The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (popularly known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering; previously known as Columbia School of Mines) is the engineering and applied science school of

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. It was founded as the School of Mines in 1863 and then the School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry before becoming the School of Engineering and Applied Science. On October 1, 1997, the school was renamed in honor of Chinese businessman Z.Y. Fu, who had donated $26 million to the school. The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science maintains a close research tie with other institutions including

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, IBM,

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, and

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. Patents owned by the school generate over $100 million annually for the university. SEAS faculty and alumni are responsible for technological achievements including the developments of FM radio and the

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. The School's

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemati ...

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

and the

financial engineering Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathem ...

program in

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

are very famous and highly ranked. The current SEAS faculty include 27 members of the

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and one Nobel laureate. In all, the faculty and alumni of Columbia Engineering have won 10 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics. The school consists of approximately 300 undergraduates in each graduating class and maintains close links with its undergraduate

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sister school Columbia College which shares housing with SEAS students. The School's current dean is Shih-Fu Chang, who was appointed in 2022.

History

Original charter of 1754

Included in the original charter for Columbia College was the direction to teach "the arts of Number and Measuring, of Surveying and Navigation ..the knowledge of ..various kinds of Meteors, Stones, Mines and Minerals, Plants and Animals, and everything useful for the Comfort, the Convenience and Elegance of Life." Engineering has always been a part of Columbia, even before the establishment of any separate school of engineering. An early and influential graduate from the school was John Stevens, Class of 1768. Instrumental in the establishment of U.S. patent law, Stevens procured many patents in early steamboat technology, operated the first steam ferry between New York and New Jersey, received the first railroad charter in the U.S., built a pioneer locomotive, and amassed a fortune, which allowed his sons to found the

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. (Excerpt fro
SEAS
website.) When Columbia University first resided on Wall Street, engineering did not have a school under the Columbia umbrella. After Columbia outgrew its space on Wall Street, it relocated to what is now Midtown Manhattan in 1857. Then President Barnard and the Trustees of the University, with the urging of Professor

Thomas Egleston Thomas Egleston (December 9, 1832 – January 15, 1900) was an American engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines, now the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Throughout his lifetime, Egleston publis ...

and General Vinton, approved the School of Mines in 1863. The intention was to establish a School of Mines and Metallurgy with a three-year program open to professionally motivated students with or without prior undergraduate training. It was officially founded in 1864 under the leadership of its first dean, Columbia professor

Charles F. Chandler Charles Frederick Chandler (December 6, 1836 – August 25, 1925) was an American chemist, best known for his regulatory work in public health, sanitation, and consumer safety in New York City, as well as his work in chemical education—first a ...

, and specialized in mining and mineralogical engineering. An example of work from a student at the School of Mines was

William Barclay Parsons William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 – May 9, 1932) was an American civil engineer. He founded Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms. Personal life Parsons was the son of William Barclay Parsons (1828– ...

, Class of 1882. He was an engineer on the Chinese railway and the Cape Cod and Panama Canals. Most importantly he worked for New York, as a chief engineer of the city's first subway system, the

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. Opened in 1904, the subway's electric cars took passengers from City Hall to Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the newly renamed and relocated Columbia University in Morningside Heights, its present location on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Renaming to the School of Mines

In 1896, the school was renamed to the "School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry". During this time, the University was offering more than the previous name had implied, thus the change of name. The faculty during this time included

Michael I. Pupin Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin ( sr-Cyrl, Михајло Идворски Пупин, ; 4 October 1858Although Pupin's birth year is sometimes given as 1854 (and Serbia and Montenegro issued a postage stamp in 2004 to commemorate the 150th anniversary o ...

, after whom

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is named. Pupin himself was a graduate of the Class of 1883 and the inventor of the "

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", a device that extended the range of long-distance telephones. Students of his included Irving Langmuir, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1932), inventor of the gas-filled tungsten lamp and a contributor to the development of the radio

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. Another student to work with Pupin was Edwin Howard Armstrong, inventor of FM radio. After graduating in 1913 Armstrong was stationed in France during World War I. There he developed the superheterodyne receiver to detect the frequency of enemy aircraft ignition systems. During this period, Columbia was also home to the "Father of Biomedical Engineering"

Elmer L. Gaden Elmer L. Gaden Jr. (1923 – 10 March 2012) has been described as "the father of biochemical engineering".http://www.nae.edu/cms/9105.aspx The American Chemical Society's Chemical and Engineering News "Chemical Innovators" series named Gade ...

Recent and future developments

The university continued to evolve and expand as the United States became a major political power during the 20th century. In 1926, the newly renamed School of Engineering prepared students for the nuclear age. Graduating with a master's degree, Hyman George Rickover, working with the Navy's Bureau of Ships, directed the development of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the

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, which was launched in 1954. The school's first woman graduate received her degree in 1945. After a substantial grant of $26 million from Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu, the engineering school was renamed again in 1997. The new name, as it is known today is the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. SEAS continues to be a teaching and research institution, now with a large endowment of over $400 million, and sits under the Columbia umbrella endowment of $7.2 billion.

