We bring life to engineering

Our unique focus to design and develop processes, products and systems using basic biological, environmental science and engineering tools generates solutions to societal problems involving water, food, energy and public health. Students increasingly need to participate in problem-solving across traditional boundaries. Rapid technological changes are an added challenge, with implications driven by diminishing resources and a growing population. We aim to enable our students to drive innovation as our discipline continues to be transformed by our changing world.

Undergraduate research

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Field Note

Connecting the corners of ag: Meet Lily Blyn
In the summer of 2024, Lily Blyn, Cornell CALS’ Environmental Engineering ’25, interned with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), the PRO-DAIRY program and the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP). Through these programs, she had the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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New research elucidates a raindrop’s impact on a leaf - the equivalent in mass of a bowling ball hitting a person - and the physical dynamics that help the leaf survive.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Plants
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Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology