Thursday, November 19, 2009
Student Awards presented at Commencement 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
MAE Website Re-design - Take this survey and let us know what you want.

The MAE website is in the midst of a re-design.  Help us improve the site and make sure we give you what you want - take this short survey.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009
MAE Newsletter - Fall 2009

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Miller Group Featured on cover of this years CHESS Magazine

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Team Cornell among 10 Finalists for the MAGIC 2010 Competition

Team Cornell, made up of undergraduates, M.Eng. students, and Ph.D. students in MAE, ECE, and CS and advised by Assoc. Prof. Mark Campbell and Asst Prof. Hadas Kress-Gazit, MAE, has been named among 10 finalists (plus two semi-finalists) for the MAGIC 2010 competition. The Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge is jointly sponsored by the Australian and US Departments of Defense to attract innovative proposals from worldwide research organizations to develop next-generation full...

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Auto X Team Gets Green Light

The Cornell Auto X student team is competing to develop a viable, production-capable vehicles that exceeds 100 miles per gallon or the equivalent efficiency. They have just passed a vehicle design phase which eliminated about half the entries, leaving 43 teams to complete. Congratulations to the team. Keep up the good work! For details and updates about the Cornell team, visit their website at http://www.cornellaxp.com/

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
MAE - Skynet gets new 3 year NSF Grant to improve AI

MAE's DARPA/SKYNET Project has been selected to receive a three-ye...

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Prof. Healey wins College teaching prize

Professor Tim Healey, is the 2009 recipient of the Dorothy and Fred Chau MS'74 Teaching Award in the College of Engineering.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Prof. Strogatz wins College teaching prize

Professor Steve Strogatz, received the John Swanson '61 ME, in honor of his mother Dorothy G. Swanson, Teaching Award, College of Engineering.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Prof. Wang promoted

Professor Z. Jane Wang is promoted to Full Professor, from Associate, July 1, 2009. Congratulations, Jane.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Prof. Zabaras wins College teaching prize

Professor Nicholas Zabaras, won the Michael Tien '72 Teaching Prize in the College of Engineering.

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Friday, September 25, 2009
Prof. Peck received Merrill Scholar recognition

Professor Mason, was chosen by Merrill Scholar winner Luis P. Tosi as the Cornell faculty who most significantly contributed to Luis' college experience. ...

Friday, September 25, 2009
Prof. Williamson received Merrill Scholar recognition

Professor Charles Williamson, was selected by Merrill Scholar winner Joshua Z. Ng for his contributions to Jason's college experience.

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Monday, September 21, 2009
Mekala Krishnan Awarded 2009 Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award

Congratulations to Mekala Kirshnan who was awarded the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facilities "Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award" for 2009. The award is given to an outstanding female graduate student working at the CNF who displays the same enthusiasm and commitment to professionalism. Mekala's work is on microfluidic programmable matter working in the Read more...

Monday, August 24, 2009
Miller, Bernier, Park, Pilchak, Glavicic Receive 2009 ASM Howe Medal

Professor Matt Miller, along with lead author Joel Bernier and Co-Auth...

Monday, August 03, 2009
CUAUV Team Wins 12th International Competition

The Cornell Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team (CUAUV) won the 12th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition held at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego. The competition involves the autonomous completion of a series of tasks such as pipe following, homing in on an acoustic signal, visual recognition of targets, ...

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Prof. Lipson featured in Forbes interview

Professor Hod Lipson, whose research focus is automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines, is featured in an intervie...

Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Prof. Campbell takes part in NSF Research Expo for US Senators

Professor Mark Campbell, Associate Director for Graduate Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering, will ...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Prof. Pope awarded 2009 APS Fluid Dynamics Prize

Professor Stephen Pope, the Sibley College Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is the reci...

Thursday, June 18, 2009
Prof. Erickson invited to the NAE Frontiers in Engineering Symposium

Professor David Erickson was selected to participate in the upcoming U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium.

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Friday, June 05, 2009
Prof. van der Meulen elected Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor Marjolein van der Meulen was elected Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering by the Board of Trustees.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Prof. Pope begins $1.25M collaboration with Princeton EFRC

Professor Stephen Pope, the Sibley College Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will partic...

Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Prof. Pope selected Fellow of SIAM

Professor Stephen Pope has been been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied ...

Monday, May 04, 2009
Babalola and Galley win student awards

Conratulations to Tunde Babalola and Natalie Galley for their recent awards at the DPE annual awards banquet.  Diversity Programs in Engineering's (DPE) Annual Awards Banquet honors the academic success of students and acknowledges the students and faculty who are making a difference within the college. Award recipients are selected by the number of nominations received in conjunction with qualitative exampl...

Friday, May 01, 2009
Prof. Garcia to serve on National Academies Panel on Air and Ground Tech

Professor Ephrahim Garcia has been named to serve on the Read more...

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Avedisian appointed a Science Fellow at Department of Energy

Professor C. Thomas Avedisian was named a Science Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, tenable at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. for 2008/2009.

Professor Avedisian has assisted with developing directions and providing advice at the Department of Energy, for a range of programs including fuels technologies, biomass, advanced combustion engines, and solid state energy conversion.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Erickson wins 2009 NSF CAREER award

Professor David Erickson has won a 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work on "Optofluidics - Fusing Microfluidics with Photonics". The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. The grant will allow Professor Erickson to perform a series of fundamental studies aimed at: (1) Developing a new...

Friday, April 10, 2009
Cornell students and alumna win graduate fellowships

Congratulations to Alex Barbati (ME), Casey Kraning (BME), Emily Leylek (ME B.S. '08), Sean Moore (ME), and Erica Pratt (BME), who recently received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!  Congratulations also to Jason Hardy (ME), who was recently awarded with an NDSEG fellowship.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009
LIMS Group wins 1st place at AIAA NE Regional Conference

From left to right: Jon Malay (AIAA Region I Deputy Director), Jeff Hudson, Collin Webber, Parker Evans, Al Sacco, Jr. (Astronaut and keynote speaker)

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Monday, April 06, 2009
Lipson and Schmidt create "Robotic Scientist", discovers scientific laws

Michael Schmidt and Hod Lipson examine the Double Pendulum used in these experiments.

PhD student Michael Schmidt and Professor Hod Lipson have developed a system for teasing out s...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Mason Peck wins teaching award

Mason Peck is this year's winner of the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award. The winner is chosen each year by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and presented the award at the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association annual luncheon. Congratulations, Mason!

Friday, March 20, 2009
B.S., M.E. Students Ng and Tosi, recipients of the 2009 Merrill Award

 Zi Jie Joshua Ng, B.S., M.E. '09, Luis Phillipe Tosi, B.E., M.E., '09 are recipients of the 2009 Merrill Presidential Scholars award. 

Merrill Presidential Scholars are chosen from a pool of graduating students who are in the top 5% of their class (within their major) and who also have demonstrated leadership ability, community involvement and the potential for continued contributions to society....

Friday, February 13, 2009
John Swanson ME '61, elected to National Academy of Engineering

John Swanson (ME '61) is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Election was made for development of general-purpose finite-element software used in engineering design worldwide. John is president of ANSYS (Swanson Analysis Services, Inc.) He is well known for his contributions to the department in the form of an endowed faculty position, the Swanson Lab for Computing in the Curriculum, and student team support. John's and his wife, Janet's generosity goes beyond MAE to e...

Friday, December 19, 2008
Prof Garcia appointed to the U.S. D.H.S.

Professor Ephrahim Garcia has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Scientist with the U.S. Department of Homeland S...

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Bonassar named Fellow by AIMBE

Professor Larry Bonassar was named Fellow of the American Institute for Medical Biological Engineering, for contributions in understanding cartilage as a biomaterial, its function and repair, and engineering of cartilaginous tissues with clinical viability. The AIMBE College of Fellows consists of 1,000 individuals who are the outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry and government. All nominees must have a record of exceptional achievement in research, development, education, manufactur...

Thursday, November 20, 2008
George named Fellow by SAE

Professor Al George was awarded Fellow in the Society of Automobile Engineers. Awards to Fellow are made to those who have made notable achievements and contributions in engineering, science or technology, engineering leadership, or engineering education. Accomplishments are judged by a combination of cited contributions to mobility engineering leadership, publications, patents, honor and awards, as well as service to SAE and to the engineering community.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Lipson wins teaching award

Hod Lipson has won the "Interfraternity and Hellenic Teaching Award" in the College of Engineering. Faculty from each of the seven colleges at Cornell are nominated by students, in recognition of their support of the Cornell Greek Community.

