Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Tian received DARPA Fellowship

Zhiting Tian, professor, has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship, an extremely selective award given to top performers in the DARPA Young Faculty Award pool.

Student-designed technology bound for space station

A pair of student-led projects that feature small, low-cost satellites and light sails are headed to the International Space Station for testing. 

This entrepreneur made billions in crypto. His next frontier is space.

Cornell helps local company bring space docking tech to orbit

With support from Cornell’s research and testing facilities, deep-tech company AVS US – with facilities just outside Ithaca – successfully launched two spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 23

Moridi to participate in FOE Symposium

Atieh Moridi, assistant professor, has been selected to participate in the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2025 Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering. The symposium will be held September 14-17 at the University of Pennsylvania.

US officials issue warning on heightened threats from Iran

Device Extracts Hydrogen from Seawater

Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky?

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research

From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing.