News: MAE

GPS researchers got to test their latest protections against GPS spoofing during a Department of Homeland Security-sponsored demonstration last month in a remote area of New Mexico. Read more

David Caughey, Emeritus Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cornell University, points out that the blended wing shaped aircraft is more energy efficient. Read more

CUAir, Cornell University's Unmanned Air Systems Team, took second place at the 2012 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's Student Unmanned Air Systems competition in June. Read more

A team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Cornell's College of Engineering in Ithaca has built the chip into a device that captures an unprecedentedly high concentration of rare cancer cells. Read more

Professor Mark Campbell and his students won the AIAA Best Paper from the 2011 Guidance Navigation and Control Conference. The paper was entitled "Decentralized Information-Rich Planning and Hybrid Sensor Fusion for Uncertainty Reduction in Human-Robot Missions". The work was led by Dr. Nisar Ahmed (PhD ME 2011) and was conducted in collaboration with Professor Jonathan How's research group at MIT. Read more

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer visited campus June 18 with some welcome news: Cornell's world-renowned synchrotron X-ray facility will continue being funded. Read more

Cornell researchers have taught robots to imagine where humans might stand, sit or work in a room, and place objects where they are likely to be used. Read more

Mars scientist Steve Squyres is serving on the crew of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, a two-week undersea training mission off the Florida Keys. Read more

The award is presented for outstanding technical contributions to aeronautical or astronautical combustion engineering. Read more

This new, microfluidic device allows doctors to monitor drug response at the cellular level, in real time, in order to tailor cancer therapies to the individual. Read more