News: MAE

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Ph.D. candidate of the Erickson Group in the Sibley School, received the MKS Instruments Research Excellence Award at SPIE Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA, Feb. 4. The award also includes an SPIE Student Author Grant in the amount of $500. Elvis presented two papers in two sessions at SPIE Photonics West OPTO, the optoelectronics, photonic materials and devices conference: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XIX; Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIV. SPIE Photonics West is the world's largest photonics technologies event. Over 22,000 people... Read more

A former MAE Professor, Raffaello D'Andrea and Ph.D. student, Pawan Goenka were recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The National Academy of Engineering is the major national body for members who have made a significant impact in Engineering The mission of the National Academy of Engineering is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshaling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. Professor... Read more

A recent article titled "Making connections: Microbiome research at Cornell" details the collaboration between #cornellmae and Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering Professors Christopher Hernandez, Ankur Singh and Ilana Brito to understand the human microbiome. Read more

The four faculty teams that received funding support through the President’s Visioning Committee on Cornell in New York City have conducted cross-campus workshops, hosted interdisciplinary talks and expanded their outreach. Read more

Herb Voelcker, professor emeritus of in the Sibley School and a pioneer in solid modeling, the technology that enabled early computer-aided design (CAD), died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 90. Voelcker joined the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as the Charles W. Lake Jr. Professor of Engineering in 1986. By then, Voelcker had taught electrical engineering at the University of Rochester for 24 years, worked for the National Science Foundation, served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and, as a member of the U.S. Army Rifle team, competed in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne... Read more

The College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows program is now open to all junior STEM majors and is under new leadership. Read more

The United States could generate 20% of its electricity via wind energy within 10 years according to new Cornell research. Read more

Assistant Professor Atieh Moridi will be a guest editor of Coating’s journal special issue on “Novel Materials and Processes for Metal additive manufacturing.” The goal of the Special Issue is to highlight research on two frontiers. The first one concerns the materials used in additive manufacturing. Conventional alloys are not optimized for AM process and they often lead to inferior properties of cast or wrought alloys. However, the intrinsic properties of AM (i.e., rapid solidification, melt pool dynamic, cyclic heat treatment) can provide a unique opportunity to design novel materials. The... Read more

David Erickson, Sibley College Professor and the SC Thomas Sze Director of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), has announced the formation of the Sibley School Advisory Council after a more-than-twenty year absence. “This is an idea that has been percolating for a long time,” says Erickson. “A key part of our mission as New York’s land grant institution is to contribute meaningfully to the common good. Ensuring that we are truly impacting the common good requires us to engage beyond the academy. Most of our graduates go on to work in industry—and industry is... Read more