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 5 ECTS points
- Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 55 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; 5 ECTS points.
The following course is mandatory
| 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; 55 ECTS points.
Composed of 10 ECTS points core competence (mandatory), 15 ECTS points core competence (narrow choice), 5 ECTS points Innovation II, and 25 ECTS points programme-specific courses (wide choice).
Innovation II course options; 5 ECTS points (choose one).
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38105 | Digital Trends for Entrepreneurs | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 38107 | Business Design for Sustainability | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 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 courses - mandatory; 10 ECTS points (choose one)
| 41936 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June |
Core competence courses - 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) |
Choose 25 ECTS points among the rest of the programme-specific courses; take at least two courses from at least two different course groups (defined below).
Course 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) |
Course 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) |
Course 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) |
| 41832 | Experimental Structural Mechanics | 5 | point | January |
| 41933 | Structural Fire Safety Design | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 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) |
| 41964 | Advanced Steel Structures | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 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) |
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