News: ECE

[ In a message to the Cornell ECE community, Professor and Director Alyssa Apsel delivered the following announcment.] I am thrilled to announce that Megan Whitman will join the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering as our Director of Administration on December 1, 2021. Megan began her career at Cornell as a science communicator and project manager for the Lab of Ornithology. While working there she earned an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management and transitioned to administration, first for the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, then for the College of... Read more

An emeritus professor taps his engineering acumen to explore the materials used by Van Gogh, Vermeer, and more. Read more

Forty-three high school juniors and seniors teamed up remotely from July 19-23 to build an interconnected system of hardware and software as part of Cornell Engineering’s annual CURIE Academy. Read more

The degree to which the brain’s wiring aligns with its patterns of activity can vary with sex and age, and may be genetic, suggests a study published by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The study finds that this alignment may also have implications on cognition. The results published in Nature Communications help shed light on one of the biggest mysteries in biology—how the brain works, according to senior author Dr. Amy Kuceyeski, associate professor of mathematics in the Department of Radiology and in neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell... Read more

Cornell researchers are proposing a new way to modulate both the absorptive and the refractive qualities of metamaterials in real time, and their findings open intriguing new opportunities. Read more

Honeybees are skilled architects who plan ahead and solve design challenges when constructing honeycombs, offering strategies that engineers may learn from when they use honeycomb structures in industry. Read more

CURIE Academy is a one-week summer program for high school students who excel in math and science and are curious about careers in engineering. CURIE Academy scholars are young women of all backgrounds from all over the country who will be high school juniors or seniors. This year’s project, designed by ECE Professor Christopher Batten, is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and titled Computing at the Edge. The work is organized around several themes including early disaster warning, the smart home, a wearable health monitor and digital agriculture. Project kits including a variety of... Read more

A new AI-based technology developed by Cornell researchers will help gain new insights into how our brains respond to external stimuli. Read more

Congratulations to the Cornell ECE Class of '21!

Cornell engineers and plant scientists have teamed up to develop a low-cost system that allows grape growers to predict their yields much earlier in the season and more accurately than costly traditional methods. Read more