Nuclear engineering 2025-26

Group 1

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Master 3
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced topics in nuclear reactor materials (Cours donné par EPFL à PSI-Villigen)
ETH-530 / Section PH_NE
Pouchon, Spaetig, Streit
EN
-
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Winter session
During the semester
4
Beyond-design-basis safety (cours donné par l'ETHZ à PSI-Villigen)
ETH-532 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Winter session
During the semester
4
Decommissioning of nuclear power plants (Cours donné par l'EPFL au PSI)
ETH-533 / Section PH_NE
Manera, Pautz, Vacat
EN
-
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Winter session
During the semester
4
Engineering internship (master in nuclear engineering) (MA3 only)
PHYS-595 / Section PH
Profs divers
FR
-
  • Individual project: 8h
  • Individual project: 8h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
Fuel Cycle and Waste Managment (cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-401 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Nuclear computations lab (Cours donné par EPFL à PSI-Villigen)
ETH-531 / Section PH_NE
Pautz, Profs divers
EN
-
-
  • Courses: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
Winter session
During the semester
4
Nuclear Fuels and Materials (cours donné à l'ETHZ)
ETH-402 / Section PH_NE
Pouchon, Spaetig
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Physics of nuclear reactors
PHYS-443 / Section PH
Hursin, Manera, Pautz
EN
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
6
Radiation and reactor experiments
PHYS-451 / Section PH
Hursin, Lamirand, Pakari
EN
  • TP: 4h
-
-
Winter session
During the semester
6
Radiation biology, protection and applications
PHYS-450 / Section PH
Damet, Grilj, Pakari
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Reliability Engineering and quantitative risk analysis (cours donné à l'ETHZ)
ETH-522 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Written
4
Semester Project Nuclear Engineering
ETH-590 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
-
  • Individual project: 8h
Winter session
During the semester
8
Technology and Safety of Nuclear Power Plants (cours donné à l'ETHZ)
ETH-403 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 4h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Written
6

Group 2

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Master 3
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced Techniques for the Risk Analysis of Technical Systems (cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-441 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Computational Multiphase Thermal Fluid Dynamics (cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-433 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Elective project nuclear engineering
PHYS-490 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
  • Individual project: 8h
  • Individual project: 8h
  • Individual project: 8h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies (cours donné par l'ETHZ )
ETH-454 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Written
4
Energy conversion and renewable energy
ME-409 / Section GM
Maréchal, Nguyen
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Course based project: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Hydraulic turbomachines
ME-453 / Section GM
Vagnoni
EN
  • Courses: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Image processing I
MICRO-511 / Section MT
Unser, Van De Ville
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Written
3
Introduction to medical radiation physics
PHYS-455 / Section PH
Bochud
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Introduction to particle accelerators
PHYS-448 / Section PH
Pieloni
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-446 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Materials Analysis by Nuclear Techniques (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-442 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
6
Medical Physics II (cours donné à l'ETHZ)
ETH-452 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
6
Modelling and optimization of energy systems
ME-454 / Section GM
Maréchal
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
4
Monte Carlo in Medical Physics (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-447 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Multiphase Flow (cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-434 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Neutron and X-ray Scattering of Quantum Materials (Next time: Fall 2026)
PHYS-640 / Section EDPY
Lacmann, Rønnow, Schmitt
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
4
Nuclear fusion and plasma physics
PHYS-445 / Section PH
Fasoli
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
4
Nuclear interaction : from reactors to stars (Pas donné en 2025-26)
PHYS-461 / Section PH
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Written
4
Numerics for fluids, structures & electromagnetics (Pas donné en 2025-26 *** Cours donné en alternance tous les deux ans.)
MATH-468 / Section MA
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
5
Physics Against Cancer: The Physics of Imaging and Treating Cancer (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-443 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
6
Physics of Nuclear Reactor II (cours donné à l'ETHZ)
ETH-404 / Section PH_NE
Pautz, Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 3h
-
Summer session
Oral
4
Plasma I
PHYS-423 / Section PH
Theiler
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
6
Quantum Mechanics (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-445 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Summer session
Written
4
Radiation detection
PHYS-452 / Section PH
Lamirand
EN
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
-
Winter session
Oral
4
Therapeutic Applications of Particle Physics: Principles and Practice of Particle Therapy (Cours donné par l'ETHZ)
ETH-449 / Section PH_NE
Profs divers
EN
-
  • Courses: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Summer session
Oral
6

Master project

Courses
Language
MP Autumn
MP Spring
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Master project in Nuclear Engineering
PHYS-598 / Section PH
Profs divers
FR/EN
  • Individual project: 800h
  • Individual project: 800h
Winter/Summer session
Oral
30