The concentration in Urban Tech will welcome its inaugural class in Fall 2020. The concentration is the result of a collaboration between the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, and Cornell Engineering.
Though the Urban Tech concentration is new, the focus on developing emerging urban tech tools is not new at Cornell Tech. More than a dozen teams of graduate students are currently working on Urban Tech projects in the Product Studio course, where students across Cornell Tech’s seven masters programs tackle real-life challenges posed by businesses and organizations.
In partnership with ARUP, the MTA, the New York City Mayor’s Office, the City of Holyoke and many more organizations, students are already developing new technologies in response to questions such as: “how might cities reduce gas consumption and greenhouse gas emissions as we move towards a renewable future?”; “how might we improve access to transportation for people with special needs?”; and “how might we enhance safety for domestic violence survivors in their homes and communities?”