Curriculum for Industrial Engineering and Management
Programme provision
To obtain the title MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 10 ECTS
- Have passed Programme-specific courses adding up to at least 50 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 (10 ECTS)
The following courses are mandatory:
| 42402 | Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management (O&SCM) | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
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| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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 |
| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - mandatory (5 ECTS):
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)
| 42016 | Business Economics and Finance | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42417 | Simulation in Operations Management | 5 | point | June |
| 42543 | Management of organizational change | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS between the following courses:
| 42112 | Mathematical Programming Modelling | 5 | point | January |
| 42114 | Integer Programming | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
Choose at most (maximum) 15 ECTS among the following introductory programme specific courses:
| 02431 | Risk Management | 5 | point | January |
| 12240 | Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics | 5 | point | January |
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41073 | Development and operation of product/service-systems | 10 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 | point | January |
| 41637 | Mass Customization - application of product configuration | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 42112 | Mathematical Programming Modelling | 5 | point | January |
| 42114 | Integer Programming | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 42115 | Network Optimization | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 42180 | Quantitative modelling of behaviour | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42189 | Transport System Analysis | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 42404 | Maritime Logistics and Management | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 63881 | Railway transport and sustainable logistics | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
Choose at least (minimum) 10 ECTS among the following advanced programme specific courses:
| 41638 | Complexity Management | 5 | point | January |
| 42015 | Energy Economics | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42136 | Large Scale Optimization using Decomposition | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 42137 | Optimization using metaheuristics | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42186 | Model-based machine learning | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 42380 | Supply Chain Analytics | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 42403 | Advanced Operations Management for Production and Service Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 42879 | Decision Support and Strategic Assessment | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
Elective Courses
Any course classified as an MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses above the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as many as 10 ECTS among the BSc 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
Michael Bruhn Barfod Associate Professor Phone: +45 45251540 mbba@dtu.dk