D-MAVT News

Development of surface strain sensors , Senstech AG, Fehraltorf

Roland Siegwart is honored by the academic platform research.com in the field of mechanical and aerospace engineering as well as in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.

Internship Photovoltaics (60-100%), Energie21 GmbH, Basel area

Internship Reliability Testing Hardware, Lumiphase, Stäfa

Working Student Semiconductor Laboratory, 40%-60%, Lumiphase, Stäfa

5-week industrial internship in mechanical engineering for MSc students or graduates at Three-Tec GmbH in Seon AG (near Lenzburg)

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering has awarded 12 Master's students with the ETH Medal and five with the Willi Studer Prize. The awards for their outstanding achievements were presented during the Master's Ceremony 2024.

Robotics Engineer, Bota Systems, Zürich

Patrick Benito Eberhard, Teresa Sánchez-Robles Herrero and Max Schaldach received the «Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award» of the D-MAVT for the fall semester 2023.

Konstantinos Karapiperis and Vignesh Kannan, both postdoctoral researchers in Professor Dennis Kochmann's lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, have been appointed professors.

The Economist, Prof. Dimos Poulikakos

Annalisa Manera and Marco Hutter, professors at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich have been elected full members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Innovative lubrication concepts, Hilti, Schaan, Liechtenstein

Tribology testing, Hilti, Schaan, Liechtenstein

Factory Digitalization, Accelleron, Baden (CH)

A new magnetically controlled microrobot helps navigate catheters faster and more accurately in brain surgery. Its unique surface structure improves catheter guidance in tortuous blood vessels. This tech aids emergency stroke or aneurysm surgeries, enhancing patient recovery chances.

Innovative Mask Design for Air Pollution Impact Mitigation in Blantyre, Malawi: A Particle Size Distribution Approach

Establishing the HDPE recycling process at Art Malawi n Blantyre, Malawi

Analysis and treatment of wastewater from plastic recycling in Blantyre, Malawi

Informal dumpsite recognition of informal skips from Google Earth images with Random Forests/DNNs  

Design optimization of a mixing reactor for close to source urine stabilization

Establishing the HDPE recycling process at Art Malawi n Blantyre, Malawi

Waste Information Management and programming in Blantyre, Malawi

Optimizing Membrane Technology for Water Filtration in Low and Middle-Income Settings, Openversum GmbH

Internship (m/f/d) Innovation-project at swissbiomechanics ag, 100%, Einsiedeln

Applied Research & Measurements, Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd., Winterthur

Internship (or Master's thesis): Chemical-​ and Process Engineers in Switzerland and Germany, at nimeg.ag, Stein AG

Internship with the startup Rapidata, Data Science Intern, Zürich

Sumitomo Electric Global Internship Program 2024, 10 weeks, Japan

Internship at GE: Condenser Optimization by Finite Element Analysis, full time, Baden

Internship Research and Development, minimum duration of 3 months, start by agreement, Thoratec Switzerland GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland  

For 24 years, Ulrike Schlachter steered the fortunes of D-MAVT as Department Coordinator. Since September 2023, Karin Werer and Maddalena Velonà have been gradually taking over from her. In this interview, they talk about their lessons from the past and plans for the future.

University Assistant (Prae-Doc), limited to 3 years, application until 11.01.2024, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Data analysis with Matlab: comparison of different sensors and their measurement accuracy, Rheinmetall Air Defence AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Simulation and test with hardware in the loop, control/regulation of Line of Sight and Line of Fire using model based design, Rheinmetall Air Defence AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Students give teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering a very good rating. The department is pleased about the excellent teaching performance in the spring semester 2023.

Finanz und Wirtschaft, Spin-off Climeworks AG

Eight doctoral students at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering received the ETH Silver Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.

Jan Carmeliet and Dominique Derome recently wrote a comment paper on invitation by Nature Reviews Physics. In the paper, they explain how computational fluid dynamics can help with designing more sustainable cities.

Each year, around 80 young women* from high schools from all over Switzerland take part in the Schülerinnen*tag, organized by the student organisation LIMES. During this all-​day event, the participants do a campus tour, visit a couple of labs, and receive first-​hand information about the study programmes in electrical and mechanical engineering.

