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Research Without Boundaries
List of Strategic Areas:
RWB Welcome
Strategic Area: Advanced Materials
Strategic Area: Complex Systems and Networks
Strategic Area: Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Strategic Area: Information, Computation, and Communication
Strategic Area: Nanomaterials, Nanodevices, and Nanoscience
Strategic Area: Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering
List of Research Topics:
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In the College of Engineering
    at Cornell University,
           great science is not enough.

      We aspire to make discoveries
that change the world.
 
Dean Kent Fuchs
Kent Fuchs, Dean
 

Our faculty members are leaders who make a  difference.

We are making people healthier and  raising the standard of living across the globe. We are  cleaning the environment and discovering new sources  of sustainable energy. Our faculty is invested in some  of the most pressing issues of our time, such as finding  alternatives to oil, predicting tsunamis, securing the  Internet, combating terrorism, and curing disease.  Solving any of these problems will change the world.  Collaboratively, we are working on all of them.

Across the college’s 12 departments, we offer  strong interdisciplinary programs with Cornell’s world-class  physical sciences and life sciences, and we lead  partnerships with all of Cornell’s colleges and schools,  particularly the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture  and Life Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine, the  Johnson Graduate School of Management, the faculty  of Computing and Information Science, and the Weill  Cornell Medical College.

 
 
Through these collaborations, we offer an unusual  blend of engineering and science that is characterized  by non-traditional innovative departments, majors, and graduate programs. Cornell’s  unique Graduate  Field structure transcends traditional department  boundaries, fostering meaningful interaction and  supporting a rich interdisciplinary environment for  faculty research and graduate education.

This booklet describes the college’s six strategic  areas of research focus and provides examples  of a few of our faculty in each area. These six  interdisciplinary areas of inquiry build on our current  research excellence and are the focus of significant  collaboration across the university.

Interdisciplinary collaboration—research without boundaries—brings  great opportunity for creativity,  innovation, and rapid breakthrough discoveries.  Together, the faculty members of Cornell’s College of  Engineering are designing the future.