Course Mapping

What can I study on exchange?

You can search for courses that previous CIE students have already mapped and been approved. These tables are just a starting point for your own research about which courses could be transferred to your degree, and should not be considered an exhaustive list. Please note that project or design-based courses are not recommended to take abroad for all engineering programs. 

Not all previously evaluated courses listed are offered every session at the partner university. This is a general guideline only, please research the partner’s website for current course offerings. To see a complete list of courses that you could take on exchange, visit the partner institution’s full course listing website.

Students applying for CIE program must download and complete the Go Global Study Plan in addition to downloading the supporting documents that apply to you. 

Technical University of Denmark

2 ECTS = 1 UBC credit
Course Name Course Code Course Credits UBC Course UBC Course Name UBC Credits
3D Imaging, Analysis and Modelling 0 47209 5 BMEG 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Advanced Autonomous Robots 1 34756 10 MECH 4th Technical Elective 5
Advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) 41934 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Advanced CFD 2 41316 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Advanced Engineering Dynamics 1 62614 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Advanced Steel Structures 11352 5 CIVL 432 Advanced Structural Steel Designs 3
Algebraic Coding Theory 01405 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Algorithms and Data Structures 1 02105 5 CPSC 221 Basic Algorithms and Data Structures 4
Applied Biomaterials 0 22285 5 BMEG 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Applied Phycology 25330 5 CHBE Technical Elective 2.5
Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition 3 02464 5 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems 02285 7.5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 3.75
Autonomous Marine Robotics 4 34763 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Autonomous Robot Systems 1 34754 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Autonomous Robot Systems 31385 5 ELEC 442 Introduction to Robotics 3
Basic Power Electronics in Energy Systems 34620 5 ELEC 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Beer Brewing and Safe Food Production 23532 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Bioenergy Technologies 12136 10 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 5
Biologically Inspired Design 41084 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Biomaterials 22281 5 MTRL 495 Biomaterials 3
Biosynthesis of Natural Products 27422 5 Technical Elective CHBE 4th 2.5
Bridge Structures 41968 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Bridge Structures 4 41968 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Building Acoustics 34844 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Building Energy and Technical Services 5 11115 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Building Performance Simulation 41462 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Ceramic Science and Engineering 47304 10 MTRL 382 Ceramics 4
Chemicals in the Environment 6 12237 10 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 5
Circuit Technology and EMC 31354 5 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Climate Change – Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation 12205 5 CIVL 302 Civil Engineering Impacts 3
Climate Change – Physics and Observations 30755 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Communication Technologies and Application Development for Internet-of-Things (IoT) 34325 5 CPEN 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Composite Materials and Fibres 7 46420 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Computational Fluid Dynamics 8 41217 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Computational Multibody Dynamics 9 41515 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Computational Tools for Data Science 02807 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Computer Architecture and Engineering + 3 ECTS Engineering Course 02155 5 + 3 CPEN 411 Computer Architecture 4
Conceptualisation 1 41628 10 MECH 3rd Technical Elective 5
Concurrent Programming 02158 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Contaminated Sites 10 12330 10 CIVL 408 Geo-Environmental Engineering 3
Context of Architectural Engineering 11956 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Corrosion (theory and engineering) 41653 10 MTRL 456 Environmental Degradation of Materials 3
Corrosion and Materials under Demanding Conditions 41689 5 MTRL 456 Environmental Degradation of Materials 3
Database Systems 02170 5 CPSC 304 Introduction to Relational Databases 3
Deep Learning 02456 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Design of Digital Systems 02203 5 CPEN 3rd Technical Elective 3
Design of Plastic Products 41737 5 MTRL 394 Polymer and Polymer Matrix Composites 3
Development of Solar Energy Systems 11128 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Digital Instrumentation 30021 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Digital Learning Technology and Entrepreneurship 02492 5 ENPH 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Digital Technique 30081 5 CPEN 312 Digital Systems and Microcomputers 3
Digital Trends for Entrepreneurs 38105 5 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Drug delivery 22235 5 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Ecocar 11 41341 10 MECH 4th Technical Elective 5
Economics for engineers 62198 5 CIVL 403 Engineering Economic Analysis 3
Economics for Engineers 12 62198 5 CHBE 459 Chemical and Biological Engineering Economics 3
Economics for Engineers 62198 5 MTRL 455 Economic Aspects of Material Engineering 3
Economics for Engineers 62198 5 ELEC 481 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects 3
Economics for Engineers 62198 5 MECH 431 Engineering Economics 3
Economics for Engineers 62618 5 CIVL 403 Engineering Economic Analysis 3
Energy and Sustainability 28870 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Energy Systems - Analysis, Design and Optimization 11 41416 10 MECH 4th Technical Elective 5
