Hadas Ritz, senior lecturer in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and faculty teaching fellow in the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute, won the 2021 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) National Outstanding Teaching Award. Read more
David Erickson, S.C. Thomas Sze Director of Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was elected a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Read more
A collaboration, led by Christopher Hernandez, professor in the Sibley School, has been awarded a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the ways that the gut microbiome – that mass of microorganisms inside us all – impacts bone quality. Read more
Hadas Kress-Gazit was elected the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor. Read more
Dmitry Savransky will be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective July 1st, 2021. Since joining Cornell, Savransky has made significant contributions to the development of simulation, analysis, and prediction tools to enable high yield remote sensing from the ground and space - uniquely synthesizing applied physics, estimation, control and computational data analysis techniques for space missions. One of Savransky's more broadly recognized contributions is the development of EXOSIMS, a software framework for the analysis of exoplanet imaging space missions. Savransky seamlessly... Read more
A first-of-its-kind study examining the thermal transport properties of a novel material is helping steer the future of hybrid perovskites – with applications for improving solar cells, LED lights, etc. The study is led by Associate Professor Zhiting Tian. Read more
Cornell University is partnering with software company Ansys to create a new certificate program that allows engineers from across the world to master simulation of fluid dynamics. The courses were developed by Rajesh Bhaskaran, the Swanson Director of Engineering Simulation in the Sibley School. Read more
Max Zhang, professor in the Sibley School, is leading a Cornell China Center-funded project team to develop a cost-effective air-quality system for Chinese cities. Read more
Graduate students in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering hosted the virtual Sibley Graduate Research Symposium (SGRS) on Friday, April 30 th, 2021. The student-developed event featured a keynote talk from Nicole Sharp ‘09, a science communicator that specializes in fluid dynamics and student talks on a range of topics from sustainable energy, to human-robot interaction, to spacecraft engineering. The new virtual format was a huge success thanks to the SGRS committee which included Kalani Danas Rivera, president, Sean Kim, corporate liaison, Kasey Laurent, marketing... Read more
