Open day at the Center for Project-Based Learning
On 23 September, the Open Day of D-ITET's Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) took place. Hundreds of students interested in the projects and research activities of PBL attended the event.
A few impressions from the PBL Open Day
At the event, PBL presented the eight best semester and Master's projects, as well as some more PBL projects for the next semester. Projects in the areas of embedded systems, smart sensors, AI integrated in low power IoT devices, Machine learning, video processing with novel promising sensors, Wireless Sensor network, indoor localization, energy harvesting, and wireless power transmission including underwater scenarios, wearable smart sensors and many more were shown. The exhibition area of the event included also three stands with current and future students' flagship projects, such as the novel F1TENTH Race, the Smart Patch project as well as the Robocop in collaboration with the Computer Vision Lab and the Automatic Control Lab. These stands attracted a huge number of motivated students seeking to challenge themselves in larger projects and competitions.
During the event, also the best semester project and the best Master's thesis carried out in the first 18 months of PBL, i.e. since January 2020, have been awarded. The selection included over 60 projects, of which - as the best semester project - Elio Reinschmidt received the award for his work “Smart sEMG bracelet for gesture recognition”, while Lukas Schuttles received the best Master's thesis award for “Underwater communication for autonomous operating sensing systems”.
Finally, the winners for the 1st D-ITET PBL Smart Sensors for Industrial IoT applications have been disclosed and awarded. The first place went to “Low-Power and Low-Cost Indoor Positioning System” by Michel Perez and Sylvain Fricker. The second place went to “Autonomous Weather Station on a UAV“ by Marius Siebenaller, Dennis Vilgertshofer and Thiemo Wandel. The award section was introduced by Simone Ferri from STMicroelectronics who presented also an industrial overview titled “The Electronics journey from the MEMS perspective – From offline to onlife”. This contest was planned last year with Benedetto Vigna, the former president of the analog, MEMS & Sensors Group at STMicroelectronics and currently CEO of Ferrari since September 2021.
The next PBL flagship project and/or research activities of PBL with support and in collaboration with Ferrari are already in the making...
Congratulations on the successful event and to all the winners!
Flagship projects:
external pagehttps://f1tenth.org
https://smartpatch.pbl.ee.ethz.ch
https://robocup.ethz.ch