Curriculum for Engineering Acoustics

Programme provision

In order to obtain the MSc degree in Engineering Acoustics the student must fulfill the following requirements:
  • 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 (5 ECTS)

The following course is mandatory

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

Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:

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 (55 ECTS)

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

34846 Environmental acoustics 5 point Outside schedule structure
34847 Innovation Camp 5 point July
34848 Advanced Topics in Microacoustic Transducers and Systems 5 point August

Core competence courses - mandatory (20 ECTS)

22000 Acoustic Communication 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
22001 Acoustic signal processing 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
34840 Fundamentals of acoustics and noise control 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)

Core Competence courses - choose at least 20 ECTS among these programme specific courses: 

22003 Auditory signal processing and perception 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
34850 Architectural acoustics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
34860 Advanced acoustics 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34870 Electroacoustic transducers and systems 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34880 Structure-borne sound 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)

Choose 10 ECTS from the following programme specific courses (which can include an additional 10 ECTS of the Core Competence courses listed above):

02471 Machine learning for signal processing 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22002 Experimental hearing science 5 point January
22003 Auditory signal processing and perception 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
22004 Music technology and music perception 5 point June
34846 Environmental acoustics 5 point Outside schedule structure
34848 Advanced Topics in Microacoustic Transducers and Systems 5 point August
34850 Architectural acoustics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
34860 Advanced acoustics 10 point Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34865 Numerical acoustics 5 point January
34867 Acoustic conditions at the Roskilde Festival 5 point Outside schedule structure
34870 Electroacoustic transducers and systems 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)
34871 Nonlinear transducers 5 point January
34880 Structure-borne sound 10 point Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)

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