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Cornell faculty members Jefferson Tester and Lance Collins are among the new class elected to the academy, among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer.
Guy Hoffman and his team have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions without relying on touch at all. The technology originated as part of a collaboration with Hadas Kress-Gazit and Kirstin Petersen.
Tobias Hanrath, the Marjorie L. Hart ’50 Professor in Engineering, in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and David Erickson, the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, had both applied independently for grants from NEXUS-NY – a clean energy business accelerator funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).
Cornell wind energy scientists, Sara C. Pryor and Rebecca Barthelmie, have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world – to help engineers select the turbines in any given region and accelerate the development of sustainable energy.
Organic Robotics Corporation, a Cornell startup founded by Associate Professor Rob Shepherd and his former Ph.D. student, Ilayda Samilgil '19, will compete in the sixth annual NFL 1st & Future competition, to be televised Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. EST on the NFL Network.
A team led by Assistant Prof Mahdi Esmaily developed a transparent helmet that prevents 99.6% of virus-containing droplets exhaled by patients from reaching the environment during open-face procedures.
K. Bingham Cady, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering in the Sibley School, died Dec 10. Cady helped improve the safety of nuclear fission reactors by developing computer modeling software that could simulate how reactors respond to operational fluctuations and accidents.
The Cornell Chronicle highlighted Associate Professor Rob Shepherd's research in their 2020 In Review article! Shepherd and his team developed a soft robot muscle that sweats to regulate its temperature.
Alexander Li ’20, an Energy and the Environment Research Lab member, was elected to join the sixth cohort of Schwarzman Scholars, a program that nurtures future global leaders.
A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.
