Curriculum for Mechanical Engineering

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
  • 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)
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)
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
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
or
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
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.

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