Information for Graduate Students in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

What This Is

The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is associated with three graduate fields: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.  This site is intended as a repository of information about the policies and procedures of these fields, along with other potentially useful things for graduate students and faculty.


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If you are having any issues in your degree program, or have ideas for how to make things better, we hope that you will feel comfortable speaking directly with your advisor, committee, or any of the people listed below.  However, we realize that you may not always feel comfortable doing so.  In such cases, you can leave anonymous feedback via this survey: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQkvzPAiaF9SIxo.


People You Should Know

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Associate Director for Graduate Affairs, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies for Aerospace Engineering

Dmitry Savransky (mae-adga@cornell.edu)
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Role:  Faculty in charge of affairs of PhD students associated with Sibley School.  Includes students in ME, AE, and TAM fields, and students in other fields that are supervised by Sibley School faculty.  Controls resources related to students and, by courtesy from DGSs of ME, AE, TAM, controls admission to these three fields. As DGS, controls academic aspects of AE student progress toward degree. Signature required for basically every step of the process–committee, Q exam, A exam, B exam.  Runs Q exam for ME students.  By courtesy of ME DGS, also runs Q exam for ME students.

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Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering

Rob Shepherd (rfs247@cornell.edu)

Role:  Controls academic aspects of ME student progress toward degree. Signature required for basically every step of the process–committee, Q exam, A exam, B exam.  Defers Q exams to ADGA by courtesy.

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Director of Graduate Studies for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Meredith Silberstein

Role:  Controls academic aspects of TAM student progress toward degree. Signature required for basically every step of the process–committee, Q exam, A exam, B exam.

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Assistant Director for Graduate Affairs, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,

Graduate Field Administrator, ME field, AE Field, TAM Field

Sam Benson (maegrad@cornell.edu)

Role:  Staff in charge of affairs of PhD students associated with Sibley School.  Includes students in ME, AE, and TAM fields, and students in other fields that are supervised by Sibley School faculty.

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Graduate Admissions & FLAME Program Coordinator

Anya Hoaglund (abh88@cornell.edu)

Role:  Staff in charge of administering the graduate admissions process as well as the FLAME program.

Director, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • David Erickson
  • Role:  In charge of everything.  Appoints Associate Director for Graduate Affairs.  Less likely to be a direct contact for students, but certainly the person to go to if you have concerns about the Associate Director or your DGS.

Associate Director for Undergraduate Affairs, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering:

  • Guy Hoffman (mae-adua@cornell.edu)
  • Role:  Runs the undergraduate program.  Works with Associate Director of Graduate Affairs and DGSs regarding teaching assistantships.