Curriculum for Engineering Light

Programme provision

To obtain the degree MSc in Engineering Light the student must fulfill the following requirements:

  • Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 5 ECTS
  • Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 55 ECTS
  • 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)

The following course is mandatory

42500 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point January
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June

Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:

42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January
or
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June

Programme specific courses (55 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses: 

34541 Entrepreneurship in photonics and communications 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)

Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)

34034 Lasers and photonic systems 5 point Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12)
34043 Projects in Optics and Photonics 5 point Spring and Autumn
34046 Experimental methods in photonics 5 point January

Choose 35 ECTS among the rest of the programme specific courses: 

10380 Quantum Optics 10 point Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12)
10855 Advanced fabrication of micro- and nanostructures 10 point Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) and Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
22511 Biomedical optics 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
22603 Light microscopy for life science 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
34032 Optical properties of solids 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
34041 Waveguide optics 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
34042 Quantum photonic communication 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
34051 Nanophotonics 10 point Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
34052 Nonlinear optics 10 point Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17)
34053 Numerical methods in photonics 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
34060 Ultrafast optics: fundamentals and applications 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
34061 Optical measurement methods and signal analysis 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 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)
34430 Introduction to biophotonics 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
34440 Novel optical fibers in life sciences 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)
34539 Design, fabrication and characterization of optical planar waveguide components 5 point June
34540 Light emitting diodes and photovoltaics for energy applications 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)

 

Elective courses

Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme specific 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. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad.

Head of Studies