MTEC Day 2022
On 4 November 2022, 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.
A total of 350 graduates, alumni, faculty members and guests participated in the celebrations, which took place at the ETH Main Building with separate events held for MSc/doctoral and MAS graduates. Family and friends were also able to watch the graduation ceremony via live streaming. A reception with talar shooting, where graduates could dress in the traditional academic gown, was held afterwards in the main hall in the ETH Main Building.
D-MTEC Professors Peter Egger, Ursula Renold, Bart Clarysse and Stefano Brusoni gave speeches congratulating the graduates on their achievements. The keynote speakers, Peter Eberli, Division Portfolio Manager at ABB Low Voltage Motors, and Luca Valeggia, Senior Vice President for Laboratory Automation at Tecan, delivered excellent commencement speeches, which inspired the graduates as they turn to their future career paths.
As a novelty this year, D-MTEC graduates delivered joint graduate speeches, sharing their MTEC experiences in a very entertaining manner. Dr Guri Medici, Yannick Bormuth and Bernd Somitsch represented the doctoral and MSc graduates and shared experiences and impressions from their studies. The representatives of the MAS graduates, Dr Giulia Beanato, Karim Limam and Jürg Neidhardt, inspired the audience with their witty contribution on lifelong learning.
The graduation ceremony was rounded off by the string duo Sointu Music and a surprise gig by MSc graduate Georgia Iliopoulou, who performed the song “Never enough” from the soundtrack of The Greatest Showman.
Awards and Prizes
MTEC Day is also an occasion to honour outstanding academic work, including Master’s and doctoral theses.
The Willi Studer Prize and the MAS Excellence Award are awarded to the students with the best overall academic performance, based on their Grade Point Average (GPA). This year’s recipients were:
- MSc graduate Sara Calcagni (Willi Studer Prize), whose Master’s thesis, “Digital twins in supply chain”, was supervised by Professor Stephan Wagner, Chair of Logistics Management
- MAS graduate Luca Sebastian Keller (MAS Excellence Award), whose Master's thesis, “Servitized manufacturing - Strategy and operations - Case study for Georg Fischer Piping Systems”, was supervised by Professor Torbjørn Netland, Chair of Production and Operations Management
- MAS graduate Claudio Zihlmann (MAS Excellence Award), whose Master’s thesis, “Market access strategy for a new value product in the oral market for biomaterials”, was supervised by Professor Georg von Krogh, Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation
ETH Medals are awarded to the authors of the best Master’s theses and outstanding doctoral theses. This year’s recipients were:
- Dr Nicole Loumeau for her doctoral thesis, “Essays in economic geography”, supervised by Professor Peter Egger, Chair of of Applied Economics: Innovation and Internationalisation
- Dr Anselma Wörner for her doctoral thesis, “Fostering sustainability using information technology: Real-time feedback, incentives, and smart markets”, supervised by Professor Elgar Fleisch, Chair of Information Management
- MSc graduate Yannik Schneeberger for his Master’s thesis, “Exploring a virtual hackathon and incubator program to tackle Covid-19: Keys and pitfalls for long-term hackathon project continuation”, supervised by Professor Gudela Grote, Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology
- MAS graduate Loretta Berger for her Master’s thesis, “Supply chain management in humanitarian forensic action: Characteristics and challenges”, supervised by Professor Stephan Wagner, Chair of Logistics Management
- MAS graduate Patrick Nagel for his Master’s thesis, “Testing the market potential of a novel medical technology as a direct-to-consumer product”, supervised by Professor Bart Clarysse, Chair of Entrepreneurship
- MSc graduates and runners-up for the ETH medal Timothy Mallor and Savindu Herath Pathirannehelage were also recognised
Welcome to ETH Alumni
Towards the end of both ceremonies, Dr Isabel Spicker, D-MTEC Coordinator of Short Courses, Alumni Relations & Mentoring, officially bid farewell to the graduates and invited them to stay in touch with the department. Isabel Sauter, CEO of the ETH Alumni Association and Siddhartha Arora, President of MAS MTEC Alumni, welcomed all the graduates as ETH Alumni.
Farewell
After the official graduation ceremony at Audimax, the Head of Department invited all guests to a reception in the main hall where the traditional talar shooting took place. The department encouraged all graduates to stay in touch, and to explore the various offerings of the D-MTEC and ETH alumni organisations.
MTEC Day Recordings
