Civil Engineering 2026-27

Block 1

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Computational systems thinking for sustainable eng.
CIVIL-534 / Section GC
Sonta
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Construction contracts and liability
ENG-300 / Section SIE
Di Cicco, Perritaz
FR
-
  • Courses: 3h
Summer session
Written
3
Construction contracts and liability (.)
CIVIL-400 / Section GC
Dubey
FR
  • Courses: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
2
Environmental impact assesment (Cours en français, essentiellement basé sur le droit suisse mais présentation de quelques éléments du droit européen. Le travail de groupe peut être remis et présenté en anglais)
ENG-474 / Section GC
Chopard, Devanthéry, Schmidt
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
Oral
3
Innovation for construction and the environment
CIVIL-424 / Section GC
Terzis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
3
Intercultural presentation skills (Special schedule. See the MTE website: https://go.epfl.ch/mte)
MGT-469 / Section MTE
Everett
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
2
Leading and managing in a global context
MGT-468 / Section MTE
Winzenried
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Programming concepts in scientific computing
MATH-458 / Section MA
Anciaux
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Project management and risk analysis
MGT-427 / Section MTE
Wieser
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Research skills for engineers (Pas donné en 2026-27)
CIVIL-465 / Section GC
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
2
Risk analysis and management (Cours donné les 7 dernières semaines du semestre.)
CIVIL-438 / Section GC
Defert
FR
  • Courses: 2h
-
Winter session
Oral
2

Block 2

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
CE project 1
CIVIL-481 / Section GC
Profs divers
EN
  • Individual project: 5h
  • Individual project: 5h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
CE project 2
CIVIL-482 / Section GC
Profs divers
EN
  • Individual project: 5h
  • Individual project: 5h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
Drawing structures - Docta Manus
AR-408 / Section AR
Baur, Fernandez-Ordoñez, Guaita
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
ENAC project
PENS-490 / Section GC
Profs divers
FR
  • Individual project: 4h
  • Individual project: 4h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
4
HSS : Introduction to project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Winter session
3
HSS : Project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Summer session
3
Optional interdisciplinary project
CIVIL-493 / Section GC
Profs divers
EN
  • Individual project: 4h
  • Individual project: 4h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
4
Summer workshop (Atelier pendant l'été)
PENS-491 / Section GC
Profs divers
FR/EN
  • Individual project: 40h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4

Group "Optional courses"