Admissions

The admissions rate for the SEAS undergraduate class of 2018 was approximately 7%. Approximately 95% of accepted students were in the top 10% of their graduating class; 99% were in the top 20% of their class. 58% of admitted students attended high schools that do not rank. The yield rate for the class of 2014 was 59%. As for SAT scores, SEAS students within the Columbia University community have raised the composite SAT statistic for the undergraduates at Columbia University. The Class of 2013's SAT interquartile range was 2060–2320 and 1400–1560 (old SAT). The ACT composite interquartile range was 32–34. Those accepting enrollment at Columbia SEAS typically completed engineering programs at the undergraduate level and are pursuing professional graduate school in engineering, business, law, or medical school, so as to become what Columbia terms "engineering leaders." Engineering leaders are those who pioneer or define engineering: patent lawyers, doctors with specialties in biophysical engineering, financial engineers, inventors, etc. Columbia Engineering's graduate programs have an overall acceptance rate of 28.0% in 2010. The PhD student–faculty ratio at the graduate level is 4.2:1 according to the 2008 data compiled by U.S. News & World Report. PhD acceptance rate was 12% in 2010.

Academics

Rankings

Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science is one of the top engineering schools in the United States and the world. As of April 2022, it is ranked 13th among the best engineering schools by '' U.S. News & World Report'', and first within the

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, tied with

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. Its undergraduate engineering program is ranked 21st in the country, according to ''U.S. News''. In 2010, the US National Research Council revealed its new analyses and rankings of American university doctoral programs since 1995. Columbia Engineering ranked 10th in biomedical engineering, 18th in chemical engineering, 26th in electrical engineering, 14th in mechanical engineering (5th in research), 9th in operations research & industrial engineering, 7th in applied mathematics, and 6th in computer sciences. The school's department of computer science is ranked 11th in the nation, 36th in the world by '' U.S. News & World Report'', and 18th worldwide by

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. Its

program is ranked 9th according to US News. Among the small prestigious programs, the school's

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is ranked 20th, civil engineering and engineering mechanics 18th, electrical engineering 3rd,

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4th,

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and

4th, material engineering 10th,

15th, and

15th, according to

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'', Columbia's

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is 6th in the nation, its

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4th, industrial engineering 7th, mechanical engineering 5th, applied physics 8th, and operations research 6th. Finally, Columbia's

program is ranked 3rd nationally, according to the 2020 ranking from Quantnet.

Facilities

Columbia's Plasma Physics Laboratory is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), in which the HBT and Columbia Non-Neutral

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are housed. The school also has two

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s, a machine shop, a nanotechnology laboratory, a General Dynamics TRIGA Mk. II nuclear fission reactor, a large scale

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for geotechnical testing, and an axial tester commonly used for testing New York City bridge cables. Each department has numerous laboratories on the Morningside Heights campus; however, other departments have holdings throughout the world. For example, the Applied Physics department has reactors at Nevis Labs in Irvington, NY and conducts work with CERN in Geneva.

Notable alumni

The School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrates its ties and affiliations with at least 8 alumni Nobel Laureates. Alumni of Columbia Engineering have gone on to numerous fields of profession. Many have become prominent scientists, astronauts, architects, government officials, pioneers, entrepreneurs, company CEOs, financiers, and scholars. File:Hollerith.jpg,

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and

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and the namesake of Chester Peak * Henry Smith Munroe (E.M. 1869, Ph.D. 1877), Foreign advisor to Meiji Japan *

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from 1901 to 1902 * Frederick Remsen Hutton (E.M. 1876), secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1883 to 1906 * Marcus Benjamin (Ph.B. 1878), editor * William Hamilton Russell (1878), architect who founded firm

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; designed the American International Building,

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from New York *

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(1879), American industrial

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and physical chemist whose inventions include the

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(1884),

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and

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* Walter Hull Aldridge (1887), President and Chairman of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company; recipient of the

John Fritz Medal The John Fritz Medal has been awarded annually since 1902 by the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) for "outstanding scientific or industrial achievements". The medal was created for the 80th birthday of John Fritz, who lived betw ...

and the

William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal The William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal was first awarded in 1927 and recognizes "distinguished achievement in mining other than coal". The award is funded by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and named fo ...

Jennings Cox Jennings Stockton Cox, Jr. (November 23, 1866 – August 31, 1913) was an American mining engineer who is said to have invented the drink known as the daiquiri in the late nineteenth century while working as an expatriate engineer in Cuba. Biogr ...

(1887), mining engineer credited with inventing the cocktail

Daiquiri The daiquiri (; es, daiquirí ) is a cocktail whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic '' The Fine Ar ...

Graham Lusk Graham Lusk FRS(For) FRSE (February 15, 1866 - July 18, 1932) was an American physiologist, and nutritionist. He graduated from Columbia University, and from University of Munich with a PhD. He was an expert on diabetes. He was profoundly deaf ...

(1887), American physiologist and

nutritionist A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and nutrition and their impacts on health. Some people specialize in particular areas, such as sports nutrition, public health, or animal nutrition, among other disciplines. In many ...

Allen Tucker Allen Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist. Biography He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a draftsman at McIlvaine ...

(1887), architect and artist *

Edwin Gould I Edwin Gould Sr. (February 26, 1866 – July 12, 1933) was an American investor and railway official. Biography Gould was born in Manhattan, New York City, to railroad financier Jay Gould on February 26, 1866. He studied at Columbia University ...

(1888), American investor and railway official; son of financier

Jay Gould Jason Gould (; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him ...

* F. Augustus Heinze (1889), copper magnate and founder of

United Copper The United Copper Company was a short-lived United States copper mining business in the early 20th century that played a pivotal role in the Panic of 1907. United Copper was incorporated in 1902 by F. Augustus Heinze, a copper magnate who had tuss ...

; one of the three "

Copper Kings The Copper Kings were the three industrialists Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, and F. Augustus Heinze. They were known for the epic battles fought in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age, over control of the local copper ...

" of Butte, Montana *

Winifred Edgerton Merrill Winifred Edgerton (September 24, 1862 – September 6, 1951) was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.Kelly, S. E. and ...

