All projects from the School of Engineering
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Immersive Stories of Energy Futures (ISTEF)
This project aims to highlight applied energy research from different departments in an immersive approach. The project "Immersive Stories of Energy Futures" (ISTEF) will enable decision-makers from energy policy and energy industry to engage with different development scenarios of energy futures and related ...
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Investigation of the potential of GIS-based planning tools to compare accessibility of activity locations and local socio-demographic factors
Methodological developments for the analysis of spatial accessibility are often concerned with increasing spatial and temporal resolution, which is important for practical mobility- or land use-related issues. Another increasingly important factor for regional planning is the calculation and assessment of inequality ...
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Molecular Phonon-Mode Engineering for All-Organic Gap-Free THz Photonics
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Supporting the adoption of FAIR and reproducible digital scholarship with Renku
The goal of this project is to significantly increase the visibility of a mature solution, anticipating the adoption of Renku as a tool to improve research management in Switzerland, leveraging existing knowledge, resources and networks built in the context of past and current projects supported by ...
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Hydrophilic Coating for vascular products
This project aims to develop a novel, lubricious coating for vascular products especially for medical intervention catheters.
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Automatic Evaluation of Thermoanalytical Curves
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Computational Archaeology
Evaluation of possibilities for a cooperation with Univ. Berne in hte field of compuatational archaeology.
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Financial Markets and second-order Phase Transitions
In this project, we will examine an analogy between financial markets and second-order phase transitions in physical systems. The empirical basis are observations that the author has made in the past decade. They indicate that financial markets can be modelled by scalar quantum mechanical variables (fields) in a ?^4 ...
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Design of Immersive Experiences
This project aims to realize a virtual reality development with user-centered methods and to apply it in the context of a scientific experiment. Thereby competencies in the field of VR design are to be applied and human-computer interaction (HCI) and eye tracking are to be developed. The topics covered are inter- ...
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HostDetective – Next Generation Active and Passive Web Server Rating System
This project extends Exeon Analytics' ExeonTrace product with HostDetective Next Generation (HD.ng), a tool to identify and mitigate Web-related data breaches. HD.ng implements a novel active and passive Web server assessment method to determine the type, purpose and risk score of a Web server. This project builds ...
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AFM with PORT: Atomic force microscope with photothermal off-resonance tapping
The project brings essential innovations which empower Nanosurf to strengthen its market position and open up new customer segments: Fast photothermal off-resonance tapping in combination with data-driven control, dual actuation and advanced data-handling with machine learning support.
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EURAD-WP-Gas: Mechanistic understanding of gas transport in clay materials
The main objectives of this project are: - To improve the mechanistic understanding of gas transport processes in natural and engineered clay materials, their couplings with the mechanical behaviour and their impact on the properties of these materials. To evaluate the gas transport regimes that can be active at ...
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INODE – Intelligent Open Data Exploration (EU Horizon 2020)
Data growth and availability as well as data democratization have radically changed data exploration in the last 10 years. Many different data sets, generated by users, systems and sensors, are continuously being collected. These data sets contain information about scientific experiments, health, energy, education ...
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Intelligent Security and PervasIve Trust for 5G and Beyond (INSPIRE-5Gplus)
INSPIRE-5Gplus aims to make a revolutionary shift in the 5G and Beyond (B5G) security vision by progressing 5G Security and by devising a smart, trustworthy and liability-aware 5G security platform for future connected systems, while contributing to its realization. It will allow, for the first time, the advancement ...
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Intelligent Viticulture
Applied research and development in the area of “Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Augmented Reality” to foster data-driven improvements for the cultivation of vineyards.
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RAPTOR - Research of Aviation PM Technologies, mOdelling and Regulation
To achieve ambitious goals for air quality research, raptor will undertake an in-depth review of available literature to assess knowledge gaps.This will include non-volatile nvpm measurement techniques & corrections and their associated uncertainties as these directly impact modelling studies of local air quality ...
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SCIS Simulation Based Calibration of Infusion Systems
The project SCIS aims at the implementation of a simulation – based platform solution for the calibration of peristaltic pumps used in clinical settings by combining methods from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI).
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ZKB: Accessible digital channels
The aim of this project is to provide know-how and to raise awareness of digital accessibility issues among software developers and other stakeholders at the ZKB. To that end, a combination of training, consulting and accessibility testing is offered.
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Assessment of derivatives-based hedging solutions
The industry partner asked ZHAW to perform an assessment of the application of derivatives for the protection of equity portfolios. The project covers broad research and analysis on the effectiveness of Put-options on single stocks versus stock indices for tail-risk management.
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Concept and Feasibility Study of a Power Reserve Calculator for General Aviation
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Smart City Simulation Platform
An IoT system consists of hundreds of thousands of sensors, connectivity media, cloud analytics, and users. Building such a large and complex IoT system such as smart-city requires careful planning, selection of the right set of hardware and software technology and development of scalable computing infrastructure ...
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Self-Regulated Corrective Actions on GFRP Production Process
The aim of the project is to reduce the manufacturing waste in the production of glass-fiber reinforced plastic is by online analysis and model-predictive control using measurement values continuously collected during the process.
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RealScore – Scanning of Real-World Sheet Music for a Digital Music Stand
ScorePad’s sheet music scanning service works for high quality input; to scale up business, it should work as well for smartphone pictures, used sheets etc. Project RealScore enhances the successful predecessor project by making deep learning adapt to unseen data through unsupervised learning. ...
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Multipol Resolver with passive Rotor (MipRo)
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Parking Guidance System
Preliminary study for an innovative parking guidance system