Talk:ETH Zurich

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Research Institutes

Why is the CERN not mentioned anywhere? Many physicists work together with cern!

Orientation

Should something about finding places and building/room/floor naming be mentioned?

Computers

Should details on computers, operating systems, dns/hostnames, stats, clusters be listed?

Food, Mensa

Eating at ETH facilities? http://www.gastro.ethz.ch/locations/

Photos

As it stands there are 3 photos of the main building. They are very nice photos, but I think that usefully one of them, could be replaced with a photo of the Hoenggerberg "science city". Anyone agree?

Agreed, the surroundings of the ETH main building are not anymore the only part of the city, where the ETH is represented. Necmon (talk) 11:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name

article says acronym "ETH" is not expanded in English and thus offical name is "ETH Zürich" But citation provided is link to definition of uniform address format (to make the postman's life easier), which is not the same thing as the offical name. As far as I know offical english name is "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology"?

Time to Graduation

"The regular time to reach graduation is six semesters for the Bachelor of Science degree and three further semesters for the Master of Science degree. The last semester is dedicated to writing a thesis."

These are recommended times. Bachelor/Master is quite new; first year should just have graduated. Any statistics on number of people who have to do a semester or two more? This will probably not be uncommon in, say, D-INFK. Just number of people who need to repeat the basisjahr will have an effect.

What is the length of a "semester" at the ETH? Half a year, 18 weeks or what?--TGC55 (talk) 14:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3 month or so - it doesn't really matter. Important thing is that there are 2 per year, hence repeating a semester means an extra 1/2 year until graduation in best of cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.35.31.33 (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ESF

Article says: "Sometimes, the annually Erstsemestrigenfest takes place at extraordinary locations, for example the Zurich Airport." Unless I am mistaken, reason that the ESF has been moved the last 2 years (Maag event-hall, then the airport) is due to fire regulations and too many students, not just a desire to surprise the visitors as the above quote implies.

i dont read any intention of surprising anyone. and i would call a party at an airport where you can see all the planes starting and landing quite extraordinary. (84.72.42.240 22:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Sorry, maybe I wasn't quite clear. I also think that the location was quite cool, but the "sometimes... takes place at extraordinary locations" does imply that usually it is in one particular place but sometimes exceptionally at others. However the ESF is almost certainly not going to be in the polyterasse again, because of the famous fire safety rules. I suggest something like "Due to fire safety regulations and the high number of participants, the annual Erstsemestrigenfest no longer takes place in the ETH itself and has been held in a number of unusual locations over the past few years - for example, the Zürich airport. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.132.208.60 (talk) 16:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Science City

ETH Zurich is building up Science City, so I think it would be important to mention it in this article.

Main Buildings

In the article it says that "The main building was constructed in the 1860s in the heart of the city". Can anybody knowledgeable with the historical development of Zurich confirm this? I thought that at the time there were few buildings in the region near the main building, and only afterwards in the later 19th century many others were built around it, but I don't know for sure. So at the time it might not really have been in the heart of the city. Paolo 13-mar-2006.

I was as an American exchange-student in ETHZurich. A tourist guide said, the ETH-Zentrum was conceived by G. Semper as a "citycrown" - that maens: it was not in the center but very present in the heart of the old city by his presence... as a "flying palace" over the old churches and the lake and the river... Cornell, Lander Wy., 25-mar-06

Seal

What is the emblem of the university? ArchonMeld 23:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't more than just this simple logo [1] -- Firefox13 12:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Endowment

The ETH does not, to my knowledge, have an endowment (an american thing, really). The CHF 1.2 billion listed as an endowment was the 2005 budget, a completely different thing!

True, but since endowment as such is almost non-existent in continental europe, unlike private US institutions which have no budget in the sense of money from the state, it should be used as a equivalent term (unless the term "budget" is supported in that box).172.177.210.99

"budget" does not seem to be supported (US-centrism ;)) - but that is no reason for using the endowment. Best solution IMO is to remove it and state the budget (not quite 100% from the state, incidentally) in the article text, because the two things are very different.

EIT

What does the ETH have to do with the European Institute of Technology? Matteo 10:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]

The ETH Zurich is one of the Institutes in Europe which served as an inspiration for the European Institute of Technology and which could become one of the Institutes of the EIT: A European MIT?. Pvosta 10:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]