(PhD. 1889), first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics * James Monroe Hewlett (1890), American architect who created the mural on the ceiling of the Grand Central Terminal *

George Oakley Totten Jr. George Oakley Totten Jr. (December 5, 1866 – February 1, 1939), was one of Washington D.C.’s most prolific and skilled architects in the Gilded Age. His international training and interest in architectural decoration led to a career of continu ...

(1891), prolific architect in

Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...

who designed Meridian Hall, the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C. and the

Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C. The Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C., is the Republic of Ecuador's diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 2535 15th Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood. The current building has been used as an ...

John Stone Stone John Stone Stone (September 24, 1869 – May 20, 1943) was an American mathematician, physicist and inventor. He initially worked in telephone research, followed by influential work developing early radio technology, where he was especially ...

(1890s), early

telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

Herschel Clifford Parker Herschel Clifford Parker (born Brooklyn, New York, 9 July 1867; died 1931) was a United States physicist and mountaineer. Biography He graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1890, receiving a degree of Ph.B., and was connected with the f ...

(PhB. 1890), physicist and mountaineer * William H. Woodin (1890), American industrialist, 51st

Gano Dunn Gano Sillick Dunn (October 18, 1870 – April 10, 1953) was President of Cooper Union, and an early Chairman and CEO of the United States National Research Council. Early life and education Son of Civil War veteran General N. Gano Dunn and Ame ...

(1891), former president of Cooper Union and recipient of

IEEE Edison Medal The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this fi ...

; former Chairman and CEO of the

National Research Council National Research Council may refer to: * National Research Council (Canada), sponsoring research and development * National Research Council (Italy), scientific and technological research, Rome * National Research Council (United States), part of ...

Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui Gonzalo de Quesada (December 15, 1868 - January 9, 1915) was a key architect of Cuba's Independence Movement with José Martí during the late 19th century. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France. Biography He was born ...

(1891), Cuban revolutionary, minister to the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

, signer of the Hay-Quesada Treaty *

Heinrich Ries Heinrich Ries (April 30, 1871 – April 11, 1951) was an American economic geologist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Columbia University and at the University of Berlin. He was employed principally at Cornell University, initially as ...

(1892), American economic geologist; professor at

Chester Holmes Aldrich Chester Holmes Aldrich (4 June 1871 – 26 December 1940) was an American architect and director of the American Academy in Rome. Early life Aldrich was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the third son of Anna Elizabeth (née Gladding) an ...

(PhB. 1893), former director of

American Academy in Rome The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo (Janiculum Hill) in Rome. The academy is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. History In 1893, a group of American architects, ...

and architect who designed the

Kykuit Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefelle ...

V. Everit Macy Valentine Everit Macy (March 23, 1871 – March 21, 1930) was an American industrialist and philanthropist, involved in local government. In the 1910s and 1920s, he served in Westchester County, New York, as commissioner of the Department of Chari ...

(PhB, 1893), American industrialist, former president of the

National Civic Federation The National Civic Federation (NCF) was an American economic organization founded in 1900 which brought together chosen representatives of big business and organized labor, as well as consumer advocates in an attempt to ameliorate labor disputes. I ...

, major benefactor to

Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College, Columbia University (TC), is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Founded in 1887, it has served as one of the official faculties and ...

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, Jr. (September 29, 1872 – December 15, 1938) was a prominent American Beaux-Arts and Gothic Revival architect. Early life He was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1872. Murchison graduated from Columbia Universi ...

(1894), American architect who designed the

Havana Central railway station Havana Central ( es, La Habana Central, links=no; the "Central Railway Station", ) is the main railway terminal in Havana and the largest railway station in Cuba, is the hub of the rail system in the country. It serves for the arrival and dep ...

Pennsylvania Station Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated Penn Station) is a name applied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to several of its grand passenger terminals. Several are still in active use by Amtrak and other transportation services; others have been ...

in Baltimore, and the

Murchison Building The Murchison Building is an eleven-story brick and marble building in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. It occupies the corner of Front and Chestnut Street. Sitting on historic waterfront property, the building overlooks the Cotton Exchange and ...

Wilmington, North Carolina Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is t ...

Gustavus Town Kirby Gustavus Town Kirby (January 22, 1874 - February 28, 1956) was the president of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1911 to 1913. He was on every United States Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1956. He was chairman of the advisory committee for the ...

(1895), president of the

Amateur Athletic Union The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. It h ...

and member of the

United States Olympic Committee The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Col ...

from 1896 to 1956 *

Leon Moisseiff Leon Solomon Moisseiff (November 10, 1872 – September 3, 1943) was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was awarded The Franklin Institute's Louis E. Levy Medal in 1933. His developments of the ...

(1895), American engineer and designer of the Manhattan Bridge * George Gustav Heye (EE. 1896), investment banker and founder of the

National Museum of the American Indian The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers. The museum has three ...

in New York, and namesake of the

George Gustav Heye Center The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is part of the Sm ...

Ambrose Monell Ambrose Monell (1873 – May 2, 1921) was an American industrialist and military commander. He served as the first president of the International Nickel Company and was the namesake of the alloy known as Monel. Biography Monell was born in 187 ...

(1896), American industrialist, first president of

International Nickel Company Vale Canada Limited (formerly Vale Inco, CVRD Inco and Inco Limited; for corporate branding purposes simply known as "Vale" and pronounced in English) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. Vale's nickel mining and ...

