Program Overview

Curriculum for Industrial Engineering and Management

The MSc programme in Industrial Engineering and Management is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practices of 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 ECTS | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
• 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 ECTS | August or
• 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 ECTS | June or
• 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 ECTS | 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 ECTS | January
• 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 ECTS | June
• 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 ECTS | August

Programme Specific Courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation Course II - Mandatory (5 ECTS)

• 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 ECTS | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)

Core Competence Courses - Mandatory (15 ECTS)

• 42016 | Business Economics and Finance | 5 ECTS | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
• 42417 | Simulation in Operations Management | 5 ECTS | June
• 42543 | Management of Organizational Change | 5 ECTS | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)

Core Competence Courses - Choose 5 ECTS

• 42112 | Mathematical Programming Modelling | 5 ECTS | January
• 42114 | Integer Programming | 5 ECTS | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)

Introductory Programme Specific Courses - Choose at Most 15 ECTS

• 02431 | Risk Management | 5 ECTS | January
• 12240 | Environmental Management, Innovation and Ethics | 5 ECTS | January
• 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 ECTS | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
• 41073 | Development and Operation of Product/Service-Systems | 10 ECTS | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) and Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
• 41636 | Design for Circular Economy | 5 ECTS | January
• 41637 | Mass Customization - Application of Product Configuration | 10 ECTS | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17)
• 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 ECTS | F7 (Tues 18-22)
• 42112 | Mathematical Programming Modelling | 5 ECTS | January
• 42114 | Integer Programming | 5 ECTS | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
• 42115 | Network Optimization | 5 ECTS | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
• 42180 | Quantitative Modelling of Behaviour | 5 ECTS | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)
• 42189 | Transport System Analysis | 5 ECTS | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
• 42404 | Maritime Logistics and Management | 5 ECTS | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
• 63881 | Railway Transport and Sustainable Logistics | 5 ECTS | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)

Advanced Programme Specific Courses - Choose at Least 10 ECTS

• 41638 | Complexity Management | 5 ECTS | January
• 42015 | Energy Economics | 5 ECTS | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
• 42136 | Large Scale Optimization using Decomposition | 5 ECTS | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
• 42137 | Optimization using Metaheuristics | 5 ECTS | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
• 42186 | Model-based Machine Learning | 5 ECTS | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
• 42380 | Supply Chain Analytics | 5 ECTS | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
• 42403 | Advanced Operations Management for Production and Service Systems | 5 ECTS | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17)
• 42879 | Decision Support and Strategic Assessment | 5 ECTS | 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.