Swissloop (Focus Project)
Swissloop is a student-led initiative with the goal of contributing to the research on and advancement of the hyperloop technology and its application in the real world. The team designs and builds operational prototypes of transport capsules (pods) which compete in the International Hyperloop Pod Competition (scoring second place in the 2019 event). The focus project gathers a team of eight Mechanical Engineering students to work on an engineering team challenge. Find out more on the external pageSwissloop website
Focus Projects
Students develop and build a product from beginning to end. They work in teams and independently learn to structure problems, to identify solutions, carry out system analysis and simulations, and present and document their work. They build the product with access to a machine shop and state of the art engineering and simulation software tools.
Objectives of the Focus Projects are:
- Synthesizing and deepening the theoretical knowledge from the basic courses of the first two years
- Team organization, work in teams, increase of interpersonal skills
- Independence, initiative, independent learning of new topic contents
- Problem structuring, solution identification in indistinct problem definitions, searches of information
- System description and simulation
- Presentation methods, writing of a document
- Ability to make decisions, implementation skills
- Workshop and industrial contacts
- Learning and recess of special knowledge
- Control of most modern engineering tools (Matlab, Simulink, CAD, CAE, PDM)