The School of Engineering congratulates Jamie Paik, who has been promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering by the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology!

Zhe Zhang, a researcher in the Laboratory of Wave Engineering in the School of Engineering, has received a prestigious fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to pursue postdoctoral studies at Stanford University in the USA.

By shifting the focus from learning correct answers to participating in small group discussions, student-led tutorials are fostering a better grasp of engineering concepts – as well as class connection.

When it comes to storing images, DNA strands could be a sustainable, stable alternative to hard drives. Researchers at EPFL are developing a new image compression standard designed specifically for this emerging technology.

From April 23rd-26th, EPFL hosted the largest annual soft robotics conference, IEEE-RAS RoboSoft. This year’s international event, whose theme was ‘Interdisciplinarity and Widening Horizons’, featured a soft robotics competition and an art expo. 

Some 80% of weather radiosondes – remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts – end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by a microengineering master’s student is set to change that with a new, ultra-lightweight “glidersonde” that can automatically return to where it was launched.