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Move to the new BSS and GLC buildings is well underway
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- Internal news
The new BSS research building in Basel and the GLC in the centre of Zurich are now ready for occupation. The construction work took longer than planned, but the time has finally come: staff from the BSSE, HEST and ITET departments have begun to move in.
ETH Zurich backs Innovation Park Zurich
Institutional
ETH Zurich is to rent additional space at Innovation Park Zurich as part of a phased plan, starting from this year. The move highlights Zurich’s role as an innovation hub and will strengthen research and collaboration with industry.
Accessibility affects us all
- Institutional
- International opportunities
- Internal news
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) calls for an inclusive education system – including at higher education level. At a panel discussion on 20 April, affected students, teaching staff and persons with expertise in the field of teaching talked about the possibilities and limitations of accessibility in education.
Interview: How ChatGPT is changing teaching and assessments
- Institutional
- For lecturers
- Internal news
Language models like ChatGPT will change a lot more than just assessments at ETH Zurich. In this interview, education experts Gerd Kortemeyer and Manuel Sudau discuss the consequences of the language model for teaching staff and students.
Artificial intelligence in teaching and learning: Refresh Teaching event on 28 March
- Institutional
- For lecturers
What are the opportunities and challenges of AI for our teaching?
How does a degree programme reform… actually work?
- Institutional
- Internal news
Degree programmes change. But how exactly does this happen??And who decides what is taught and learned?
Teaching mathematics in Ashesi
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ETH mathematician Georg Anegg spent three weeks at Ashesi University in Ghana, which offers a joint master's program in Mechatronics Engineering with ETH Zurich. In an interview published by the D-MATH News, he talks about what it's like to teach in Ashesi and what motivated him to participate in the project.
“Streaming should not become the standard”
- For lecturers
- Internal news
Rector Günther Dissertori has sent out a communication to lecturers calling on them to discontinue holding fully online courses. He explains why below.
How university rankings work
Internal news
Yesterday saw the publication of the latest QS Ranking, an annual ranking of the best universities worldwide. ETH Zurich made the top 10. But what’s behind these university rankings, and what do they actually mean?
Discovering how to fly a quadrocopter drone autonomously – at home
Internal news
On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.
Physics experiments at home
Internal news
On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.
Practising in the virtual factory
Internal news
On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.
This or that? Video interview with ETH Rector Günther Dissertori
Internal news
Since the first of February, Günther Dissertori is the new Rector of ETH Zurich. In an interview we asked him a few “this or that” questions: lecture or seminar? Cooking or washing up? Valais or Grisons? Dumplings or gnocchi?
Critical Thinking to be incorporated into a larger platform
The ETH Executive Board has decided to continue the Critical Thinking initiative at ETH Zurich. It will be part of a larger platform encompassing courses and projects that are designed to convey interdisciplinary skills.
COVID certificate requirement in all lectures
Internal news
ETH Zurich is introducing a COVID certificate requirement for the entire study process. This will allow the upcoming Autumn Semester to kick off with a full on-site presence. Details of how this new rule is to be put into practice will follow next week.
News from the Executive Board 2021 / 3
- The Executive Board reports
- Internal news
In its recent meetings, the Executive Board approved the new programme regulations for the Bachelor of Mathematics, earmarked the funding of a research project in Val Bedretto and, for the first time, discussed a general return to the office after working from home.
News from the Executive Board 2021 / 1
- The Executive Board reports
- Internal news
Three newly designed CAS programmes, one of them taught jointly with EPFL, a new composition for the Strategy Commission and the appointment of two new members to the Research Commission: these were some of the most important decisions taken by the Executive Board in its most recent meetings.
Making professorships fit for the future
- rETHink Blog
- Internal news
Professorships are one of the focal points of the rETHink project. But what does the professorship of the future look like? Workstream 2 of rETHink is responsible for finding out, and they completed a comprehensive analysis of this question last year. Project focus groups drew attention to autonomy – both on an academic and an organisational level – as a vitally important aspect of professorships at the university.
Guidelines for good working relationships
Internal news
New rules will apply to those starting their doctoral studies at ETH in the autumn. After two extensive consultation rounds, the ETH Executive Board passed the revised version of the Ordinance on Doctoral Studies on 26 January 2021. The new guidelines make it compulsory for doctoral students to have a second supervisor and stipulate more precise rules for collaboration between professors and doctoral students.
