Students looking for a project
Semester or diploma projects for current EPFL students. We are an interdisciplinary robotics lab, meaning our projects are often for students from Section-MT, EL or ME but also frequently suitable for students in other domains.
As the section management on iS-Academia is incomplete at this time please check in the project’s description if it is available for your section before applying.
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| Related sections | MT and SC | |
| Type | Semester (10 ECTS) or diploma (30 ECTS) project |
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| Style | programming and testing with children, no hardware, few theory | |
| First assistant | Francesco Mondada | |
| Second assistant | Valentina Ferraioli | |
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The rapid progression of AI tools is questioning educational programs. What concepts about AI should be present in the educational programs and at which age? How can we educate young generation to AI concepts, to prepare them to their professional and social life in 5, 10 or 15 years? The answer to these questions requires a theoretical analysis but also to explore some practice in the classes. This project aims at approaching the second path (practice in classes) by using an educational mobile robot, Thymio, developed at EPFL and largely available in schools. |
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The goal of the project is to develop a software platform that allow to explore in an interactive way some forms of learning algorithms applied to simple neural networks, and the approach to decision trees. This platform can be used by the teacher to explain the concepts in a frontal way or can be used by the students to explore the principles. For both situations the application will focus on the visualization of the learning process. The project will include both the application development and tests with teachers / students in real classroom setups. |
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| Description | ||
| Related sections | IC | |
| Type | Semester (10 ECTS) or diploma (30 ECTS) project |
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| Style | theory then application to a case, eventually experimentation with users | |
| First assistant | Francesco Mondada | |
| Second assistant | TBD | |
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ICT is a sector with a growing environmental impact. Aa a user, the choice of hardware and software is key to reduce our individual impact on the environment. This becomes even more important if this choice is done at an institutional level. Moreover, despite hardware seems to have a much bigger environmental impact that software, software choices impact the hardware life duration, which is the most important factor in the life cycle analysis of the hardware. |
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This project aims at studying the impact of software choices starting from a simple case-study: word processing. Microsoft word is now a huge piece of software with a functionality that has not evolved a lot since decades. Moreover we know, in academia, alternatives such as latex that perform even better on large documents. The study will look for a methodology to compare several options, keeping a life cycle analysis perspective. |
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To submit a project please consult: https://wiki.epfl.ch/mobots#SubmitStudentProjects