, namesake of the

Monel Monel is a group of alloys of nickel (from 52 to 67%) and copper, with small amounts of iron, manganese, carbon, and silicon. Monel is not a cupronickel alloy because it has less than 60% copper. Stronger than pure nickel, Monel alloys are res ...

alloy *

Alfred Chester Beatty Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968)Seanad 1985: "Chester Beatty died at the Princess Grace Clinic, Monte Carlo, on 19 January 1968, .. (some sources give this as 20 January). was an American-British mining magnate, p ...

(E.M. 1898), mining magnate and millionaire, often referred to as "King of Copper", founder of the

Chester Beatty Library The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in Dublin. It was established in Ireland in 1950, to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The present museum, on the grounds of ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...

Hugh Auchincloss Brown Hugh Auchincloss Brown (23 December 1879 – 19 November 1975) was an electrical engineer who advanced a theory of catastrophic pole shift. Brown claimed that massive accumulation of ice at the poles caused recurring tipping of the axis in cycles ...

(E.E. 1900), electrical engineer and conspiracy theorist, proponent of the

cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudo-scientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth, causing calamities such as floods and tectonic events or relatively rapid climate change ...

, member of the

Auchincloss Auchincloss is a surname of Scottish origin, derived from an area in Ayrshire known as ''Auchincloich'', which is Scottish Gaelic for "field of stones". It is also the name of a prominent American family, from ' ("field") and ' ("stone"). Notable ...

family * Reno H. Sales (E. M. 1900), Chief Geologist of Anaconda Copper, "father of mining geology" *

Richard E. Dougherty Richard Erwin Dougherty (February 3, 1880 – September 9, 1961) was an American civil engineer. He was vice president of New York Central System and played a role in White House Reconstruction. He was president of the American Society of Civil ...

(C.E. 1901), vice president of

New York Central System The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mid ...

and president of the

American Society of Civil Engineers American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

* Irving Langmuir (1903), Winner of the 1932

, produced gas-filled incandescent lamp, explorer of the vacuum * Don Gelasio Caetani (1903), mayor of

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

and Italian ambassador to the United States * Stephen J. Pigott (1903), American marine engineer, managing director of

John Brown & Company John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including , , , , , and the ''Queen Elizabeth 2''. At its height, from 1900 to the 1950s, it was one of ...

* Robert Stangland (1904),

athlete; bronze medalist in

Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics At the 1904 Summer Olympics, twenty-five athletics events were contested. A total of 74 medals (25 gold, 25 silver and 24 bronze) were awarded. Multi-event competitions, the all-around and triathlon, were introduced, along with a 56-pound weight ...

Peter Cooper Hewitt Peter Cooper Hewitt (May 5, 1861 – August 25, 1921) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp in 1901. Hewitt was issued on September 17, 1901. In 1903, Hewitt created an improved version t ...

(1906), engineer who invented the first

Mercury-vapor lamp A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined to a small fused quartz arc tube mounted within a larger soda lime or borosilicate gl ...

in 1901, the

Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop a flying bomb, or pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives to its target. It is considered by some to be a precursor of the cruise missile. Co ...

, and the

Mercury-arc valve A mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (UK) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high-voltage or high-current alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC). It is a type of cold cathode gas-fil ...

, son of New York mayor and philanthropist

Abram Hewitt Abram Stevens Hewitt (July 31, 1822January 18, 1903) was an American politician, educator, ironmaking industrialist, and lawyer who was mayor of New York City for two years from 1887–1888. He also twice served as a U.S. Congressman from an ...

Reginald J. S. Pigott Reginald James Seymour Pigott (Februari 4, 1886 – December 23, 1966) was a British/American mechanical and consulting engineer, director of the engineering division of Gulf Research & Development Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil, and inventor. P ...

(1906), former president of the

Society of Automotive Engineers SAE International, formerly named the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a United States-based, globally active professional association and standards developing organization for engineering professionals in various industries. SAE Internatio ...

and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers *

(1908), Winner of 1950

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according ...

* Edmund Prentis (B.S. 1906), former president of the American Standards Association, art collector * Roger W. Toll (B.S. 1906), mountaineer, former superintendent of Mount Rainier,

Rocky Mountain The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in ...

, and

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowst ...

s * James Kip Finch (B.S. 1906), American engineer and educator, dean of Columbia Engineering from 1941 to 1950 * Maurice L. Sindeband (E.E. 1907), American electrical engineer, former president of the

Ogden Corporation Ogden may refer to: Places Canada *Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta *Ogden, Quebec, a small municipality in the Eastern Townships *Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia *Ogd ...

* Kingdon Gould Sr. (E.M. 1909), financier and polo player; father of ambassador

Kingdon Gould Jr. Kingdon Gould Jr. (January 3, 1924 – January 16, 2018) was an American diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. A Republican Party (United States), Republican businessman, Gould was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as United Stat ...

Grover Loening Grover Cleveland Loening (September 12, 1888 – February 29, 1976) was an American aircraft manufacturer. Biography Loening was born in Bremen, in what was then Imperial Germany, on September 12, 1888, while his American-born father was statione ...

(M.S. 1910), American aircraft manufacturer, designer of first successful

monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...

(1910), one of the greatest chess players of all time * Alfonso Valdés Cobián (E.E. 1911), Puerto Rican industrialist, co-founder of

Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico The Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico (formerly known as Cervecería India) is a large brewery in Puerto Rico. It is located in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The company's main brand is ''Medalla Light''. History The company was founded on November ...

Eugene Dooman Eugene Hoffman Dooman (March 25, 1890 – February 2, 1969) was a counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the critical negotiations between the two countries before World War II. Background Born in Osaka to Grace and Isaac Dooman, t ...

