Strategic Areas
What does the future hold for engineering at Cornell University and how can Cornell’s College of Engineering shape its destiny? Early in 2003 the college embarked on a formal strategic planning process to answer those questions. Faculty members, students, administrators, and alumni produced a detailed strategic plan, a living document designed to be the basis for implementation efforts across the college.
The College of Engineering has identified six strategic areas of significant research focus for the next decade:
- Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering
- Nanomaterials, Nanodevices, and Nanoscience
- Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development
- Information, Computation, and Communication
- Advanced Materials
- Complex Systems and Networks
Our goal is to be the nation’s premier research university in the first three areas and a world leader in the second three areas.
Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering
- Bio signal, systems, and Applications
- Biochemical Engineering
- Biomaterials
- Biomaterials and Drug Delivery
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Imaging
- Biomedical Mechanics
- Biophysics
- Biotechnology
- Computational Biology
- Computer aided diagnosis
- Image analysis
- Mechanics of Biological Materials
- Microfluidics
- Molecular biotechnology
- Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering
Nanomaterials, Nanodevices, and Nanoscience
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
- Micro electro mechanical systems
- Micro- and Nano-biotechnology
- Microfluidics and Microsystems
- Nano- and Microscale Engineering
- Nanobio applications
- Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology
- Optoelectronics and laser devices
- Semiconductor physics and devices
Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development
- Atmospheric Science
- Biogeochemistry/Climate Interactions
- Climate & Paleoclimate
- Combustion and Pollution
- Energy
- Energy, Mineral, & Water Resources
- Environmental and Water Resources Systems
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
- Fusion and plasma physics
- Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Geophysics, Active Tectonics, and Structural Geology
- Space and Planetary Sciences
- Surface Processes, Sedimentary Basins, & Paleobiology
- Sustainable energy systems
Information, Computation, and Communication
- Algorithms
- Applied Math and Computational Methods
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computational Mechanics
- Computer architecture
- Control Systems Theory and Applications
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- Graphics
- Information theory and communications
- Programming Languages
- Remote Sensing
- Scientific Computing
- Signal and image processing
- Statistics
- Theory of Computation
- VLSI circuits
Advanced Materials
- Advanced materials processing
- Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics
- Ceramics
- Colloids
- Colloids and interfacial science
- Composites
- Ferromagnetics
- Fluid dynamics and rheology
- Materials Synthesis and Processing
- Metals
- Multiphase and Granular Flows
- Optical Physics, Quantum Electronics and Photonics
- Optoelectronics
- Polymers
- Polymers and soft matter
- Semiconductors
- Solid Mechanics
- Surface science
- Theory
- Thin films
Complex Systems and Networks
- Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
- Applied Probability
- Astrophysics and Plasma Physics
- Complex systems and networks
- Computational Solid Mechanics
- Earth System Science
- Financial Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Heat and Mass transfer
- Infotech Modeling
- Networks
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Optimization
- Rapid Prototyping
- Robotics
- Satellite Systems
- Security
- Sensors and Actuators
- Statistical mechanics and molecular simulation
- Structural Engineering
- Supply Chain
- Systems and Networking
- Transportation Systems Engineering
- Turbulence
