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Office of Undergraduate Admissions Columbia University Columbia 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 For more information about Columbia University, please call our office, send us an email, or visit our website: Engineering 212-854-2522 [email protected] undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu Plus Added 3/4 pt Stroke Columbia Engineering Plus 1 Engineering Revolution 4 An Education for 12 2 Engineers Who Lead 3 Real Research, Real Impact 20 New York and 28 4 the Next Big Thing Our Students Define 36 5 Engineering Plus 6 Future Smart 48 Departments and Majors 54 Aerial view of Columbia campus with Columbia Engineering-affiliated buildings highlighted in blue. 1 Your personal path and society’s have converged at 1 a powerful moment. Pitching start-ups Among your generation will be a new era of pioneering creators and groundbreaking problem solvers. They will be doctors, journalists, researchers, CEOs, architects, lawyers, But artists, and policy makers. they will have one thing in common — Why? an engineer’s education. Because we live during an unprecedented time when engineering is the key to so much from medicine to moviemaking; from smart cities to smart policies; from new journalism to new economics to new technologies. 4 Ebola crisis 2 Columbia Engineering means not limiting yourself to one- It’s all happening at dimensional engineering Columbia Engineering. but rather gaining a deep understanding of the world itself. It means being part of a global capital of innovation, entrepreneurship, opportunity, and The uniqueness of engineering inspiration called New York City. here is that within our orbit are 1 equally powerful schools of medicine, Undergraduate journalism, business, public entrepreneurs attend a pitch competition, health, arts, law, social work, where students take 60 seconds to “pitch” and teaching. Building on more than their ideas for new 150 years as one of the world’s ventures and products to industry leaders. incubators of history-making 2 discovery, Columbia Engineering has With a nearly become emblematic of the new $1 million federal grant, Columbia Engineers 2 are studying cracking Climate change pan-disciplinary era in engineering. and collapsing polar ice sheets to better understand their link to global warming. 3 Established to accommodate creative, independently minded students eager to begin their own projects, the Makerspace at Columbia provides all students with equipment and training to design and fabricate their own prototypes. 4 Columbia Engineers worked together to develop low-cost, technology-driven solutions to confront the global Ebola crisis; one team of 3 undergraduates won Makerspace national recognition from USAID. We invite you to work with some of the greatest thinkers of our times. We invite you to become one yourself. 3 1 Engineering Revolution 4 5 Engineering Revolution What do curing disease, cybersecurity, investment banking, renewable energy, and digital media all have in common? Engineering. No silo-confined discipline but a transferable, transformational knowledge base, engineering has become a key to solving many of the world’s most pressing problems. Columbia Engineers are leading this revolution. Here’s where we’ve been and where we’re going. 1754 1910 Founded as King’s Navigation … the In 1910, Professor College, Columbia knowledge of … and future Nobelist University has various kinds of Thomas Hunt always been an Meteors, Stones, Morgan’s research institution of and for Mines and Minerals, on fruit flies led engineers. Among Plants and Animals, him to develop the other disciplines, and everything useful 1899 chromosome theory the University’s for the Comfort, the Michael Idvorsky of heredity — the original charter laid Convenience and Pupin 1883SEAS cornerstone of out a plan to teach invented the “Pupin modern genetics. Elegance of Life.” 1913 “the arts of Number coil,” extending the Edwin Howard and Measuring, range of long-distance Armstrong 1913SEAS of Surveying and telephones. invented the superheterodyne circuit and developed the method of frequency modulation (FM) for radio broadcasting. 1754 1850 1900 1940 1864 1932 Columbia founded Irving Langmuir the School of Mines, 1903SEAS invented the first in the US the gas-filled tungsten 1815 and the foundation 1904 lamp; his research John Stevens for today’s Columbia William Barclay in monolayering and 1768SEAS Engineering. The Parsons 1882SEAS was surface chemistry procured patents school’s first dean, the chief engineer of led to a Nobel Prize in in early steamboat Charles Frederick New York City’s first Chemistry in 1932. technology and Chandler, was subway system. received the first a pioneer of modern railroad charter in sanitation in his role as the United States. the head of the New York City Metropolitan Board of Health. Columbia effectiveness of our Engineering’s uniquely approach is the fact broad and rigorous that the world has education is a student’s long embraced best preparation for the work of Columbia a leadership role in Engineers, who engineering or in any continue to distinguish of the diverse career themselves in almost paths our graduates every field of human follow. Proof of the endeavor. 