Author: Emily Ivory

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Campus Mental Health Review-Please Consider Participating

The internal Mental Health Review Committee (MHRC) has begun gathering input from students, staff, and faculty about the impact of campus culture on student mental health and well-being.

The External Review Team visited the Ithaca campus October 28-30 to meet with student, faculty, and staff representatives.

Participate

This fall, the internal (on-campus) Mental Health Review Committee (MHRC) is examining the impact of campus culture and policies related to student mental health and well-being, while an External Review Team will begin to review clinical services and campus-based strategies.

Participation in the Review by faculty, staff, and students will be critical in understanding what we do well as a university, the challenges we face, and the opportunities for improvement. The MHRC has developed several processes for stakeholders to provide feedback:

You can participate in one or more of the following ways:

  • Take this survey to address any or all of the following questions related to campus health and well-being:
    • What does Cornell do well in support of student mental health? What opportunities do you see to improve mental health on campus
    • What is the impact of social identity on student mental health at Cornell?
    • What impact does the Cornell culture have on student stress?
    • What ideas do you have to reduce the impact of stress on students?
    • What questions do you want the Mental Health Review Committee to consider
    • What else do you want us to know?
  • MHRC listening sessions for student groups and organizations, faculty, and student support staff.
    Listening sessions will be scheduled throughout the fall semester and will be offered in the following forms:

    • Focus Groups
    • World Cafés
    • “Telling Stories” sessions

Review the list of planned participation so far.

  • Direct email feedback to mhrc@cornell.edu: share information, questions, or concerns
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Annual Traditional American Thanksgiving Feast

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

at the Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery

We welcome Cornell’s international community, all Cornellians, and friends in the local community for the 32nd Annual Traditional American Thanksgiving Feast! Tickets will be available online at globallearning.universitytickets.com beginning November 19th at 9am for members of the Cornell community and November 25th at 9am for the general public.

Seatings at Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery on the third floor of RPCC are at noon and 1:30 pm. Please pick your preferred seating before you purchase your tickets online! Tickets are limited and will not be sold at the door. (You will need to log in or create an account if you have not previously done so to purchase tickets.)

Our festive menu includes New England Clam Chowder and Lentil and Butternut Stew, Whipped Pesto Goat Cheese Spread, Cumin Flatbread, Beet Hummus, Roast Turkey with Gravy, Poached Salmon with Lemon Beurre Blanc, Millet Stuffed Peppers, Cranberry Sauce, Buttered Corn, Szechuan Green Beans, Purple Jasmine Rice with Mango, Olive Whipped Red Potatoes, Candied Yams, Pumpkin and Apple Pie, Assorted Cheesecakes, Petit Four and lots more!

This event is sponsored by the Office of Global Learning and Cornell Dining.

$14 Adults • $8 Children 6-12 years old • Children 5 & younger eat FREE!

Volunteer and eat for free!

Needed: Responsible students and scholars who are willing to work one three-hour shift in serving food, cleaning tables, and/or washing dishes in exchange for a free ticket. Mandatory information session for volunteers on Thursday, November 21st at 4:30pm at 276 Caldwell Hall.

Sign up to volunteer by November 20th:
https://forms.gle/eARPuWRJoszmLGMY8

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Talk with Cornell MechE Alum, Tricia Hevers, this Thursday!

Tricia Hevers is visiting campus and will be chatting about her experience in the Upson Lounge from 5-6pm on Thursday, 11/7/19. Please take a moment to stop in and talk with her about life after Cornell. There will be pizza!

Trish Hevers is a Space Systems Engineer for L3Harris Technologies based in Washington DC.Trish got her BS (’11) and MEng (’12) degrees at Cornell.  While at Cornell, she was a member of the CUSAT (Cornell University Satellite) team for three years serving as a technical lead and Program Manager. Trish also co-oped at Sikorsky Aircraft working in the dynamics and acoustics area. After graduation she spent the first 5 years at Boeing’s Satellite Development Center in Los Angeles. At Boeing she worked in a variety of roles, including: attitude control systems, mission operations, and new business development.  She is currently working at L3Harris Technologies in Washington, D.C. as a Space Systems Engineer.

She’s offered to discuss how her experiences at Cornell have shaped her professional development, life after graduation, the job search process, and offer tips on resume writing and interviewing! Past year’s students found her very helpful so I encourage you to talk to her!

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Funded Summer Teaching Program in China

Explore China on a funded trip with Gotoco! (www.go-to.co/apply-now)

Interested in traveling abroad this summer? Join Gotoco in China to gain a TEFL certificate and useful work experience in teaching, education and activity leadership. No prior experience in China, Chinese or teaching is required—just a passion for education and travel.

