Welcome Matthew Reid ( 2016 )
Matthew Reid had an inkling that he might be well-suited to graduate school when he made it through a two-year stint in the United States Peace Corps. “I found I was adaptable when I spent two years...
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Christina Chu-Garcia is listed as one of the 2018 rising stars in Civil Structural Engineering.
“I am excited to be at Cornell. Much of my current work involves agriculture and Cornell has such a great agricultural tradition.”
"I just know that I'd like to explore the intersection of profitable urban development & sustainability to make spaces better for people."
"My advice would be how you relate to other people in the organization you will be potentially joining, and how successful you will be, ultimately depends more on your ability to influence how other people think about a solution than on the technical merits of the solution itself."
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Welcome Samitha Samaranayake ( 2016 )
Samitha Samaranayake believes that we’re at the dawn of a revolution in urban transportation systems. “This is a great time to study urban transportation problems and solutions,” says Samaranayake....
Welcome John Albertson ( 2016 )
When John Albertson was starting his doctoral studies at UC-Davis in 1993, his advisor, Professor Marc Parlange, recommended he read two books to get a firm foundation in hydrology, fluid mechanics,...
Welcome David Kammer ( 2016 )
David Kammer, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell, studies what happens at the interface where two materials slide against each other. For such a common phenomenon,...
O’Rourke awarded EERI George W. Housner Medal
Professor Thomas O’Rourke of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering will be presented with the George W. Housner Medal at the 2016 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Annual...
Meghan Furton
Senior Environmental Engineering major Meghan Furton did not know she wanted to spend a semester abroad until she sat to speak with an academic advisor named Melissa Bazley, of the Cornell Engineering...
- Hometown: [empty string]
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Addie Lederman
What inspired you to pursue a degree in engineering? I chose to go into engineering because throughout high school, I enjoyed finding practical applications of the math and science I was learning....
- Hometown: Yorktown, NY
- Civil Engineering
Valerie Shao
During the summer between my sophomore and junior year, I interned at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. My research focused on engineering an alternative combustion process within the...
- Hometown: Celeveland, OH
- Environmental Engineering
Kimberly Bernstein
After my junior year at Cornell, I had the privilege to spend the summer as an intern for Turner Construction Company in New York City. I was assigned to work with the team on the World Trade Center...
- Hometown: Englewood, NJ
- Civil Engineering
Inshera Abedin
What inspired you to pursue a degree in engineering and what drew you to Cornell CEE? During high school, I was always drawn to higher level math and physics. Even my choices in extracurriculars...
- Hometown: Reading, PA
- Civil Engineering