Environmental Engineering in Low- and Middle-income Countries 12210 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Environmental Solutions in Water, Sanitation, and Waste Management - with and for Low-income Countries 12211 5 CIVL 406 Water Treatment & Waste Management 3
Ethical Hacking 02193 5 CPEN 4th Advanced Elective 2.5
Exergy Analysis 1 47317 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Experimental Structural Mechanics 11331 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Extreme Climate & Physical Nature 11857 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Extreme Climate & the Physical Nature 13 30857 5 EOSC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Extreme Climate & the Physical Nature 14 30857 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Field Course in Contaminated Sites 15 12331 5 EOSC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Fisheries and Aquaculture 25107 5 ENVE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Food Chemistry 23302 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
FPGA design for communication systems 34349 10 CPEN 311 Digital Systems Design 4
Fracture Mechanics 7 41526 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Function Spaces and Mathematical Analysis 1 01325 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Functional Materials 47319 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics 1 46110 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Geometrical Metrology and Machine Testing 16 41734 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Groundwater Quality + 1 ECT in Technical Elective 12336 5 + 1 EOSC 429 Groundwater Contamination 3
HardTech Entrepreneurship 42634 10 APSC 486 New Venture Design 6
Heat and Mass Transfer 62629 5 MECH 375 Heat Transfer 3
High Voltage Engineering 31770 10 ELEC 3rd Technical Elective 5
High Voltage Engineering 46720 10 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 5
History of Technology 10605 5 ENPH 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Chemistry - Experimental Course 1 47302 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Hydrology 17 12320 10 CIVL 316 Hydrology and Open Channel Flow 4
Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic 18 12854 15 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 7.5
Instrumental Chemical Analysis 26317 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Intelligent Systems 34366 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Internal Combustion Engines - Experimental Methods and Data Processing 1 41346 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Internet of Things – Application and Infrastructure Implementation 34315 5 CPEN 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Intro to Medicinal Chemistry 26426 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to 3D Printing: Process and Theory 16 41789 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Autonomous Systems 19 34762 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Bioinformatics 22111 5 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Biophotonics 34430 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Chip Design 02118 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Deep Learning in Computer Vision 02516 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Fibre Optic Communications 34121 5 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Future Energy 11 47202 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to GIS 30530 5 ENVE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Living Systems 12701 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 02450 5 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining 02450 5 CPSC 340 Machine Learning and Data Mining 3
Introduction to Medical Imaging 22481 5 BMEG 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers 20 34723 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers 34723 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Introduction to Spacecraft Systems and Design 30300 10 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 5
Introduction to Statistics 02402 5 STAT 251 Elementary Statistics 3
Introduction to Wind Energy 21 46000 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Linear Control Design 1 1 34721 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Machine Learning for Signal Processing 02471 5 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Machine Learning for Signal Processing 0 02471 5 BMEG 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Manufacturing Technologies 62204 5 MECH 392 Manufacturing Processes 2
Mechanical CAD 16 41615 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Mechanical Vibrations 62643 5 MECH 463 Mechanical Vibrations 4
Metallurgy, Design and Manufacturing of Cast Components 7 41733 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Metals Technology 7 41661 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Methods for Experimental Materials Characterization 41658 5 MTRL 451 Microstructure characterization 3
Model Checking 02246 7.5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 3.75
Model-Based Systems Engineering 02223 7.5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 3.75
Modeling in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering - Thermomechanics 22 41748 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Modelling in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering - Heat Transfer and Diffusion 7 41747 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Music Technology and Music Perception 22004 5 ENPH 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Natural Drainage and Water Supply 23 62280 10 CIVL 305 Introduction to Environmental Engineering Applications 3
Natural Hazards in the Arctic 24 12856 5 ENVE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Network Embedded Systems 34652 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Networking Technologies and Application Development for Internet of Things 34346 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Oil and Gas Production 28415 5 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Operating Systems 02159 5 CPEN 331 Operating Systems 4
