News: ECE

ECE Professor Alyssa Apsel was recently named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University is pleased to announce the five-year appointment of Professor Alyssa Apsel as the School’s next director, effective July 1, 2018. Apsel, who previously served as director of graduate studies, has proposed many ideas to propel forward the already outstanding school. In particular, she is excited to continue the aggressive faculty hiring that has been underway for the past several years. She also views Cornell Tech as a great opportunity for the school, which now offers an ECE M.Eng. degree and has a number of new...

In an example of cross-campus collaboration, a group led by Minglin Ma has developed a unique implant for controlling type 1 diabetes, which affects more than 1 million Americans.

UCLA and Cornell Research Team Win Award from Intel and the National Science Foundation For Heterogeneous Computing Research Effort

The group reports remarkably clear observations of excitons – electrically neutral quasiparticles – in bilayer graphene.

Cornell engineers are experimenting with new programming that mimics the way an insect’s brain works in order to power tiny robots.

The leadership group has been selected for the newly formed Earth Source Heat planning committee, part of the campus effort to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2035.

Engineer Max Zhang makes a concerted effort to improve the world through collaboration. “Ideas will only stay in my lab, will only stay on paper, if we don’t engage or work with the community.”

A new wrinkle for the final project in Hadas Kress-Gazit's Mechatronics class had students building autonomous robots that competed in a game called Cube Craze.

Cornell engineers and nutritionists have created a swift solution for a challenging global health problem: a low-cost, rapid test to detect iron and vitamin A deficiencies at the point of care.