ETH Medal and Willi Studer Prize 2021

Nine Master’s students of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering were awarded the ETH Medal for their outstanding Master’s theses in 2021. Three of them additionally received the Willi Studer Prize for the best degree within their study program.

08.06.2021 by Milena Kost

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The ETH Medal is awarded for outstanding Master’s theses. The prerequisite to receive the award is a grade of 6.0 for the thesis, an average final grade of at least 5.25 in the Master’s program as well as a written endorsement by the thesis supervisor. The Willi Studer Prize is given annually to the best graduate in each ETH Zurich Master’s degree program.

ETH Medal and Willi Studer Prize

Mike Jannick Allenspach: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Roland Siegwart
Kamil Leander Elias Ritz: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Roland Siegwart
Thomas Boyang Bi: Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea

ETH Medal

Andreas Walker: Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Dennis M. Kochmann
Niklas Wilhelm Funk: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea
Ezzat Hossam Mo Elokda: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Florian Dörfler
Alberto Vallone: Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Dennis M. Kochmann
Christian Benjamin Sprecher: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Martin Vechev
Fangjinhua Wang: Robotics, Systems and Control with Prof. Marc Pollefeys

Master's Theses

Mike Jannick Allenspach, "Control and Guidance for a Propeller-Tilting Hybrid Unmanned Air Vehicle" Kamil Leander Elisa Ritz, "Global path planning in unstructured environments for nonholonomic ground robots" Thomas Boyang Bi, "Learning Aggressive Tactile Swing-up Maneuvers" Andreas Walker, "Wave Propagation in Metamaterials with Spinodal Topologies" Niklas Wilhelm Funk, "Learning Event-triggered Control – Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to Obtain Resource-aware Controllers" Ezzat Hossam Mo Elokda, "Karma Games – A decentralized, efficient and fair resource allocation scheme" Alberto Vallone, "Inverse-designed Spinodoids for Synthetic Bones and Mechanical Metamaterials" Christian Benjamin Sprecher, "Transfer of Robustness Proofs of Neural Networks across Multiple Inputs" Fangjinhua Wang, "Learned Multiview Patchmatch Stereo"