Friday, November 14, 2008
Marcia Sawyer recognized for dedicated service

Marcia Sawyer, graduate office coordinator in MAE, received the George W. Peter Award. The award is given to Cornell staff members who consistently demonstrate a high degree of excellence in the performance of their duties and who go above and beyond the normal expectations of their job responsibilities. Recipients are nominated by peers and selected by the Communications Committee of the Employee Assembly.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Williamson named Carrier Chair

Professor Charles Williamson has been granted the Willis H.Carrier Professor of Engineering in the Sibley School. The Carrier chair was established in honor of the late Willis H. Carrier, ME' 1901, a former University trustee and the founder of the Carrier Corporation. Professor Williamson is the third Carrier Professor, following John Lumley and Donald Bartel.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Bhaskar Garg wins Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship

Bhaskar Garg, B.S., M.E. '10, is one of two Engineering students, who has been awarded  the 2008-2009 Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship.  The award has been established to recognize students who have contributed to the college through academic achievements and leadership.

Monday, August 11, 2008
Caughey and Kirby win teaching awards

Professors Kirby and Caughey were recently announced as the recipients of the 2008 Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Excellence in Teaching Award and the Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Award, respectively.  Presentations will be made at the Teaching Awards Luncheon in Willard Straight Hall on November 3, 2008.

Monday, August 11, 2008
Pope is awarded the Zeldovich Gold Medal

Professor Stephen Pope received the 2008 Zeldovich Gold Medal winner for "outstanding contributions to the theory of combustion". The Medal is awarded bi-annually by the Combustion Institute at its International Symposium. For more on the Combustion Institute and a list of Zeldovich Gold Medal recipients visit the url below.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Prof. Psiaki wins AIAA Best Paper Award at 2007 GNC Conference

Prof. Mark Psiaki's technical paper entitled "Absolute Orbit and Gravity Determination Using Relative Position Measurements Between Two Satellites" AIAA Paper 2007-6661 has been named the AIAA Best Paper from the 2007 Guidance Navigation and Control Conference by the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Professor Kirby selected for 2008 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Professor Brian Kirby has recently been selected by the National Academy of Engineers to participate in the 2008 NAE Frontiers in Engineering Symposium in September 2008 at the University of New Mexico. According to the NAE, the 2½-day event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. NAE President Charles M. Vest states that "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings some of the country's ...

Sunday, June 01, 2008
Student Awards presented at Commencement 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Garcia, Lipson, Peck & Williamson named Merrill Educators

Ephrahim Garcia, Hod Lipson, Mason Peck, and Charles Williamson were each recognized as outstanding educators for having served as the key influential faculty for a Merrill presidential Scholar in 2008. Each spring semester, 36 undergraduate scholars, representing approximately 1 percent of the graduating class, are named to receive this honor. The scholars, in turn, recognize a high school teacher who most inspired their scholastic development and a Cornell faculty member who most significantly...

Friday, May 02, 2008
Leibovich named CCSF Associate Director

Sidney Leibovich, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named one of three Associate Directors in the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF). Sid's expertise is in fluid dynamics & mechanics. He will direct the center's energy program. The other two A...

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Thursday, April 10, 2008 Lipson wins Distinguished Scholarship Award Professor Hod Lipson received a Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, for his outstanding and distinguished research in the area of evolutionary computation and robotics. Provost Awards are given in recognition of "distinguished research by outstanding tenured faculty early in their careers.”

Friday, February 22, 2008 James Miller, Ph.D. Aero '74, elected to NAE James Miller, Ph.D. Aero, Cornell University ‘74, is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Election was made for Dr. Miller’s research on the theory and modeling of combustion chemistry that has led to universally applied codes for combustion modeling. Dr. Miller is currently a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professio...

