News: MAE

Office hours will be offered with Professor Elizabeth Fisher via zoom the week of May 11-15. Prof. Fisher will hold office hours to answer your questions about affiliation, course selection, S/U grading, dropping courses, or whatever else is on your mind about the undergraduate program. Once you click on the zoom link, you will be connected with a waiting room and will be admitted from the waiting room when someone is available to see you. Please email Prof. Fisher ( emf4@cornell.edu) if you are in the waiting room for more than 20 minutes without attention, or if you need to arrange for a... Read more

Local volunteer groups, one led by Prof. Andy Ruina, have hand-sewn more than 1,400 cloth masks for New York farmworkers. Read more

Cornell's entry into the Solar District Cup won third place in their section of the national competition. The Solar District Cup is organized by the U.S. Department of Energy and aims to engage students in engineering, urban planning, finance, and related disciplines to reimagine how energy is generated, managed, and used in a district. The Cornell Solar District Club Team is put together by Cornell Energy Systems Club and is advised by Matt Ulinski, Master of Engineering Program Director in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The team is led by Shivanie Rambaran (MAE)... Read more

Halo Labs just raised $12M in Series B Financing. The company was co-founded by S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School, David Erickson, and former MAE Ph.D. student, Bernardo Cordovez who worked in Erickson's lab. Erickson was a chairman at Halo Labs until 2018. Halo Labs analyzes particles to allow their customers to better their biopharmaceutical products. The company provides researchers with unprecedented insights into the particles present in their processes by leveraging its core scientific competency: optical imaging on membranes. Read more

A collaboration between Sibley School Professor, Meredith Silberstein, Cornell University Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and the College of Wooster produced a new plastic that can degrade on a realistic time scale if lost in an aquatic environment. Read more

Rajesh Bhaskaran, Swanson Director of Engineering Simulation in the Sibley School, has seen increased enrollment in his free EdX online course called "A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering Simulations" since the COVID-19 pandemic. “The computer can be a great learning platform and teaching platform, and I was interested in experimenting with that,” said Bhaskaran. Read more

Akane Wakai, a Ph.D. student working in Assistant Professor Atieh Moridi’s group, recently won a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Grant. She will be working on 3D printing of high entropy alloys. Her research project seeks to combine the advantages of the unique characteristics of high entropy alloys and the additive manufacturing process to push the limits of materials. This program funded by NASA, seeks to sponsor graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for the Nation’s science, exploration and... Read more

Carolyn Barrera CEE ‘20 is one of eight people selected to join Siemens Gamesa as an engineer specializing in wind engineering after graduation. Siemens Gamesa is a leader in the renewable energy industry, working to provide the world's best offshore and onshore wind turbines and services. Carolyn has been a member of Professor Barthelmie’s Wind Energy Lab for over 2 years, working on wind turbine blade leading edge erosion. Barrera has also taken both of Barthelmie’s wind courses; MAE4020 Wind Power and MAE4120 Community Wind Energy Research. “I’ve learnt almost everything I know about wind... Read more

Cornell University and the Sibley School had a smooth start to virtual instruction last week after weeks of preparation from faculty and staff. Check the full article with comments from Sibley lecturer, Ben Finio. Read more

Meinig School faculty Marjolein van der Meulen, Christopher Hernandez, and Karl Lewis contributors on ORS editorial on "The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in orthopedic research." Read more