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Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered to be valuab ...

2021

Towards Reliable Evaluation of Algorithms for Road Network Reconstruction from Aerial Images

Pascal Fua, Mateusz Kozinski, Leonardo Citraro

Existing connectivity-oriented performance measures rank road delineation algorithms inconsistently, which makes it difficult to decide which one is best for a given application. We show that these inconsistencies stem from design flaws that make the metri ...

2020

Design and fabrication of miniaturized shape memory alloy gripper prototype

Grippers, currently used in Industry, are not suited for clean room application. Thus, a novel type of smart gripper is being designed using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). In the development of this Smart Gripper, the modelling of the material is quite critica ...

2019

Development of a New Embedded Dynamometer for the Measurement of Forces and Torques at the Ski-Binding Interface

Alain Schorderet, Frédéric Meyer, Alain Michel Prenleloup

In alpine skiing, understanding the interaction between skiers and snow is of primary importance for both injury prevention as well as performance analysis. Risk of injuries is directly linked to constraints undergone by the skier. A force platform placed ...

2019

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Inquiry-based labs seek to engage students in an authentic process of scientific inquiry, where students pose and invest scientific questions. The effect of inquiry-based labs has consistently been found to be positive [1]. In addition, the results of Furt ...

2019

A Mirror Effect. Recomposition of the Industrial Valleys, Brussels and Montreal

This paper relates a comparative approach to the urbanisation processes of the valleys in Brussels and Montreal by the students of the atelier d’urbanisme opérationnel from the graduate master program in urbanism and spatial planning at UCLouvain (Belgium) ...

2019

Smart Gripper: Design and fabrication of a test bench to model a Shape Memory Alloy beam

2018

Design of a measuring device for Mallet Finger treatment

Khawla Belqadhi

A mallet finger is an injury that affects the extensor tendon at the Distal interphalangeal joint (DIP). It results from a hyperflexion of the said tendon which can result in a stretching or tearing of the tendon or an avulsion of the tendon’s insertion on ...

2017

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Giovanni Colavizza

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

Project 24 - lighting concept

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Kynthia Chamilothori, Karina Borodaï

Project 24 is an urban art project in the underpass (M1 metro) in the north district of EPFL. This underpass is a key way for access to the EPFL campus, and to reach the new northern district and the SwissTech Convention Center. The project is focused on t ...

2016