Microengineering 2026-27

Block 1

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
HSS : Introduction to project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Winter session
3
HSS : Project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Summer session
3
Machine learning I
MICRO-455 / Section MT
Billard
EN
  • Courses: 4h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Microengineering project I
MICRO-498 / Section MT
Profs divers
FR
  • Individual project: 10h
  • Individual project: 10h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
10
Products design & systems engineering
MICRO-406 / Section MT
Bellouard, Charbon
EN
  • Courses: 5h
  • Course based project: 5h
-
Winter session
During the semester
10

Group 2 : Options

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced additive manufacturing technologies
MICRO-413 / Section MT
Brugger, Moser
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
4
Advanced analog integrated circuit design
EE-523 / Section EL
Shoaran
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Written
3
Advanced control systems
ME-524 / Section GM
Karimi
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Advanced mechanisms for extreme environments (Pas donné en 2026-27)
MICRO-372 / Section MT
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Written
3
Advanced satellite positioning
ENV-542 / Section SIE
Dumphart, Khaghani, Laupré
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
During the semester
4
Aerial robotics
MICRO-502 / Section MT
Floreano
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Analog IC design
EE-320 / Section EL
Shoaran
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
3
Applied biomedical signal processing
EE-512 / Section EL
Jorge, Lemay
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Lab: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Applied Electromagnetics for Metamaterial Design
MICRO-449 / Section MT
Achouri
FR
  • Courses: 3h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Oral
3
Audio engineering
EE-548 / Section EL
Lissek
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Basics of mobile robotics
MICRO-452 / Section MT
Mondada
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • TP: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Bioimage informatics
BIO-410 / Section SV
Sage, Seitz
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Biomedical optics
BIOENG-445 / Section SV
Wagnières
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
Winter session
Oral
3
Bio-nano-chip design
EE-517 / Section EL
Carrara
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
4
Computational motor control
MICRO-436 / Section MT
Ijspeert
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
During the semester
4
Conceptual design of products and systems
MICRO-443 / Section MT
Kejik
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
2
Continuous improvement of manufacturing systems
ME-498 / Section GM
Kaboli
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
During the semester
5
Distributed intelligent systems (Pas donné en 2026-27)
ENG-466 / Section SIE
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Lab: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
Winter session
Oral
5
Embedded motor control
MICRO-510 / Section MT
Hodder, Köchli, Perriard
FR
  • Courses: 1h
  • TP: 2h
-
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
Oral
3
Energy supply, economics and transition
ENG-410 / Section SIE
Ballif, Hecher, Nick, Thalmann
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
Summer session
Written
2
Experimental biomicroscopy
MICRO-562 / Section SV
Altug, Seitz
EN
-
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
During the semester
4
Fundamentals of analog VLSI design
EE-424 / Section EL
Enz
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
4
Fundamentals of biomicroscopy
MICRO-561 / Section SV
Altug
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
Winter session
Written
4
Fundamentals of biophotonics
BIO-443 / Section SV
Radenovic
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
During the semester
3
Fundamentals of biosensors and electronic biochips
EE-515 / Section EL
Guiducci
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
3
Fundamentals of integrated photonic components
MICRO-471 / Section MT
Benea-Chelmus
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Lab: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Oral
4
Game theory for multiagent decision-making
ME-429 / Section GM
Kamgarpour
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Haptic human robot interfaces
MICRO-553 / Section MT
Bouri, Shokur
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
4
Image processing I
MICRO-511 / Section MT
Preti, Unser, Van De Ville
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
Written
3
Image processing II
MICRO-512 / Section MT
Sage, Unser, Van De Ville
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
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
Introduction to bioengineering
EE-526 / Section EL
Maerkl
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Iontronics (.)
MICRO-554 / Section MT
Zhang
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
During the semester
3
Lab on app development for tablets and smartphones
EE-490(g) / Section EL
Ansaloni
EN
  • TP: 4h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Laboratory introduction to biochemistry
MICRO-408 / Section MT
Maerkl
EN
  • TP: 4h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Laser microprocessing
MICRO-520 / Section MT
Iseli
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
2
Leading and managing in a global context
MGT-468 / Section MTE
Winzenried
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Legged robots
MICRO-507 / Section MT
Ijspeert
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • TP: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Machine learning programming
MICRO-401 / Section MT
Billard
EN
  • TP: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
2
Materials design for vat photopolymerization
MICRO-407 / Section MT
Yee
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
-
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
During the semester
3
MEMS Actuator practicals
MICRO-501 / Section MT
Bertsch, Boero, Brugger
EN
  • TP: 3h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
During the semester
3
MEMS sensors practicals
MICRO-503 / Section MT
Bertsch, Boero, Brugger
EN
-
  • TP: 3h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
During the semester
3
Metrology practicals (Ces TP sont optionnels et ne peuvent être suivis qu'en parallèle du cours MICRO-428 Metrology)
MICRO-429 / Section MT
Bruschini, Charbon, Fantner
EN
-
  • TP: 3h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
During the semester
3
Microengineering project II
MICRO-499 / Section MT
Profs divers
FR
  • Individual project: 10h
  • Individual project: 10h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
10
Model predictive control
ME-425 / Section GM
Jones
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Nanobiotechnology
CH-413 / Section CGC
Steinauer
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
During the semester
3
Nanophotonics
MICRO-516 / Section MT
Iadanza, Moselund
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Oral
4
Neural interfaces
NX-422 / Section NX
Schiavone, Shoaran
EN
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
During the semester
6
Neural signals and signal processing
NX-421 / Section NX
Micera, Van De Ville
EN
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
6
Neuroscience foundations for engineers
BIOENG-310 / Section SV
Schrimpf, Zenk
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 3h
Summer session
Written
6
Nonlinear Control Systems
ME-523 / Section GM
Müllhaupt
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
Written
3
Nonlinear Optics
PHYS-501 / Section MT
Roke
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
Written
4
Nonlinear optics for quantum technologies
PHYS-470 / Section PH
Galland
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
Written
4
Optics laboratories (autumn)
MICRO-424 / Section MT
Pu
EN
  • TP: 4h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
Winter session
During the semester
4
Optics laboratories (spring)
MICRO-423 / Section MT
Pu
EN
-
  • TP: 4h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
During the semester
4
Organic and printed electronics
MICRO-505 / Section MT
Briand, Subramanian
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
2
Photonic systems and technology
EE-440 / Section EL
Brès
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Written
4
Physics of photonic semiconductor devices
PHYS-434 / Section PH
Grandjean
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Oral
4
Physics of semiconductors devices
MICRO-312 / Section MT
Besse
FR
  • Courses: 3h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
3
Project management and risk analysis
MGT-427 / Section MTE
Wieser
FR
  • Courses: 2h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Quantitative imaging for engineers
MICRO-518 / Section MT
Andò
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
During the semester
3
Quantum and nanocomputing
MICRO-435 / Section MT
Charbon, Graziano
EN
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
6
Quantum mechanics for non-physicists
PHYS-344 / Section PH
Manucharyan
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
5
Radio frequency circuits design techniques
EE-426 / Section EL
Ruffieux
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
4
Semiconductor devices II
EE-567 / Section EL
Ionescu, Kis
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
During the semester
4
Seminars in Electrical and Micro Engineering
MICRO-555 / Section MT
Yee, Zhang
EN
  • Courses: .5h
  • Courses: .5h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
1
Sensors in medical instrumentation
EE-511 / Section EL
Chételat, Ionescu
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Written
3
Software architecture
MICRO-371 / Section MT
Ingram, Mesot
FR
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Space mission design and operations
EE-585 / Section EL
Kuntzer
EN
  • Courses: 2h
-
Winter session
Oral
2
System identification
ME-421 / Section GM
Karimi
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Written
3
System programming for Systems-on-chip
CS-473 / Section IN
Kluter
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
6
Translational neuroengineering
NX-423 / Section NX
Blanke, Hummel, Micera, Moraud
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 3h
Summer session
Written
6

