Design Projects

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.

Before the semester starts: please get in touch with your EPFL supervisor and with the company in order to schedule the first meeting.

  • Friday 21st February 2025: 1st meeting between the 3 parties (students, industrial partner and SIE Professor)
  • Thursday 27th February 2025 (12h-13h – room GR A3 30): permanence office hour on the information sources (Beast, Google Scholar, Web of Science), and literature search, by Myriam Petrilli, Teaching Librarian
  • Friday 28th February 2025: submission of the signed contract and budget estimation to the Section (scanned version)
  • Friday 7th March 2025: submission of the goals, expectations and calendar to the SIE Professor and external partner
  • Thursday 17th April 2025: submission of intermediate report to the SIE Professor and external partner
  • Wednesday 21st May 2025: 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
  • Tuesday 3rd June 2025, between 13h30 and 17h00 : printing of A0 poster at SG 0215 office (ENAC-IT – Nikita Duarte Montoya)
  • Wednesday 4th June 2025: poster session of the Design Projects, from 14h to 17h, room GR A3 31, GR A3 32 and GR B3 30.
  • Friday 6th June 2025: submission of the final report version (PDF) to the SIE Professor and industrial partner
  • Between 2nd and 13th June 2025: oral presentation of the Design Projects
  • Monday 14th July 2025: submission of the grades to the SAC (by SIE Professors)