All FREE and FUNDED:

— Earn a TEFL certificate (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)

— Explore China and its diverse culture

— Learn some Mandarin, and take part in fun cultural exchange activities

— Gain valuable work experience and references

— Begin a summer of backpacking across Asia

— Give Chinese students the chance to experience a new style of teaching

— See stunning scenery, including the Karst mountains around Yangshuo, Guangxi

— Check our website for more information: www.go-to.co

*We hope to boost the number of Cornell University students taking part in future, so are reserving 10 positions for any students that apply with this link http://www.go-to.co/apply-now/?reserved_for=cornell

**Gotoco is a social enterprise focused on boosting a broad range of cultural exchange and exploration opportunities between China and the West. One of our main projects is our annual China Summer Camp TEFL Teaching project. This is a FREE and FUNDED opportunity offered to 500 students per year from across the US, Canada, and the UK. All participants on this program are provided with free TEFL certification, meals, accommodation, beginner Chinese lessons and a 5-day tour of our base in the beautiful mountains of Yangshuo – a small town not far from the Vietnamese border. This is an excellent way to undertake useful work experience while exploring a fascinating country.

***On a summer program in China you will teach English or lead outdoor activities to help Chinese students (usually from 7-16 years of age) grow in confidence, develop their language skills and foster soft skills which will be invaluable to them throughout their life. You will receive TEFL training online prior to departure, and will work towards your TEFL certificate during your time in China, with the time you spend in the classroom building up your teaching experience. These skills will be extremely useful in any career you wish to pursue, and an understanding of Chinese culture will be vital to your international career.

For more info, please check out our website www.go-to.co, or email recruitment@go-to.co.

Like on us Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gotoco1/ to learn more about China and to stay updated on our future programs.

To hear from past participants, check out our reviews on Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.go-to.co.

Gotoco is a certified social enterprise with a presence in the UK, China, USA and Hong Kong. We are rated highly by the 1000s of participants that have taken part in programmes with us, and for our work we have been shortlisted for various awards. For our efforts in building a community of young China watchers and offering support to educational institutions across China we are finalists in the China Social Impact Awards, an award organised by the British Chamber of Commerce in China in partnership with the United Nations. For our TEFL and China education initiatives, we are finalists for Best Educational Product with the British Youth Travel Awards. Also, for our provision of summer internships in China to students from Oxford University we were granted Gold Star Host status.

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Dominion Engineering, Inc. is Looking for MechEs

Dominion Engineering Inc. (DEI) provides expert consulting, R&D, and equipment design for the nuclear power industry.  From supporting currently operating reactors to advanced reactor designs, and nuclear waste management to nuclear thermal propulsion and cogeneration applications, we believe that nuclear energy is essential for deep decarbonization to tackle climate change and for continuing to advance the boundaries of scientific exploration – and we are passionate about being a part of the technical solution.  DEI’s primary asset is its staff, with a healthy mix of senior and younger personnel with expertise in mechanical, chemical, and materials science. Projects often include laboratory investigations, technical report writing, hardware and product design, computer simulations, custom software development, and theoretical modeling. We have been working with utilities, government agencies, national labs, other engineering firms, and private contractors for over 40 years with a focus on maintaining technical quality, client satisfaction, and a dynamic and fulfilling work environment.

We seek top students who desire a technical career path, and who are motivated, creative, and adaptable. Success at DEI requires not only the aptitude to perform detailed engineering work, but also interface with clients and communicate effectively. We believe that with the support our other staff provide, you can become an industry expert. DEI engineers often work on up to a dozen projects at once. This keeps work varied, allows us to maximize each of our individual talents, and allows each person to develop expertise in new areas. Our compensation is extremely competitive, because we believe that you should be paid for the value you provide. We provide mentoring, technical resources, and our open-door atmosphere allows you to learn from other industry experts as you find what problems you are passionate about solving. Interested in joining the team? Email me at jreinders@domeng.com

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Recent Changes to Business Minors Program

Please read about recent changes to the business minors program.  We’ve moved offices, have a new website and a new team!

TO FIND US
Check out our new business minors website<https://business.cornell.edu/programs/undergraduate/minors/>.This is the best place to find information about each of the minors, requirements and policies to ensure students they are on track for completing the minor. Questions can be directed to our new email, minors@business.cornell.edu<mailto:minors@business.cornell.edu> or appointments can be made with the Business Minors Office<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/BusinessMinorsOffice@cornellprod.onmicrosoft.com/bookings/>.  We’re in B38 Warren Hall.

Denise Ramzy is the new faculty director for the business minors and Jennifer Alcaine is the business minors coordinator.

