Case Challenge

The Case Study Challenge allows student teams, supported by ETH faculty, to explore real-world, risk-related cases and develop solutions.

Students apply their knowledge, logic, creativity, and problem-solving skills to solving cases with an emphasis on evidence and applications. Typically, the cases are complex, contain ambiguities, and may be addressed in more than one way. They bring together students from different departments, allowing them to experience interdisciplinary cooperation.

The course is worth 3 ECTS credits and is offered as an elective in the ETH MTEC curriculum as well as in other ETH MSc Programs. It is open to MSc and MAS Students from D-MTEC and from other ETH Departments.

Students work in groups of 4 under the supervision of a Case Manager at the corporate partner's.

Examples from past challenges

Forward looking market indicator: The goal of the case is to build a robust predictor for economic developments to identify the downside (when it will drop).
Fake News Index: The goal of the case is the identification and scoring of fake news activity. The focus should be on extremist or populistic social movements.
Quantitative Models Expert Judgement: The goal of this case is to develop solutions to incorporate expert judgement on quantitative calibrations potentially at different stages of the process regarding model development as well as model usage.
Deep Portfolio Optimization: The goal is to search for optimal trading strategies leveraging techniques from machine learning

Past Partners

Credit Suisse, Zurich Insurance, Swiss Re