Curriculum
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Civil Engineering, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Pass General Competence Courses adding up to at least 30 ECTS points
- at least 10 ECTS from each of the groups GR1, GR2 and GR3
- Pass Technological Specialization Courses adding up to at least 30 ECTS points
- Conduct research for and write a Master Thesis of at least 30 ECTS points within the field of the general program
- Pass a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of ECTS points of the entire study up to 120
Curriculum
General Competence Courses:
Choose 10 ECTS points among the following courses (GR1):
| 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 | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 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) |
| 41969 | Probabilistic Modelling in Civil Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
Take 5 ECTS points by choosing one of the following courses (GR2):
| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | June |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | August |
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| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | January |
Students with advanced innovation competencies may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504 (GR2):
| 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 |
Take 5 ECTS points by choosing one of the following courses (GR2):
| 38101 | Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 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) |
| 41936 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June |
| 42576 | From Analytics to Action | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 42577 | Introduction to Business Analytics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
Choose the remaining ECTS points - for a total of at least 30 General Competence ECTS points - among the following courses (GR3):
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02687 | Scientific Computing for ordinary and partial differential equations | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 12360 | Indoor Climate | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 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 | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 12859 | Environmental Engineering in the Arctic | 5 | point | Spring |
| 30857 | Extreme Climate and Physical Nature | 5 | point | Spring |
| 34844 | Building acoustics | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41107 | Marine and ocean engineering | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41237 | Dynamics of structures: theory and analysis | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41882 | The Arctic Infrastructure and Society | 5 | point | Spring |
| 41931 | Building Fire Safety | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41936 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and June |
| 41963 | Advanced Concrete Structures | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41964 | Advanced Steel Structures | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
Technological Specialization Courses
Choose 30 ECTS points among the following courses:
| 12361 | Ventilation and Climatic Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12420 | Advanced engineering geology: soil and porous rocks | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 12421 | Advanced Soil Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12430 | Mineral resources | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 12431 | Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 12451 | Pavement Mechanics | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 12613 | Durability and repair of concrete structures | 5 | point | August |
| 12854 | Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic | 15 | point | Spring |
| 34850 | Architectural acoustics | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 41113 | Computer modelling for marine and coastal engineering | 5 | point | January |
| 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) |
| 41226 | Advanced Wave Hydrodynamics | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41462 | Building Performance Simulation | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 41463 | High performance buildings | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 41464 | Solar Heating Systems | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 41465 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for Buildings | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 41466 | Sustainable heating and cooling of buildings | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41468 | Sustainable District Heating | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41653 | Corrosion (theory and engineering) | 10 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) and Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 41832 | Experimental Structural Mechanics | 5 | point | January |
| 41881 | Sustainable building in extreme environments | 15 | point | Spring |
| 41932 | Fire dynamics | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41933 | Structural Fire Safety Design | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 41934 | Advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 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) |
| 41962 | Computational structural modelling 3: Plasticity | 5 | point | Spring F5B (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) |
| 41965 | Wood Structures | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41966 | Glass and Glass Structures | 5 | point | June |
| 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) |
Elective Courses
Any course classified as an MSc course in DTU's course base may be taken for credit as an Elective course. This includes General Competence and Technological Specialization courses in excess of the minimal requirements. Additionally, 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. Consult DTU Course Base for the most updated information about course offerings.
Head of Studies
Eyal Levenberg Associate Professor, Head of Section Phone: +45 45251907 eylev@dtu.dk