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced composites in engineering structures
CIVIL-443 / Section GC
Vassilopoulos
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Oral
3
Analysis of hyperstatic structures
CIVIL-497 / Section GC
Beyer, Wang
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
City and mobility
AR-458 / Section AR
Drevon, Kaufmann
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Transportation and Mobility
Summer session
Written
3
Computational geomechanics
CIVIL-423 / Section GC
Lecampion
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Geotechnics
Winter session
Oral
5
Continuum mechanics and applications (Pas donné en 2026-27)
CIVIL-425 / Section GC
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Geotechnics
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Oral
6
Dam engineering
CIVIL-411 / Section GC
De Cesare, Manso
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Geotechnics
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
Oral
4
Decision-aid methodologies in transportation
CIVIL-557 / Section GC
Bierlaire
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Transportation and Mobility
Summer session
During the semester
4
Deep learning for autonomous vehicles (Pas donné en 2026-27)
CIVIL-459 / Section GC
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 4h
  • Transportation and Mobility
Summer session
During the semester
6
Design and assessment of concrete bridges
CIVIL-478 / Section GC
Simões
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
During the semester
4
Design and construction of roadways
CIVIL-463 / Section GC
Tille
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
Winter session
Written
3
Design and innovation
CIVIL-464 / Section GC
Vassilopoulos
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Oral
3
Design of precast concrete structures
CIVIL-414 / Section GC
Fernandez-Ordoñez
EN
-
  • Courses: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
During the semester
3
Design of steel-concrete composite bridge (Biennal course taught in even years.)
CIVIL-480 / Section GC
Lignos
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Written
4
Dynamics of structures
CIVIL-468 / Section GC
Lignos, Vanin
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Geotechnics
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Written
4
Energy and comfort in buildings
CIVIL-407 / Section GC
Favero, Khovalyg, Licina, Sonta
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Urban Energy
Winter session
During the semester
5
Energy conversion and renewable energy
ME-409 / Section GM
Maréchal, Nguyen
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Hydraulics
  • Urban Energy
Winter session
Written
4
Energy geostructures
CIVIL-444 / Section GC
Laloui
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
  • Geotechnics
  • Urban Energy
Summer session
Written
4
Engineering of existing structures
CIVIL-511 / Section GC
Denarié, Nussbaumer
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Oral
4
Flood and dam break waves
CIVIL-515 / Section GC
Ancey
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Hydraulics
Summer session
Oral
3
Flow measurement monitoring technology in water engineering
CIVIL-485 / Section GC
De Cesare, Hurther
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
Written
2
Fluvial hydraulics and river engineering
CIVIL-410 / Section GC
Musa
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
Oral
4
Fracture of materials
MSE-424 / Section MX
Drezet, Molinari
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Geotechnics
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Written
4
Fundamentals of traffic operations and control
CIVIL-457 / Section GC
Geroliminis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
Winter session
During the semester
4
Future urban mobility systems
CIVIL-415 / Section GC
Barmpounakis, Geroliminis, Xu
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Lab: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Geomechanics
CIVIL-402 / Section GC
Ferrari, Laloui
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Geotechnics
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
Written
5
Hydrological risks and structures
ENV-524 / Section SIE
Ancey
FR
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
During the semester
3
Hydropower schemes and pumped-storage
CIVIL-469 / Section GC
De Cesare, Manso
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Hydraulics
Summer session
Written
4
Indoor air quality and ventilation
CIVIL-460 / Section GC
Licina
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Urban Energy
Summer session
During the semester
4
Industrial process and energy systems engineering
ME-452 / Section GM
Florez Orrego, Lepour, Maréchal
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 5h
-
Winter session
Oral
7
Integrated decision-making for buildings
CIVIL-486 / Section GC
Mavromatidis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Oral
3
Irrigation and drainage engineering
ENV-549 / Section SIE
Perona
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
Oral
4
Life cycle assessment in energy systems
ENV-510 / Section EL
Margni
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Urban Energy
Winter session
During the semester
3
Machine learning for predictive maintenance applications
CIVIL-426 / Section GC
Fink
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
Winter session
During the semester
6
Materials and structures
CIVIL-532 / Section GC
Denarié
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Oral
3
Mathematical modelling of behavior
MATH-463 / Section MA
Bierlaire
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
  • Urban Energy
Winter session
Written
5
Mobility engineering
CIVIL-451 / Section GC
Tufo
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
Winter session
During the semester
3
Multiscale modelling in mechanics
CIVIL-408 / Section GC
Karapiperis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Geotechnics
Winter session
During the semester
4
Nonlinear analysis of structures
CIVIL-449 / Section GC
Lignos, Saloustros
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Geotechnics
Winter session
Written
6
Quantitative imaging for engineers
MICRO-518 / Section MT
Andò
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Geotechnics
Summer session
During the semester
3
Railway systems and their transition
URB-406 / Section SIE
Kummer
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
Winter session
Oral
3
Reinforced concrete structures - advanced topics
CIVIL-512 / Section GC
Ruggiero
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Written
4
River eco-morphodynamics and bioengineering
ENV-418 / Section GC
De Cesare, Gostner, Perona
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Hydraulics
Winter session
During the semester
4
Rock mass characterization for engineering design
CIVIL-496 / Section GC
Violay
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Lab: 1h
  • Geotechnics
Summer session
During the semester
4
Seismic engineering
CIVIL-522 / Section GC
Lignos, Salvalaggio, Tomic
EN
-
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Written
6
Shaping future railway systems
URB-408 / Section SIE
Kummer
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Transportation and Mobility
Summer session
During the semester
3
Slope stability
CIVIL-530 / Section GC
Ferrari
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Geotechnics
Summer session
Written
3
Stability of structures (Pas donné en 2026-27 - Biennal course taught in odd years.)
CIVIL-409 / Section GC
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Written
4
Steel structures, selected topics
CIVIL-526 / Section GC
Nussbaumer
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Written
3
Sustainable bituminous materials
CIVIL-484 / Section GC
Zaumanis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Transportation and Mobility
  • Structural Engineering
Winter session
Oral
3
Thermodynamics of comfort in buildings
CIVIL-450 / Section GC
Khovalyg
EN
-
  • Courses: 1h
  • Lab: 1h
  • TP: 1h
  • Urban Energy
Summer session
During the semester
3
Timber construction
CIVIL-433 / Section GC
Natterer
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Structural Engineering
Summer session
Oral
3
Transportation network modeling & analysis
CIVIL-477 / Section GC
Zhang
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Transportation and Mobility
Summer session
During the semester
3
Underground construction
CIVIL-404 / Section GC
Sandrone
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Geotechnics
Summer session
During the semester
3
Urban hydraulic systems
CIVIL-413 / Section GC
Pfister
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Hydraulics
Summer session
Oral
3
Urban hydrology
ENV-417 / Section SIE
Rossi
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Hydraulics
  • Urban Energy
Summer session
During the semester
4
Water resources engineering and management
CIVIL-466 / Section GC
Bieri, Perona, Zeimetz
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • TP: 1h
  • Hydraulics
  • Urban Energy
Summer session
Written
5

Master project

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
MP Autumn
MP Spring
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Engineering internship credited with Master Project (master in Civil engineering) (Stage d'au minimum 8 semaines. Inscription par la bourse aux stages)
CIVIL-597 / Section GC
Profs divers
EN
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
Winter/Summer session
Term paper
0
Master project in Civil Engineering
CIVIL-599 / Section GC
Profs divers
FR/EN
-
-
  • Individual project: 900h
  • Individual project: 900h
Winter/Summer session
Oral
30