MANAGING THE MINOR
When students sign up for one of the business minors, they will create a Business Minors Dashboard<https://minors.business.cornell.edu/dashboard>.  This is where students will track the courses for the minor, update grades, and plan ahead. We encourage students to update their dashboard at the beginning and end of each semester to ensure timely processing of courses. Once a minor is complete, this is where students certify completion.

As students plan ahead, they will need to petition for any study abroad, transfer, or Cornell substitution courses in advance. Petitions must be submitted before taking a course or going abroad, and require information on the institution, class format and a current syllabus. Petitions made after a course has been taken will not be considered.  Also, it’s important that students are aware of their home college policies regarding transfer credit as any transfer courses need to be listed on their transcript.

We look forward to working with you this year. If you have any suggestions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Best,

Denise Ramzy
Faculty Director, Business Minors

Jennifer Alcaine
Business Minors Coordinator

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Kessler Fellows Program Information Session

When: November 4, 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Where: Upson Hall Lounge
Free Pizza:  yes

Learn more about Kessler Fellows at this information session. The Kessler Fellows Program is an entrepreneurship program rooted in the College of Engineering. The program is open to juniors studying a STEM-related field that have a strong interest in entrepreneurship.

Students will engage in a semester-long immersion aimed to help them cultivate their entrepreneurial readiness before their summer experience with a startup.

Applications are open now through November 15.
https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/students/undergraduate-students/entrepreneurial-options-undergrad-students/kessler-fellows-program

 

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Invitation to SkyHack at Kent State University

SkyHack is a weekend long event in which students will come together to provide a solution to a challenge or “pain point” relating to the aviation industry. The solution may be a procedure, an idea, an app, a “widget,” an article of clothing, etc. The students arrive (Kent State Kent campus) on a Friday afternoon Nov. 1, form teams, decide which challenge they want to spend the weekend on and present their idea to judges on Sunday morning, Nov. 3. The grand prize is $10,000 (supplied by BDM), but we also award $1,000 to each of the challenge winning teams.

https://www.kent.edu/SkyHack/what-is-SkyHack

Participation

  • Students from any college or university with any major may participate
  • It is strongly recommended that students bring a resume. A resume book will be given to the top sponsors.
  • Students may come with a team or form a team when they arrive
  • Each team will choose a challenge it will work on during the weekend
  • The event is FREE to participants

Resources: Participants will have access to supplies and labs within ATB although bringing your own laptop or tablet is highly recommended. Mentors and industry experts will be on hand to offer assistance.

Accommodations: There will be spaces in ATB designated as quiet areas for participants who wish to sleep, but no other sleeping accommodations will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring sleeping bags.

Food is provided throughout the weekend.

Participants will have access to the Student Recreation and Wellness Center (showers, exercise equipment, etc.) for the weekend.

There may be some travel reimbursement funds available for participants who are not from the area.

More information is at the link above and here:  https://www.skyhackksu.com/

In October 2017, Burton D. Morgan (BDM) Foundation sponsored the inaugural SkyHack –hackathon event. We had 120 college students from 14 different universities and 4 different states. A link to the projects from that event are on the webpage: https://www.kent.edu/SkyHack

To Mentor/judge register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gaIvu8F_87mCy85vkKgCeC7pFQhaHdmRvfCAYfwD_ag/

All majors are welcome.

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Available Electives for Spring 2020

Here is a list of the non-required electives available for Spring 2020 in MAE (courses in bold have a senior design version):

  • ENGRI 1510: Modeling and Simulation of Real-World Scientific Problems
  • MAE 4120/4121: Community Wind Energy Research
  • MAE 4150/5150: GPS: Theory and Design: Spacecraft Technology and Systems Architecture
  • MAE 4180/5180: Autonomous Mobile Robots
  • MAE 4230/4231/5230: Intermediate Fluid Dynamics
  • MAE 4530: Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Processes
  • MAE 4590: Introduction to Controlled Fusion: Principles and Technology
  • MAE 4610: Entrepreneurship for Engineers
  • MAE 4650/4651/5650: Biofluid Mechanics
  • MAE 4710/5710: Applied Dynamics: Robotics, Vehicles, Machines and Biomechanics
  • MAE 4860/4861/5860: Automotive Engineering
  • MAE 5010: Future Energy Systems
  • MAE 5070: Dynamics of Flight Vehicles
  • MAE 5270: Design for Manufacture and Assembly
  • MAE 5469: Energy Seminar II
  • MAE 5790: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
  • MAE 5920: Systems Analysis Behavior and Optimization
  • MAE 5940: Professional Development for Master of Engineering in MAE
  • MAE 5949: Enterprise Engineering Colloquium
  • MAE 6230: Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • MAE 6270: Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics
  • MAE 6310: Turbulence and Turbulent Flow
  • MAE 6510: Advanced Heat Transfer
  • MAE 6560: Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion
  • MAE 6640: Mechanics of Bone
  • MAE 6670: Soft Tissue Biomechanics: Phasic Theory and Viscoelasticity II
  • MAE 6680: Cancer for Engineers and Physicists
  • MAE 6710: Human-Robot Interaction: Algorithms and Experiments
  • MAE 6720: Celestial Mechanics
  • MAE 6780: Multivariable Control Theory
  • MAE 6950: Community Engagement and Technology
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Visas After Graduation Workshop

Greetings International Students,

Due to fall semester break, the Visas after Graduation presentation date and location has changed.

