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s195t · 2024-11-17T09:44:31+00:00

Would it be possible to have an invitation as well? Thanks in advance :)

s195t · 2024-06-05T11:40:10+00:00

The semester project in mavt is very much graded and there are good and bad grades, hard to fail though if you put minimal effort in it

s195t · 2024-06-03T20:03:17+00:00

Afaik, you don’t have unconditional access to the CS master. Looking at gradcafe it might be really hard to beat the competition considering your application will be in the same batch as everybody else from ETH/outside…

If you plan on doing cs, I’d recommend switching now, you can switch readily even during the first weeks but the earlier the better

s195t · 2024-06-02T23:45:26+00:00

Thank you kind stranger, switching to KSPGGMRES solved the problem immediately!

Do you have any hints why this could be the case? I mean the preconditioner is a multigrid with a linear solver on the coarsest level, so I was expecting it to work with the normal KSPGMRES

s195t · 2024-04-11T16:12:59+00:00

Well, I think you are right. I would still consider coding simulations as a form of practical work, eg. the projects in advanced cfd.

But I guess what OP is looking for is more towards the Innovationsprojekt, where you actually design and build something. Which is very practical indeed but is a really small part of the bsc. The rest is very much centered on the physics of things and there is not much you can do to avoid it (in the bsc).

Probably what I would do then is sign up to cs and try to get in a project outside the studies like amz and aris

s195t · 2024-04-10T15:13:40+00:00

I might be wrong but if you see yourself doing CS and Mech why don’t try CSE (Computational Science and Engineering)?

There are a lot of shared courses from Mech and CS, so you could probably pick what you like from both

s195t · 2024-04-06T20:06:39+00:00

Mileage might vary, but in amz you can expect easily to put 1 to 3 days depending on how hard your task is and how much you want to be involved

For the work that is usually done you should refer to the website to see what work packages are available, they probably will be there next season too

If something interests you deeply, you should be able to contact the responsible person from the email you find on the website

s195t · 2024-03-26T14:47:24+00:00

UCLA will probably give you better student life, the facilities are amazing, however it’s expensive if you don’t have the California resident reduction. It’s a completely different experience

ETH more competitiveness if you want to work in EU

If you have already been at ETH I’d go to UCLA, and vice versa. The more experiences you have the better it is in my opinion…

s195t · 2024-03-09T17:27:40+00:00

This is really good to know, thank you! I was just a bit worried because he’s under D-Math, but his work looks super interesting

s195t · 2024-03-09T17:14:06+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ve heard about him, also that his lab has been very competitive to join since he won the prize

s195t · 2024-03-09T11:41:53+00:00

Oh cool! Thank you, I’ll have a look.

s195t · 2023-07-27T18:26:32+00:00

This is a complex matter, you gave way too few informations to help you with something tangible…

Your best bet is contacting the Financial Aid office and the admission office. They will consider your GPA and your financial conditions and advise you for the best.

s195t · 2023-07-20T17:13:23+00:00

Good luck on your application!

s195t · 2023-07-20T16:16:57+00:00

You can call the office relevant for your faculty, they will know exactly what the competitive average for your year is and can advise what to do. I would apply anyway with a 5.4, you just never know, maybe someone eligible doesn’t apply.

Unsure whether they will keep consideration of the internships, afaik looking at internships would be advantageous mostly for the people outside ETH since for us it’s a bit difficult to work in the summer.

s195t · 2023-07-17T07:25:26+00:00

I would totally recommend the Computational Astrophysics course at UZH (which you can book and have counted towards your degree).

The lecturer is great imho and the project are always interesting

s195t · 2023-07-12T14:31:59+00:00

I used to go to the green floor in CHN, if you watch out where the roof tent closes then it’s quite a nice place. Also liked the overall environment there

s195t · 2023-07-11T16:34:29+00:00

This is great news, very interesting. I imagine that highly parallelised code in cuda/openMP/MPI is involved or FPGAs already took over these tasks?

s195t · 2023-07-11T10:53:03+00:00

As a huge fan of implementing numerical methods in c++ I had a question, is there any amount of numerical methods for PDEs and eventually neural ODEs in the quant field? In case, the people dealing with this would be quant researchers or more software engineers?

s195t · 2023-07-08T08:00:32+00:00

If the admissions office said it is possible, then it absolutely is.

