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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Achievement awards honor postdoctoral researchers and faculty mentors
Postdoc Achievement Awards recognize postdocs who made outstanding contributions to the Cornell community, as well as faculty who provided exceptional mentorship to postdocs.
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Grant aims to improve AI models of human choices in complex systems
A National Science Foundation grant will support Cornell research aimed at developing AI models that can better represent human decision-making in cyber-physical systems while remaining interpretable and explicit about uncertainty.
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Air Force award supports research into resilient spacecraft coordination
Gregory Falco, assistant professor, has received a Young Investigator Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate autonomous spacecraft that can maintain coordination while an adversary is trying to disrupt them.
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Topaloglu elected INFORMS Fellow
Upcoming Events
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Ezra Systems Seminar: Tiffany Cheng (Cornell)
Designing Self-Shaping Systems with Biobased Materials and Bioinspired Fabrication What if our buildings and products could be manufactured and operated the way biological systems grow and adapt? As a…
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Systems Engineering M.Eng. Virtual General Info Session – Oct 27
Register Now Learn about: On-Campus & Distance Learning M.Eng. Options Curriculum Courses & M.Eng. Project Overview Admission Requirements & Procedures Waived GREs for the ’26-R…
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Ezra Systems Seminar: Scott Pace (George Washington)
Bio: Scott Pace is the Director of the Space Policy Institute and a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. …
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Ezra Systems Seminar: Alexandra Werth (Cornell BME)
Bio: Alexandra Werth is an assistant professor at the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, having joined the faculty in Fall 2023. Her work focuses on Engineering Education Research, a branch of d…