Department of Management, Technology, and Economics| Acronym | D-MTEC | | Homepage | http://www.mtec.ethz.ch/ | | Country | Switzerland | | ZIP, City | | | Address | | | Phone | | | Type | Academy | | Parent organization | ETH Zurich | | Current organization | Department of Management, Technology, and Economics | | Child organizations | |
Open OpportunitiesBasierend auf Ihren Kenntnissen aus der Vorlesung «Optimierung landwirtschaftlicher Produktionssysteme» erstellen Sie ein Optimierungsmodell in Excel oder R und beantworten damit eine von Ihnen erarbeitete Forschungsfrage. - Agricultural Economics, Environmental Sciences, Operations Research
- Bachelor Thesis
| Switzerland is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Innovative and sustainable freight solutions are essential as the transport sector accounts for a significant share of CO2 emissions. Currently, road transport dominates the modal split (62%), with rail transport contributing only 38%.
Traditional urban logistics rely heavily on road-based transport, contributing to congestion, emissions, and inefficiencies in last-mile delivery. While rail offers a sustainable alternative for long-distance freight, its integration into city logistics remains limited. Therefore, this thesis investigates how a fully electric railway supply chain centered around a rail-city portal (e.g., intermodal urban connectors between rail and last-mail logistics) can reduce emissions and improve the efficiency of urban freight distribution. A rail-city portal can be a transshipment node, bridging rail and e-mobility for last-mile logistics.
- Transport Economics, Transport Engineering, Transportation
- Master Thesis
| We are looking for a research assistant who is skilled at data collection, cleaning, matching and programming. Please see details in the attachment. - Programming Languages
- Student Assistant / HiWi
| This master thesis examines the bottlenecks in climate change adaptation for arable crop farming, with a focus on the behavioral and socioeconomic factors. By analyzing survey data from 700 farms in Germany, it aims to identify the key barriers to effective uptake of adaptation measures and provide insights for developing more efficient and targeted strategies to enhance agricultural resilience to climate change. - Agricultural Economics
- Master Thesis
| Livestock farming is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within agriculture, raising the question of whether reducing livestock populations is essential for achieving low-emission agriculture. This thesis examines whether such reductions are a necessary condition and identifies bottleneck levels of livestock counts for given GHG emission targets. Using Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), the research also explores the potential of alternative mitigation strategies, such as feed optimization, manure management, and technological innovations. - Agricultural Economics, Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences
- Master Thesis
| Die Bachelorarbeit untersucht, wie Volksinitiativen und Referenden in der Schweiz die Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik beeinflussen und zur Transformation des Ernährungssystems beitragen. Im Fokus steht, inwiefern direktdemokratische Instrumente die Nachhaltigkeitsdimensionen – ökonomische, ökologische und soziale – im Ernährungssystem beeinflussen. Durch eine qualitative Analyse von Volksinitiativen und politischen Debatten wird aufgezeigt, wie Zielkonflikte zwischen diesen Dimensionen entstehen und welche politischen Anpassungsprozesse durch die direkte Demokratie angestossen werden. - Agricultural Economics, Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences
- Bachelor Thesis
| Pesticide-free (non-organic) crop production is currently gaining ground in European agriculture as a new alternative pathway between conventional and organic farming. To successfully produce crops without using pesticides, farmers must adopt sustainable crop protection measures, e.g., following the principles of integrated crop protection (IPM) or agroecological crop protection (ACP). Even though both production systems, i.e., pesticide-free non-organic and organic, work without pesticides, the alternative crop protection measures used may differ between organic and non-organic farms. To date, little is known about potential differences between farming systems without pesticides regarding the adoption of alternative crop protection strategies. - Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences
- Master Thesis
| Agriculture is widely recognized as one of the most vulnerable sectors to the adverse effects of climate change, which is particularly true for arable farming. Projections indicate that these effects will worsen in the coming decades. Farmers will have to adapt to the changing climate. Multiple climate change adaptation strategies have been suggested over the last decades, including, e.g., diversification, conservation tillage or crop insurance. However, little is known about the behavioral factors influencing the adoption of such strategies. This master thesis aims to investigate the influence of farmers’ behavioral characteristics on the uptake of climate change adaptation measures in the context of German arable farming. - Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences, Economics
- Master Thesis
| Agriculture is widely recognized as one of the most vulnerable sectors to the adverse effects of climate change. This thesis aims to identify effects of weather shocks on farm structural indicators. It combines official statistics provided by the EU with meteorological data and provides causal estimates of weather shocks on farm structural indicators using econometric methods. - Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences, Economics
- Master Thesis
| Manukai employs machine learning methods to identify machining features in 3D geometries. Identified features can be classified, which is relevant for downstream task automation, such as the programming CNC machines. - Engineering and Technology
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
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