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The sustainable electrification challenge.

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Develop smart grid concept solutions to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supply.

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Rachid Cherkaoui electrical engineering professor since 1999. © Alain Herzog/EPFL

“Face-to-face teaching is so much better than teaching online”

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Rachid Cherkaoui, an electrical engineering professor since 1999, has been named this year’s best teacher in the electrical and microengineering section.

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2021 IEEE PowerTech – Basil C. Papadias award, 3rd prize

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2021 IEEE PowerTech – Basil C. Papadias award, 3rd prize

The test track – 40 m in diameter and 120 m long – is a first in Europe. © Murielle Gerber/EPFL

EPFL now has its own Hyperloop test track

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Engineers at EPFL’s DESL lab, working in association with EPFL spin-off Swisspod, have built a Hyperloop test track on the Lausanne campus. They will use the loop – a large vacuum tube for ultra-high-speed travel – to test a linear induction motor. The research is being funded by an Innosuisse grant.

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