Curriculum for Civil Engineering
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Civil Engineering, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 10 ECTS points
- Have passed Programme-specific courses adding up to at least 50 ECTS points
- 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 points.
The following courses are mandatory:
| 12100 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 38400 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 38404 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 38402 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
Students with advanced innovation competencies may take one of the following courses as an alternative to Innovation in Engineering:
| 38403 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 38405 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 38401 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
Programme-specific courses; 50 ECTS points.
Innovation II course options; 5 ECTS points (choose one).
| 12250 | Next Generation [] Action - Sustainable by Design | 5 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 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) |
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
Core Competence - Mandatory; 10 ECTS points (choose one)
| 41936 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June |
Note: Arctic semester students who take Sustainable Building in Extreme Environments (41881) can claim 10 ECTS points as Core Competence – Mandatory, i.e., they no longer need to take Advanced Building Design. This is instead of counting the course as a Programme-Specific - Wide Choice (Group 1). Similarly, students who take Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic (12854) can claim 10 ECTS points as Core Competence – Mandatory instead of counting the course as a Programme-Specific - Wide Choice (Group 2). In either case, the extra 5 ECTS points will be considered as “Elective.”
Core Competence - Narrow Choice; 15 ECTS points (choose three)
| 12422 | Advanced Geotechnical Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 12611 | Heat and mass transfer in buildings | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 12612 | Concrete Technology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41963 | Advanced Concrete Structures | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41969 | Probabilistic Modelling in Civil Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
Programme-Specific - Wide Choice; choose 20 ECTS points (at least) from the course groups defined below. Choose at least 20 ECTS from these three groups (1, 2 and 3). Take courses from at least two groups.
Group 1: Building design, systems, and performance.
| 12360 | Indoor Climate | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 12611 | Heat and mass transfer in buildings | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34844 | Building acoustics | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41462 | Building Performance Simulation | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 41465 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for Buildings | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41881 | Sustainable building in extreme environments | 15 | point | Spring |
| 41931 | Building Fire Safety | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
Group 2: Geotechnics and marine.
| 12421 | Advanced Soil Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12422 | Advanced Geotechnical Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 12431 | Principles of Rock Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 12451 | Pavement Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41107 | Marine and ocean engineering | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41117 | Marine and Coastal Structures | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41126 | Fluvial and marine sediment transport | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
Group 3: Materials and structures.
| 12612 | Concrete Technology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41237 | Dynamics of structures: theory and analysis | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41528 | Advanced mechanics of materials | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41808 | Experimental solid mechanics | 5 | point | January |
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| 41832 | Experimental Structural Mechanics | 5 | point | January |
| 41933 | Structural Fire Safety Design | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 41937 | Structural design of precast concrete buildings | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41961 | Computational Structural Modelling: Non-linear Finite Element Method | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41963 | Advanced Concrete Structures | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41967 | Seismic and Wind Engineering | 10 | point | Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 41968 | Bridge Structures | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41969 | Probabilistic Modelling in Civil Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41972 | Plated Steel Structures | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
Elective Courses; 30 ECTS points.
Any MSc-level course in the entire DTU course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses beyond the minimum programme requirements. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad. Also, MSc students may choose up to 10 ECTS points from BSc-level courses at DTU or from equivalent-level courses at other higher institutions.
Head of Studies
Eyal Levenberg Associate Professor, Head of Section Geotechnics and Geology Phone: +45 45251907 eylev@dtu.dk