Optical Biosensors 0 34431 5 BMEG 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Optics and Photonics 34020 5 ELEC 412 Optical Waveguides and Photonics 3
Personal Data Interaction for Mobile and Wearables 02808 10 CPEN 441 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design 4
Pharmaceutical Process Development 28850 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Physics of Solar Energy and Energy Storage 10260 5 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Polymer Chemistry 28212 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Polymer Chemistry + Design of Large Composite Structures 28212 + 46411 5 + 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 5
Power Electronics 1 34652 10 ELEC 451 Power Electronics 4
Power System Balancing with Large Scale Wind Power 11 46230 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Product Life and Environmental Issues 41051 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Programming Intelligent Vehicles and Mobile Applications 1 62573 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Project Course in Materials Engineering 1 41667 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Project Management 63852 5 CIVL 300 Construction Engineering and Management 3
Project Management 42430 5 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Protein structure and computational biology 22117 5 CHBE 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Psychology for Engineers 25 42893 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Railway Design and Maintenance 12452 10 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 5
Railway Technology and Operations: from Initial Idea to Operating Railway 62622 5 CIVL 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Railway Transport and Sustainable Logistics 63881 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Remote Sensing 11 30350 10 MECH 4th Technical Elective 3
Rheology of Food and Biological Materials 23522 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Robot Autonomy 21 34761 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Robotics 31383 5 ELEC 442 Introduction to Robotics 3
Robotics 16 34753 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Robotics 31383 5 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Robotics 31383 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Robust and Fault-tolerant Control 31320 10 ELEC 4th Technical Elective 5
Robust Design of Products and Mechanisms 1 41635 5 MECH 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Safety and Reliability in Robotic and Automation Systems 4 34760 5.0 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Science and Technology in Societal Context 42620 5 Civil Engineering Impacts CIVL 302 3
Ship Design 1 41271 10 MECH 4th Technical Elective 5
Signalling Systems & Technology for Railways 34345 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Smart Cities 42282 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Software Engineering 2 02162 10 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 5
Software Framework for Autonomous Systems 31391 5 CPEN 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Software Frameworks for Autonomous Systems 1 34758 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Solar Heating Systems 11117 10 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 5
Space Systems Engineering 26 30310 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Static and Dynamic Optimization 42111 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Statistical Analysis and Data Visualization + Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments 62670 + 02411 5 + 5 MTRL 460 Monitoring and Optimization of Materials Processing 3
Structural Optimization 41561 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Structural Theories and Design 11961 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Sustainability Solutions 25208 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Sustainable Building Design 11957 10 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 5
Sustainable Building in Extreme Environments 14 41881 15 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 7.5
Sustainable Building in Extreme Environments 24 41881 15 ENVE 4th Technical Elective 7.5
Sustainable Building in Extreme Environments 11853 15 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 7.5
Sustainable Buildings 11116 10 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 5
Sustainable District Heating 41468 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Sustainable Heating and Cooling of Buildings 11127 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Sustainable Heating and Cooling of Buildings 27 141466 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Sustainable Management of Materials 62620 5 MTRL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Technology and Economy in Oil and Gas Production 28885 5 CHBE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Technology platforms and architectures 4 41083 5 MECH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
The Arctic Infrastructure & Society 18 41882 5 APSC 4th Impact of Engineering on Society, sustainability and Engineering Stewardship 2.5
The Arctic Infrastructure & Society 18 41882 5 CIVL 302 Civil Engineering Impacts 3
The Arctic Infrastructure and Society 28 41882 5 ENVE 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
Theory of Relativity 10405 5 ENPH 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Transport system analysis - demand and planning 42178 5 CIVL 4th Technical Elective 2.5
Urban Air Pollution 12228 5 CHBE 485 Air Pollution Prevention and Control 3
Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management 12122 5 CIVL 409 Municipal Engineering 3
User-centered Design 1 41011 5 MECH 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
UX Design Prototyping 02809 5 CPEN 3rd Technical Elective 2.5
UX Design Prototyping + 3 ECTS Engineering Course 02809 5 + 3 CPEN 441 Human Computer Interfaces in Engineering Design 4
Virtual Design & Construction - Construction Bidding 62368 5 CIVL 426 Virtual Design and Construction 3
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery 12110 5 CHBE 373 Water Pollution Control 4
Water Resources Management 29 12333 5 CIVL 415 Water Resource Engineering 3
Water Supply 10 12121 10 CIVL 409 Municipal Engineering 3