A civil engineer who sees the big picture
Internal news
Thomas Vogel, Professor of Structural Engineering, has greatly influenced structural engineering in Switzerland and has a well-earned reputation after serving in various capacities at ETH Zurich. After 28 years of serving the university, the passionate civil engineer is retiring.
New president of the Lecturers’ Conference elected
Internal news
Atmospheric physicist Ulrike Lohmann will take over from Edoardo Mazza as President of the Lecturers’ Conference (KdL). To further develop hybrid learning, the new president aims to focus on the tried and tested peer review process in teaching.
Challenging times: session exams in the coronavirus era
Organising session examinations during the coronavirus pandemic is an extraordinary logistical challenge. In August, more than 12,000 students will take these exams. After weeks of intense planning, the Rectorate has published its health and safety concept for exam season.
The lessons of remote teaching in Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics is responsible for mathematics tuition in all of the degree programmes that ETH offers. It has used the corona-related emergency operation to switch to remote teaching. Four students and lecturers tell of their experiences.
Examinations during the pandemic
Studies
The Rector's directive on teaching measures due to the coronavirus pandemic has been updated to address the upcoming end-of-semester and session examinations. The revised document also covers qualifying examinations for admission to doctoral studies and outlines measures for those performing mandatory military service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continued pay for teaching assistants and employees on an hourly wage
- Service info
- Internal news
Anyone employed at ETH on an hourly wage or working as teaching assistant will receive 80% of their salary during emergency operations, even if the agreed performance can only be partially rendered, or not at all.
Directive on measures with regard to teaching expanded
Studies
The Rector has amended the directive on measures with regard to teaching due to the coronavirus pandemic, releasing the second version on 27 March.
“Online teaching requires new didactic concepts”
Internal news
Ueli Maurer, Director of Studies ?of the Department of Computer Science, talks in an interview about the challenges of the transition to online teaching and how things will continue. The new experiences are also to be incorporated into future teaching.
New Head of the Administrative Department Educational Development and Technology
Internal news
Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer is the new head of the Administrative Department Educational Development and Technology (LET). He takes over from Dr. Daniel Halter, who is moving to the University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland.
Welcome to the future
life
Virtual realities, interactive platforms and a more social form of face-to-face learning: specialists from Educational Development and Technology as well as the departments are transforming teaching at ETH.
A future without attendance certificates
- The Executive Board reports
- Internal news
It’s official: there will be no more attendance certificates at ETH Zurich. Instead, ETH Rector Sarah Springman wants to work with departments to refine instruments that motivate students to learn during the semester.
Discovery semester for refugees
The Executive Board reports
Starting this autumn, refugees who have started or completed a degree in a technical or scientific field in their home country will be able to attend lectures at ETH Zurich.
Launch of the Safe Exam Browser Consortium
The Executive Board reports
ETH Zurich and the SWITCH foundation have decided to launch the Safe Exam Browser Consortium.
Open up new perspectives, understand different contexts
The Executive Board reports
The study programme Science in Perspective enables students at ETH Zurich to develop new perspectives on their core subjects’ scientific and technological issues.
Students design their own ideas for learning at ETH
ETH Zurich encourages students to become more engaged in the teaching and learning process. The Student Innovedum project will enable students to transform their ideas into reality.
The Lecturers’ Conference (KdL) has a new President
The Lecturers’ Conference has a new President: Edoardo Mazza, a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, will be taking over from Felicitas Pauss (D-PHYS).
Helping new teaching styles to take flight
In person
On 27 April 2016 the KITE Award for “Key Innovation in Teaching at ETH” will be presented for the first time. KdL-President Felicitas Pauss has written a column about the significance of the new award in the latest issue of “life” magazine.
When students disassemble a car
In person
Analysis is key to every area of science – and architecture students are now learning this through a very hands-on approach.
A blog for innovative teaching
Service info
In the Deliscope blog, ETH educational developers regularly inform readers about innovative teaching trends.
2015 Student Survey of Satisfaction: good overall satisfaction
The Executive Board reports
More than four fifths of students at ETH Zurich are satisfied or very satisfied with their studies at ETH Zurich. This is the result of the 2015 Student Survey of Satisfaction. The Executive Board acknowledged the survey in July.
Welcoming new students: More orientation
In person
How should new students get to know the ETH? Is one welcome event enough? Not at all, thinks columnist Julia Wysling and explains why.