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Mastering complexity.
Creating clarity.

Systems Engineering involves understanding complex needs and developing, testing, and deploying effective solutions in engineering, business and the social sciences. Whether designing consumer products or addressing global challenges like food safety, a systems engineering degree equips you with the analytical, design, and leadership skills for success.

Systems Engineering at Cornell offers a range of robust, graduate-level educational experiences, as well as opportunities to engage in exciting multi-disciplinary research.

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Cornell Systems Engineering partners with Boeing

The partnership will provide Boeing with access to Cornell’s renowned systems engineering expertise while offering Cornell valuable insights into real-world challenges shaping the future of the field.
Inaugural Cornell Systems Summit brings global experts to campus

Systems engineering experts worldwide from academia, industry and government gathered Nov. 3-5 at Cornell to present research and exchange insights as part of the first annual Cornell Systems Summit.
Cornell’s new Ph.D. in robotics comes in multiple flavors

Applications are now open for Cornell’s new robotics doctoral program, which combines expertise across science and engineering, including mechanism design, modeling, dynamics, control, hardware, actuators, sensing, data science, machine learning, computing and social science.
Cornell microchip designers inspire students with ‘fox hunt’

High-school and undergraduate students searched campus for hidden transmitters as part of a digital ‘fox hunt’ organized by Cornell engineers to inspire an interest in microchip design.