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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.

Cong Wang has won the annual Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize, awarded to a doctoral student in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for their outstanding thesis. © Cong Wang

Cong Wang wins 2020 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

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Cong Wang, whose work will be applied for the first time in 2021 in a smart grid development in southern Switzerland has won the annual Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize, awarded to a doctoral student in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for their outstanding thesis. 

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