Spotlights

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

Samitha Samaranayake

Welcome Samitha Samaranayake ( 2016 )

Samitha Samaranayake believes that we’re at the dawn of a revolution in urban transportation systems. “This is a great time to study urban transportation problems and solutions,” says Samaranayake.... Read more

John Albertson

Welcome John Albertson ( 2016 )

When John Albertson was starting his doctoral studies at UC-Davis in 1993, his advisor, Professor Marc Parlange, recommended he read two books to get a firm foundation in hydrology, fluid mechanics... Read more

Austin Hopp bungee jumping

Austin Hopp Study Abroad

Austin Hopp liked studying abroad so much, he did it twice. Read more

  • Hometown: California
  • Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell

ECE Teaching Snapshot: Carl Poitras

Over the past several years, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer Carl Poitras has taught and co-taught several different ECE courses including ECE 3030: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, ECE 3100... Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Fischell

When Sarah Fischell B.S. ’78, M.Eng ’79, first stepped foot inside Bell Labs—one of the world’s foremost technology research institutes—she knew she was in a place of legend. It was 1979 and the young... Read more

Welcome Jamol Pender ( 2015 )

Jamol Pender, Assistant Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell, enjoys the certainty mathematics can sometimes provide. “There is something about... Read more

Microsystems a Major Research Area

With the ubiquity of handheld devices and the advent of the Internet of Things—networking everything from cars to light bulbs—microsystems, which bring together functionalities such as sensing... Read more

Welcome Yudong Chen ( 2015 )

When Yudong Chen was a child in Guangzhou, China he liked to build things with his father. “My father was an electrical engineer and a self-taught carpenter,” says Chen. “He made all of the furniture... Read more

Welcome Silvia Ferrari ( 2015 )

A Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Silvia Ferrari joined Cornell this summer and is currently Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls... Read more