Elite master education “Fuel Cells and Hydrogen” - an industrial oriented education under Sustainable Energy

This website is under reconstruction due to the establishment of the new Department, DTU Energy Conversion, as of 1 January 2012. The list of courses and the study plan will be updated shortly.

Elite Master Program in Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

• Personal tutor 
  You will have an internationally recognized personal tutor from the department and a tutor from a company at a later stage in your study. 
• Individual and flexible study plan
  Together with your tutor, you can design your own individual and flexible study plan, allowing room for international studies and collaboration with world-class industrial companies. 
• International experience
  Unique to the elite master program, you will be allocated funds to help cover e.g. a semester study outside Denmark and/or participation in at least one international research conference, a workshop or a summer university. 
• Industrial research project
  You will experience close collaboration with industrial partners throughout your study. Moreover, you will carry out a research project in direct collaboration with a leading Danish or international company
• Exciting career prospects
  As a graduate from the elite master program you will be a highly qualified and sought after candidate for either a top-level industrial career or a PhD scholarship.

Admission requirements

The program is open to international as well as Danish students with a bachelor degree in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering, or equivalent who fulfill the high admission and performance requirements in the honors program. You can get detailed information about these requirements at DTU’s website by following the link below. When you apply, you must follow DTU’s general admission procedure for the MSc in Sustainable Energy, but it is important that you state that your application is for the elite track.

http://www.dtu.dk/English/education/MSc_Programs/Elite%20Programs.aspx  
http://www.dtu.dk/English/education/MSc_Programs/Sustainable%20Energy.aspx  

Application deadlines

1 April and 1 November 2012.

Study plan and list of courses – will be revised shortly

To obtain the Elite MSc degree in Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, the students must fulfill the following requirements:

• Have passed General Competence Courses (30 ECTS) 
• Have passed Technological Specialization Courses (30 ECTS) 
• Completed a Master Thesis within Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (30-35 ECTS) 
• Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of ECTS of the entire study to 120 points.

These credits can be obtained from the list below (to be updated), or through equivalent courses at e.g. the Nordic 5 Tech or Euro Tech Universities, following the approval of the Director of Studies.

List of courses – to be updated 
 
General Competence Courses (at least 30 points)

Choose one course from:

Yoy must choose at leat one cource from:

- or other course covering general competences such as innovation, law, economics, management etc.

Choose from the following courses, such that these together with the above general competence courses add up to at least 30 points:

You must choose at least 20 points from:

Can be selected from all MSc courses at DTU.

MSc project (30/35 point)

You will perform your MSc project close collaboration with an industrial partner. 

Contact

Director of Studies, Head of Section Tejs Vegge
DTU Energy Conversion
Frederiksborgej 399
P.O. Box 49
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark
+45 4677 5818
teve@dtu.dk