Semester Projects

Optional project in the Master: Research project in materials III

Recommendation for the writing of report

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Procedures

The secretariat of the SMX Section requires the IMX labs to prepare a list of the available Semester Projects at least four weeks before the end of the semester preceding that during which the projects will be undertaken. This list will be made available two weeks before the end of the semester, at the latest, through the webpages of the labs.

Before the end of the semester, the SMX secretariat sends an email to students to find and register a semester project for the following semester.

The laboratories are responsible for the update of the project subjects.

Procedure for students

• Examine and choose a project from the list of projects below
• Beforehand, contact with the person in charge of the project for the assignment of the project
• Regisration on IS-Academia
• Download the pdf of the registration form registration form (before the deadline of the courses/projects registration)
• Signature of the registration form by the person in charge and send it by email to smx@epfl.ch or bring it to the secretariat of SMX
• At the end, the report of the written project has to submitted to the teacher at last:
  • Deadline regarding the projects of Fall semester: Friday of the second week after the end of the teachings
  • Deadline regarding the projects of Spring semester: Friday of the first week after the end of the teachings

Procedures for Labs

• 4 to 2 weeks before the end of the previous semester, publication of offered projects on laboratories websites
• Signature of the student registration form
• At the end of the project and according to the academic calendar, entry of the grade on IS-Academia.

List of projects suggested by laboratory

• Laboratory of construction materials (LMC)
• Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry (TIC) – Contact Dr Stefano Mischler
• Laboratory of mechanical metallurgy (LMM)
• Polymers laboratory (LP)
• Laboratory of processing of advanced composites (LPAC)
• Laboratory of semiconductor materials (LMSC)
• Laboratory of organic and macromolecular materials (LMOM)
• Supramolecular nanomaterials and interfaces Laboratory (SUNMIL)
• Laboratory of theory and simulation of materials (THEOS)
• Laboratory of photonic materials and fibre devices (FIMAP)
• Laboratory of computational science and modelling (COSMO)
• Soft materials laboratory (SMAL)
• Laboratory of thermomechanical metallurgy (LMTM)
• Laboratory of nanoscale magnetic materials and magnonics (LMGN)
• Laboratory for in situ nanomaterials characterisation with electrons (INE)
• Programmable biomaterials laboratory (PBL)
• Laboratory of biomaterials for immunoengineering (LBI)
• Laboratory of materials design and simulation (MADES)
• Laboratory for X-ray characterization of materials (CAM-X)
• Sustainable materials laboratory (SML)
• Dynamic Quantum Materials Laboratory (DQML)
• Mathematics for Materials Modelling (MATMAT)
• Interdisciplinary centre for electron microscopy (CIME)

Other laboratories

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering – Interfaculty group semester projects in conjunction with the College of Management
• Computational solid mechanics laboratory (LSMS)
• Laboratory for the Chemistry of Materials and Manufacturing (ALCHEMY)
• Laboratory for Materials Simulations (PSI) (the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)
• Bioenergy and catalysis laboratory (PSI) Dr Andrea Testino, pdf of Master thesis
• Laboratory of intelligent systems (LIS) (the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)
• Electron spectrometry and microscopy laboratory (LSME)
• Laboratory of biomechanical orthopedics (LBO)(the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)
• Photovoltaics and thin film electronics laboratory (PV-LAB)
• Galatea Lab (the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)
• MAKE Projects (the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)
• GEM Group (the project has to be supervised by Dr Van Herle)
• E4S Center (the project has to be supervised by a SMX teacher)