Systems Engineering Program

NYC congestion pricing: One year later, data shows impact on air quality, traffic

AI data centers may have created as much pollution as New York City and used a world’s supply of bottled water in just one year

Robotics, exoplanets, quantum theory earn Research Excellence Awards

Revealing how psychiatric drugs reshape the brain and designing next-generation missions to find distant worlds are among the research themes that helped faculty earn Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards, the college’s highest recognition for groundbreaking scientific impact.

Bizyaeva receives outstanding paper award

Anastasia Bizyaeva, assistant professor, has received the 2025 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, given by the IEEE Control Systems Society. The Axelby award recognizes an outstanding paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, for its originality,…

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

Cornell’s deep-down and rocky quest to unlock geothermal for New York

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.

Ancient ‘dirty dishes’ may have led archaeologists astray for decades

Revolutionizing engineering education: The rise of a new research pillar

Cornell Engineering is rapidly becoming a leader in engineering education research, a field dedicated to designing effective education systems and learning experiences for students. The insights emerging from this work have the potential to redefine engineering education on campus and far outside it.