Course notes

0Can be used as technical elective for BMEG.
1Can be used as Group B Technical Elective for MECH.
2Can be used as Group A Technical Elective for MECH. Credit Exclusion MECH 479.
3Can be used as Technical Elective for ENPH.
4Can be used as Group A Technical Elective
5Can be used as Thermofluids A Technical Elective for MECH.
6Can be used as a Primary Technical Elective in ENVE.
7Can be used as technical elective by MTRL students.
8Can be used as Thermofluids A Technical Elective for MECH. Only approved for students that have not or will not be taking MECH 479.
9Can be used as General A Technical Elective for MECH. Can be used as Technical Elective for EECE.
10Can be applied towards core requirement or Primary Technical Elective in ENVE.
11Can be used as General A Technical Elective for MECH.
12Not to be used by CHBE students to cover CHBE 459.
13DTU Arctic Semester Program Can be used as Technical Elective for GEOE.
14DTU Arctic Semester Program Can be used as Technical Elective for CIVL.
15Can exempt students from EOSC 428.
16Can be used as Group A Technical Elective for MECH.
17Can be used as a Secondary Technical Elective in ENVE. Can be used as Thermofluids A Technical Elective for MECH.
18DTU Arctic Semester Program
19Technical Elective, Group A – credit cannot also be obtained for MECH 464
20Can be used as Group C Technical Elective
21Can be used as Group A or B Technical Elective
22Can be used as Technical Elective for MTRL.
23With CIVL 4th (2) Technical Elective credits
24Can be used as technical elective by ENVL students.
25Can be used as Group D Technical Elective for MECH.
26Can be used as Group B Technical Elective
27Can be used as Group A Technical Elective.
28Can be used as Technical Elective for ENVL.
29Can be used as a Primary Technical Elective for ENVE.

Why Might a Course Not be Listed?

To view pre-mapped courses from other Faculties, use the Go Global Course Search Tool to help with your planning. 

Understanding the Transfer Credits

If a course at the partner institution has an overlap in content of 80% or more with a UBC course, it may be assessed as a ‘direct equivalency’. A specific UBC course code is assigned as transfer credit in these situations. E.g., ELEC 481, CIVL 305, MECH 466.

If a course at the partner institution has less than an 80% overlap in content with a UBC course, it may be assessed as ‘unassigned departmental credit’. A more generic course code is assigned in these situations to indicate the appropriate department and year level of content. E.g., CPEN 4th, CIVL 3rd, MTRL 4th.

If you want to complete a core course on exchange, you will need to find a direct equivalency. With your Program Advisor’s approval, unassigned departmental credits may be used for your program’s technical electives.

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