Work experience Learning by doing!

Admission to the Energy and Environmental Systems Engineering program requires professional experience in the field. This requirement applies to all students at Swiss university-level institutions and promotes practice-based learning. 

Required work experience:

Twelve months of relevant full-time work

No prior professional experience in the field: 

  1. Students must attend a four-week technical training course during the first year of study.
  2. In addition, they must complete an eleven-month work placement before the start of the second year of study.

In doing so, they gain twelve months of practical work experience before the start of the second year of study. This adds one year to the period of study, which is then four years. 

 

Technical training

Depending on their professional experience, students must undergo technical training. It is a three-and-a-half week (144 hours) course taking place between mid-July and mid-August.

Dates and costs
Monday, 8 July 2024 to Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Course fees: CHF 720 (plus costs for safety equipment supplied by the course organizer)

Place
Schindler Aufzüge AG, Zugerstrasse 13, 6030 Ebikon
 
Registration
Upon admission to the program, students register with their assigned HSLU login here.

Application deadline: Monday, 1 July 2024
Fees will be charged after the application deadline. They are non-refundable and will remain due even if the participant withdraws after the application deadline or unsuccessfully attends the course.

Work placement: working in a company

After attending the technical training course in the first study year, students without professional experience in a relevant field must complete eleven months of work experience.
It is the students’ own responsibility to find a suitable work placement, be it in Switzerland or abroad. However, the HSLU’s “Career Service” offers support throughout the process.

Before the start of the work placement, a description of the practical activities must be submitted to the head of program for approval. At the end of the work placement, the employer must issue a certificate of employment containing a description of the student's tasks and a record of the hours worked.  It must be presented to the senior assistant upon completion of the work placement.

Learn more about the work placements approved for the study program here. If you have any queries about work placements, the senior assistant (macarena.sanmartinruiz@hslu.ch) will be happy to help.