(1912), counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo vital in the negotiations between the U.S. and Japan before

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

David Steinman David Steinman is an environmentalist, journalist, consumer health advocate, publisher and author. He has published five books focusing largely on environmental, dietary, and consumer safety issues, including ''Diet for a Poisoned Planet'' in 19 ...

(PhD. 1911), director of the reconstruction of Brooklyn Bridge * Harry Babcock (1912), 1912 Olympic champion in

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

ing *

Harvey Seeley Mudd Harvey Seeley Mudd (30 August 1888– 12 April 1955) was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles–based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus. Mudd ...

(B.S. 1912), Metallurgical Engineer, president of

Cyprus Mines Corporation The Cyprus Mines Corporation was an early twentieth century American mining company based in Cyprus. In 1914, Charles G. Gunther began prospecting in the Skouriotissa area after reading in ancient books that the island was rich in copper and n ...

, co-founder of Claremont McKenna College and namesake of Harvey Mudd College of Engineering * Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (E.M. 1912),

United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia The nation of Yugoslavia was formed on December 1, 1918 as a result of the realignment of nations and national boundaries in Europe in the aftermath of World War I. The nation was first named the ''Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'' and was ...

United States Ambassador to Switzerland This is a list of United States ambassadors to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein. History Since 1997, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland has also been accredited to the Principality of Liechtenstein. Appointed on Feb ...

, United States Ambassador to Guatemala * Edwin Armstrong (E.E. 1913), inventor of the

frequency modulation Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave. The technology is used in telecommunications, radio broadcasting, signal processing, and computing. In analog fre ...

transmission method * Willard F. Jones (M.S. 1916),

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, head of National Safety Council's marine section and Vice President of

Gulf Oil Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger ...

* Seeley G. Mudd (B.S. 1917), American physician, professor and major philanthropist to academic institutions; namesake of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

Philip Sporn Philip Sporn (November 25, 1896 in Folotwin, Austria – January 23, 1978 in New York City) was an Austrian electrical engineer known for his work as the president and chief executive officer of the American Gas and Electric Company. He re ...

(E.E. 1917), Austrian engineer and recipient of

; former president and CEO of

American Electric Power American Electric Power (AEP), (railcar reporting mark: AEPX) is a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States, delivering electricity to more than five million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation's largest g ...

* Allen Carpé (E.E. 1919), first person to have climbed

Mount Bona Mount Bona is one of the major mountains of the Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska, and is the fifth-highest independent peak in the United States.This counts both the North and South Peaks of Denali (Mount McKinley), which is not a universal ...

Mount Fairweather Mount Fairweather (officially gazetted as Fairweather Mountain in Canada but referred to as Mount Fairweather), is the highest mountain in the Canadian province of British Columbia, with an elevation of . It is located east of the Pacific Ocean ...

, and Mount Logan *

Radu Irimescu Radu Irimescu (December 9, 1890 – May 1975) was a Romanian businessman, politician, and diplomat. The son of an admiral, Irimescu joined the Romanian Navy and, being first in his class, was sent to Germany, as a pre-World War I Romanian-Ge ...

(1920), former Romanian ambassador to the United States * Langston Hughes (1922), poet of the Harlem Renaissance * Arthur Loughren (M.S. 1925),

Pioneer Pioneer commonly refers to a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land. In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and de ...

radio engineering Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broadcasting. Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential ...

and television engineering * Edward Lawry Norton (M.S. 1925), Bell Lab engineer, developer of

Norton equivalent circuit In direct-current circuit theory, Norton's theorem, also called the Mayer–Norton theorem, is a simplification that can be applied to networks made of linear time-invariant resistances, voltage sources, and current sources. At a pair of term ...

Hyman Rickover Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an admiral in the U.S. Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors off ...

(M.S. 1928), Father of the Nuclear

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

Raymond D. Mindlin Raymond David Mindlin (New York City, 17 September 1906 – 22 November 1987) was an American mechanical engineer, Professor of Applied Science at Columbia University, and recipient of the 1946 Presidential Medal for Merit and many other awards an ...

(B.S. 1931), researcher and professor known for his contributions to

applied mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

, and

Engineering Science Engineering physics, or engineering science, refers to the study of the combined disciplines of physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and engineering, particularly computer, nuclear, electrical, electronic, aerospace, materials or mechanical en ...

s, recipient of

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

* Helmut W. Schulz (B.S. 1933, M.S. 1934), President Dynecology, developed uranium centrifugation (

gas centrifuge A gas centrifuge is a device that performs isotope separation of gases. A centrifuge relies on the principles of centrifugal force accelerating molecules so that particles of different masses are physically separated in a gradient along the radiu ...

), laser analysis, safe waste conversion * Robert D. Lilley (B.S. 1934), Former President of the

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile te ...

from 1972 to 1976 * Herbert L. Anderson (B.S. 1935), established

Enrico Fermi Institute __NOTOC__ The Institute for Nuclear Studies was founded September 1945 as part of the University of Chicago with Samuel King Allison as director. On November 20, 1955, it was renamed The Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies. The name was s ...

and nuclear physicist in the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

Daniel C. Drucker Daniel Charles Drucker (June 3, 1918 – September 1, 2001) was American civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society for Experimental Mechanics) in 1960–1961, ...

(PhD. 1939), American engineer and recipient of

Antoine Marc Gaudin Antoine Marc Gaudin (August 8, 1900 – August 23, 1974) was a metallurgist who laid the foundation for understanding the scientific principles of the froth flotation process in the minerals industry. He was also a professor at the Massachusetts ...

