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General Motors Considers Peter Jackson a "Most Valuable Colleague"

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ORIE Professor Peter Jackson has been named a "Most Valuable Colleague" of General Motors and has...

ORIE Junior Richard Dansoh Serves on Winning Team and Celebrates Cornell's Diversity Award

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ORIE's Richard Dansoh's team won an Engineers of Tomorrow Competition. Later he went to Washington...

Howard Singer Ph.D. '79 is a Pioneer in the Music Business

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Howard (Howie) Singer Ph.D. '79 told the Enterprise Engineering Colloquium about his work as Chief...

Graduate Programs

Doctor of Philosophy
Our Ph.D. program is rigorous academically, demanding independent investigation and achievement and characterizes original scholarly work of the highest caliber. Doctoral graduates are prepared for academic teaching and research positions and placement in the private sector.

Master of Engineering
Our Master of Engineering program is a full-time, professionally-oriented program that builds on traditional math, scientific, and engineering skills and concentrates on the application of these skills to practical problems. The M.Eng. degree requires the completion of an engineering design project in lieu of a research thesis.

Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan
Our Financial Engineering program is specifically designed to be a three-semester program (Fall-Spring-Fall), with the third (i.e., second fall) semester taking place at Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan in New York City.

Undergraduate Program

Bachelor of Science
A four-year course of study culminating in a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Engineering that is offered both in Operations Research and Engineering and Information Science, Systems and Technology.

OUR RESEARCH

Advanced Analysis. Optimal Results.
Cornell Operations Research harnesses the power of mathematical and computer modeling and information technology to help solve complex problems.

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What is OR?

Operations Research (OR) applies scientific method to the management of organized systems in business, industry, government and other enterprises.

Peter Frazier

Peter Frazier solves information collection problems. He is working with researchers at Georgetown University to find a drug that can stop Ewing's sarcoma from metastasizing.