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ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
The Zentrum campus of the ETH Zurich at night. The campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne , at the shores of Lake Geneva . The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons .
Founded in 1854, the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is an architecture school in Zürich, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design.
At university level, in some cases, Latin expressions are used. The Latin grades for a passed final exam in law at the University of Zurich , for example, are " summa cum laude " (excellent), " magna cum laude " (very good), " cum laude " (good) and "rite" (sufficient).
École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Lois Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
UNITECH was founded in 1999 by ETH Zürich's former rector Konrad Osterwalder and Hilti's former CEO Pius Baschera. [2]After 23 years, the UNITECH network has more than 1'500 alumni from 12 different universities, and 64 multinational corporate firms have been a part of this network. [2]
ETH Zurich [22] World Champion and Olympic medal-winning cyclist and triathlete Frank Ryan: Mathematics: Rice University [23] National Football League quarterback Ted Savage: Urban studies: Saint Louis University [24] Major League Baseball player Wally Snell: Botany: University of Wisconsin–Madison [25]
From 2001 to 2016, he was professor of software engineering at ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he pursued research on building trusted components (reusable software elements) with a guaranteed level of quality. He was Chair of the ETH Computer Science department from 2004 to 2006 and for 13 years (2003–2015 ...