SUNY Delhi offers the nation's first mechatronics major, a multidisciplinary field of engineering, incorporating controlled electronics, mechanical and computer systems; all to adapt to the ever-evolving and intricate systems of everything in industry; from food processing and car-manufacturing to sustainability and space exploration.
The 2023 EYH conference took place on April 1st and consisted of speakers, workshops, demonstrations, and lab tours geared towards motivating young scientists to get involved in STEM. Students participate in two or three workshops organized by Cornell students and faculty, tour state-of-the-art lab facilities on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, connect with peers and mentors, and learn that anyone with a curious mind has what it takes to pursue a future in STEM!
What is the discovery?
Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to recycle carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels. But for many years, scientists have struggled to understand how this common metal works as an electrocatalyst, a mechanism that uses energy from electrons to chemically transform molecules into different products.
A team of collaborators from the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell’s College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Australia’s CSIRO and Industry have been selected to participate in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, a program that supports interdisciplinary research solving societal challenges.
SMB is one of two beamlines at the Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) providing critical infrastructure in support of materials research for the U.S. Department of Defense. SMB is optimized for the study of structural materials – materials that can sustain a load or withstand an impact such as engineering alloys and composites.
Throw in a $28M construction project and a few routine upgrades, and there are bound to be more challenges, particularly unearthing a portion of the storage ring and tapping three new beamline holes into the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, CESR. These three new connections - and the large construction project they accompany - are all part of the New Experimental Hall. This ongoing construction project at Wilson Lab will house the High Magnetic Field Beamline and up to four additional beamlines.