Semester project registration procedure
Finding a semester project
Visit the different laboratories or the section web page and make sure that the professor in charge of the project is affiliated with the Mechanical Engineering Institute.
Semester Projects outside of SGM:
Semester project I (ME-401):
You can only apply for the semester project I (ME-401) outside SGM if you have a specialization. If you do not have a specialization, you must find a co-supervisor (prof or lecturer) affiliated with the IGM institute.
Procedure:
- Contact the teacher in charge of the specialization by e-mail to confirm that the project is sufficiently relevant to the specialization.
- The specialization manager sends his/her OK by e-mail
- Once the OK has been received, submit the request for authorization to carry out a semester project outside of the SGM to the section director for approval.
- Send the signed form to the section
Semester II project (ME-402):
Possibility of doing the Semester II project (ME-402) outside the section with the simple approval of the section director.
Procedure:
- Contact the section director by e-mail to request approval and forward this e-mail to the section (no form to sign).
NB: All Semester Projects (I and II) must take place within the EPFL. Under no circumstances is it possible to carry out a Semester Project in a company or outside the EPFL.
Register your semester project
- Find a project
- Contact the professor in charge of the project
- If your project takes place out of ME: ask for the authorization to carry out a project outside of ME, to the ME section director. NB: for the Semester Project 1 (ME-401), this is only available if you have a specialization.
- Register the project in IS-Academia (student portal, course selection)
- Have the registration form signed by the Professor (or the senior scientist) in charge of the project
- E-mail the form to the section’s office (sgm@epfl.ch)
Contact the professor in charge of the project
Discuss and book your subject with your professor as soon as possible.
The possibility for students to propose a project different from the ones offered, remains an exception and must receive prior academic and scientific validation from a laboratory.
Registration in IS-Academia
You must register your project in IS-A as soon as registration to semester courses opens.
Registration deadline, as for all other courses, is at the end of the second week of the semester.
IMPORTANT : your registration to the project in IS-Academia is mandatory
Dates
- Starting date: semester’s starting day
- Report hand-in deadline:
- Spring semester: Friday of the week following the end of the semester
- Fall semester: Friday of the second week following the end of the semester (due to Christmas break)
Mechanical Engineering section rules on semester projects
« Projects » block, including SHS, is completed once obtained the required 16 credits.
« Options » group is completed once the 74 credits (44 credits if the student has registered a minor) are obtained by individual completion of each registered course
1 – ME semester project I (ME-401) is compulsory and worth 10 credits.
It must be carried out in an ME or affiliated lab. If not so, the student must ask for the ME Section Director’s authorization which will only be granted if the student is doing a specialization and when the project is directly linked to the student’s specialization, with prior approval of the corresponding specialization advisor.
2 – ME semester project II (ME-402) is optional and worth 10 credits
It can be carried out in a non-ME lab prior authorization of ME Section Director.
3 – The MGT-555: Innovation & entrepreneurship in engineering course follows the same rules as ME-402 and will be counted in the 44 ME credits, if the student doesn’t carry out ME-402. Otherwise the MGT-555 credits will enter the 30 out-of-ME credits.
Useful Forms
Request for authorization to carry out semester project outside SGM