6 1954 Admiral Hyman George Rickover ’29SEAS served during the Second World War as head of the electrical section of the Navy’s Bureau of Ships. He directed the planning and construction of the world’s first nuclear submarine, launched in 1954. 1956 1982 Emerita Electrical Joseph Engelberger Engineering Professor ’46SEAS was the Gertrude Neumark father of modern Rothschild was robotics, founding inducted as a fellow of the world’s first the American Physical robotics company. Society in 1982 for her research improving light-emitting and laser diodes now used in many cell phones, flat- screen televisions, and Blu-ray disc players. 1960 1980 1978 Edmund DiGiulio ’50SEAS received both an Oscar and 1964 an Emmy for his Dr. Charles Hard development of the Townes shared the Steadicam and other Nobel Prize in Physics specialty cameras for his work at Columbia designed especially in quantum electronics for Stanley Kubrick that helped develop and now used laser technology. extensively by movie directors. 7 1997 Columbia Engineering is officially named 1996 The Fu Foundation School of Engineering A named inventor and Applied Science in multiple patents, (SEAS) in honor of Applied Physics and the late Chinese Applied Mathematics philanthropist Z. Y. Fu, Professor James Im who gave the school developed high-quality $26 million to bring silicon film, playing the best and brightest a crucial role in faculty and students to the latest generation Columbia Engineering. of flat-screens. Top display makers, including LG, Sharp, 1997 and Samsung, have Robert C. Merton already licensed this ’66SEAS won the technology. Nobel Prize in Economics for his role in developing a formula for the valuation of stock options. 1990 2000 1996 Computer Science Professor Shree Nayar invented the first 360-degree camera in 1996; he also created the BigShot, a low- 1998 cost camera used to Professor Emeritus teach engineering of Applied Physics concepts to children and I.I. Rabi Professor in high-need Emeritus of Physics populations. Horst Störmer won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. 8 2005 Industrial Engineering 2001 and Operations Electrical Engineering Research Professor Professor Keren Emanuel Derman Bergman, who developed one of joined SEAS in 2001, the first interest is working to speed rate models and his up the Internet. Her memoir, My Life as central research a Quant: Reflections on project involves the Physics and Finance, fiber-optic network — was selected as one the portion of the Web of Businessweek’s top that consists of optical ten books of 2005. fibers over which data can be sent in the form of light waves. Her work has captured 2003 the attention of Elisa Konofagou, 2001 industry partners like Associate Professor Applied Mathematics Alcatel-Lucent and of Biomedical Professor Chris Wiggins AT&T Labs Research. Engineering and ’93CC, who joined Radiology, is pioneering SEAS in 2001, is using new uses for an data-driven modeling to imaging technology determine how to turn that is radiation off cancer genes. free. She joined SEAS in 2003. 2002 2005 Computer Science Percy K. and Vida L. Professor Tony Jebara W. Hudson Professor is a coinventor and of Computer Science holds multiple patents Mihalis Yannakakis in vision, learning, won the Knuth Prize and spatiotemporal for the significance, 2002 modeling that have impact, and breadth of Michael Massimino social media and his contributions to ’84SEAS was one of face recognition theoretical computer two NASA astronauts applications. He joined science, including aboard the Columbia SEAS in 2002. contributions to Space Shuttle mission database and algorithmic that successfully graph theory. upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope. He was also the first person to tweet from space and is now a Columbia Engineering professor in mechanical engineering. 9 2008 Mechanical Engineering Professors Jeffrey Kysar and James Hone were the first to determine the actual 2010 strength of graphene, Mechanical the strongest material Engineering Professor ever measured. Kristin Myers studies the engineering 2008 behind pregnancy. Biomedical Her ultimate goal is to Engineering Professor prevent miscarriages Gordana Vunjak- and preterm labor. 2008 Novakovic created 2010 A cofounder of the the global water