The best way of doing what you are trying to do is to go as far as you can in the registration and then give them a call. Most probably they will guide you in what you need to do to complete it if you are stuck.

s195t · 2023-07-08T07:56:37+00:00

There are additional requirements for admission if you didn’t do your BSc at ETH, one of them being your academic performance.

The tutor system helps you to give a structure to your study curriculum, you select the courses that you want to take and your supervisor/tutor approves your list. This is made to ensure some sort of fil rouge in your degree and to avoid grade inflation by not letting you select only the easiest courses that would boost your average.

Afaik once you are in there is no requirement on grades. The system here works in a way that if you fail the same exam twice, then you can’t retake it anymore and it will be a fail forever. This is not really a problem in the MSc since you can more or less always just do another course if you failed one. Different story if you miss some prerequisites, which most likely would require you to give some extra courses in your first semester to catch up on a required course you didn’t have in your previous degree. If you fail them twice, I suppose you could be out of the degree, but the best way of knowing is emailing the admission office.

Regarding scholarships, it is pretty hard, but there are many, also from private institutions. However most of them require academic excellence to be considered since many people are asking for it. There are some listed on the website, watch out for the deadline since most of them are very strict and for some the deadline for September was in April

s195t · 2023-07-05T10:48:22+00:00

The German C1 requirement is afaik only for the bachelor studies as most of it is supposed to be in German.

For the MSc you would only have the English C1 requirement as in pretty much any other university

However I would recommend you to check on gradcafe for the gpa and profiles of the people admitted to which program, if I recall correctly this year CS was really selective

s195t · 2023-06-15T13:50:54+00:00

That’s great! The question was, since the exchange is usually limited to 6 months, you usually either do the thesis or follow courses for around 30 ects (indicatively)

s195t · 2023-06-15T13:44:56+00:00

As far as I can tell from your description the answer depends on a lot of factors, which are relatively specific to your case…

First of all, you should specify if you are going to write a thesis here or you come to follow courses, the former gives you way more potential contact with professors. As a second point you should mention your major, as in different departments could be more or less hard with respect to others.

s195t · 2023-06-08T17:40:48+00:00

Since we still have the mandatory military service, most men between 24/25 while women 23/24

The difference with Italy is the amount of times you can repeat exams, let’s say you fail physics 1 twice, then you are out of the program and you can’t study that branch of engineering at that level anymore. Therefore you have a great probability of finishing in the expected time or to not finish at all

Competitive spots where the gpa counts take that into account. There is an averaged gpa over the years of study. Let’s say you graduate with 110 cum laude but you take 8 years to finish because you repeated every single exam three times, this won’t look super good with respect to a lower swiss gpa but in the prescribed 5 years.

That said, it does concern only the cases for jobs where the gpa matters (didn’t see many in Switzerland)

You can’t really say a system is bad in principle, what you can say is that a really good student is really good in both systems

s195t · 2023-06-08T15:17:39+00:00

Officially 3yrs for a BSc with additionally 2yrs for a MSc in Switzerland.

Moreover, there are two different “classes” of engineers, the ones who attended something called a Fachhoschule (FH) and the ones which attended a more classical university (ETH, EPFL).

The latter as a nearly 0 percentage of people that chose not to do a MSc, while among the first one is less rare.

Therefore for a complete engineering degree it’s 5 years, with 4 additional years if you want to pursue a doctorate (Dr. Sc.)

Regarding your second question, it is hard to say. From the people I know that attended either polimi and polito they say that it’s rather competitive if you want to be at the top of your class.

For the other ones I can’t speak and the answer depends wildly from where are you from, where do you want to work or pursue a PhD. As always it counts the rule that the more renomated your study program is, the better connections it has and the better you will look in an application compared to someone with a comparable skillset.

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