Engineering, Innovation and Business, BSc in Engineering

3 Years On Campus Bachelors Program

University Of Southern Denmark

Program Overview

If you're passionate about turning ideas into real-world solutions, the BSc in Engineering, Innovation and Business at University of Southern Denmark is designed for you. This three-year bachelor programme combines engineering fundamentals, creative problem-solving, and business acumen to equip you with everything needed to develop products, launch startups, or drive innovation in established companies.

Curriculum Structure

First Year: Foundations in Technology, Innovation, and Business

Your first year provides a comprehensive introduction to the entire innovation journey—from initial concept to commercialisation. You'll build foundational skills across mechanics, electronics, and programming, while simultaneously developing creative methods for business development and understanding how companies operate. The curriculum balances theoretical courses with hands-on project work, ensuring you gain both knowledge and practical experience from day one.

Second Year: Creative Methods and Prototype Development

In your second and third years, you'll gain more specific knowledge about creative methods to generate new ideas and create both physical and virtual prototypes. The second semester particularly emphasises business understanding alongside design innovation, preparing you to evaluate the commercial viability of your concepts. You'll also begin exploring management of technology and innovation processes, giving you the tools to shepherd projects from conception through execution.

Third Year: Product Development, Optimization, and Specialisation

Your third year shifts focus toward product and process development, with the fourth semester concentrating on optimizing production systems and supply chains using simulation software. The fifth semester engages you in interdisciplinary projects with an emphasis on project and innovation management—you even have the option to study abroad. Finally, you'll complete your bachelor project, synthesising all knowledge from previous semesters into a capstone research effort.

Project-Based Learning Throughout

Each semester is built around a main theme that integrates theory and project work. The programme's semester projects progress through Discover Engineering and Innovation, Prototyping and Business Development, Product Development, Digital Manufacturing, and culminate in an Experts in Transformative Teams module before your final Bachelor Project. This structure ensures continuous, practical application of what you're learning.

Focus Areas

Engineering fundamentals (mechanics, electronics, programming), creative innovation methods, business model development, prototype development, production optimization, project management, technology and innovation process management, and smart product development.

Learning Outcomes

You'll be trained to handle the complete process from exploring and discovering new ideas to planning, managing, and implementing business concepts of your own. You'll develop both theoretical and practical experience in bringing an idea to its true potential and realisation, with competencies spanning engineering, creativity, and commercial thinking that prepare you for entrepreneurship or innovation roles in any industry.

Professional Alignment

The programme is taught entirely in English in an international study environment, making it accessible to students worldwide. It prepares graduates for diverse career paths—whether launching your own venture as an entrepreneur, working as a project manager or business developer in established companies, or driving innovation and digital transformation initiatives.

Experiential Learning (Research, Projects, Internships etc.)

At the University of Southern Denmark's BSc in Engineering, Innovation and Business, you'll dive straight into hands-on experiential learning that builds real-world skills from day one. You'll master practical techniques like prototype development, mechanical design, programming, electronics, and production optimization using simulation software, all while tackling the full innovation process—from idea generation to commercialization. Classes mix lectures with group projects, practice sessions, and teamwork across technology, innovation, and business, so you're always applying what you learn to create prototypes (both physical and virtual) and business concepts that could launch your own venture.

This project-driven approach shines in semester themes like Discover Engineering and Innovation, Prototyping and Business Development, Product Development, and Digital Manufacturing, giving you the tools to turn ideas into viable products:

- Group projects throughout: Work in teams on real-world challenges, such as developing prototypes, business models, and smart product solutions, building skills in project management, creativity methods, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Simulation software and digital tools: Use production optimization via simulation software, virtual reality, programming, and technologies for digital manufacturing and smart factories.
- Prototype development labs and practice: Hands-on sessions for mechanics, electronics, and creating physical/virtual prototypes in a project-based environment.
- Bachelor project: Culminate your studies with a major team project realizing an innovation from concept to implementation.

Progression & Future Opportunities

At the University of Southern Denmark's BSc in Engineering, Innovation and Business, you'll dive right into hands-on experiential learning that builds real-world skills from day one. You'll gain practical expertise in the full innovation process—from idea generation to prototyping, production optimization, and commercialization—through alternating lectures, group sessions, practice lessons, and project work where you collaborate in teams on actual challenges. This means mastering mechanics, electronics, programming, simulation software, virtual reality, and creative methods to develop physical and virtual prototypes, optimize smart factories, and create sustainable technical solutions.

Here's how you'll get that practical edge, tailored to this program:
- Semester projects in key themes like Discover Engineering and Innovation, Prototyping and Business Development, Product Development, Digital Manufacturing, and Experts in Transformative Teams, where you turn ideas into business cases with both theory and hands-on realization.
- Group project work and teamwork throughout, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration to plan, manage, and implement your own business concepts, including teambuilding for innovative solutions.
- Prototype development for physical and virtual products, using tools in mechanical design, electronics, programming, and production optimization via simulation software.
- Advanced digital tools like simulation, virtual reality, and technologies for smart product development and digital manufacturing.
- Project-based learning with industry ties, solving 'real world' problems often outlined by companies, building toward a Bachelor Project that mirrors professional innovation processes.