Entrepreneurship, Ethics, & Societal Impact

Our School is educating students to acquire a heightened awareness of ethical and privacy issues in engineering design and practice. We also encourage our students to innovate and to develop their entrepreneurial skills in the pursuit of solutions to problems of great societal impact in transportation, health sciences, affordable materials, food and nutrition, and energy.

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  • Hand exoskeletons, robotics and intelligent houses for providing assistance, EPFL engineer Luca Randazzo is not one to give up. His choices in life have been driven by one purpose: helping his sister who suffers from disability.

    Read more

  • With electronic waste on the rise, recent EPFL robotics graduate Ken Pillonel has turned to YouTube to make a statement about the repairability of our devices.

    Read more

  • Two EPFL students, Nour Ghalia Abassi and Mohamed Ali Dhraief, spent ten days in Ghana working on water-related projects.

    Read more