Maria Lukatskaya, Professor of Electrochemical Energy Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been recognized again as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2023 by global information service provider Clarivate.

Mechanical engineer, 80-100%, Gilgen Door Systems AG in Schwarzenburg

Signode Switzerland GmbH, Dietikon 1, Switzerland

George Haller, Professor at the Institute for Mechanical Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, received the Stanley Corrsin Award 2023 by the American Physical Society (APS).

Konrad Wegener, Professor Emeritus for Machine Tools and Manufacturing at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receives the Golden Owl for his excellent teaching. The Owl is awarded by the student association of ETH Zurich (VSETH) and honors particularly committed teachers.

Karen Bodie was awarded the ABB Research Prize 2023 on the ETH Day. She received the award for her doctoral thesis „Omnidirectional Tilt-Rotor Flying Robots for Aerial Physical Interaction: Modelling, Control, Design and Experiments“.

Giacomo Matteo Mastroddi and Marco Muttoni, Bachelor’s graduates from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receive an excellence scholarship from the Fondazione Nizzola. With this scholarship, the foundation supports students from Ticino who are studying for a Master's degree at ETH Zurich or the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI).

More female students in the Student Project House - that's what Rafael von Sury and Serena Stefanoni want to achieve. In the interview they talk about why this is important to them and introduce women in video portraits who already make use of the SPH.

Process Engineer, 80-100%, Maerz Ofenbau AG, Zurich Enge

Konstantinos Magkoutas, former postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), has been awarded the 2023 ASAIO Top Biomedical Engineering Abstract Award.

SRF «Schweiz Aktuell», Prof. Roland Siegwart, Prof. Robert Katzschmann

Academic Positions (Tenure-Track), Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, University of Sydney, Australia

SRF 1 - 10 vor 10, aCentauri Solar Racing

Open positions and internships in the field of electromobility, SUNCAR AG

Eight Master’s students of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering receive scholarships from the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme of ETH Zurich.

Professor Daniel Ahmed, head of the Acoustic Robotics for Life Sciences and Healthcare Group at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been awarded the Dandelion Award for his outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. 

National Geographic, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld, Climeworks AG

Andrea Veciana and Maximilian Eberlein receive the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Maximilian Eberlein is being recognized for his outstanding performance in the course Introduction to Quantum Mechanics for Engineers during the spring semester 2023. Andrea Veciana is honored for the Nanorobotics course.

Internship in R&D, Packaging & Labeling Development, 100%, from Feburarz 2024, 6 months, Biotronik, Bülach

The students Jonas Bauer, Gino Kreis, Alexandros Ntakoulas, Gabriele Piovan and Justin Weiss receive the Outstanding D-MAVT Bachelor Award for the best examination block B in the examination session Summer 2023. Congratulations!

The Outstanding D-MAVT Bachelor Award for the best Bachelor's degrees issued between 1 October 2022 and 2 October 2023 goes to Patrick Eberhard Benito, Laurent Hoffmann, André Muff, Roland Stärk and Emma Steinke. Congratulations!

Jennifer A. Lewis has been awarded the Aurel Stodola Medal 2023 by the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. At the award ceremony, the Harvard professor presented her groundbreaking research on the 3D printing of soft and living matter.

George Haller, Professor at the Institute for Mechanical Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, received the Stanley Corrsin Award 2023 by the American Physical Society (APS).

Every year, students invest many hours in developing and constructing the focus project Formula Student Electric at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT). Now their efforts have paid off. The racing car “mythen” they initially helped develop has broken the world acceleration record.

Emilio Frazzoli, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control, is the new chairperson of the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM). He takes over the role from Professor Kay Axhausen, who will retire early next year.  

At the ETH information days, the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering introduced prospective students to the broad field of mechanical engineering. 

Wirtschaftszeit.at, Focus project aCentauri

Weather Network, Prof. Thomas Schutzius

Bilanz, Spin-off Voliro AG

t3n, Focus project Magnecko

The positive impact of transdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration on medical solutions is demonstrated by a project involving Julian Wolf, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich, working together with Florentin Liebman and Marco von Atzigen from the University of Zurich/Balgrist.

