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"Engineering sciences are fun" - that is the core message of the taster day for schoolgirls. More than 80 girls followed the invitation of LIMES (Ladies In Mechanical and Electrical Studies) and came to ETH Zurich to find out more about studying at the Departments of Mechanical and Process Engineering and Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

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Dennis Kochmann, Professor of Mechanics and Materials at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receives the Golden Owl for excellent teaching. The Owl is awarded by the student association of ETH Zurich (VSETH) and honors exceptional teaching.

Five doctoral students at the Department of Mechanical und Process Engineering receive the ETH Silver Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses: Jan Carius, Urban Fasel, Thomas Lumpe, Tino Matter and Jan van den Broek.

3Druck.com, students of the Product Development Group, Prof. Mirko Meboldt

Maria Lukatskaya, Professor of the Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, is listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in 2021. The list is compiled by Clarivate's Institute for Scientific Information.

For their EU project "Sun-to-Liquid", the research group of Aldo Steinfeld, ETH professor for renewable energy carriers, and their partners were awarded the Energy Globe World Award 2021. The award is considered one of the world's most prestigious environmental prizes.

Prof. Dr. David Norris (D-MAVT) was elected President of the Prize Committee by the Executive Board of ETH Zurich. The commission advises the Executive Board on science prizes and proposes suitable ETH candidates for nomination for such prizes.

Nau.ch, Prof. Daniel Ahmed

Seraina Anne Dual, former doctoral student in the Product Development Group of Professor Mirko Meboldt at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, has been appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biomedical Signal Processing at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Maria Sakovsky, postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures of Professor Paolo Ermanni at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Tenure Track) at Stanford University.

The Economist, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

Blick, Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

swissinfo.ch, Prof. Margarita Chli