Five students from ETH Zurich's Energy Science and Technology master's programme began work last week on a case study of the Swiss town of Sisslerfeld. The question of how the Sisslerfeld industrial zone and its neighbouring communities could become self-sufficient in terms of energy and CO2 neutrality by the year 2040 will occupy them for the next two semesters and will end in the summer of 2023.
Zurich, 27. January 2021. The new National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Dependable Ubiquitous Automation" has been launched - with the vision of strengthening Switzerland as one of the world's leading hubs for research, education and innovation in automation and control technology.
This year’s Bench2Biz entrepreneurship workshop is just one of the channels being drawn on to support a promising energy management project. The founders are determined to enter the business world well prepared.
In a world underpinned by shared infrastructure, how do we protect the most vulnerable? Sophie Hall explains why she is focused on finding the theoretical tools to build systems that won’t leave anyone out in the cold.
In a previous post, Jared Miller and Niklas Schmid looked at what safety means in engineering. But how do different automation systems implement those specifications?
Timothy Asare and Goodnews Iduku, who will be among the first students to graduate from the joint Ashesi-ETH Master's in Mechatronic Engineering, visited us for two weeks earlier this autumn. Together, they are setting up an optimisation framework for a renewable energy grid at the Ashesi University campus, supervised by Varsha Behrunani and John Lygeros.
Safety is a crucial criterion in automation, but how can we actually define it? How can we verify whether we are safe? How can we make sure? NCCR members Jared Miller and Niklas Schmid take a closer look.
Mark your calendars! 🗓️ 2-5 September 2025 – Engelberg, Switzerland
Join us at the Swiss CLOCK Summit, a new event bringing together the top minds in Computation, Learning, Optimization, and Control.