Curriculum for Wind Energy

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Wind Energy, the student must have passed the following: 

  • 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 (10ECTS)

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

If you have no knowledge in innovation you should take either 42500, 42501 or 42504. If  you already have some experience in innovation you may consider taking one of the following three courses instead 42502, 42503 or 42505.

42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January
or
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS between the following courses: 

46200 Planning and Development of Wind Farms 5 point January
46755 Renewables in electricity markets 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)

Core competence course - mandatory (10 ECTS): 

46300 Wind Turbine Technology and Aerodynamics 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)

Programme specific courses - choose minimum 35 ECTS among the following courses:

02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41129 Turbulent flows 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 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)
41237 Dynamics of structures: theory and analysis 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
41315 Applied CFD 5 point June
41316 Advanced CFD 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
41317 Computational Fluid Dynamics 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
41320 Advanced fluid mechanics 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
41321 Complex flows 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
41514 Dynamics of machinery 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
41516 Anisotropy and fibre composites 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41525 Finite Element Methods 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
41822 Experimental fluid mechanics 5 point January
46100 Introduction to Micrometeorology for Wind Energy 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
46110 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
46115 Turbulence modeling 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
46211 Offshore Wind Energy 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
46230 Power system balancing with large scale wind power 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
46310 Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity 10 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) and Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
46320 Loads, Aerodynamics and Control of Wind Turbines 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
46400 Wind Turbine Measurement Technique 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
46411 Design of large composite structures 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
46415 Numerical design optimization of wind turbines 5 point June
46420 Composite Materials and Fibres 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
46440 Manufacturing of Advanced Fiber Composites 5 point January
46500 Probabilistic Methods in Wind Energy 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
46550 Offshore wind grid connection and high-voltage DC (HVDC) transmission 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
46600 Aeroacoustics 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
46610 Design-Build for Wind Energy competitions (BlueDot) 10 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June
46700 Introduction to Electric Power Systems 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
46705 Power grid analysis 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
46711 Stability and control in electric power systems 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
46715 Transients in power systems 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
46720 High voltage engineering 10 point Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)
46725 Electrical machines 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
46735 Wind, solar and energy storage electrical drive trains 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
46740 Distributed energy technologies, modelling and control 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
46745 Integration of wind power in the power system 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
46750 Optimization in modern power systems 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
46755 Renewables in electricity markets 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
46760 Hands-on microcontroller programming 5 point June
46910 Advanced Finite Element Simulations Using Abaqus 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

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

(electrical engineering)