Curriculum

Programme provision

In order to obtain the MSc Eng degree in Biotechnology the student must fulfil the following requirements:    

  • Have passed General Competence Courses adding up to at least 30 ECTS points
  • Have passed Technological Specialization Courses adding up to at least 30 ECTS points
  • Have carried out a Master Thesis of at least 30 ECTS points within the scope of the general programme
  • Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of ECTS points for the entire course of study to 120 

Curriculum

 

General Competence Courses

To obtain a MSc Eng degree without a study line designation, the general competence courses and technology specialization courses can be selected from the lists below. The reduced lists for each study line are found under the descriptions of the study lines

Mandatory General Competence Courses: 

28485 Biobusiness and Process Innovation 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
42500 Innovation in Engineering 5 point January
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering 5 point August
or
42501 Innovation in Engineering 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

A minimum of 20 ETCS must be achieved from the following General Competence Courses courses:

02411 Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17), Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
27230 Prokaryotic cell biology 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
27423 Metabolomics and proteomics 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
27430 Eukaryotic cell biology 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
27460 Synthetic biology 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
27641 Systems biology 5 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
28857 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Practical version 7.5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
or
28855 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)

You may also obtain General Competences in Special courses, such as:

  • iGEM  International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. See here for more information about iGEM. 

Technological Specialization Courses

At least 30 ETCS should be selected among the following courses

02443 Stochastic Simulation 5 point June
22117 Protein structure and computational biology 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
22200 Mucosal immunology 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
23205 Fighting infectious diseases 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
26125 Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules 5 point June
27101 Assay Technology 5 point June
27220 Advanced prokaryotic biotechnology 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
27246 Applied enzyme technology and kinetics 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
27247 Experimental enzyme technology 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
27250 Molecular host-pathogen interactions 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
27255 Advanced experimental prokaryotic molecular biology and ecology 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
27325 Advanced protein structure engineering and analysis 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
27330 Quantitative analysis and modeling in protein science 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
27410 Computer-aided cell factory design 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
27419 Filamentous Fungi: Biology and Biotechnology 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
27422 Biosynthesis of natural products 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
27432 Experimental molecular biology of eukaryotes 5 point January
27455 Microbial adaptation to industrial processes 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
27510 Biosensors and bioanalysis 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
28233 Recovery and purification of biological products 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
28345 Industrial BioReaction Engineering 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
28455 Process adaptation in Fermentation Based Biomanufacturing 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)

 

Elective Courses

Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes general competence and technological specialization 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

Mogens Kilstrup

Mogens Kilstrup Associate Professor Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Phone: +45 45252528