Curriculum for Mechanical Engineering
Programme provision
- Have passed Polytechnic 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, mandatory (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) |
| 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 |
Note: Students with prior experience in innovation could as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504 complete 5 ECTS among:
| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
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:
| 38106 | Developing an Entrepreneurial mindset | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17), Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
Core competence courses - choose minimum 10 ECTS among the following courses:
| 41317 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41320 | Advanced fluid mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41514 | Dynamics of machinery | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41525 | Finite Element Methods | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 41808 | Experimental solid mechanics | 5 | point | January |
| 41822 | Experimental fluid mechanics | 5 | point | January |
Note: If more than 10 ECTS are obtained from the core competence courses listed above, the surplus ECTS points may be used in fulfilling the requirements for the remaining programme-specific courses.
Choose 35 ECTS among the rest of the programme-specific courses:
| 28244 | Combustion and High Temperature Processes | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34753 | Robotics | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41073 | Development and operation of product/service-systems | 10 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41083 | Technology platforms and architectures | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41107 | Marine and ocean engineering | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41129 | Turbulent flows | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41216 | Structural assessment of ships | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41222 | Wave loads on ships and offshore structures | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41226 | Advanced Wave Hydrodynamics | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41275 | Ship operations | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41316 | Advanced CFD | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41321 | Complex flows | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41343 | Fuels and emissions from current and future transportation | 5 | point | June |
| 41346 | Internal combustion engines - experimental methods and data processing | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41416 | Energy systems - analysis, design and optimization | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 41417 | Digitalization of Thermal Energy Technologies – Modelling and Simulation Methods | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41418 | Green fuels and power-to-x | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41420 | Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 41512 | Power transmitting machine elements - design and optimization | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41515 | Computational multibody dynamics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41516 | Anisotropy and fibre composites | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41517 | Stiffened plates and sandwich constructions | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41522 | Advanced dynamics and vibrations | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41524 | Tribology of machine elements | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41526 | Fracture mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41528 | Advanced mechanics of materials | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41563 | Fluid Power & Motion Control | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41635 | Robust design of products and mechanisms | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41813 | Finite Element Methods for sound and vibrations | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 46110 | Fundamentals of Aerodynamics | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
Elective courses (30 ECTS)
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 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
Niels Aage Associate Professor Phone: +45 45254253 naage@dtu.dk