Ivo Leibacher, Doctoral candidate with Prof. Jürg Dual, received an Honorable Mention for the R. W. B. Stephens Prize at the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Singapore.

More (German) | Center of Mechanics | Prof. Jürg Dual | Ivo Leibacher

Technical appliances end up in the garbage because individual components within them are defect - and replacing these is either too time-consuming or not possible.  The suspicion exists that many producers base their calculations on a short life expectancy for their appliances.

More (German) | Chair in Product Development and Engineering | Prof. Mirko Meboldt

When the retina’s supply of blood and oxygen runs low, physicians have to react quickly to preserve a patient’s eyesight. But up until now there have been no methods sensitive enough to measure how well the eye is oxygenated. A microrobot invented by ETH researchers may come to the rescue.

ETH Life Article | Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems | Multi-Scale Robotics Laboratory | Prof. Bradley Nelson

On Thursday, Prof. Nobuhide Kasagi from the University of Tokyo will give the Aurel Stodola Lecture.

He is an engineering scientist, has developed the basic principles for a whole series of energy efficient applications in the transport, energy and industrial sectors as a result of his research into turbulent currents and the heat they transfer.

ETH Life Article (German) | Aurel Stodola Lecture | Invitation