News: MAE

Washington Monthly's ranking of America’s Best Colleges for Women in STEM places the college high in every engineering category. Read more

Researchers studying artificial intelligence training data and treatment of swelling linked to breast cancer are among the eight Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more

Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals. Read more

M.Eng. students took a course assignment to the next level, competing in the ASABE Robotics Student Design Competition in Anaheim, California. Read more

Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement. Read more

Hadas Kress-Gazit, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named the next associate dean for diversity and academic affairs for Cornell Engineering. Read more

A motion simulator, collision avoidance system, and cybersecurity test for spacecraft are among the projects supported by inaugural grants from the Cornell-led New York Consortium for Space Technology Innovation and Development. Read more

At a May 24 ceremony in Statler Auditorium, 21 graduating members of the Tri-Service Brigade received commissions as officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Space Force. Read more

“Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 recalled the state of mechanical engineering when he was a student, and looked ahead to the field’s future at “Sibley 150,” a celebration of 150 years of mechanical engineering at Cornell. Read more

Erickson, who assumed the directorship in 2019, will serve a two-year term that begins on July 1, 2024. Read more