Semester project registration procedure

Register your semester project

1. Find a project
2. Contact the professor in charge of the project
3. If your project takes place outside of ME: see below.
4. Register the project in IS-Academia (student portal, course selection)
5. Have the registration form* signed by the professor in charge of the project
6. E-mail the signed form to the section’s office (sgm@epfl.ch)

Finding a semester project

Visit the different laboratories or the section web page (via VPN) and make sure that the professor in charge of the project is affiliated with the Mechanical Engineering Institute.

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

*To find the form in IS-Academia, go to:

• Plan Registration
  • projects block
    • ME-401 or ME-402
      • small downward facing arrow on the right
        • have the PDF that is issued signed

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.

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)

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 ME institute.

• Procedure:
  • Email the teacher in charge of the specialization to confirm that the project is sufficiently relevant to the specialization.
  • The specialization manager approves 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 project II (ME-402):

Possibility of doing the Semester II project (ME-402) outside the section with the simple approval of the section director.

Procedure:

• E-mail the section director 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 EPFL.

Mechanical Engineering section rules on semester projects

The « Projects » block, including SHS, is completed once obtained the required 16 credits. The 10 credits of the Semester Project I are validated within this projects block.

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, provided authorization is obtained from the ME Section Director (a simple e-mail is enough).

The MGT-555: Innovation & entrepreneurship in engineering

If you take the he MGT-555 course, it will be counted in the 44 ME credits, if the student doesn’t carry out ME-402.

Otherwise the MGT-555 credits will be included in the 30 outside ME credits – unless you have a minor, in which case you can’t take outside of ME credits, so they will be place outside you study plan and won’t count in your transcript.

Useful Forms

Request for authorization to carry out semester project outside SGM