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Academic Programs

We offer four degree programs: Bachelor of Science, Master of Engineering (one-year professional), Master of Science (two-year research), and Ph.D. Our faculty are renowned for excellence in teaching as well as research. The superiority of the education we deliver is manifest in the achievements of our graduates at all levels.

Research Areas

Our research is at the leading edge of material science and focuses on four broad strategic areas of interdisciplinary research that have a high societal impact: Energy Production and Storage, Electronics and Photonics, Bio-inspired Materials and Systems, and Green Technologies.  Learn more about our faculty, research, and facilities.

Recent News

Professor Emeritus Stephen L. Sass recipient of Distinguished Achievement Award

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Professor Emeritus Stephen L. Sass is the first recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award...

Professor Richard Robinson awarded CCMR Seed grant

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Proposal title “Nanometer-scale Patterning from Templates of Covalent Organic Frameworks"

Jin Suntivich appointed as Assistant Professor with MS&E

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We are pleased to announce that Jin Suntivich will join the Cornell MS&E department after a...

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Latest Spotlights

Cornell Cup USA

David Schneider, academic coordinator of Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel, explains the education goals behind the new, national engineering competition taking place May 4-5 at Disney World.

"It looks ... like paint!"

The search for da Vinci’s lost mural “The Battle of Anghiari” is getting help from two Cornell MSE alumnae, and will be the subject of a National Geographic documentary airing March 18.