Spotlights

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

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Record a video, win an iPad

Engineering students can Win an iPad 3 Record a short video about your experiences at Cornell and be entered into a drawing for an Apple iPad 3 (WIFI 16G). The college is creating an augmented reality... Read more

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Bring It Forward

Speak Out Against Bias and Report It Alan Zehnder, associate dean for diversity and faculty development and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Sara Xayarath Hernández, director of... Read more

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Ray Li and Michael Ndubuisi

Breaking the rules to push the limits of imagination To play music, you need an instrument, right? You can pluck a string or vibrate a reed or strike a surface or force air through an opening. But... Read more

Jen Weidman in Tanzania

Jen Weidman

Breaking the rules to make life better in Tanzania For many students and parents there are simple “rules for college:” you apply to several schools, you weigh your options, you enroll at the school... Read more

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Brandon Hencey

To reduce energy consumption and fight global warming, buildings must become more efficient. Buildings use about 40 percent of the nation's energy and 70 percent of its electricity. Brandon Hencey is... Read more

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Peggy Hsu Study Abroad

Students who spend a semester or a year abroad expect things to be different when they arrive in their new country. They know there will be a different language, different food, and a different... Read more

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Meghan Furton Study Abroad

Senior Environmental Engineering major Meghan Furton did not know she wanted to spend a semester abroad until she sat to speak with an academic advisor named Melissa Bazley, of the Cornell Engineering... Read more

EAS Ph.D. student Alida Perez Fodich

Spotlight on Students: Alida Perez Fodich

Alida Perez Fodich was born in the mining town of Chuquicamata, Chile, located more than 9000 feet high in the Andes. She lived there until she was ten years old, and then moved with her family to... Read more

Chris DeSa

Welcome to Chris De Sa ( 2017 )

Chris De Sa has joined the computer science department at Cornell as an assistant professor. De Sa started at Cornell in July of 2017. He comes to Ithaca after ten years in Palo Alto, California... Read more