Why should I go to Cornell for engineering?

Cornell Engineers are motivated, collaborative, compassionate, and intelligent. If these qualities resonate with you, consider joining our diverse community of passionate students and faculty. You will be emboldened to think independently and explore new ways to improve the quality of life on our planet.

What makes Cornell engineering unique?

Cornell Engineering offers a variety of opportunities outside of the standard classroom and lab curriculum to develop the many aspects that add up to a well-educated engineer. Students have ample opportunities to enhance their curriculum with special programs across campus and around the world.

What Cornell engineering looks for?

As we assemble the incoming class of Cornell Engineers, we seek students strong in math and science with wide-ranging personal backgrounds and interests, who are creative, empathetic and desire to make positive, substantive changes in the world.

What three words would you use to describe Cornell engineering?

I would use three words to describe the Engineering Leadership Program: uncomfortable, stimulating, provocative. This program was unlike any other experience I’ve had at Cornell.

What is Cornell engineering motto?

Breaking the rules of conventional wisdom
Cornell Engineering Project Teams mimic real-world engineering by bringing Cornell students, faculty, and staff together to solve complex problems as a team. Breaking the rules of conventional wisdom is a guiding motto of our engineers—the spirit of innovation thrives in our state-of-the-art labs and workshops.

What is unique about Cornell biomedical engineering?

Our research and training programs reflect the unique role of biomedical engineering as a bridge connecting engineering and physical sciences with biology and medicine. We have strong collaborations in research and education with colleagues in medicine, veterinary medicine, and a variety of biological disciplines.

Does Cornell have industrial engineering?

Cornell’s operations research and industrial engineering program ranked fourth in nation, along with the master’s program in financial engineering. Cornell’s computer science program ranks among the top five in the world, and it ranks fourth in the quality of graduate education.

How do you describe engineering?

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

What is exciting about Cornell?

It truly provides a broad, liberal arts education. The best thing about Cornell University is the academic freedom it offers. Students can take classes across colleges within Cornell. As a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, I am able to take a variety of classes within my majors and outside of them.