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Professor Torbjörn Netland and his team at the Chair of Production and Operations Management have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Reimagine Education Awards, in the category Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), for FactoryVR, a project created in cooperation with the Hilti Corporation. Reimagine Education is the world’s largest awards programme for innovative pedagogies – the “Oscars of Education”. Only 12 percent of the 1,500 applications were shortlisted this year.

On 23 October 2020, the MTEC Department honoured its MSc, MAS and doctoral graduates at this year’s MTEC Day. MTEC Day is an annual event that brings together graduates, alumni, faculty and key stakeholders from business and academia, with the aim of strengthening the personal and professional relationships between them.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. A study by J. Kerr, M. Nägelin and R. Weibel, doctoral students at the Chair of Technology Marketing, shows that interruptions to work lead to psychobiological stress. KOF Director Jan-Egbert Sturm questions the value of using pre-COVID-19 performance data to evaluate the eligibility of struggling companies for future state support.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. KOF Director Jan-Egbert Sturm warns that, while companies may wish COVID-19 restrictions to remain as relaxed as possible, this simply will not work.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Robert Finger, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy, proposes a holistic pesticide policy, that encompasses the various actors along the food value chain. Gudela Grote, Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology, shows with the Swiss HR Barometer that job satisfaction decreases with digitisation.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Researchers at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute detect a 7% unexplained gender wage gap among ETH alumni, this could, but does not have to be, a sign of gender pay discrimination. Hans Gersbach, Professor of Macroeconomics, proposes that the SNB should be more transparent by publishing minutes of management meetings.