Welcome Kirstin Petersen ( 2016 )
When Kirstin Petersen was a high school student, she had the opportunity to spend some time at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. At the time, she pictured herself as a future... Read more
Spotlights: ECE
Cornell ECE is erasing the boundaries between signals, systems, physics and hardware, and merging core concepts from biology, computer science, mechanical engineering and materials. We see things differently, with visionary science oriented to novel applications.
Shiva Rajagopal: Breaking rules to make life better
When Shiva Rajagopal went to high school in Fallon, Nevada there were no computer science classes offered. “But that was okay,” he says. “We did have a Tech Club where we would refurbish old computers... Read more
Joe Skovira: Embedding systems to make things work better
When a visitor walks into Joe Skovira’s office on the second floor of Cornell Engineering’s Phillips Hall, it is obvious right away that this guy is a tinkerer. If it were 1960, the parts strewn about... Read more
José Martínez: Breaking the rules to reimagine computer architecture
According to José Martínez, all successful research must cycle through two phases: there’s a disruption phase, where researchers suddenly crack a problem open by thinking differently about it. Then... Read more
Rick Johnson: Breaking rules to create a new field of study
For years Johnson, who is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell, did research into topics at the leading edges of fields created by other people... Read more
Christoph Studer: Doing things differently to improve wireless communications
The people who write the algorithms that process the massive amounts of information passing through wireless communications systems are not usually the same people who develop the digital integrated... Read more
ECE Teaching Snapshot: Bruce Land
Senior Lecturer Bruce Land has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering students at Cornell since 1997. He began when the professor who had been teaching a microcontroller class retired. Land... Read more
Microsystems a Major Research Area
With the ubiquity of handheld devices and the advent of the Internet of Things—networking everything from cars to light bulbs—microsystems, which bring together functionalities such as sensing... Read more
Q&A with Rick Johnson and Clif Pollock
Professor C. Richard Johnson, Jr. has changed his career focus several times by bridging gaps and figuring out what people need—and then making it happen. He recently met with ECE Director Clif... Read more
ECE Teaching Snapshot: Carl Poitras
Over the past several years, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer Carl Poitras has taught and co-taught several different ECE courses including ECE 3030: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, ECE 3100... Read more