Transferable skills courses

  • A set of courses for transferable skills, approved by the EPFL Doctoral Commission (CDoct), is open to all doctoral programs.
  • These courses are not subject to approval from Doctoral programmes.
  • A maximum of 4 credits can be obtained by successfully passing a transferable skills course.
  • These credits should not to be one of those required for the first year.

CDoct Meeting Nr 107, May 28th 2015

Cours Transferable skills

EDOC General and external courses

Courses
Code
 
Programs
 
Lecturers
Exam
 
Credits
 
 
 
 
 
Academic Writing for Doctoral Students (1)    (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL only // Next time: 24, 25, 27 June, 1, 2, 4 July 2019)
ENG-627 
EDOC-GE 
 
Oral
2
 
 
 
 
Communication for Research Engineers    (Next time: Fall 2019)
CIVIL-605 
EDCE 
Smith  
Multiple
1
 
 
 
 
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Exploitation    (The course will be given in 2 blocks: Block 1 - Oct 15-17, 14:00-19:00 Block 2 - Nov 19-21, 14:00-19:00 Registration via IS-Academia Portal )
ENG-632 
EDOC-GE 
Gruber
Tal Itzkovitch  
Oral presentation
2
 
 
 
 
ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2019    (From 4 to 7 June 2019; ETH Campus, Zürich)
ENG-805 
EDOC-GE 
Henry  
Oral presentation
2
 
 
 
 
Exposure: The science-film Hackathon    (Registration via website)
ENG-631 
EDOC-GE 
Salathé
Various lecturers  
Oral presentation
1
 
 
 
 
Innosuisse Business Concept    (Next courses and Registration: https://www.science2market.ch/course-list Next time: Fall session : 18 September to 18 December 2018 Spring Session : 19 February to 5 June 2019)
MGT-642 
EDOC-GE 
Various lecturers  
Project report
4
 
 
 
 
Lecturing and Presenting in Engineering    (Registration via IS-Academia)
ENG-629 
EDOC-GE 
Hardebolle
Isaac  
Project report
2
 
 
 
 
MINTT: Management of Innovation and technology transfer (EDOC)    (Registration via mintt's website (mintt.epfl.ch) Next time: April to July 2019)
ENG-623 
EDOC-GE 
Catana
Various lecturers  
Project report
2
 
 
 
 
Presenting Research in English    (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL Next time: 17, 21 June 2019)
ENG-630 
EDOC-GE 
 
Oral presentation
1
 
 
 
 
Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning    (Registration via IS-Academia Held on: Monday 29.10 Monday 5.11 Monday 12.11 Monday 19.11 Monday 26.11 Monday 10.12 (EXAM))
ENG-622 
EDOC-GE 
Le Duc
Tormey  
Project report
2
 
 
 
 
Supervising Students in Projects and Labs    (Registration via IS-Academia)
ENG-633 
EDOC-GE 
Hardebolle
Isaac  
Oral
1
 
 
 
 
Technology and Public Policy - (a) Science, technology and society  
MGT-641(a) 
EDOC-GE 
Various lecturers  
Term paper
2
 
 
 
 
Technology and Public Policy - (b) Technology, policy and regulation  
MGT-641(b) 
EDOC-GE 
Finger  
Term paper
2
 
 
 
 
Technology and Public Policy - (c) Technology, intellectual property and innovation policy  
MGT-641(c) 
EDOC-GE 
Various lecturers
de Rassenfosse  
Term paper
2
 
 
 
 
Technology and Public Policy - (d) Technology policies for grand and global challenges  
MGT-641(d) 
EDOC-GE 
Foray  
Term paper
2
 
 
 
 
Thèse en 180 secondes    (Registration via http://mediacom.epfl.ch/mt180 Next time: Fall 2018)
ENG-626 
EDOC-GE 
Various lecturers  
Oral presentation
1