Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c... 00:01:36 1 History 00:04:33 2 Admission and education 00:07:57 3 Rankings 00:11:08 4 Campus 00:14:58 4.1 Buildings 00:16:58 4.2 Facilities 00:18:06 4.3 Satellite campuses 00:19:22 4.4 Language Centre 00:20:21 5 Students and traditions 00:20:31 5.1 Student body 00:21:46 5.2 Associations 00:23:46 5.3 Music festivals 00:24:36 5.4 Archimedean Oath 00:26:07 6 EPFL Alumni network 00:28:30 7 Scientific partners 00:31:31 8 Organization 00:36:01 9 Notable affiliates 00:36:11 9.1 Presidents 00:37:04 9.2 Professors 00:37:13 9.3 Alumni 00:39:06 9.4 Doctorates ihonoris causa/i 00:39:22 10 Gallery 00:39:31 10.1 Buildings and campus 00:39:41 10.2 Projects and partnerships 00:40:25 11 See also 00:40:59 12 Notes and references 00:41:09 13 Bibliography 00:42:43 14 External links Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8532360136646331 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering. It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and it has three main missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.EPFL is widely regarded as a world leading university. The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 12th in the world across all fields in their 2017/2018 ranking, whilst Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks EPFL as the world's 11th best school for Engineering and Technology.EPFL is located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland; the sister institution in the German-speaking part of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two universities form the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain), which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. In connection with research and teaching activities, EPFL operates a nuclear reactor CROCUS, a Tokamak Fusion reactor, a Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer and P3 bio-hazard facilities.