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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

BrainLander, a Cornell BME M.Eng. project team is working with physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine. These BME and MAE M.Eng. students are developing a better way to get brain samples and time stamps for patients with glioblastoma tumors. Read more

To address the challenge of managing soft robots' internal temperature, Associate Professor Rob Shepherd and his team took inspiration from our own natural cooling system: sweating. Read more

Professor Sara Pryor (EAS) and Professor Rebecca Barthelmie (MAE) published an article last week showing that the current Department of Energy goals for wind energy (20% of electricity in 2030) are both feasible and will have almost undetectable impacts on local meteorology. The article published in Nature Scientific Reports is based on an extensive series of high-resolution simulations funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Read more

CubeSats are a nanosatellite developed at the Space Systems Design Studio at Cornell. This cutting-edge project may provide a path toward sustainable exploration of space, says Mason Peck, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who directs the space systems lab. Learn more about the work Professor Mason Peck is doing with nanosatellites. Read more

Just published! Read the latest news in the online version of our 2019 MAE Magazine. Read more

Dmitry Savransky, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a co-investigator on a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at the discovery of relatively young, large exoplanets. Read more

Cornell Engineering has a long history with GE Aviation, most recently Sophia Norwood M.E. ’21 is completing her Co-op at their facility outside of Boston, MA. Sophia, junior in the Sibley School, has been able to apply skills she developed in MAE courses and her experience as a member of the Resistance Racing project team directly to her Co-op at GE Aviation. During her 16-week Co-op experience, she has been working on a project to move the center of gravity on an engine that doesn’t yet exist. Everyone in Mechanical Preliminary Design, the department in which Sophia works, was tasked with... Read more