HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
MGT-426: Logistics and demand analysisLa logistique, fonction transversale par excellence, intègre toutes les dimensions des processus industriels à ajout de valeur, de l'approvisionnement à la distribution aux clients et au-delà en intégrant le développement durable. Un focus particulier sera ...
URB-407: Science and technology in urban transformationCities are complex systems shaped by natural, technological, and social factors with historical roots. Through global case studies, this course will explore how science and technology transform cities into objects of knowledge and intervention. ...
HUM-296: Utopian and dystopian environmentsCet enseignement analysera les genres littéraires de l'utopie et de la dystopie au prisme de l'écopoétique et des enjeux environnementaux, dans un corpus de romans francophones qui croisera la science-fiction, le récit d'anticipation et la fiction post-apo ...
ME-413: Introduction to additive manufacturingThe state of the art in the domain of additive production processes
(the part is built by material addition without use of a shape tool) will be presented.
The main application/benefits/shortcomings of the common additive processes as well as
technologi ...
EE-105: Electrical engineering science and technology (Spring)Ce cours propose une introduction à l'électrotechnique. Les lois fondamentales de l'électricité et différents composants d'un circuit électrique linéaire seront étudiés. L'analyse élémentaire des circuits en régime continu et sinusoidal sera aussi couverte ...
PHYS-476: Advanced superconducting magnet technologiesThe course will focus on the technologies related to the practical use of superconductors, from the manufacturing to their exploitation. The course also provides some examples of the use of superconductivity for relevant applications and the main technolog ...
EE-106: Electrical engineering science & technologyCe cours introduit les lois fondamentales de l'électricité et les méthodes permettant d'analyser des circuits électriques linéaires, composés de résistances, condensateurs et inductances. On commencera par le régime continu pour passer ensuite au régime al ...
HUM-258: Feminist Studies of Science and TechnologiesCe cours propose d'explorer le champ des études féministes des sciences et des technologies
(Feminist STS) afin d'apprendre à décrypter les enjeux de genre, de race, et de classe liés aux sciences et technologies. ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
MICRO-435: Quantum and nanocomputingThe course teaches non von-Neumann architectures. The first part of the course deals with quantum computing, sensing, and communications. The second focuses on field-coupled and conduction-based nanocomputing, in-memory and molecular computing, cellular au ...
CIVIL-484: Sustainable bituminous materialsThe course covers materials and technologies for sustainable asphalt pavements, including asphalt design, recycling, as well as recent innovations like carbon-negative and low-temperature asphalt. Students gain skills to evaluate these solutions and oversee their implementation.
ENV-550: Biological resource recoveryPrinciples and technologies of biological resource recovery from waste streams into valuable resources. Emphasis is placed on the microbial processes underlying these technologies, their engineering applications, and their role in advancing sustainable and circular environmental systems.
HUM-124: Diversity and Sustainability in Human MobilityHuman and freight mobility in large cities is a complex process with dense population and many transport modes to compete for limited space. New emerging modes of transport, such as on-demand services, and new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, cre ...
AR-201(ag): Studio BA3 (Fröhlich M. & A.)The Studio explores types and typologies to understand how buildings respond to social, environmental, and technological conditions. The first semester focuses on historical drying and storage buildings; the second on transforming tobacco-drying houses in Fribourg into collective housing.
CH-310: Dynamics and kineticsThe course covers the principles of chemical kinetics, including differential rate laws, derivation of exact and approximate integral rate laws for common elementary and composite reactions, fundamentals of collision and transition state theories, and appl ...
AR-424: UE G : Drawing spacesThe proposed UE Drawing Spaces is conceived as a long-term research and teaching series investigating the foundations of architectural space through analytical drawing practices.
PHYS-314: Quantum physics IIThe aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the concepts, methods and consequences of quantum physics. ...