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Collaborative Air Quality Study featured in WSYR TV News The construction of a 150 foot high equipment tower to hold equipment for the Syracuse Air Quality Study was featured in a news story by WSYR NewsChannel 9 on February 4, 2008. The study is conducted by a team of collaborators including Assistant Professor Max Zhang and Cornell graduate student Xing Wang, along with researchers from Syracuse University, Clarkson, and SUNY-ESF. Max Zhang and Xing Wang are monitoring traffic, estimating vehicle emissions from Highway I-81 and I-690, and linking ou...

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Thursday, January 17, 2008 Al George named 2007 Weiss Presidential Fellow Professor Al George has been awarded a 2007 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for excellence in teaching and advising undergraduate students, and outstanding efforts to improve instruction at Cornell. The award is named for Stephen H. Weiss '57, emeritus chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, who endowed the program.. It carries a monetary award of $5,000 per year for five years. Al George is one of three 2007 awardees. Professors Ross Brann, Judeo-Islamic Studies and David Winkler, ...

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Prof Garcia named Editor-in-Chief of Smart Materials & Structures Journal Cornell Professor Ephrahim Garcia has been named Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Physics’ Smart Materials and Structures Journal Read more...   Wednesday, November 28, 2007 van der Meulen elected Fellow of AIMBE Marjolein van der Meulen has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Election to AIMBE is based on “exceptional contributions to medical and biological engineering.” The Fellows of AIMBE represent “the top two percent of the medical and biological engineering community.” See http://www.mae.cornell.edu/index.cfm/page/res/highlights/vandermeulen.htm for more information.   Saturday, November 03, 2007 Cornell one of 6 teams to complete DARPA Urban Challenge Team Cornell has finished in the top 6 of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge out of an initial field of 200 competitors.   Read more...   Thursday, November 01, 2007 Prof Kirby receives Presidential award in White House ceremony On November 1st, Assistant Professor Brian Kirby received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in ceremonies at the White House and at the Department of Energy.  According to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, the PECASE award is based on "a combination of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and community service demonstrated through scientific leadership and community outreach"... Read more...   Thursday, October 25, 2007 Prof Miller receives promotion Matthew Miller has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor effective November 1, 2007. Congratulations, Matt. We look forward to your continued success.   Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Prof Avedisian Awarded the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award Professor Thomas Avedisian received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Chicago on November 7, 2006.  The Award is given for outstanding contributions to the science or art of heat transfer through research, practice, design, or a combination of such activities.  Professor Avedisian was cited for his research on multiphase processes involving droplets, bubbles, combustion, and flu... Read more...   Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Prof Voelcker awarded Prix Bezier from International Solid Modeling Society Professor Emeritus Herb Voelcker received Prix Bezier from the International Solid Modeling Society at the Society's annual meeting, Beijing, China, in June of this year. Citing the establishment of sound theoretical foundations for solid modeling, and specifically algorithms for regularized Boolean composition of solids, the Bezier Prize is named for Pierre Bezier, who made fundamental contributions to mathematical surface modeling during a 40-year career with Automobiles Renault. Congratulatio... Read more...   Monday, June 25, 2007 SiGMA presents Prof van der Meulen Extraordinary Service Award SiGMA, the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Organization, presented Professor Marjolein van der Meulen with an Read more...   Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Awards Presented to Outstanding Students at 2007 Commencement Congratulations to the following students who were presented with awards at the 2007 M&AE Commencement Ceremony. Bolgiano Outstanding TA Paolo Luzzatto Fegiz ... Read more...   Wednesday, June 20, 2007 PhD Candidate Galley Awarded Research Fellowship from the Quebec Foundation Natalie Galley, has been awarded a doctoral research fellowship from the Quebec Foundation for Scientific and Technological Research.  Galley, who entered the PhD program in Fall 2006, is an advisee of Prof. Lawrence Bonassar in the biomechanics field.  She received her B.S. from McGill Univer... Read more...   Monday, June 18, 2007 Cornell Baja SAE Achieves 6th place for Design, 11th Overall Cornell Baja SAE team finished 11th in the 2007 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge - June 7-10, 2007.         &nbs... Read more...   Tuesday, June 05, 2007 Prof Emeritus K. K. Wang receives award from Society of Plastics Engineers Professor Emeritus K. K. Wang was recently honored at the Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. K.K. was presented with the Award of Recognition at the banquet, and two of the sessions were dedicated in his honor for his many years of contributions to the society and the field.   