Cornell University traces its origins to the vision of an entrepreneur and an educational innovator, Ezra Cornell and Andrew D. White, who saw the opportunity to create a new kind of university for America. Today, Cornell continues this legacy by integrating entrepreneurial teaching and learning into all aspects of the university experience.
As an active participant in the university-wide Entrepreneurship@Cornell program, the College of Engineering has a wide range of courses, events, and experiential learning activities designed to help students begin their journey of business creation and success in any engineering discipline.
Courses And check out the myriad of entrepreneurship-related courses available across the rest of the Cornell curriculum.
Engineering Management Minor
The Engineering Management Minor focuses on giving engineering students a basic understanding of the economics, accounts, and project management tools necessary to manage any technical operation or project successfully.
Students put their innovation and project management skills to the test in a variety of teams focused on cutting edge technology and practice. A sampling of groups are listed below. For a complete list, visit the
teams page - The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team is a multidisciplinary group of students who work together to build robotic submarines.
- Cornell Automotive X Prize team is composed of more than 45 undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. The team’s goal is to design, build, manage, race, and sell a fuel-efficient 100 mpg automobile.
- Cornell Minesweeper is a multi-disciplinary student-initiated effort to design and fabricate a low-cost, autonomous robotic vehicle to accurately detect landmines and facilitate their clearance.
- Engineers for a Sustainable World is a student group, founded at Cornell in 2001 and now represented at over 60 campuses nationwide, which addresses critical global challenges such as safe drinking water, food security, energy needs, and information technology.
- The Solar Decathlon team designs and builds a fully functional and architecturally sound house running completely off solar power.
Cornell Master of Engineering students work with companies and organizations on projects that offer valuable insights to the sponsoring client while fulfilling a central requirement of each student's academic program. Highlights include:
- Operations Research and Information Engineering: ClickCommerce: The student team developed and tested an integrated real-time capacity and inventory allocation decision model for reparable service parts. The model minimizes total inventory management cost while maintaining the operational effectiveness of the supply chain system.
- Civil and Environmental Engineering: AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
- Systems Engineering: CUSat Satellite Project is a multi-year effort to design, build, and launch an autonomous in-orbit inspection satellite system.
These are just a few of the innovative projects currently underway involving Master of Engineering students. MEng projects can be found in nearly all of our departments.
John Callister is the director of Cornell's
Harvey Kinzelberg Enterprise Engineering Program. The program is designed to help undergraduate engineering students adapt their education in the traditional engineering disciplines to a business environment.
- BOOM: Bits On Our Mind is an annual research conference that showcases student efforts and creativity in digital technology and applications
- Engineering Research Showcase: Every fall, The Engineering Research Showcase offers the opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, and engineering fellows to share their ideas and inventions with the entire Cornell community.
- More Engineering Events
The Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization connects industry partners to technological innovations created by Cornell researchers. CCTEC supports faculty at Cornell's main campus in Ithaca, New York and at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. CCTEC facilitates the commercialization of Cornell technologies by securing the proper intellectual property rights protection, and by marketing and licensing the technologies to businesses.
