An Education for Engineers Who Lead

Columbia Engineering Plus 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 Defi ne 36 5 Engineering Plus 6 Future Smart 48 Departments and Majors 54 Aerial view of Columbia campus with Columbia Engineering-a liated buildings highlighted in blue 1 Go to one of the oldest and most distinguished 1 3 Columbia Engineering’s engineering programs in the country, where College entrepreneurs A photo of the Our way of engineering attend PitchFest, Columbia Non- Better World BluePrint leadership, entrepreneurship, groundbreaking where students take neutral Torus, a small means joining some 90 seconds to “pitch” stellarator at the of today’s smartest, their ideas for new Columbia Plasma most versatile young innovation, and social responsibility are part of ventures and products Physics Laboratory to industry leaders. designed to conduct people to collaborate on It means gaining the air you breathe. the fi rst investigation high-impact research the tangible skills 2 of non-neutral with professors companies look for so With a nearly $1 plasmas confi ned on whose patented million federal grant, magnetic surfaces. that you are technically Don’t just be an “engineer.” Be a Columbia Columbia Engineers ideas and inventions astute — able to design, are studying cracking 4 Columbia Engineering generate more income build, and test your engineer. It will make all the di erence. and collapsing polar The Combustion & than almost any other ice sheets to better Catalysis Laboratory is believing that ideas — while also able understand their link focuses on converting engineering is essential university. to think about problems to global warming. carbon-based material to a safer, healthier — in a broader context so into something useful (such as greenhouse even happier — world you can bring creative gases into fuel). and future. ideas to the table. It means working on socially responsible, culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable solutions from day one. It means immersing Columbia Engineering yourself in a university means not limiting known around the world yourself to one- for its ield-shaping dimensional engineering thinkers in every discipline — not only in but rather gaining a deep Going to Columbia science and engineering understanding of the Engineering means but also in business, world itself before you becoming one of the economics, law, design, try solving its greatest most sought after media, and philosophy. challenges. young leaders of 1 2 PitchFest Climate Change your generation no matter what ield(s) you choose, from biomedical, chemical, mechanical, and inancial engineering to environmental law, nanotechnology, It’s a blueprint that calls Our blueprint for a computer science, or for living in a global better world is a formula medicine. capital of innovation, for leaders who are entrepreneurship, ready to solve society’s opportunity, and most pressing needs. inspiration, otherwise We invite you to make it known as New York City. your formula too. 3 4 Non-neutral Torus Combustion and Catalysis Laboratory 2 3 1 Engineering Revolution 4 5 Engineering Revolution What do curing disease, cyber security, investment banking, renewable energy, and digital media all have in common? Engineering. No silo-confi ned discipline but 1954 a transferable, transformational knowledge base, engineering has become a Admiral Hyman George Rickover, key to solving many of the world’s most pressing problems. Columbia Engineers Class of 1929, served are leading this revolution. Here’s where we’ve been and where we’re going. during the Second World War as head of the electrical section 1754 1910 of the Navy’s Bureau Founded as King’s Navigation … the In 1910, Professor of Ships. He directed College, Columbia knowledge of … and future Nobelist the planning and University has various kinds of Thomas Hunt construction of the always been an Meteors, Stones, Morgan’s research world’s irst nuclear 1956 institution of and for Mines and Minerals, on fruit lies led submarine, launched Joseph Engelberger, engineers. Among Plants and Animals, him to develop the in 1954. Class of 1946, was 1982 other disciplines, and everything useful 1899 chromosome theory the father of modern Emerita Electrical the University’s for the Comfort, the Michael Idvorsky of heredity—the robotics, founding the Engineering Professor original charter laid Convenience and Pupin, Class of 1883, cornerstone of world’s irst robotics Gertrude Neumark out a plan to teach Elegance of Life.” invented the “Pupin modern genetics. company. 1913 Rothchild was “the arts of Number coil,” extending the Edwin Howard inducted as a fellow of and Measuring, range of long-distance Armstrong, Class of the American Physical of Surveying and telephones. 1913, invented the Society in 1982 for her superheterodyne research improving circuit and developed light emtting and laser the method of diodes now used in frequency modulation many cellphones, lat- (FM) for radio screen televisions, and broadcasting. Blu-ray disc players. 