Curriculum for Engineering Acoustics
Source: https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/graduate/msc-programmes/engineering-acoustics/curriculum Parent: https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/graduate/msc-programmes/engineering-acoustics
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Engineering Acoustics the student must fulfill 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:
| 12100 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 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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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 |
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| 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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Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 34846 | Environmental acoustics | 5 | point | June |
| 34847 | Sound Tech Summer School - Innovation Camp | 5 | point | July |
| 34848 | Challenges in Acoustic Microsystems | 5 | point | January |
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Core competence courses - mandatory (15 ECTS)
| 22001 | Acoustic signal processing | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 22006 | Acoustic Communication | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 34840 | Fundamentals of acoustics and noise control | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
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Core Competence courses - choose at least 20 ECTS among these programme specific courses:
| 22003 | Auditory signal processing and perception | 10 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) and Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34850 | Architectural acoustics | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34860 | Advanced acoustics | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34870 | Electroacoustic transducers and systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34880 | Structure-borne sound | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
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Choose 10 ECTS from the following programme-specific courses (which can include an additional 10 ECTS of the Core Competence courses listed above):
| 02471 | Machine learning for signal processing | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22002 | Experimental hearing science | 5 | point | January |
| 22003 | Auditory signal processing and perception | 10 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) and Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22007 | Audiology and hearing devices | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 34846 | Environmental acoustics | 5 | point | June |
| 34848 | Challenges in Acoustic Microsystems | 5 | point | January |
| 34850 | Architectural acoustics | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 34860 | Advanced acoustics | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34865 | Numerical acoustics | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 34867 | Acoustic conditions at the Roskilde Festival | 5 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 34870 | Electroacoustic transducers and systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 34871 | Nonlinear transducers | 5 | point | January |
| 34880 | Structure-borne sound | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 46600 | Aeroacoustics | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
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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 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
Jonas Brunskog Associate Professor