(E.M. 1921), professor at

and a founding member of

John R. Ragazzini John Ralph Ragazzini (January 3, 1912 – November 22, 1988) was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Biography Ragazzini was born in Manhattan, New York City from Italian immigrants Luigi Ragazzini an ...

(PhD. 1941), pioneered the development of the

z-transform In mathematics and signal processing, the Z-transform converts a discrete-time signal, which is a sequence of real or complex numbers, into a complex frequency-domain (z-domain or z-plane) representation. It can be considered as a discrete-tim ...

method in

discrete-time In mathematical dynamics, discrete time and continuous time are two alternative frameworks within which variables that evolve over time are modeled. Discrete time Discrete time views values of variables as occurring at distinct, separate "po ...

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as sound, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, ...

and analysis. * Arthur Hauspurg (B.S. 1943, M.S. 1947), chairman of Consolidated Edison *

Samuel Higginbottom Samuel Wasse Higginbottom (1853 – 27 December 1902) was Conservative MP for Liverpool West Derby. He was a shipowner and a land and colliery owner. He won the seat without opposition in 1900, but died only two years later. He was also a m ...

(B.S. 1943), former CEO of Eastern Air Lines and

Rolls-Royce North America Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. is a subsidiary of multinational corporation Rolls-Royce plc. The American unit operates under a Special Security Arrangement which allows it to work independently on some of the most sensitive United States def ...

, chairman of Columbia's board of trustees * Richard Skalak (B.S. 1943), pioneer in

Biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

(B.S. 1944), Father of

Biochemical Engineering Biochemical engineering, also known as bioprocess engineering, is a field of study with roots stemming from chemical engineering and biological engineering. It mainly deals with the design, construction, and advancement of unit processes that inv ...

William F. Schreiber William F. Schreiber (1925–2009) was an American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).optical recognition machine * Sheldon E. Isakoff (B.S. 1945, M.S. 1947, PhD. 1951), chemical engineer and former director of DuPont *

Henry S. Coleman Henry Simmons Coleman (April 20, 1926 – January 31, 2006) was an Americans, American educational administrator who was serving as acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University when he was held hostage in an office for a day by the Stu ...

(B.S. 1946), acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University who was held hostage during the

Columbia University protests of 1968 In 1968, a series of protests at Columbia University in New York City were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students disc ...

. *

Joseph F. Engelberger Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the Uni ...

(B.S. 1946, M.S. 1949), Father of

Industrial robot An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing. Industrial robots are automated, programmable and capable of movement on three or more axes. Typical applications of robots include welding, painting, assembly, disassembly, pick ...

ics * Edward A. Frieman (B.S. 1946), former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography * Wilmot N. Hess (B.S. 1946), former director of the

National Center for Atmospheric Research The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundatio ...

from 1980 to 1986 *

Ira Millstein Ira Martin Millstein is an American antitrust lawyer, professor, and author. He is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and the longest-practicing partner in big law, according to Reuters. Biography Millstein graduated from Bronx High ...

(B.S. 1947), antitrust expert, partner at

Weil, Gotshal & Manges Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is an American international law firm with approximately 1,100 attorneys, headquartered in New York City. With a gross annual revenue in excess of $1.8 billion, it is among the world's largest law firms according to ...

and oldest big law partner in practice * Bernard Spitzer (M.S. 1947),

real estate developer Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re- lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to othe ...

and philanthropist, father of Eliot Spitzer, 54th Governor of New York * James H. Mulligan Jr. (PhD. 1948), American electrical engineer, former executive officer of

and president of

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

Lotfi Asker Zadeh Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; az, Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; fa, لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, an ...

(PhD. 1949), Iranian mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist *

Henry Michel Henry Leslie Michel (1855 – 4 March 1930) was Mayor of Hokitika for several years, and served on the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1918 until his death. He had stood for the New Zealand Parliament on four occasions, in later years ...

(B.S. 1949), Civil Engineer, President of

* Anna Kazanjian Longobardo (B.S. 1949), founder of the National Society of Women Engineers *

Edward Jaworski Edward "Ed" Lawrence Jaworski (March 11, 1926 – August 20, 2008) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in New York City. He entered Columbia College (New York), Columbia College in 1946 but g ...

(B.S. 1949), Olympic water polo player who represented the

in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

Edmund DiGiulio Edmund DiGiulio (June 13, 1927 – June 4, 2004) was an American technical innovator who founded Cinema Products Corporation that developed the Steadicam, CP-16, and won multiple Academy Scientific and Technical Awards as well as the Gordon E. Saw ...

(B.S. 1950), founder of the Cinema Products Corporation, five-time

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

winner, inventor of the

CP-16 The CP-16, CP-16A, CP-16R, CP-16R/A and CP-16R/DS cameras are 16mm motion picture cameras manufactured by the Cinema Products Corporation of Hollywood, California. A range of cameras of Auricon ancestry. They were primarily intended for television n ...

* Eliahu I. Jury (PhD. 1953), Initiated field of discrete time systems, pioneered

(the discrete time equivalent of the

Laplace Transform In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable (usually t, in the '' time domain'') to a function of a complex variable s (in the ...

), and created

Jury stability criterion In signal processing and control theory, the Jury stability criterion is a method of determining the stability of a linear discrete time system by analysis of the coefficients of its characteristic polynomial. It is the discrete time analogue of the ...

test * Sheldon Weinig (M.S. 1953, PhD. 1955), CEO of Materials Research Corporation, Vice chairman for Engineering and Manufacturing for

SONY , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...

America * Robert Spinrad (B.S. 1953, M.S. 1954), American computer engineer and former director of

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Sta ...

