Curriculum
Head of Studies
Sarah Renée Ruepp Associate Professor Phone: +45 45253627 srru@dtu.dk
Programme provision
To obtain the Master of Science Degree in Communication Technologies and System Design, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed General Competence Courses adding up to at least 30 points
- Have passed Technological Specialization Courses adding up to at least 30 points
- Have performed a Master Thesis of at least 30 points within the field of the general program
- Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of points of the entire study up to 120 points
Curriculum
General Competence Courses
The requirement of at least 30 points in General Competence Courses is broken down into 3 groups of at least 10 points.
The following course is mandatory for all students.
| 34368 | Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
At least 5 points must be earned from the courses listed below. Together with the mandatory course above these provide the core competence of the programme.
| 34130 | Fundamentals of fibre-optic communication systems | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34230 | Digital communication | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34369 | Project work in Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | January |
10 points have to be obtained from the courses listed below. These are all project-based and you learn how to define and provide solutions to an open problem. You will be part of a group and trained in communication and collaboration.
| 34249 | Synthesis Project for Communication Technologies | 10 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) and June |
| 34349 | FPGA design for communication systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 34357 | Telecommunication services | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
The last 10 points of the General Competence Courses are related to innovation and entrepreneurship. You learn how to combine technology application and development with finances, management, and organization and most important, you learn how to use your qualifications and technological knowhow in a professional and social context.
The course Innovation in Engineering (5 ECTS) is mandatory for all students:
(Please note that course 42500/42501/42504, alternatively 42502/42503/42505, MUST be taken at DTU, i.e. no dispensation or merit can be received for similar courses from other universities in Denmark or abroad)
| 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 competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:
| 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 |
The remaining 5 ECTS must be chosen from the following list:
| 34365 | IoT Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34541 | Entrepreneurship in photonics and communications | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Technological Specialization Courses
Each study line contains a recommendation list with some of these courses. Some courses are also listed in the General Competence list, but courses count in one list only.
| 01405 | Algebraic Error-Correcting Codes | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 02203 | Design of Digital Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 02233 | Network Security | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02393 | Programming in C++ | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02471 | Machine learning for signal processing | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 30415 | RF communication circuits | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 30428 | Advanced electromagnetics | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 30430 | Advanced antenna techniques and measurements | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 30445 | Signal integrity in high-speed electronics | 5 | point | June |
| 34032 | Optical properties of solids | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34034 | Lasers and photonic systems | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34051 | Nanophotonics | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 34130 | Fundamentals of fibre-optic communication systems | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34153 | Physical concepts in optical communication | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34156 | Advanced Optical Communication Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34230 | Digital communication | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34240 | Data Science, Compression and Image Communication | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34241 | Digital video technology | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34249 | Synthesis Project for Communication Technologies | 10 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) and June |
| 34250 | Advanced image and video coding | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 34251 | Advanced forward error correction and iterative decoding | 5 | point | January |
| 34339 | Experimental mobile communication | 5 | point | January |
| 34343 | Mobile backhaul networks | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34346 | Networking technologies and application development for Internet of Things (IoT) | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34347 | Modelling and simulation of communication networks and protocols | 5 | point | August |
| 34349 | FPGA design for communication systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 34351 | Access- and home networks | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 34352 | Advanced protocols | 7.5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34357 | Telecommunication services | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 34359 | SDN: software-defined networking | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34365 | IoT Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 34366 | Intelligent systems | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 34367 | Project in Intelligent Systems | 5 | point | January |
| 34369 | Project work in Global communication network infrastructure and design | 5 | point | January |
| 34370 | Cloud Networking | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34371 | Internet of Things (IoT) Communication Network Security | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 34373 | Mikrokontroller-programmering til avanceret IoT med embedded C | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
Elective Courses
Remaining points may be chosen freely among all advanced level courses at DTU. In the more detailed descriptions of the study lines, recommendation for some relevant course(s) may be found. 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. Please note that we shall especially recommend the courses described above under academic requirements, alternatively elective courses listed under the study lines.