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) |
| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
Students with advanced innovation competencies may take one of the following courses as an alternative to Innovation in Engineering:
| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
Programme-specific courses; 50 ECTS points.
Composed of:
- Innovation II (5 ECTS)
- Core Competence - Mandatory (10 ECTS)
- Core Competence - Narrow Choice (15 ECTS)
- Programme-Specific - Wide Choice (20 ECTS).
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 | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
Core Competence - Mandatory; 10 ECTS points (choose one)
| 41936 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June |
Arctic semester students, who take either Sustainable Building in Extreme Environments (41881) or Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic (12854) are exempt from the need to take Advanced Building Design (41936). 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) |
| 12854 | Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic | 15 | point | Spring |
| 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 2: 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 course classified as an MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses in excess of the minimal requirements. MSc students may choose as many as 10 ECTS points among the BSc-level 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
Eyal Levenberg Associate Professor, Head of Section Phone: +45 45251907 eylev@dtu.dk