Environmental Sciences and Engineering 2025-26

Block 1

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Design project (The Design Project is not accessible for exchange students )
ENV-596 / Section SIE
Profs divers
FR/EN
-
  • Individual project: 10h
Summer session
During the semester
10
HSS : Introduction to project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Winter session
3
HSS : Project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Summer session
3
Projet SIE individuel
ENV-591(a) / Section SIE
Profs divers
FR/EN
  • Individual project: 10h
  • Individual project: 10h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
10

Block 2

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Atmospheric processes: from cloud to global scales
ENV-407 / Section SIE
Berne, Gehring, Nenes
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Written
5
Sensing and spatial modeling for earth observation
ENV-408 / Section SIE
Berne, Skaloud, Tuia
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Lab: 1h
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
Written
5
Sustainability, climate and energy
ENV-421 / Section SIE
Chappellaz, Schnidrig
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Water and wastewater treatment
ENV-405 / Section SIE
Gu, Merle
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
5
Water resources engineering and management
CIVIL-466 / Section GC
Bieri, Perona, Zeimetz
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • TP: 1h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Summer session
Written
5

Group 1 (30 crédits en option et 30 crédits dans un mineur)

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Air pollution
ENV-409 / Section SIE
Reimann Bhend, Takahama
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 3h
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
Written
5
Applied data analysis
CS-401 / Section SC
Brbic
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
Written
8
Applied ecology
ENV-422 / Section SIE
Grossiord
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
During the semester
4
Applied wastewater engineering (Donné une année sur deux, les années impaires)
ENV-509 / Section SIE
Mattle
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
During the semester
3
Basics of mobile robotics
MICRO-452 / Section MT
Mondada
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • TP: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
Written
4
Climate and water sensitive urban design
ENV-526 / Section SIE
Manoli
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Summer session
During the semester
4
Development engineering (Pas donné en 2025-26 Development Engineering: Innovation and Technologies in the Global South)
ENV-470 / Section SIE
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Distributed intelligent systems
ENG-466 / Section SIE
Martinoli
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Lab: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
Oral
5
Ecohydrological modeling
ENV-411 / Section SIE
Bonetti
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Summer session
Written
4
Ecological contributions to cities in transformation (Pas donné en 2025-26)
URB-405 / Section SIE
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
During the semester
3
ENAC project
PENS-490 / Section GC
Profs divers
FR
  • Individual project: 4h
  • Individual project: 4h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
4
Energy conversion and renewable energy
ME-409 / Section GM
Maréchal, Nguyen
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Written
4
Environmental economics
ENV-471 / Section SIE
Thalmann
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
4
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
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Oral
3
Environmental transport phenomena
ENG-420 / Section SIE
Crouzy, Porté-Agel
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
Written
5
Exploratory data analysis in environmental health
ENV-444 / Section SIE
Joost, Nehme
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
During the semester
4
Fate and behaviour of environmental contaminants
ENV-507 / Section SIE
Aeppli
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Summer session
Written
4
Fluvial hydraulics and river training works
CIVIL-410 / Section GC
André, Arborino, De Cesare
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Winter session
Oral
3
Global change ecology and fluvial ecosystems
ENV-512 / Section SIE
Battin
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 2h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
4
Groundwater and soil remediation
ENV-504 / Section SIE
Bernier-Latmani
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Oral
4
Hydrogeophysics
ENV-523 / Section SIE
Holliger
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Summer session
During the semester
3
Hydrological risks and structures
ENV-524 / Section SIE
Ancey
FR
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
During the semester
3
Image processing for Earth observation
ENV-540 / Section SIE
Tuia
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
During the semester
4
Image processing I
MICRO-511 / Section MT
Unser, Van De Ville
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Winter session
Written
3
Image processing II
MICRO-512 / Section MT
Sage, Unser, Van De Ville
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
Written
3
Indoor air quality and ventilation
CIVIL-460 / Section GC
Licina
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
During the semester
4
Irrigation and drainage engineering
ENV-549 / Section SIE
Perona
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Winter session
Oral
4
Limnology
ENV-425 / Section SIE
Pasche
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 3h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Summer session
Oral
5
Material flow analysis and resource management
ENV-501 / Section SIE
Binder, Felix Martin Del Campo
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
4
Microbial ecology
ENV-412 / Section SIE
Altshuler
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
4
Multivariate statistics in R
ENV-513 / Section SIE
Peter
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
4
Occupational and environmental health
ENV-468 / Section SIE
Vernez
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Oral
3
Physics and hydrology of snow
ENV-525 / Section SIE
Huwald, Lehning
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Written
4
River eco-morphodynamics and bioengineering
ENV-418 / Section GC
De Cesare, Gostner, Perona
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Winter session
During the semester
4
Science of climate change
ENV-410 / Section SIE
Schmale
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Written
4
Sensor orientation
ENV-548 / Section SIE
Skaloud
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Lab: 1h
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
Oral
4
Solid waste engineering
ENV-500 / Section SIE
Ludwig
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter 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
Sustainability assessment of urban systems
ENV-461 / Section SIE
Binder
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Summer session
Written
3
Sustainability robotics
ENV-530 / Section SIE
Kovac
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Environmental Sensing and Computation (ESC)
Summer session
Written
3
Systems approaches for urban transitions
URB-401 / Section SIE
Binder, Hecher, Jessel
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Winter session
Oral
4
Thermodynamics of the earth systems
ENV-413 / Section SIE
Nenes
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Summer session
Written
4
Towards sustainable materials
MSE-433 / Section MX
Leterrier, Wakeman
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Summer session
During the semester
4
Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warming
ENV-462 / Section SIE
Kazemi
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
Summer session
During the semester
3
Urban hydraulic systems
CIVIL-413 / Section GC
Pfister
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
Summer session
Oral
3
Urban hydrology
ENV-417 / Section SIE
Rossi
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Climate Change Anticipation and Adaptation (CCAA)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Summer session
During the semester
4
Water and sanitation for development
ENV-402 / Section SIE
Lüthi
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Water Resources and Management (WRM)
  • Biological and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (BCP)
Winter session
Written
3

Master project

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
MP Autumn
MP Spring
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Engineering internship credited with master project (master in Environmental sciences and engineering) (Stage d'au minimum 8 semaines. Inscription par la bourse aux stages)
ENV-598 / Section SIE
Profs divers
FR
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
  • Individual project: 320h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
0
Master project in Environmental Sciences and Engineering
ENV-599 / Section SIE
Profs divers
FR/EN
-
-
  • Individual project: 900h
  • Individual project: 900h
Winter/Summer session
Oral
30