Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms

Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.

MAE Special Seminar: Ryan Elliott (Minnesota)

Machine learning explains material’s thermal conductivity

Using a combination of machine learning and powerful X-rays, Cornell researchers have solved a mystery behind the unusual behavior seen in a class of materials with potential for thermoelectric energy conversion and other applications.

MAE Colloquium: Susan Swithenbank, PhD Program Manager DARPA/DSO

Strawberry pruning robot put to test at national competition

A strawberry-pruning robot operates at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Robotics Student Design Competition. Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) students at Cornell took a course assignment to the next level, competing in a national showdown in which their…

Zhang named provost’s fellow for public engagement

Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement. 

Kress-Gazit to lead Engineering diversity initiatives, academic affairs

Hadas Kress-Gazit, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named the next associate dean for diversity and academic affairs for Cornell Engineering.

Hybrid system would create new ‘backbone’ for internet in space

A new NATO-funded effort led by assistant professor Greg Falco ’10 seeks to make the internet less vulnerable to disruption by rerouting its flow of information to space.

Haji, Jung to continue work thanks to NOAA Sea Grant

Maha Haji, assistant professor (MAE, Systems), and Sunny Jung, professor (BEE), will use a new $2.6M grant from NOAA Sea Grant to continue work on a microplastic collecting robot called MOLLUSCA.

High schoolers investigate programmable plants

Forty-five high school students from across the country took part in the 2024 CURIE Academy, a Cornell Engineering program for high school students interested in pursuing undergraduate studies in engineering.