Spotlights

Cornell Engineering likes to feature our new faculty, our incredible students, staff, alumni and teams who do amazing work everyday. 

Derek Holyoak

Derek Holyoak, Ph.D. ’18

Now a senior associate in the Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Practice at Exponent, Inc., Ph.D. alum Derek Holyoak's work involves a mix of proactive biomedical research/testing and reactive scientific litigation. Read more

Zui Tao, Ph.D. student in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics

Meet Zui Tao

When Zui Tao was in elementary school in Hefei, China she was obsessed with magic. She practiced tricks every day and performed a magic show each year at her school’s New Year Festival. But that all... Read more

MAE alum Kevin Lo in a Mars 2020 JPL shirt

MAE alum Kevin Lo is NEVER bored at work

Kevin Lo ’13, M.Eng. '14, is one of the tiny percentage of humans who can say that they have touched an object that is now on the surface of Mars. “Having something like the Mars 2020 mission that I... Read more

Sibley School Ph.D. student Khaled Hashad

Meet Khaled Hashad

In a 2014 study, it was found that roughly 3.2 million American students attend schools that are within 100 meters of a major roadway. Other studies have shown that 45 million Americans live within... Read more

MSE M.Eng. Alum Andra Chen '20

Meet Andra Chen

(This story is Part 3 in a series featuring MSE M.Eng. students and the projects they worked on.) Some students with a four-year undergraduate degree in materials science decide to jump right into the... Read more