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Mastering complexity.
Creating clarity.

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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Study examines carbon footprint of wearable health tech

A new study examines the growing demand and environmental impact of wearable health care devices such as glucose monitors and ultrasound patches, and offers potential solutions to reduce their carbon footprint.
New program centers mentorship, culture in research groups

Cornell Engineering faculty and students gathered Dec. 18 in Upson Hall to celebrate the first participants to complete Radical Humanity in Research, a new program designed to strengthen the human foundations of high-impact research.
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