Ferdinand Freudenstein Ferdinand Freudenstein (12 May 1926 – 30 March 2006) was an American physicist and engineer known as the "Father of Modern Kinematics." Freudenstein applied digital computation to the kinematic synthesis of mechanisms. In his Ph.D. dissertatio ...

(PhD. 1954), mechanical engineer, professor, and widely considered the "Father of Modern Kinematics" * Donald R. Olander (B.S. 1954), professor at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

* Donald E. Ross (B.S. 1954), managing partner of

Jaros, Baum & Bolles Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B) is an American MEP (Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) and consulting engineering firm founded in 1915 by Alfred L. Jaros, Jr. and Albert L. Baum. The firm is best known for high-rise projects, including One World Trad ...

Saul Amarel Saul Amarel (1928 – December 18, 2002) was a professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and best known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI). He also had a career as a scientist, engineer, and teacher. He was a contribu ...

(PhD. 1955), computer scientist and pioneer in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

* Sheldon M. Wiederhorn (B.S. 1956), material scientist at

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical s ...

Robert Moog Robert Arthur Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesi ...

(M.S. 1957), pioneer of

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

, inventor of the Moog synthesizer * Rudolf Emil Kálmán (PhD. 1957), electrical engineer and recipient of

* Bernard J. Lechner (B.S. 1957), electronics engineer and vice president of RCA, RCA Laboratories * Edward Botwinick (B.S. 1958), IT entrepreneur and former president of Unisys, Unisys Networks * Joseph F. Traub (PhD. 1959), prominent computer scientist; head of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science from 1971 to 1979 and founder of the Computer science department at

* Richard G. Newman (M.S. 1960), Chairman and former CEO of world-leading engineering firm AECOM *Masanobu Shinozuka (PhD. 1960), probabilistic mechanics, structural stability, and risk assessment * Jeffrey Bleustein (PhD. 1962), former chairman and CEO of Harley-Davidson * Roy Mankovitz (B.S. 1963), scientist, inventor, health strategist *Jeffrey Ullman (B.S. 1963), professor at Stanford University and winner of the 2020 Turing Award *Richard D. Gitlin (M.S. 1965, PhD. 1969) – engineer, co-invention of DSL at Bell Labs *

(B.S. 1966), Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics and co-author of the Black–Scholes pricing model * Stephen Schneider (B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1971), environmental scientist at Stanford University who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 *Harry L. Tuller (B.S. 1966, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1973), professor of materials science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Dorian M. Goldfeld (B.S. 1967), American mathematician and editor of the ''Journal of Number Theory'' * Robert H. Grubbs (PhD 1968), California Institute of Technology professor and 2005 Nobel Prize laureate *Lewis A. Sanders (B.S. 1968), co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of AllianceBernstein *Ira Fuchs (B.S. 1969), co-founder of BITNET, creator of LISTSERV, and JSTOR, former vice-president of

* :ko:정재은 (기업인), Jae-Un Chung (B.S. 1964, M.S. 1969), Former President, Vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and honorary chairman of Shinsegae Group, husband of Lee Myung-hee, Samsung heiress * Feisal Abdul Rauf (B.S. 1969), imam, author, activist; sponsor and director of Park51 * Eugene H. Trinh (B.S. 1972), Vietnamese-American scientist and astronaut * Eduardo M. Ochoa (M.S. 1976), President of California State University, Monterey Bay * Kevin P. Chilton (M.S. 1977), engineer, the current Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, former

astronaut * Rocco B. Commisso (B.S. 1971), Italian-American billionaire, founder and CEO of

, the 8th largest cable television company in the United States * James L. Manley (B.S. 1971), professor of life sciences at

(B.S. 1971), Economist, 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics *David Marquardt (B.S. 1973), venture capitalist and founder of August Capital * James Albaugh (M.S. 1974), Current President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, EVP of its parent company, The Boeing Company. *

(B.S. 1976), former CEO of Citigroup *Ralph Izzo (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981), Chairman, President, and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group *James R. Scapa (B.S. 1978), Greek Americans, Greek American billionaire, Chairman and CEO of Altair Engineering * Ken Bowersox (M.S. 1979), engineer, United States Naval officer and a former

astronaut * Sanjiv Ahuja (M.S. 1979), current CEO of Augere and former CEO of Orange (telecommunications), Orange * William G. Gregory (M.S. 1980),

astronaut * Len Blavatnik (M.S. 1981), billionaire, founder of

* Peter Livanos (B.S. 1981), Greek shipping tycoon, billionaire, owner of Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises and Chairman of Euronav; former major shareholder of Aston Martin * Anrika Rupp (B.S. 1981), artist * Joshua Bloch (B.S. 1982), Software engineer, Chief Java Architect at Google * Jay Mehta (B.S. 1983), Indian businessman, owner of the conglomerate Mehta Group and Indian cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders; husband of Indian actress Juhi Chawla * Vincent Sapienza (B.S. 1982), Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection * Ted Rall (dropped out 1984), Political cartoonist, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists * Wayne Goodman (B.S. 1984), psychiatrist who developed the Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, chair of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine *

(B.S. 1984), Current engineer and astronaut—mission specialist, STS-109, STS-125 * Gregory H. Johnson (M.S. 1985), Current Colonel (United States), colonel, engineer, astronaut for International Space Station. STS-109, support for STS-125. *Amr Aly (B.S. 1985), winner of the 1985 Hermann Trophy and

soccer player * Robert Bakish (B.S. 1985), current president and CEO of Viacom (2005–present), Viacom * Marshall Nicholson (B.S. 1985), managing director at China International Capital Corp * Chuck Hoberman (M.S. 1985), inventor and architect; designer of the Hoberman sphere *

