CS-523: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologiesThis advanced course will provide students with the knowledge to tackle the design of privacy-preserving ICT systems. Students will learn about existing technologies to prect privacy, and how to evaluate the protection they provide. ...
HUM-413(a): Political Systems in Central and Eastern Europe IThis course compares political regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, linking domestic dynamics with external constraints. It examines authoritarian, hybrid, and democratic trajectories, including Central European democracies and Swiss direct democracy.
HUM-413(b): Political Systems in Central and Eastern Europe IIThis spring continuation guides students through an individual research project on political regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on external constraints, economic dependence, sanctions, authoritarian adaptation, hybrid regimes, and comparative democracies, including Switzerland.
MGT-455: Practical business lawThe course covers the fundamental concepts of business law from a practical standpoint, including contracts and company law, intellectual property, data protection and competition law, with a special focus on issues specific to start-up companies. ...
PHYS-100: Physique avancée I (mécanique)La Physique Générale I (avancée) couvre la mécanique du point et du solide indéformable. Apprendre la mécanique, c'est apprendre à mettre sous forme mathématique un phénomène physique, en modélisant la situation et appliquant les lois de la physique. ...
HUM-249: Economie de la ChineLe cours sensibilise les étudiant·e·s aux implications de l'émergence de la Chine comme puissance économique et technologique en portant une réflexion critique sur les défis posés par cette transition. ...
HUM-465: Understanding modern Switzerland IIBased on the knowledge acquired during the fall semester course (Understanding modern Switzerland I), students are asked to work by group of 3-4 students and prepare a paper on a topic previously discussed with the teachers. ...
CIVIL-321: Modélisation numérique des solides et structuresLa modélisation numérique des solides est abordée à travers la méthode des éléments finis. Les aspects purement analytiques sont d'abord présentés, puis les moyens d'interpolation, d'intégration et de résolution de la mécanique sont étudiés. ...
PHYS-202: Mécanique analytique (pour SPH)Ce cours propose une introduction à la mécanique analytique. Il introduit les formalismes lagrangien et hamiltonien, en insistant sur leur capacité à simplifier la description des systèmes contraints, des symétries et des lois de conservation. Il présente ...
CS-438: Decentralized systems engineeringA decentralized system is one that works when no single party is in charge or fully trusted. This course teaches decentralized systems principles while guiding students through the engineering of their own decentralized system featuring messaging, file sha ...
HUM-410: Droit et technique ICe cours présente le cadre légal applicable à certaines problématiques dans des domaines à caractère technique, tels que le droit de la construction, le droit de l'informatique, la biotechnologie, la protection des données, la digitalisation, la robotisati ...
CS-411: Digital educationThis course addresses the relationship between specific technological features and the learners' cognitive processes. It also covers the methods and results of empirical studies: do student actually learn due to technologies? In fall 2025, P. Dillenbourg w ...
MATH-421: Equations aux dérivées partielles d'évolutionTechniques et théories de base pour les équations aux dérivées partielles d'évolution. Etude d'exemples fondamentaux: équations du premier ordre, équation des ondes, équation de la chaleur. Théorème de Cauchy-Kowalevsky, problèmes abstraits d'évolution. ...
HUM-412: The ethics of engineering IThis course provides engineers entering the workforce with a hands-on approach to figuring out what to do in ethically challenging professional situations. ...
HUM-366: Innovations et marchés émergentsLe cours sensibilise les étudiant-es à l'importance des marchés émergents dans le paysage mondial de l'innovation. Il propose des outils de modélisation pour analyser des innovations produits/services dans le contexte des marchés émergents. ...
MATH-251(a): Analyse numériqueThis course presents numerical methods to solve mathematical problems such as systems of linear and nonlinear equations, function approximation, integration and differentiation, and differential equations. ...
CS-401: Applied data analysisThis course teaches the basic techniques, methodologies, and practical skills required to draw meaningful insights from a variety of data, with the help of the most acclaimed software tools in the data science world (pandas, scikit-learn, Spark, etc.) ...
HUM-397: Design for sustainability IThis course explores and practices some of the fundamental tools of designing for sustainability with a focus on the sustainability, desirability, and economic viability of solutions. ...
