Curriculum
Head of Studies
Programme provision
In order to obtain the MSc degree in Environmental Engineering the student must complete 120 points and fulfill the following requirements:
- Have passed a minimum of 30 ECTS from within the group of General Competence Courses
- Have passed a minimum of 30 ECTS from within the group of Technological Specialization Courses
- Have passed a Master Thesis of 30 or 35 ECTS within the field of the general program
- Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of points for the entire program of study up to 120
Curriculum
General Competence Courses
Students must choose a total of 30 ECTS from the group of general competence courses. It is mandatory to complete:
| 12104 | Environmental Modelling | 10 | point | Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering | 5 | point | June |
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 |
It is mandatory to complete at least one of the following two courses:
| 12240 | Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics | 5 | point | January |
| 38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
Students must choose among the following general competence courses to obtain the total 30 ECTS required from the list:
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 12108 | Water Treatment: Biochemical Processes | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 12231 | Applied Analytical Environmental Chemistry | 5 | point | August |
| 12237 | Chemicals in the environment | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
Technological Specialization Courses
Students must complete at least 30 ECTS of the following technological specialisation courses:
| 02409 | Multivariate Statistics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 02417 | Time Series Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 02441 | Applied Statistics and Statistical Software | 5 | point | January |
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02610 | Optimization and Data Fitting | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 12108 | Water Treatment: Biochemical Processes | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 12109 | Physico-Chemical Water Treatment Technologies | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 12110 | Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 12121 | Water Supply | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 12122 | Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12124 | Urban Flood Risk Modelling | 5 | point | January |
| 12130 | Solid Waste Technology and Management | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 12132 | LCA Modelling of Waste Management Systems | 5 | point | January |
| 12138 | Environmental Microbiology II | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 12145 | Terrestrial Ecology for Engineers | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 12227 | Regional and global air pollution effects | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12228 | Urban air pollution | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 12231 | Applied Analytical Environmental Chemistry | 5 | point | August |
| 12237 | Chemicals in the environment | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12238 | Priority Organic Pollutants - Transport, Distribution and Transformation | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 12245 | Water Pollution | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 12330 | Contaminated Sites | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 12331 | Field investigations of contaminated sites | 5 | point | June |
| 12336 | Groundwater Quality | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 12345 | Observation, Modeling and Management of Water Systems | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 12771 | Sustainability in management | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12773 | Advanced life-cycle assessment | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 12774 | Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts | 5 | point | June |
| 12859 | Environmental Engineering in the Arctic | 5 | point | Spring |
| 28871 | Production of Biofuels | 10 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) and Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 30530 | Introduction to GIS | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) and E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 30574 | Earth observations for monitoring changes (EO4Change) | 5 | point | June |
| 30755 | Climate change - physics and observations | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 30857 | Extreme Climate and Physical Nature | 5 | point | Spring |
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 42251 | Sustainable Development Indicators and Sustainable Urban Development | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
Elective Courses
Elective Courses are any advanced level courses at DTU as well as courses from other universities with credit transfer to DTU. They can be in areas such as:
| • | Non-program courses to obtain scientific skills on an advanced level (statistics, computation, advanced chemistry, microbiology, courses at DTU Aqua etc.) |
| • | Additional technological specialization courses or external program courses with the objective of obtaining further specialization within a selected area or broadening the environmental scope of the study plan |
| • | 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. |
Additional suggestions can be found in the list of study tracks provided on the homepage of the MSc programme. We recommend the following courses to students who intend to complete a laboratory project for their MSc thesis:
| 12138 | Environmental Microbiology II | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 12231 | Applied Analytical Environmental Chemistry | 5 | point | August |