Curriculum

Programme provision

To obtain the MSc degree in Design & Innovation, 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 performed a Master Thesis of at least 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 points of the entire study up to 120 

Curriculum

General Competence Courses
GR 1 Mandatory courses:

42087 Design Methods and Reflective Practice 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
42090 Holistic Design of Engineering Systems 10 point Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary teams 5 point June
or
42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January

GR 2 Choose 5 points from the following courses:

02266 User Experience Engineering 5 point January
12771 Sustainability in management 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
38107 Business Design for Sustainability 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
41083 Technology platforms and architectures 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
41084 Biologically Inspired Design 5 point January
41636 Design for Circular Economy: from theory to practice 5 point January

Technological Specialization Courses
TS 1 Choose 30 points from the following courses:

02450 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
02808 Personal Data Interaction for Mobile and Wearables 10 point Spring F5 (Wed 8-17)
02809 UX Design Prototyping 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
02830 Advanced Project in Digital Media Engineering 10 point Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
12240 Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics 5 point January
12772 Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
28213 Polymer Technology 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
34365 IoT Prototyping 5 point Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12)
38002 Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice 5 point January
38101 Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
38102 Technology Entrepreneurship 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
38103 X-Tech Entrepreneurship 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
38104 Entrepreneurial Finance 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
38108 Technology and Innovation Management 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
41073 Development and operation of product/service-systems 10 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
41628 Conceptualisation 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
41635 Robust design of products and mechanisms 5 point Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
41637 Mass Customization - application of product configuration 10 point Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
41737 Design of plastic products 5 point Spring F1A (Mon 8-12)
42081 Staging co-creation and creativity 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
42402 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management (O&SCM) 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
42429 Project Management 5 point August
42433 Advanced Engineering Project, Program and Portfolio Management 10 point Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
42543 Management of organizational change 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)

Electives

Any course classified as 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. 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.

Head of Studies

Josef Oehmen

Josef Oehmen Associate Professor Phone: +45 45256250