News
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Prof.
Leine
12/5/2011
Remco Leine has been appointed as Adjunct
Professor by the ETH Board. Congratulations!
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R.W.B.
Stephens Prize
9/19/2011
At the 2011 International Congress of Ultrasonics,
Thomas Schwarz was awarded with the
R.W.B. Stephens Prize.
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Georg
A. Fischer Prize
9/19/2011
Addendum: Stefano Oberti received the
Georg A. Fischer Prize at the
ETH Day 2010.
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Sola
2011
5/10/2011
The fabulous MechaWalk team could even
improve last year's excellent result at the
Sola 2011 relay run. They
finished as 183rd of 790 teams at the start, despite injured runners.
Pictures: SPORTrait / ASVZ
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2011 in Pettneu
3/2/2011
Many thanks to Wilfried Bürzle and
Simon Eugster for organizing this year's
seminar week. Winner of the
ZSK-Cup race
was Jeanine Fuchs.
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Sola
2010
5/9/2010
MechaWalk gets better and better. At
the Sola 2010 relay run,
we ranked 189th (of 857 teams at the start).
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2010 in Partenen
2/23/2010
Johannes Hengstler and
Thomas Schwarz arranged our
seminar week in Partenen. It was just perfect, many thanks!
This year's winner of the
ZSK-Cup
is Wilfried Bürzle.
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Christmas
Party 2009
12/4/2009
Many thanks to Simon Eugster and
Georg Rempfler for organizing a wonderful
party with our tutors!
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Prof.
Glocker is awarded with his second Golden Owl
11/23/2009
Congratulations to Prof. Christoph Glocker
for his second
Golden Owl!
Note that out of the five awards so far, four have gone to members of the
Center of Mechanics.
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ETH
Day: Speech by Prof. Dual
11/23/2009
At the ETH day, Prof. Jürg Dual held a
speech in his function as president of the university senate
("Hochschulversammlung"). The German text can be
downloaded here.
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Sola
2009
5/16/2009
Thanks to excellent teamwork, MechaWalk
ranked 201th out of 836 starting teams at the
Sola 2009 relay run.
Relaxing after the race; click to enlarge!
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Research
of Giuseppe Barbarino and Edoardo Mazza on the Cover of the
JBE
5/6/2009
Pictures from a
paper by Giuseppe Barbarino and
Edoardo Mazza appear on the
April cover of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
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More about the
project
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Thomas
Mayer receives Prize from SEW-EURODRIVE
3/23/2009
Thomas Mayer, master student of Prof. Edoardo Mazza, receives the Award for Studies
given by the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation for his master thesis "Cyclic deformation
response of steels at elevated temperature".
Click for the document
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Laurent
Aebi receives an Honorable Mention for the
R.W.B. Stephens Prize
2/23/2009
At the International Congress on Ultrasonics 2009,
Laurent Aebi receives an Honorable Mention
for the R.H.B. Stephens Prize. Congratulations!
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2009 in Zermatt
2/17/2009
Many thanks to Christian Maier and
Andreas Schifferle for organizing our
seminar week in Zermatt!
Thomas Schwarz is the winner of this
year's
ZSK-Cup.
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Christmas
Party 2008
12/8/2008
We had fondue and a lot of fun at the Christmas party with our tutors. Many
thanks to the organizers Thomas Schwarz and Ingo Wenke!
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Willi-Studer-Preis
20.10.2008
As the best master student of his master class,
Philipp Rüst wins the
Willi-Studer-Preis.
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Member
of the SATW
20.10.2008
The Swiss Academy of
Engineering Sciences (SATW) welcomes Prof.
Jürg Dual as a new individual member.
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Goldene
Schiene 2008
10/22/2008
Rossano Stefanelli and
Eric Cataldi are rewarded with the
"Goldene Schiene 2008" (golden rail) for their PhD work on curve squealing.
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Summer
Party with Tutors
5/27/2008
As usual: good food and lots of fun on top of CLA.
Click to view or download the little mpeg-clip (format 16:10)
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2008 in Arosa
2/22/2008
Thanks to the perfect organizers of this year's seminar week,
Felix Hildebrand and
Niels Quack! The weather and everything else
were just fabulous. Niels Quack even won the
ZSK-Cup.
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Christmas
Party 2007
12/20/2007
Last night, we enjoyed another wonderful evening together with our tutors.
Click to enlarge the photo taken by Jacqueline Vollmann.
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ZfM
Co-Authors of Best Paper
12/20/2007
Stefano Oberti and
Juerg Dual are co-authors of a rewarded paper at
IROS 2006!
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Remco
Leine Wins the Golden Owl
11/17/2007
Since three years, the "Golden
Owl of the VSETH" is awarded to the best lecturer of each department. And for
the third time, a member of the Center of Mechanics has won it: congratulations
to PD Dr. Remco Leine!
Remco Leine (with blue tie) during the ceremony and the
three ZfM owls. Click to enlarge!
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Traude
Tour 2007
9/12/2007
This year's Traude Tour brought us to the Jura region: We started on Saturday
in Le Pont, climbed the Mt Tendre and bivouaced close by. On Sunday, we hiked on
to St Cergue. It was a wonderful
experience for all participants.
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Summer
Party with Tutors
6/19/2007
Once again: the beach at CLA.
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Sola
2007
5/7/2007
The MechaWalk team ranked 370th
of 684 teams at the Sola 07
race.
Members of the MechaWalk team balancing their energy
after the effort
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Nineteenth
Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition
4/18/2007
On April 27 the Center of Mechanics will be hosting the
Nineteenth
Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition. This is a paper/presentation contest for students
up to and including those 1 year after their PhD. See the
dedicated website
for details of the event.
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Prize
at 2007 ICU Vienna
4/18/2007
Stefano Oberti wins the R.W.B. Stephens
Prize at the 2007 ICU Vienna (International Congress on Ultrasonics). The title
of his paper: "Combined use of acoustics and microfluidics for automation
of the manipulation process of microsized particles".
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ZSK
Cup 2007
2/12/2007
The ZSK
Cup Race 2007 took place on the occasion of the
seminar week
in Verbier. It was won by Sandro Dinser.
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Prof.
Edoardo Mazza wins the Golden Owl
11/20/2006
Prof. Edoardo Mazza has been awarded with
the "Golden Owl of the VSETH" as the best teacher of the department MAVT.
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Siemens
Excellence Award 2006
10/27/2006
Felix Hildebrand wins the
Siemens
Excellence Award 2006 for his outstanding diploma thesis at TU Berlin. He is one
of 29 prize winners in Germany.
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Summer
Party with Tutors
6/28/2006
Are you looking for a roof party with whirlpool? That's only one of the
attractions at the Center of Mechanics.
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Best
Poster at MipTec
6/8/2006
Stefano Oberti and co-authors win the
Basel
Award for best posters 2006 at MipTec. Their contribution: "The
Use of Ultrasound to Create Two Dimensional Arrays for Drug Screening and
Bioassays Applications".
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Springbreak
2006
5/19/2006
Niels Quack took part in the
"Springbreak"-competition of ETH against TU Munich (Germany). His team
"Franzerl" ranked 3rd and therefore contributed a large share to the
glorious victory of ETH.
Niels Quack in action.
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ETH
Medal
1/27/2006
ZfM alumnus Dieter Profunser is
awarded the ETH Medal for his excellent doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
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Professors
Announced
12/14/2005, modification 05/22/06
We are happy about the election or promotion of several IMES professors:
> Christoph Glocker to full professor for mechanics
> Sanjay Govindjee to full professor for mechanics
> Edoardo Mazza to associate professor for mechanics
Prof. Govindjee will move to ETH in summer 2006 and start his
lectures in the winter semester 2006/07.
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Christmas
Party 2005
12/12/2005
We spent another wonderful evening with our tutors.
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Prof.
Glocker wins Golden Owl
11/14/2005
Prof. Glocker is awarded the Golden Owl for his outstanding teaching.
Prof. Christoph Glocker (2nd from the right)
with his Golden Owl Award.
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Article
on Tissue Testing in ETH Life
11/11/2005
The ETH Life magazine contains an
article about a research branch of our biomechanics group.
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Summer
Party with our Tutors
06/24/2005
The traditional party on the roof terrace once again profited from our good
links to the weather god.
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150
ETH Professors in Discussion
5/24/2005
The ZfM professors participate in the
150th anniversary
activities of ETH, e.g. by giving public lectures in town.
Prof. Christoph Glocker lecturing on dynamics of
mechanical systems.
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Sola
2005
4/23/2005
The
MechaWalk-Sola-Team stays on track and finishes as 288th
out of 643 teams.
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Winner
of the Intellectric Competition 04
2/24/2005
With his
beautiful
paper, Ondrej Papes has won the
Intellectric Competition 04.
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2005
2/16/2005
Heinz Widmer not only is
an elegant curling player. He also is an excellent snowboarder with a good
feeling of velocity an therefore won the
ZSK Cup
2005 during the ZfM
seminar week.
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Christmas
Party 2004
12/15/2004
As always, the organizing committee arranged a fabulous Christmas party for
the tutors and the staff of the Center of Mechanics.
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Georg
A. Fischer Award
11/29/2004
At the 2004 ETH Day, the ZfM alumnus
Dr. Tobias Leutenegger was honored with the Georg A. Fischer Award.
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MICCIAI 2004 Award
10/6/2004
Davide Valtorta has won the
MICCAI
2004 Student Award for his presentation at
this year's conference.
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Summer
Party with our Tutors
06/14/2004
Food, sun, fun and even a TV: Best conditions for a party.
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Sola
2004
5/10/2004
Despite rather ugly weather conditions, the
MechaWalk-Sola-Team was on the up and up and finished as 261st
out of 669 teams.
Hand-over from Albrecht Haake to Gerd Simons.
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Prof.
Dual is Fellow of the ASME
3/25/2004 (September 2003)
Prof. Dual has been elected as Fellow of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers in September 2003.
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Albrecht
Haake Received the R W B Stephens
Student Prize
3/25/2004 (July 2003)
For his talk at the Ultrasonics International Conference (June
30 - July 3, 2003), Albrecht Haake received the
R W B Stephens Student Prize. The Title of the work was "Positioning of
small particles by an ultrasound field excited by surface waves" .
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Seminar
Week and ZSK-Cup 2004
3/12/2004
Once again, everything was just perfect in our seminar week
which took place in Crans-Montana. This year's
ZSK Cup
winner was Udo Lang.
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