Coordinator of Hands-On Projects in Automation and Power Systems

at  ETH Zrich

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Both PSL and IfA operate practical installations and offer hands-on experiences to students. The existing installations include:

• A photovoltaic installation on an ETH building; pure production unit plus multiple adaptable modules for teaching purposes.
• Robotic platforms hosted at IfA. These currently cover multi-quadrotor control with the D-FALL platform, robotic football and the Robocup competition team NomadZ, a robotic snooker player, as well as several teaching experiments.

These installations are used in research for proof of concept studies, as well as in education for conducting Bachelor’s and Master’s theses and offering hands-on courses in the Bachelor’s curriculum. We are looking for a colleague to operate and maintain them, support the Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral students working with them, and further develop the hands-on research and education offering of the two labs.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a motivated colleague to manage and coordinate the hands-on installations of PSL and IfA.

Duties include

• Maintenance and operation of the installations listed above and development and commissioning of possible extensions, e.g. battery for the PV installation.
• Management, coordination and development of practical/hands-on or project based classes.
• Supervision of student projects.
• Interaction with external collaborators such as the Project Based Learning Centre and the REAL Lab of the NCCR Automation.
• Support of students involved in team based activities, for example the IfA RoboCup team NomadZ.
• Development of hands-on material for outreach activities.
• Group Safety Representative for the two laboratories.

Your goal will be to translate your own ideas to expand the hands-on based education and research activities of PSL and IfA. As part of this, you will mentor students, contribute to our teaching efforts, and collaborate closely with our interdisciplinary team and external partners.

• Maintenance and operation of the installations listed above and development and commissioning of possible extensions, e.g. battery for the PV installation.
• Management, coordination and development of practical/hands-on or project based classes.
• Supervision of student projects.
• Interaction with external collaborators such as the Project Based Learning Centre and the REAL Lab of the NCCR Automation.
• Support of students involved in team based activities, for example the IfA RoboCup team NomadZ.
• Development of hands-on material for outreach activities.
• Group Safety Representative for the two laboratories