News: MAE

Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team first place in the 15th International RoboSub Competition, also winning a prize for technical merit. Read more

At approximately 1:30 a.m. on August 6, 2012, more than 200 people viewed the historic landing of the Mobile Science Lab Curiosity on the planet Mars, at Cornell University’s Uris Hall via live feed from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA. Read more

Using theoretical modeling, researchers have uncovered clues to the physical laws that govern how snow avalanches start, grow and move. Read more

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