2019

The ETH Board has appointed Dr Ursula Renold as Full Professor of Education Systems at the Department MTEC. Ursula Renold will be responsible for developing a Center on the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems.

ETH Zurich celebrated its 164th year at this year’s ETH Day on 16 November 2019 together with guests from research, politics and industry. The annual celebration provides an occasion to honour outstanding achievements of the past year. At this year’s ETH Day D-MTEC lecturer Ulf Claesson was awarded VSETH’s Golden Owl award for dedication and excellence in teaching.

The MTEC Department honoured its MSc, MAS, and doctoral graduates at this year’s MTEC Day on 25 October 2019. MTEC Day is an annual event that aims to strengthen personal and professional relationships by gathering together graduates, alumni, faculty, and key stakeholders from business and academia.

Professor Elgar Fleisch is among the Digital Shapers of 2019, the 100 most influential Swiss citizens in the area of digitalisation as selected by Digitalswitzerland.

Seventy-seven new students from more than 20 different countries started their MAS studies in Management, Technology, and Economics on 16 September 2019.