Groupe 1 : Bases

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced MEMS & microsystems
MICRO-534 / Section MT
Briand
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Oral
3
Applied and industrial robotics
MICRO-451 / Section MT
Bouri
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
3
Computational optical imaging
MICRO-421 / Section MT
Psaltis
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Optics and Photonics
Summer session
During the semester
4
Fundamentals & processes for photovoltaic devices
MICRO-565 / Section MT
Ballif, Haug
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Written
3
Introduction to additive manufacturing
ME-413 / Section GM
Boillat, Brugger, Moser
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • TP: 1h
-
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
Written
4
Laser fundamentals and applications for engineers
MICRO-426 / Section MT
Moser
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Written
3
Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics
MICRO-448 / Section MT
Filliger, Gallay, Rodriguez
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Summer session
Oral
3
Materials processing with intelligent systems (Pas donné en 2026-27)
MICRO-457 / Section MT
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
Oral
3
Metrology
MICRO-428 / Section MT
Bruschini, Charbon, Fantner
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Written
3
Micro/Nanomechanical devices
ME-426 / Section GM
Villanueva
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
  • Production & advanced manufacturing
Winter session
Written
4
Nano-scale heat transfer
ME-469 / Section GM
Tagliabue
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
During the semester
4
Nanotechnology
MICRO-530 / Section MT
Boero, Brugger
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Summer session
Oral
3
Optical design with ZEMAX
MICRO-517 / Section MT
Pu
EN
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
Winter session
During the semester
3
Optical detectors
MICRO-523 / Section MT
Bruschini
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
Oral
4
Physical models for micro and nanosystems
EE-536 / Section EL
Kis
EN
  • Courses: 2h
-
  • Micro and Nanosystems
Winter session
During the semester
2
Selected topics in advanced optics
MICRO-420 / Section MT
Martin
EN
  • Courses: 3h
-
  • Optics and Photonics
Winter session
Oral
3

Master project

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
MP Autumn
MP Spring
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Engineering internship credited with master project (master in Microengineering) (Stage d'au minimum 8 semaines après le 2ème semestre de Master. Inscription par la bourse aux stages)
MICRO-597 / Section MT
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 Microengineering
MICRO-599 / Section MT
Profs divers
FR/EN
-
-
  • Individual project: 900h
  • Individual project: 900h
Winter/Summer session
Oral
30