School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Mengdi Wangi (Princeton)

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Benedetto Piccoli (Rutgers–Camden)

Awards honor Duffield Engineering faculty for teaching, advising

The Cornell Duffield College of Engineering celebrated faculty commitment to education at its 2026 Fall Faculty Reception, honoring this year’s Teaching and Advising Award winners for their contributions to outstanding curriculum design, teaching methods, student mentoring and faculty development.

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Johannes Betz (TU Munich)

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Sarah Dean (Cornell CS)

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Zhong-Ping Jiang (NYU)

Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Jorge Cortés (UCSD)

Cornell researchers build ‘digital twin’ to model Manhattan air quality

Cornell engineers have developed a “digital twin” framework that creates a real-time virtual representation of urban carbon dioxide conditions, creating a tool that could help city planners monitor emissions, identify hotspots and evaluate potential interventions before implementing them in the real world.

New York City’s Air Kept Improving with Congestion Pricing, Report Finds

Riders love e-buses but drivers prefer their cars, study finds

Researchers found that while the smoother, quieter ride of an electric bus was appealing to those who already rode public transportation, those advantages weren’t enough to lure drivers away from their cars.