Visas after Graduation
October 21, 5:00 p.m. in Warren B25 (basement)

This workshop for international students covers the procedures for working in the U.S. immediately after graduation, working long-term in the United States, and eventually becoming a permanent resident (green card holder), if you desire. For more information visit https://international.globallearning.cornell.edu/maintaining-your-status/visas-after-graduation

Best,

Hersh Sisodia

Associate Director (P/DSO) for Student Immigration Services

Office of Global Learning

Cornell University

+1 607-255-5243| sisodia@cornell.edu

Office: 300 Caldwell Hall,  Ithaca, NY 14853

globallearning.cornell.edu

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LSC Winter Scholarships Available

The primary objective of the Learning Strategies Center (LSC) Scholarship is to enable current full-time undergraduate students to graduate on schedule by providing financial support to attend Summer or Winter Session at Cornell.  Although many students wish to attend Summer or Winter Session, limited funding restricts us to awarding scholarships to eligible applicants who receive Cornell grant aid and demonstrate both an academic and financial need. LSC Scholarships are for Cornell courses only, and cover the cost of tuition.

Priority for scholarships is given in the following order:

  1. Seniors who need to fulfill requirements for graduation.
  2. Upper-class students who did not successfully complete a core course.
  3. Students who need Summer or Winter Session credits to place them on schedule for graduation.
  4. Students who have been encouraged to moderate their course load by an advisor due to extenuating circumstances.
  5. Supporting students’ participation in a broad range of academic enrichment opportunities provided by Cornell.

If you wish to be nominated you must meet with, and receive approval from, the Undergraduate Major Coordinator (Emily) for your department.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The LSC Scholarship is not granted for academic acceleration.

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Earn a Minor in Design Strategy

The Department of Design + Environmental Analysis offers a minor in Design Strategy. This minor provides students with an understanding of design thinking and practice through the production of designed artifacts. The Design Strategy minor may be of particular interest to students from Information Science, Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and other Engineering departments who are seeking design studies that compliment and may partly overlap with their technical understanding. The Design Strategy minor is meant to help prepare students to design more holistically in response to today’s complex challenges and opportunities.

Learn more about the Design Strategy minor at https://www.human.cornell.edu/dea/academics/undergraduate/minors/design

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Apply for the Insight Fellows Program

Insight Fellows Program

Apply to the Insight Fellows Program by October 21: https://apply.insightdatascience.com

The Insight Fellows Programs are tuition-free fellowships for graduating students looking to transition to thriving careers as data scientists, engineers, and other cutting-edge professionals.

Insight Fellows:
– Pay no tuition; the program is fully funded by top companies
– Receive guidance throughout the entire process to meet, interview, and join top companies
– Launch a cutting-edge career where the average starting salary is $127K
– Join Insight from a wide range of backgrounds & education levels
– Join a community of 3,000 alumni that support each other throughout their careers

Insight alumni are now working at Facebook, LinkedIn, The New York Times, Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Github, Slack, 23andMe, Twitter, Bloomberg, NBC, Pinterest, Microsoft, Wayfair and 700+ other top companies.

We’re now accepting applications from graduating students (must have completed all coursework by January 13th in order to participate full time) for our winter sessions.

Programs:
– Artificial Intelligence
– Data Engineering
– DevOps Engineering
– Decentralized Consensus
– Security
– Data Science*
– Health Data Science*

*Please note that our programs are open to all degree levels, except our Data Science and Health programs, which have a PhD requirement

Locations:
-San Francisco
-New York
-Boston
-Seattle
-Toronto
-Los Angeles
-Remote Program

Upcoming Deadline & Start Date:
– Application deadline: October 21
– Session begins: January 13

Want to learn more about Insight? Sign up for our upcoming online info session:
Bridging the Gap to a Career in Data
DATE: Tuesday, October 15, 2019
TIME: 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET
Please sign up for the info session here.

Learn more & apply: https://apply.insightdatascience.com

Not ready to apply? Sign up for our notification list: https://notify.insightdatascience.com/notify
Questions? Email us at info@insightdatascience.com