<p>Does the coming Cornell Tech campus in NYC benefit the Cornell Ithaca students any, whether for internship/ research/ networking opportunities?</p>
<p>How new are the Cornell engineering and CS buildings/ engineering quad? I’m a bit concerned about how comfortable and functional the Cornell buildings are- many are historical but are the interiors renovated and modern?
For example, Georgia Tech seems to have many new gleaming modern buildings.</p>
<p>How good and available (not too crowded) are the CS (Gates Hall, etc.) and engineering labs and other facilities?</p>
<p>-IIRC none of the buildings on the engineering quad are “historical”. Those gothic-looking buildings you see are on the Arts quad. Originally engineering had one or two of those arts quad buildings, but that was many years ago. The engineering quad was developed much later. When I attended, the engineering quad buildings were perfectly functional inside, no complaints; less stellar externally. But they are constantly changing things there.</p>
<p>Duffield Hall, which houses nanoscience research, was completed in 2004
Not on the engineering quad but related,the Physical Sciences building is also of quite recent vintage, completed November 2010. </p>
<p>The labs were perfectly servicable when I attended, no complaints, but that was a long time ago,
I think you would need to visit to properly have your issues addressed to your own satisfaction.</p>
<p>It’s not a “coming” campus, that program already exists. It should boost Cornell’s prestige and there are also distance learning courses, but it probably doesn’t directly benefit that much.</p>
<p>The engineering buildings in particular are very new. Even the older buildings are perfectly functional.</p>
<p>The facilities are available and usually not crowded.</p>
<p>Ok thanks, that’s good to know! I guess I’m a bit picky b/c at my school students bring in food or put shoes on chairs, desks and things get dirty fast.</p>
<p>I read the NYC campus won’t be complete until 2017 and current classes are housed in google in NY. But the designs so far look impressive. It’ll be exciting to see how successful the NYC campus would be in trying to become the next tech and innovation hub. </p>
<p>Asked about NYC campus when we visited. Seemed like benefits for undergrads would be derivative, in the shape of potential incubation for start-up businesses, as the campus is expressly for business school at this point. </p>
<p>I see, sounds like if a Cornell student wants to do a startup s/he could go to Cornell NYC events to pitch the idea for funding/ partnership. But the 3+ travel time 1-way sounds like that would not be easy.</p>