Ivo Leibacher and Peter Reichert, Doctoral students in Prof. Jürg Dual’s group, won the "2014 ASME Swiss Section Young Engineer Award" and the "Best Poster Award" at the MFHS 2014.

Sebastian Trimpe, former doctoral student of Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea and currently Research Scientist at the Autonomous Motion Department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, has been awarded the "Klaus Tschira award for achievements in public understanding of science".

An article on Nanolithography, co-authored by Prof. Hyung Gyu Park and Ali Altun, Doctoral student in Prof. Hyung Gyu Park’s group, and Dr. Tiziana Bond, scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the featured cover article in "Advanced Materials Interfaces".

In 2014 the following D-MAVT Bachelor students won the Outstanding Bachelor Award - Best Bachelor's degree: Mr. Brüggemann, Mr. Crameri, Mr. Lanzetti, Mr. Muntwiler, Mr. Sieber.

In 2014 the following D-MAVT Bachelor students won the Outstanding Bachelor Award - Best First year examinations: Mr. Brunner, Mr. Capocianco, Mr.r De Crousaz, Mr. Okle, Mr. Wermelinger.

On Monday, 6 October 2014, "Schweiz Aktuell" from "Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen" reported on the Focus Project SUNCAR Bagger, the first solar excavator.

The paper "The Distributed Flight Array" by Dr. Raymond Oung and Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea published in the Mechatronics Journal (Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 908-917, September 2011), was selected as one of three best papers for the IFAC Mechatronics Paper Prize for 2011-2013.