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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.

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Did you know?

Jonathan J. Rubenstein, (Electrical Engineering, B.S., 1978; M.S., 1979), as vice president at Apple led the effort to take the ipod from an idea to a market product in less than a year. The ipod remains unrivaled in popularity and success as a portable media device.

Edward Wyckoff, a Cornell Engineering student in 1889, drew plans for the first suspension bridge spanning Fall Creek gorge as a course project. He failed the project course, but came back tweny plus years later, and then Wyckoff, heir to the Remington typewriter fortune, financed the construction of his bridge over the gorge.

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.

In 1986, work of OR faculty Jim Renegar and Mike Todd helped break the rules in the conventional wisdom that the simplex method was the algorithm of choice to solve linear optimization problems; their work played a critical role in the development of a theory of interior-point methods for this application-rich problem domain.

In 1883, the first course of study in electrical engineering in the world was introduced at Cornell. In 1889, Cornell established an electrical engineering department which was then incorporated into the College of Engineering.