News

04.10.2023
The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) has just published an article highlighting some of the findings from Fabio Widmer's research on electrified public transit (ISOTHERM). The article is specifically aimed at a non-scientific readership and can be found external pagehere.

29.09.2021
Congratulations! Pol Duhr and Maximilian Schaller have been awarded the 2nd prize of the Student Awards for their paper "Analysis of optimal energy management strategies for the hybrid electric Formula 1 car" at the Fisita World Congress, Prague CZ, September 2021.

11.11.2019
Congratulations! Mauro Salazar Villalon was honored with the ETH Medal 2019 for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Time-optimal Control of the Formula 1 Hybrid Electric Power Unit".

13.05.2019
Double congratulations! Pol Duhr has been awarded both the ETH medal 2019 and the Willy Studer Prize 2019 for his outstanding master thesis.

22.02.2018
Congratulations! Camillo Balerna has won the external pageJohann Puch Automotive Award 3rd Place for his master thesis "Real-time Control of the Power Unit of Hybrid Electric Race Cars using Model Predictive Control".

19.01.2017

The Swiss Trolley Plus project has received some media coverage: external pageSRF, external pageTagesAnzeiger, external pageNZZ.

19.11.2016

Congratulations! Dr. Gregor Ochsner has been awarded the Golden Owl2016 for his excellent teaching.

03.06.2016

Congratulations! Mauro Salazar has been awarded the ETH Medal for his excellent Master Thesis “Low Energy Control”.

19.05.2016

Congratulations! Silvan Meile won the external pageZuger Wissenschaftspreis 2016 for his Masterthesis „Simulation, Optimization and Control of Grain drying".

08.09.2015
Congratulations! Dr. Tobias Ott has been awarded the 2015 HILTI Award for his excellent Doctoral Thesis "Hybrid-Electric Vehicle with Natural Gas-Diesel Engine".

08.01.2015
Congratulations! external pageThe Swiss Office of Energy has awarded the 2015 Watt d'Or energy prize in the Energy-efficient mobility category to "AHEAD - Advanced Hybrid Electric Autobus Design", a project in collaboration with the Carrosserie Hess AG. Interview with external pageProf. Christopher Onder and external pageDr. Philipp Elbert

01.12.2014
Congratulations! The 2014 external pageAward for Innovation and Climate Protection, which is sponsored by the German natural gas industry, has been awarded to Natural Gas Diesel Hybrid-Team.

08.09.2014
Congratulations! Marianne Schmid Daners, Gregor Ochsner and external collaborators received the Varian Main Award 2014 for the work "Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Tracking System Using the Treatment Couch".

02.05.2014
Manuel Gehlen has been awarded the 2014 ETH Medal for his master thesis "Smartshunt - Functional Model Design, Control Strategy and Hardware Implementation".

09.01.2014
Congratulations! The external pageSwiss Office of Energy has awarded the 2014 Watt d'Or energy prize in the Energy-efficient mobility category to the Natural Gas Diesel Hybrid-Team at IDSC.

20.5.2013
Congratulations! Michael Moser has been awarded the external pageZuger Wissenschaftspreis 2013 for his master thesis „Boost Mode Torque Control and Pneumatic Start for Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".

29.1.2013
Congratulations! Norbert Zsiga won the SGA Förderpreis 2014 for his master thesis „Indirect Boosting for Turbocharged SI Engines”.