1754 1850 1900 1940 1960 1980 1864 1932 1978 Columbia founds the Irving Langmuir, Class Edmund DiGiulio, School of Mines, the of 1903, invented the Class of 1950, irst in the U.S. and the gas-illed tungsten lamp; received both an 1815 foundation for today’s 1904 research in monolayering 1964 Oscar and an Emmy John Stevens, Columbia Engineering. William Barclay and surface chemistry Dr. Charles Hard for his development Class of 1768, Parsons, Class of 1882, led to a Nobel Prize in Townes shares the of the Steadicam procured patents was the chief engineer chemistry in 1932. Nobel Prize in Physics and other specialty in early steamboat of New York City’s irst for his work at Columbia cameras designed technology; subway system. in quantum electronics especially for Stanley received the irst that helped develop Kubrick and now used railroad charter in laser technology. extensively by movie United States. directors. Columbia e ectiveness of our Engineering’s approach is the fact uniquely broad and that the world has long rigorous education embraced the work of is a student’s best Columbia Engineers, preparation for who continue a leadership role in to distinguish engineering or in any themselves in almost of the diverse career every fi eld of human paths our graduates endeavor. follow. Proof of the 6 7 2005 Industrial Engineering 2001 and Operations Electrical Engineering Research Professor Professor Keren Emanuel Derman Bergman, who developed one of 1997 joined SEAS in 2001, the irst interest Columbia Engineering is working to speed rate models and his is o¡ icially named up the Internet. Her memoir, My Life as a 1996 The Fu Foundation central research Quant: Relections on School of Engineering A named inventor project involves the Physics and Finance, and Applied Science in multiple patents, iber optic network— was selected as one of in honor of the late Applied Physics and the portion of the Web Business Week’s top Chinese philanthropist Applied Mathematics that consists of optical ten books of 2005. Z.Y. Fu, who gave the Professor James Im’s ibers over which data school $26 million process for developing can be sent in the form to bring the best and high-quality silicon ilm of light waves. Her brightest faculty and is playing a crucial role work has captured the 2003 students to Columbia in the latest generation attention of industry Elisa Konofagou, an Engineering. of lat-screens. Top 2001 partners like Alcatel- associate professor display makers, Applied Mathematics Lucent Bell Labs and of biomedical including LG Display, 1997 Professor Chris AT&T Labs Research. engineering and Sharp, and Samsung, Robert C. Merton, Wiggins, who joined radiology, is pioneering have already licensed Class of 1966, won SEAS in 2001, is using new uses for an this technology. the Nobel Prize in data-driven modeling imaging technology Economics for his role to determine how to that is radiation free. in developing a formula turn o© cancer genes. She joined SEAS for the valuation of in 2003. stock options. 1990 2000 1996 2002 2004 Computer Science Computer Science Earth and Environmental Professor Shree Nayar Professor Tony Jebara Engineering Professor invented the irst is a coinventor and Klaus Lackner, who 360-degree camera in holds multiple patents joined SEAS in 2004, 1996; he also created in vision, learning, is developing “artiicial the BigShot, low-cost and spatio-temporal trees” that will scrub 1998 cameras used to teach modeling that have carbon dioxide out of Professor of 2002 engineering concepts social media and the atmosphere in much Applied Physics Michael J. Massimino, to children in high- face recognition the same way that real Horst Stormer Class of 1984, was need populations. applications. He joined trees do. won the Nobel one of two NASA SEAS in 2002. Prize for Physics astronauts aboard for his discovery the Columbia shuttle of a new form of mission which quantum luid successfully upgraded with fractionally the Hubble Space charged Telescope (he was excitations. also the irst person to Tweet from space). 8 9 2008 2011 2011 2011 Mechanical Popular Science Kartik Chandran, Columbia Engineering Engineering magazine named associate professor of became home to the Professors Jerey Computer Science Earth & Environmental City of New York’s Kysar and James Professor Eitan Engineering, is Urban Technology Hone were the irst to Grinspun among awarded $1.5 million Innovation Center. determine the actual its “Brilliant 10,” the from the Bill & Melinda The Center connects strength of graphene, magazine’s annual Gates Foundation to the latest scientiic the strongest material list of the top 10 develop technology developments, green 2008 ever measured. researchers in that will convert waste building technology the United States. treatment facilities companies, and A cofounder of the Grinspun studies the into bioreineries, a building owners in Columbia Water 2008 basic rules of motion practical boon for poor New York to build a Center, Earth and Biomedical and turns them into and resource-starved greater, greener New Environmental Engineering Professor 2010 computer programs regions.

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