rest of the programme-specific courses must be chosen such that both areas are covered by at least 10 ECTS:
Materials Engineering
| 41653 | Corrosion (theory and engineering) | 10 | point | E5A (Wed 8-12) and either E5B (Wed 13-17) or E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41658 | Methods for experimental materials characterization | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41661 | Metals technology | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41667 | Project course in materials engineering | 5 | point | January |
| 41668 | Computational Materials Science | 5 | point | June |
| 41669 | Advanced surface engineering | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 47304 | Ceramic science and engineering | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
Note: In case of many particpants, the course 41653 duplicates its practical part to allow the intake of more students. Thus, students of 41653 will get a place in either E5B or E1B for the practicals, while all students follow the theory part of 41653 in E5A.
Manufacturing Engineering
| 41730 | Industrial forming of metals | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41733 | Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41734 | Geometrical metrology and machine testing | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41735 | Experimental methods in 3D printing (additive manufacturing) | 5 | point | August |
| 41737 | Design of plastic products | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41739 | Experimental plastic and metal processing technology | 5 | point | June |
| 41743 | Micro product design, development and production | 5 | point | January |
| 41748 | Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - thermomechanics | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41749 | Precision Machining | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Note: For both focus areas, some courses (41653, 41667, 41734, 41739 and 41743) are completely or partly of practical nature and, therefore, have a limited number of available places. In case of overbooking, DTU will assign places by a lottery.
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
Guido Tosello Associate Professor Phone: +45 45254893 guto@dtu.dk