Master of Science:
The first year consists of two Compulsory Study Packages and two Specialised Study Packages.
The Compulsory Study Package is mandatory for all students. You have to choose minimum two of the Specialised Study Package.
As the 30 ECTS of elective courses you can choose between Specialsed Study Packages and individual courses offered by the education (minor variations from year to year).
* Autumn 2020: Replaced by mandatory courses for Architectural Engineering og for Civilengineering
Choose minimum two of the specialised study packages
Focus is on optimizing the design and execution process of construction projects, including simulation and pre-production perspectives such as the clients brief and design. Innovation, efficiency, optimization, collaboration and change management are keywords in this specialization, allowing students to act as Client Consultants and Project Managers at Contractors, Consultants, and Clients.
Prerequisites: BSc. Degree with introductory knowledge of construction processes.
The aim of this course package is to provide students with advanced knowledge, skills, and competences to design comfortable, healthy and sustainable buildings with excellent thermal, air quality, and lighting conditions.
Prerequisites: BSc in engineering, or equivalent, with a substantial degree of specialization related to building physics, human comfort and building services.
Focus of the package is to achieve knowledge of reinforced concrete and advanced geo-material behavior, in addition to the application and assessment of design methods for reinforced concrete structures and constitutive models of soil. Topics are dealt with both from an theoretical and experimental point of view.
Prerequisites: The students are required to have a bachelor degree in civil/structural engineering.
The aim of this package is to provide students with the necessary tools to make accurate calculations and informed decisions regarding the dynamic response of structures to all forms of external loading. Furthermore, students should understand the concepts of structural control and monitoring. Specific issues relating to large structures, such as cable-supported bridges and wind turbines, are elaborated upon.
Prerequisites: The students are required to have a bachelor degree in civil engineering with a specialization in structural engineering.
Ambitious building designs require extensive multi-disciplinary engineering skills for generating novel building designs.
Contemporary tectonic design combines material- and assembly-driven processes with computational tools and skillsets from multiple disciplines. Among other things, the courses included in this specialization exemplify how tectonic thinking, in response to current and foreseeable societal challenges, can result in novel and more holistic approaches to building construction.
Prerequisites: A BSc degree in Civil and Structural or Architectural Engineering
The aim of this course package is to provide students with advanced knowledge, skills, and competences to design comfortable, healthy and sustainable buildings with excellent thermal, air quality, and lighting conditions.
Prerequisites: BSc in engineering, or equivalent, with a substantial degree of specialization related to building physics, human comfort and building services.
This package focuses on interdisciplinary digital processes such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), Integrated Design and Project Delivery (IDP/IPD), construction automation and information technologies, incl. remote sensing and data visualization in construction and the built environment.
Prerequisites: BSc in Civil and Architectural Engineering.
Modern computers allow the analysis of structures with complex geometries and material behavior. However, a correct and optimal use of commercial programs or coding new software based on numerical methods such as the finite-element method (FEM) requires competent users and developers with a thorough understanding of the theory and its limitations. This package aims at providing the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary to choose sound modelling strategies, create models, verify their accuracy and test their computational efficiency with focus on the FEM applied to static analyses of structures. Further, the package provides the knowledge necessary to analyse and design steel structures with particular focus on the inherent advantages and limitations of steel as a structural material.
Prerequisites: The students are required to have a bachelor degree in civil engineering with a specialization in structural engineering.
All the courses in a package or part of the courses.
You can choose courses from other departments at Aarhus University (up to 10 ECTS in total)
You may maximum attend 10 ECTS of bachelor level-courses during your master education. A bachelor level-course is to be used for entirely new topics, i.e. topics outside your bachelor education, to ensure a sufficient level for attending master level-courses subsequently.
The R&D project is an independent, research-based work. The project can either be carried out in a research group at the university or in collaboration with an industrial partner. A project can be of 5, 10, 15 or 20 ECTS. In total, maximum 20 ECTS.
You can find the courses on your degree programme in the Study Structure:
In the academic regulations, you can find more information about the structure of the degree programme, and the requirements, – including the types of exams and the exam requirements.