Each year, prizes are awarded to Civil Engineering graduates. A student can only apply for a maximum of 2 prizes awarded by a jury.
Please note that some prizes require registration.
The application deadlines are set at the end of the master projects and no later than July, 31st.
This prize is awarded to the student who has obtained the best average in the Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (2nd and 3rd year of training).
The Pegurri Fund aims to help one or more students in Civil Engineering at EPFL. It was created by Mrs. Pegurri in memory of her father, Jean Pegurri, a civil engineer graduated from Lausanne.
Amount : CHF 6,000.- in 2 remittance over 2 years.
Application:
No application needed.
Winners :
2020 : GUILLAUMAT, Florian
2021 : TIREFORD, Nicolas
2022 : DE ALMEIDA SOUSA, Diogo
Candidature
This prize is intended to reward up to two students from the Civil Engineering section who have obtained a grade equal to or higher than 5.5 for their master of project, when co-supervised by either one laboratory or preferably by two separate laboratories affiliated to the Institute of Civil Engineering – IIC. A jury deliberates on the basis of the results transmitted by the section of Civil Engineering at the end of the academic year.
No appeal is possible. This award is presented by the section during the graduation ceremony.
Amount: CHF 1,000.-
At the end of the semester of his/her Master Project (PDM), the candidate must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- A pdf copy of the motivation letter, prepared by the candidate
- A pdf copy of the support letter, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners:
2020 : MONNERON, Armand
2022 : CANOMERAS, Elena– STIRNIMANN, Michael
This award includes 3 prizes:
- One of the prizes rewards the best average in a master’s degree of the ENAC faculty (excluding architecture).
- One of the prizes rewards a master project (PDM) of excellence in the field of civil engineering and in the field of environmental engineering. Candidates for the prize are proposed to the SIA Vaud by the master project directors concerned, with the consent of the student. The master project must have obtained a grade of at least 5.5 and stand out for its original, innovative and pragmatic character with regard to the constraints related to sustainable development.
Amounts : CHF 1,000.- for the PDM prize and CHF 500.- for the prize for the best average
Application:
At the end of the semester of his/her master project (PDM), the person in charge of the PDM must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- PDF copy of the cover letter, prepared by the applicant
- PDF copy of the letter of support, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners :
2020 : YACOUBA, Bally
2022 : LOISEL, Jolan
This prize was created by the former students of Professor Alfred Stucky in 1947. The STUCKY SA office, active in the fields of dams, water and energy, wished to revalorize this prize by associating itself with it.
The project must satisfy two criteria:
Originality: innovative personal work, new ideas or methods, novelty of the solution, original research outside the normal framework of studies.
Feasibility: economically realistic work, practically useful and leading to concrete results for the engineer, his profession, his knowledge, the practice, the standards, etc., for example: construction on plans allowing to envisage the practical realization, experimental assembly which functions, numerical or theoretical experimental method leading to results usable by the engineer.
Amount: CHF 3,000.-
Regulation Stucky Award
Application :
A candidate can only apply for a maximum of two prizes awarded by a jury. He/she must send to the secretariat of the Civil Engineering section in electronic format :
a letter of application countersigned by the responsible master who certifies that the work corresponds to the spirit and the rules of the prize
the project in .pdf format
immediately after the oral examination, a personal assessment of the project (one page maximum) with a mention of the grade obtained must be submitted to the Academic Service by the responsible teacher.
Winners :
2020 : SEYFEDDINE, Mona
2021 : VAN MOL, Romain
This award recognizes the highest grade point average of the entire master’s degree in the civil engineering section.
Amount: CHF 1,000.-
Application:
No documents required.
Winners :
2020 : NICOLET, Adrien
2022 : KEMPTER, Nathan
This prize is awarded to a student of the EPFL Master in Civil Engineering who has demonstrated excellence in a master project in the field of transportation or mobility.
Form to be attached to your online application: <<Application form>>
Amount : CHF 1,500.-
At the end of the semester of his/her Master Project (PDM), the candidate must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- A pdf copy of the motivation letter, prepared by the candidate
- A pdf copy of the support letter, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners
2021 : EPALADER CLAPES, Jasso
2022 : RICHTER, Nicolas
This prize is awarded to a graduate student of EPFL who has demonstrated excellence at the Master’s level in civil engineering, with a specialization in structural engineering.
Each candidate must provide:
- A letter of motivation from the candidate (1 page) which is an integral part of the selection criteria by the jury.
- A complete report card for the master’s program.
- An executive summary (5 to 10 pages maximum in English).
- A poster of the project.
- A letter from the master thesis director, sent directly to the secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section, attesting that the work corresponds to the spirit and rules of the prize.
The whole is to be given to the secretariat of the Civil Engineering section.
Amount : CHF 1,000.-
Regulation Sarada M. and Raju A. Vinnakota Award
At the end of the semester of his/her Master Project (PDM), the candidate must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- A pdf copy of the motivation letter, prepared by the candidate
- A pdf copy of the support letter, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners:
2020 : DEDERICHS, Anno
2022 : KEMPTER, Nathan
The award is given to a Master’s Project in the field of seismic engineering or structural dynamics. Candidates are nominated by the supervisor of their Master’s Project.
Amount : CHF 2,000.-
At the end of the semester of his/her Master Project (PDM), the candidate must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- A pdf copy of the motivation letter, prepared by the candidate
- A pdf copy of the support letter, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners:
2021 : MAESTRANI Riccardo
2022 : KEMPTER Nathan et MAILLARD Thibault
This prize is awarded to a master project developing the following activities: hydroelectric schemes, tunnels and underground structures. Candidates are proposed by the professors. Normally the prize is awarded annually.
No registration required.
Amount : CHF 2,000.- (CHF 4,000.- including the ETH Zurich)
At the end of the semester of his/her Master Project (PDM), the candidate must send by e-mail to the Secretariat of the Civil Engineering Section [email protected]:
- A pdf copy of the motivation letter, prepared by the candidate
- A pdf copy of the support letter, prepared by the person responsible for the PDM
Winners :
2021 : LAMBERTI, David
2022 : LEIGLON, Romain
Each year, ARPEA awards prizes for an outstanding bachelor’s thesis carried out among the Hautes Écoles Spécialisées de la HES-SO (HES) in French-speaking Switzerland (HEIA-FR, HEIG-VD, HEPIA-GE, etc.), and prizes for an outstanding master’s thesis carried out among the Hautes Écoles in French-speaking Switzerland (HES-SO, EPFL, UNIFR, UNIGE, UNIL, UNINE), in one of the Association’s fields of activity (see art. 2).
The prizes are reserved for works dealing with one or more themes directly related to the objectives and activities of ARPEA, in particular
- Water protection
- Protection of the air
- Protection of the natural environment
- Soil protection
- Remediation of contaminated sites
- Waste management
- Sustainable development
- Renewable energy in relation to environmental protection
The Durabilis prize, launched in March 2007 by EPFL and extended to UNIL in the autumn of the same year, rewards student projects presenting an approach integrating the dimensions of sustainable development, namely: the environment, society and the economy. The Durabilis prize is supported by the Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation (VPT), by the University of Lausanne management, as well as by the commune of St-Sulpice.
Regulation