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Why Cornell Engineering?
"Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that never has been."—Theodore von Karman
Cornell engineers challenge the status quo and do great things. Steeped in an environment of questioning, and with a focus on innovation, Cornell Engineering pursues excellence in all areas. Its faculty, students, and alumni design, build, and test products, improve the world of medicine, inform and shape our laws, create and drive businesses, become research luminaries, and overcome real and perceived barriers to achieve scientific breakthroughs that advance the quality of life on our planet.
We invite you to learn more about Cornell Engineering and its programs.
Did you know?
Willis Carrier, a 1901 mechanical engineering grad, invented air conditioning in 1902. Three years later Madison Square Garden hosted the first pro hockey game to be played indoors on ice refrigerated by Carrier chillers.
F.C. Moon has made contributions to nonlinear and chaotic dynamics of mechanical systems. He was one of the first to develop experimental tools of analysis in nonlinear vibrations based on Poincare maps and fractal measures of chaos. His laboratory at Cornell, nicknamed the "Moon Lab" hosted nearly 100 research students and visitors during the period 1975-2000.
In 2013, the Cornell University Satellite, a nanosatellite designed and built by students, was launched into space. It used a new algorithm called Carrier-phase Differential GPS (CDGPS) to calibrate global positioning systems to an accuracy of 3 millimeters and allows multiple spacecraft to travel close together.
Salpeter-Decay-The technique for detecting radiologic decay in tagged molecules called quantitative electron-microscopic autoradiography was developed by Miriam Salpeter during her postdoctoral research in Applied and Engineering Physics in 1961 to 1967.
Meredith Charles (Flash) Gourdine, (Applied and Engineering Physics, B.S.,1953) pioneered research in electrogasdynamics. The Cornell track and field star and silver medalist in the Helsinki Olympics, also invented Inceraid used to remove smoke from burning buildings and later paved the way for future allergen-reducing technologies.