The “Design Project” (10 ECTS) is a mandatory course to be carried out in the spring semester (M2). The organization of this project is led by the SIE Section which suggests a series of topics proposed by external partners or in collaboration with research laboratories affiliated to SIE. Registration for this course is mandatory and is to be done on IS-Academia.
At the end of the year, the SIE Section organizes a presentation of the Design Projects. Then the students take note of the proposed topics, make their choice and form groups in pairs.
- Instructions on the completion of the Design Project
- Budget estimation form
- Searching for scientific information and citation basis for your Design Project (pdf presentation of 2nd March 2023)
- Agreement (pdf) ou Agreement (docx)
- Completion of the Poster :
- Evaluation criteria for Posters
Time of each oral presentation: 15 min for presentation + 5 min for Q&A
- Instructions on the completion of the Design Project
- Form to fill for Design Project propositions
- Goals of the Design Project
- Evaluation criteria for the oral presentation (FR / EN)
- Final evaluation form of the Design Project
- Evaluation criteria for Posters
Time of each oral presentation: 15 min for presentation + 5 min for Q&A
Before the semester starts: please get in touch with your EPFL supervisor and with the company in order to schedule the first meeting.
- Friday 23rd February 2024: 1st meeting between the 3 parties (students, industrial partner and SIE Professor)
- Thursday 2nd March 2023 (12h-13h – place TBD): permanence office hour on the information sources (Beast, Google Scholar, Web of Science), and literature search – by Valérie Charbonnier (to be confirmed)
- Friday 1st March 2024: submission of the signed contract and budget estimation to the Section (scanned version)
- Friday 8th March 2024: submission of the goals, expectations and calendar to the SIE Professor and external partner
- Friday 26th April 2024: submission of intermediate report to the SIE Professor and external partner
- Wednesday 22nd May 2024: deadline for sending the PDF version of report to the SIE Professor and external partner for comments before finalization
- This report’s version serves as a basis for the oral presentation
- Thursday 30th May 2024, between 13h30 and 15h00: printing of A0 poster at SG 0215 office (ENAC-IT – Benoit Hostettler)
- Friday 31st May 2024: poster session of the Design Projects, rooms TBD
- Friday 7th June 2024: submission of the final report version (PDF) to the SIE Professor and industrial partner
- Between 3rd and 14th June 2024: oral presentation of the Design Projects
- Monday 15th July 2024: submission of the grades to the SAC (by SIE Professors)
Topics of the Design Projects 2023
Click on “No” in order to see the Poster and on the title in order to visualize the topic’s description.
(41 students, 21 topics)
| N° | Company | Project’s title |
EPFL Supervisor |
Students |
| 1 |
Légumes Perchés |
Le défi de l’économie d’eau en agriculture urbaine | Paolo Perona |
Ambre de Herde |
| 3 | Alwatec AG Manfred Schoger |
Behandlung von Ammonium in Baustellenabwasser | Urs von Gunten | Polina Holub Christina Zarkali |
| 4 |
IFEC ingegneria SA |
Protection contre le bruit – Développement d’une méthodologie d’analyse SIG pour l’identification de zones calmes | Stéphane Joost | Teva Brotherson |
| 5 | Romande Energie Mathilde Cassani |
Lac d’Arnon – Assainissement du débit de dotation | Giovanni de Cesare | Charlotte Girard Marc-Antoine Courtois |
| 6 | PX Group SA Alexandra Levesque |
Impact Carbone et Approvisionnement en métaux (Or, Cuivre) pour la fabrication de produits semi-finis pour le domaine de l’horlogerie, le luxe et la joaillerie | Christian Ludwig | Léa Bitard Sébastien Rogers |
| 7 | Unisanté Aurélie Berthet |
Investigating the History of Dioxins Pollution in Lausanne | Florian Breider | Alexis de Aragao Xiaocheng Zhang |
| 8 | ATB SA John Beck |
Quantification des débits et cartographie des ruissellements de surface dans le Jura | Sara Bonetti | Rafik Tewfik Armelle Bouhali |
| 10 |
Nature Counts |
Use of stereoscopic cameras to extract information on individual fish and populations |
Jan Skaloud | Jingjing Huang Shushu Zhang |
| 11 |
AeroSpec |
Experimental studies with novel instrumentation to measure air pollution |
Athanasios Nenes | Anna Halloy Géza Soldati |
| 12 |
AeroSpec |
Development of tools to understand air pollution measurements from novel instrumentation |
Satoshi Takahama | Ali Waseem Marie Lou Hirschy |
| 15 | Biol conseils SA Simon Maendly |
Modèles de croissance de canopée | Charlotte Grossiord | Bastien Amez-Droz Basile Tornare |
| 16 | Office cantonal de l’eau – Genève Davide Ceresetti |
Modélisation hydrologique pour le traitement de la donnée manquante | Paolo Benettin | Soren Rasmussen Clémence Mayaux |
| 18 | Navitas Consilium SA Loïc Chambovey |
Analyse énergétique territoriale systématique des communes suisses | Michael Lehning | Aneta Kenclová Léna Karch |
| 20 | CREALP Tristan Brauchli |
Improving precipitation estimates in an Alpine catchment | Hendrik Huwald | Lorenzo Comi Rosa Haffter |
| 23 | CREALP Antonio Abellan et Saskia Gindraux |
SmartViti: Detection and prediction of diseases in vineyards | Devis Tuia | Swann Destouches Anthony Ducret |
| 24 | Canton de Vaud Pierre Marle |
Evolution des températures des cours d’eau vaudois dans un contexte de changement climatique : évaluation et impacts attendus sur la faune aquatique | Tom Battin | Nadège Sauvin Noemi Steiger |
| 26 | Unisanté David Vernez |
Comment assurer la qualité des mesures d’un réseau de capteurs low-costs sur Lausanne ? | Satoshi Takahama | Noé Fellay Shadya Gamal |
| 27 | Canton de Vaud Amélie Orthlieb |
Intégrer l’économie circulaire dans la gestion des déchets à l’échelle du Canton de Vaud |
Aristide Athanassiadis | Jasmin Hänni Corentin Mottet |
| 29 | SIE – Service intercommunal des énergies Kevin Gallego |
Analyse comparative des consommations électriques | Nicolas Kirchner-Bossi | Victor Deblon Matthieu Gautrot |
| 30 | Canton de Vaud Joël Varidel |
Renaturation intégrée des cours d’eau | Giovanni de Cesare | Adrien Signoret Maële Belmont |
| 31 | EPFL GR-CEL Thibaut Masset |
Elaboration d’un prototype pour l’échantillonnage des particules de pneu dans les cours d’eau | Thibaut Masset | Luc Villarejo Adrian Müller |