Friday, May 18, 2007 Prof Pope named Fellow of the Royal Society Professor Stephen Pope was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.  Of 44 fellows elected this year, only 6 were engineers.  The Royal Society is the national academy of the UK.  The selection process is extremely rigorous and only a handful among the very best scientists are elected.  This is the highest distinction for mathematicians, scientists and engineers within the UK system. Read more...   Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Prof Warhaft to receive Cook Award Prof. Zellman Warhaft, MAE and associate dean for diversity programs, has been chosen by Cornell's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women to receive a 2007 Cook Award. The Cook Awards honor students, faculty, and staff members for their commitment to women's issues and for improving the climate for women at Cornell. The awards are named in honor of Constance E. Cook, Cornell's first woman vice president, and the late Professor Emerita Alic... Read more...   Wednesday, March 28, 2007 CUSat Team Beats Other Universities, Wins Free Launch for Satellites The CUSat team has won the free spacecraft-launch opportunity offered by the University Nanosatellite Program by fielding the best-conceived, best-designed, and best-built satellite from among the other universities in the competition. The team designed and built the first of a pair of 20 kg satellites that will demonstrate how one satellite can inspect another in orbit. The satellites use relative GPS for sub-centimeter precision relative navigation and differential GPS for attitude determinati... Read more...   Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Desai M.Eng. '07 named Luce Scholar Sachin Desai, M.Eng. '07, has been named a Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation.  He is the first engineering student from Cornell to win this award. The Luce Scholars Program provides stipends and internships for 18 young Americans to live and work in Asia for a year. Dating from 1974, the program's purpose is to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society.  Luce Sc... Read more...   Saturday, December 23, 2006 Moon to receive the 2007 Lyapunov Award The Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics and the ASME Design Engineering Division have selected Professor Frank Moon as the winner of the 2007 Lyapunov Award.  This award is given by MSND and the Design Engineering Division to recognize an ndividual for his/her life time contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics.  This award will be presented at the luncheon of the Sixth ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear D... Read more...   Thursday, November 30, 2006 Williamson named Professor of the Year Charles Williamson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, expert in fluid dynamics, and a popular Cornell teacher, has been named New York State's top professor by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Williamson received the New York State Professor of the Year award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, along with winners from 42 other states, the District of Columbia and Guam. See http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov06/williamson.prof.of.year.aj.htm for more information.   Tuesday, August 08, 2006 D'Andrea receives Provost's Award Professor Raffaello D'Andrea was granted a Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, for outstanding and distinguished research in the area of systems and automation.   Tuesday, August 08, 2006 Miller, Bonassar, George, Peck receive 2006 Advising/Teaching Awards Four MAE faculty received awards from the College of Engineering for the 2005-06 academic year. They are: Matthew Miller, the James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Award for outstanding advising of first-year engineering students; Lawrence Bonassar, the Ralph S. Watts '72 Excellence in Teaching award; Albert George, the KennethA. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching award; and Mason Peck, the Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching award. Congratulations MAE faculty!   Thursday, July 20, 2006 Cornell receives top ranks in nanotechnology Excerpt from the Cornell Chronicle: In a series of rankings of university nanotechnology programs by Small Times, a trade magazine devoted to nanotechnology, Cornell ranked in the top 10 in eight out of nine categories, and in the top five in six categories, leading all universities overall. Small Times sent questionnaires to 100 universities, and 50 responded. They asked universities to rate their peers and to report data about their own programs. In peer rankings, Cornell w... Read more...   Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Peck Receives NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Award Professor Mason Peck has received one of the small number of grants awarded this year by NIAC for revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions. The one-year grant will fund a study of in-orbit assembly of modular spacecraft with non-contacting, flux-pinned interfaces. The idea is to exploit the unusual physics of superconductors, which can hold onto magnetic fields, to create assemblies of spacecraft components that hover... Read more...   Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Psiaki wins AIAA Guidance/Navigation/Control Best Paper Award "Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of GPS Carrier Phase For Spacecraft Navigation", authored by Professor Mark Psiaki and graduate student Shan Mohiuddin has received the distinction Best Paper from the 2005 Guidance Navigation and Control Conference by the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee.   Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Psiaki promoted to Professor Mark Psiaki has been promoted to full Professor, from Associate Professor, effective April 1, 2006. Congratulations, Mark!   Thursday, April 13, 2006 Zabaras named ASME Fellow The Fellow grade recognizes significant engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession, and are chosen after nomination by a peer and review and selection by a committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Those named Fellow also receive a pin and certificate.   Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Garcia awarded Shepherd Teaching prize Ephrahim Garcia has been awarded the Dennis G. Shepherd Teaching Prize in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. This award is made in memory of Dennis Shepherd, and funded through the generosity of his family.   Wednesday, April 12, 2006 van der Meulen receives Alice H. and Constance E. Cook Award Marjolein van der Meulen is among the Alice H. Cook and Constance E. Cook awardees for 2006. The award is made to individuals who have made significant contributions to changing the climate for women at Cornell University.   Friday, March 31, 2006 Psiaki wins 2006 Burka Award Professor Mark Psiaki has been selected to receive the 2006 Burka Award. The award is in recognition of the best technical article having appeared in NAVIGATION, The Journal of The Institute of Navigation in the last year. Professor Psiaki's winning paper is titled, "A Comparison of Direct Radio Frequency Sampling and Conventional GNSS Receiver Architectures" , Vol. 52. This award (a cash prize and certificate) will be presented at the IEEE/ION PLANS Meeting taking place April 25-27, 2006, in Sa... Read more...   Monday, February 20, 2006 Marjolein van der Meulen featured "Changing Our World: True Stories of Marjolein van der Meulen is featured in "Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers," real-life stories of women engineers and their contributions to every aspect of modern life. The National Press Club in Washington, DC, is celebrating publication of the book at a reception Tuesday, February 21, 2006 during National Engineers Week in Washington. National Engineners Week is sponsored in 2006 by the Society of Women Engineers. The book inspired the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project w... Read more...   Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Sibley School Announces Faculty Searches The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has recently announced open faculty positions: See http://www.mae.cornell.edu/index.cfm/page/ql/search.htm for more information.   Saturday, November 05, 2005 Francisco Valero-Cuevas Francisco Valero-Cuevas Ph.D., has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. The promotion is effective November 1, 2005. Congratulations, Francisco! Read all about Francisco's activities at http://www.mae.cornell.edu/valero/   Friday, June 17, 2005 Valero-Cuevas chosen for NIH study section Assistant Professor Francisco Valero-Cuevas will serve a four-year term as a member of the Motor Function, Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, of the National Institutes of Health. Valero-Cuevas was nominated for his demonstrated competence and achievement in his scientific discipline.   Friday, June 17, 2005 Valero-Cuevas receives Humboldt Fellowship Professor Francisco Valero-Cuevas is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his sabbatical research. He plans first to take an intensive German language course at the Boethe-Institut in Munich, then will spend the remainder of time at the Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences in Munich in 2005-06.   Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Caughey Receives Honory Professorship at University of Wales Professor David Caughey, M&AE received an appointment as Honorary Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea.  This is a five-year appointment effective April 2005.   Friday, April 15, 2005 Moon Named Engineer of the Year by NYSSPE Professor Frank Moon has been named Engineer of the Year by the New York State Society of professional Engineers, Broome Area Chapter.  The award is given in recognition of professional achievement, support and activity in the organization, service to the profession and community, technical expertise, and support for students and young engineers. &nbs... Read more...   Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Kirby Wins Watson Award Assistant Professor Brian Kirby was awarded a J.D. Watson Young Investigator Award by the New York office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research.  The award recognizes young faculty working in the life sciences with potential for impact on the New York State biotechnology industry.  The award is accompanied by a two-year, $200,000 research grant focused on development of microfluidic devices for miniaturized protein analysis and combinatorial exploration of protein refol... Read more...   Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Pope Elected Vice Chair of APS/DFD Professor Steve Pope, MAE, been elected vice chair of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS/DFD). In subsequent years he will serve as chair-elect and then chair of the division. The APS/DFD is the principal professional organization for physicists and engineers working in the field of fluid dynamics.   Monday, November 01, 2004 Collins Receives Teaching Award In November 2004, Professor <A class="" href="page/fac/collins.htm" target="">Lance Collins</A> received the Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award from the Cornell College of Engineering.