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Mastering complexity.
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Systems Engineering involves understanding complex needs and developing, testing, and deploying effective solutions in engineering, business, and the social sciences. Our program empowers you with the skills that industries and communities around the world increasingly rely on, so you can create meaningful impact wherever your career takes you.

Systems Engineering at Cornell offers a range of robust, graduate-level educational experiences, as well as opportunities to design your own degree to meet your career goals, engage in exciting multi-disciplinary research, and pursue either an on-campus or distance-learning education.

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The robots are here. And they mean business.

In this week’s episode of Research Matters, Cornell professor Robert Shepherd explores a radically reimagined future of robotics – one built not from bolts and steel, but from living tissues, fungal networks and soft, 3D-printed materials.
Duffield Engineering showcases XRP robot at Governors Cup

Engineering faculty and students traveled to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural U.S. Governors Cup Robotics Tournament, where they showcased a robot in hopes of inspiring young students.
Videos: Farming Robots, Humanoid Robots, and More
Swarming, spinning microrobots can manipulate their surroundings

Researchers demonstrated how a swarm of microrobots spinning on a water surface can together generate the fluidic torque needed to manipulate passive structures without any physical contact.