Boosting learning by putting theory into practice

Raphaël Finizola, Lise Boitard-Crépeau and Simon Baillet have designed a self-cooling vaccine transport container. ©Alain Herzog/EPFL - Summer series - Master's project (3). Two groups of EPFL students turned their blueprints into functional prototypes: a self-heating food box and a self-cooling vaccine transport container. For engineers, little can be more satisfying than turning your ideas into working objects you can see and touch. That's exactly what two groups from EPFL's chemistry and chemical engineering section recently got to experience. After six months of hard work on the DLL Molecular - Chemical Engineering program, the dozen or so Master's students got to unveil their creations: a self-heating food box and a self-cooling vaccine container. It all started with the Chemical Engineering Product Design class in the fall semester.