Curriculum for Wind Energy
Programme provision
In order 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 5 ECTS
- Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 55 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 (5 ECTS):
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 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 |
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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 |
Programme specific courses (55 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 40 ECTS among the following courses:
| 02411 | Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17), Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 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 | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 46411 | Design of large composite structures | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 46415 | Structural analysis and design optimization of wind turbine blades | 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) |
| 46710 | Stability and control in electric power systems | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 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 E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 46755 | Renewables in electricity markets | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 46760 | Hands-on microcontroller programming | 5 | point | June |
Elective Courses
Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme specific courses in excess of the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as much as 10 credit points 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
(mechanical engineering)
Martin Otto Laver Hansen Associate Professor Phone: +45 45254316 Mobile: +45 28931964 molh@dtu.dk
(electrical engineering)
Joachim Holbøll Professor, Head of Studies Phone: +45 45253515 Mobile: +45 24404238 johol@dtu.dk