Schweizer Maschinenmarkt, Prof. Konrad Wegener

Salvador Pané i Vidal, Professor of Materials for Robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Co-Director of the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, appointed corresponding member of the Institute of Catalan Studies in the Section of Sciences and Technology.

Roland Siegwart, head of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), and Samir Bouabdallah received the Most Influential Paper Award at ICRA 2023. Andrei Cramariuc, also from ASL, won the Hilti Multi-Session SLAM Challenge.

Blick, Prof. Elizabeth Tilley

Melanie Zeilinger, Professor at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, received the European Control Award 2023.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Prof. Annalisa Manera

Hossein Gorji, former doctoral student with Professor Patrick Jenny at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been appointed Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC).

At the MaP Graduate Symposium 2023, four doctoral students from the D-MAVT received awards for their research. Awards went to Oscar Cipolato, Anna De Vries, Yannik Glauser, and Sonja Schreiner.

Markus Bambach, Professor of Advanced Manufacturing at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), will assume the position of Vice Rector for Study Programs at ETH Zurich as of 1 July 2023.

Spiegel Online, Focus project MetaSuit

Iwan Hächler has been awarded the "Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Prize 2023" by the Swiss Micro- and Nanotechnology Network. He is a former doctoral student at Professor Dimos Poulikakos’ Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies.

Gioele Zardini, doctoral student with Professor Emilio Frazzoli at the Institute of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Internship mechanical engineering, full-time, 6-12 months at Micronel AG in Tagelswangen

Thirteen teams, nine months, countless hours of work. With an exhibition and presentations on 30 May 2023, the third-year Bachelor’s students of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering presented their Focus Projects.

Tiemo Pedergnana has been awarded the "2022 Edward N. Lorenz Early Career Award" from the AIP Journal Chaos. He is a doctoral student at Professor Nicolas Noiray’s laboratory of Combustion and Acoustics for Power and Propulsion Systems.

20 Minuten, Focus project SURF-eDNA

Spin-offs, focus projects, industrial partnerships: Konrad Wegener has made a lot of things happen in his 20 years at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. His approach has been to tackle problems courageously and to solve them. Konrad Wegener will retire at the end of July 2023.

Handelszeitung, Spin-off Climeworks, Prof. Marco Mazzotti

Xiangzhong Chen, former senior researcher in the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, was appointed Associate Professor of Ferroic Materials for Smart Biodevices at Fudan University.

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering has awarded nine Master’s students with the ETH Medal and six with the Willi Studer Prize. The awards for their outstanding achievements were presented during the Master's Ceremony 2023.

Brendan Bulfin, senior researcher in the Renewable Energy Carriers group of Professor Aldo Steinfeld at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, was appointed to an Associate Professor (Lectureship) position in Sustainable Materials at University College Cork, Ireland.

Donghoon Kim, former doctoral student of Salvador Pané i Vidal, Professor of Materials for Robotics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Schwäbisch Gmünd Prize for Young Scientists 2023.

RSI News, Prof. Marco Mazzotti

The "Metal Makerspace" in the CLA building officially opened yesterday. The new facility is a joint project of D-MAVT, the techpool and the Student Project House (SPH). Students will have access to the metal workshops starting in the fall semester of 2023.

To recognize the scientific contributions of Aldo Steinfeld, Head of the Renewable Energy Carriers group at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, as a pioneer in solar thermochemistry, the Solar Energy Journal published in March 2023 a "Festschrift" as a tribute to his achievements. The publication is the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES).

srf.ch, Prof. André Bardow

From materials science to quantum engineering, from Master's projects to start-ups: 16 Excellence students and four Pioneer Fellows from a wide range of different fields exchanged ideas with donors at Meet the Talent event. Also among them were students and researchers from D-MAVT.

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering awarded four doctoral students with the "People's choice Award 2023" for the best presentation at the doctoral event DocS@MAVT on 16 March 2023. The winners are: 1. prize: Francesco Vicentini, 2. prize: Yifan Cui, 3. prize: Carl Hemprich and Charlotte Meyer. Congratulations!

Aaron Häusler, Elisabetta Schneider and Lars Meyer win the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the Fall Semester 2022. Every semester, the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering honors its teaching assistants for their valuable contributions with the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The three winners will receive a prize money of CHF 500 each. Congratulations!