Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium (TIRC) TIRC is composed of ten academic institutions and two research laboratories. The Consortium is a partnering arrangement between NYSDOT and academic / research organizations in New York State. The main purpose of this Consortium is to carry out basic and applied research, technology transfer, and short term consultations in the fields of: Engineering,Operations (traffic engineering, safety, and asset management), Public Transportation, Management and Finance, Public Policy, and Human Reseaources.
George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) The George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) at Cornell University is one among fifteen research laboratories funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for construction, expansion and modernization of the nation’s earthquake engineering experimental research.
Cornell Fracture Group The CFG mission is to create, to verify, and to validate state-of-the-art computational fracture mechanics simulators for arbitrary crack propagation in engineered and natural structures.
AguaClara AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that strives to improve drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
Cornell Coastal Research This web site describes and archives research activities and results in the area of coastal ocean science and engineering. On-going research topics include: modeling tsunami propagation and inundation; studies of wave-structure interactions; investigations of wave propagation over various type of seafloor materials; and development of sediment transport models.