(M.S. 1986), billionaire venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital *Jon Normile (B.S. 1988), American

fencer * Angeliki Frangou (M.S. 1988), Greek businesswoman, chairman and CEO of Navios Maritime Holdings * Jelena Kovacevic (M.S. 1988, PhD 1991), first female dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering * Moti Yung (PhD. 1988), Cryptographer; Information Security and Privacy Scientist Google * Alan E. Willner (PhD. 1988), professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, president of The Optical Society * Semyon Dukach (B.S. 1989), former chairman of SMTP (company), SMTP and managing director of Techstars * David Eppstein (PhD. 1989), developer of computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics *

(M.S. 1991), Current CEO of Xerox Corporation, the first woman African-American Fortune 500 company CEO; Xerox is also the largest company a woman African American CEO is running. * Azmi Mikati (B.S. 1994), CEO of M1 Group; nephew of Lebanon, Lebanese Prime Minister and billionaire Najib Mikati * Neil Daswani (B.S. 1996), founder of Dasient *Feryal Özel (B.S. 1996), professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona * Judy Joo (B.S. 1997), American chef and TV personality, starred in the show ''Iron Chef UK''; * David Yeung (B.S. 1998), Hong Kong entrepreneur; founder of Green Monday (organization), Green Monday *

(M.S. 1999), billionaire founder and CEO of

* Andy Ross (B.S. 2001), Ok Go band member: guitarist, keyboard, backup vocals * Regina Barzilay (PhD. 2003), professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MacArthur Fellowship recipient in 2017 * Jennifer Yu Cheng (B.S. 2003), Hong Kong businesswoman, educator, and philanthropist, wife of New World Development CEO Adrian Cheng * Nullsleep (B.S. 2003), 8-bit musician and founder of the 8bitpeoples collective. *Miloš Tomić (B.S. 2005), Olympic rower representing Serbia and Montenegro *Samantha John (B.S. 2009), American computer engineer, founder of Hopscotch (programming language), Hopscotch *Chris Chyung (B.S. 2016), real-estate businessman, member of the Indiana House of Representatives

Affiliates of the school

* Horst Ludwig Störmer I.I. Rabi professor of physics and

, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics * Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Professor, Serbian

and physical chemist whose inventions include the

* Theodore Zoli, adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer *

American chemist, first Dean of

's School of Mines * Xi Chen, associate professor of computer science, winner of the 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize * Harold Clayton Urey Professor, Nobel Laureate (1934), extensive development in the

, discoverer of Deuterium. * Dimitris Anastassiou Professor of Electrical Engineering, developer of MPEG-2 technology *

, founder of Columbia School of Mines and professor of mining and metallurgy * John B. Medaris Commanding General of U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command (ABMA), planned Invasion of Normandy; professor * Isidor Isaac Rabi Professor, PhD from Columbia (1927), Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance * Mario Salvadori Architect, Structural Engineer, Professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on

, inventor of thin concrete shells * Klaus Lackner, Professor of Environmental Engineering * Chien-Shiung Wu "Chinese Marie Curie", first lady of physics, and Professor (1944–1980) who disproved "conservation of parity" * Cyril M. Harris, Professor of Electrical Engineering and architect * Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam spectroscopy. Professor (1940–1947), B.A. PhD Columbia. * Frank Press Geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four presidents. M.A., PhD Columbia, and researcher. * Leon M. Lederman A Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989). M.A., PhD Columbia * Eric Kandel Biophysicist, Nobel Laureate, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974–); research with the Biomedical Engineering department. * Joseph F. Traub Founding chairman of the

department at Columbia * Emanuel Derman, Professor and Director of Columbia's

program, co-authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto * Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language, winner of the 2020 Turing Award * Gertrude Neumark, Gertrude Fanny Neumark one of the world's leading experts on doping wide-band semiconductors * Charles Hard Townes professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning

who helped to invent the laserAbout Seas
Birth Place of Laser * Jacob Millman Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of Millman's Theorem * John R. Dunning School Dean (education), Dean,

who played key roles in the development of the atomic bomb * Steven M. Bellovin Professor of Computer Science * Philip Kim Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics * Mihalis Yannakakis Professor of Computer Science, famous scholar noted for his work in the fields of Computational complexity theory, Databases * Maria Chudnovsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering * David E Keyes, professor of applied mathematics * Awi Federgruen, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering * Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor of Electrical Engineering * Clifford Stein Professor of

and

* Ronald Breslow Professor of chemical engineering, now University Professor (Columbia), University Professor * Santiago Calatrava (Honorary Doctorate, 2007), world renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and World Trade Center Transportation Hub *

, Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering * Henry Spotnitz, Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering * Thomas Christian Kavanagh, professor of civil engineering * Vladimir Vapnik, Professor of Computer Science and co-developer of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory * Jaron Lanier, visiting scholar at the Computer Science department * Sheldon Weinig, Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and founder of Materials Research Corporation *Chris Wiggins (data scientist), Chris Wiggins, professor of applied mathematics, chief data scientist of ''The New York Times'' * Man-Chung Tang, professor of civil engineering and former chairman of

* Van C. Mow, professor of biomedical engineering and member of the

, Institute of Medicine * Matt Berg, member of Mechanical Engineering Department research group and one of Time 100, Time 100 Most Influential People in the World * Bjarne Stroustrup, Professor in Computer Science, inventor of C++ programming language * Shree K. Nayar, professor of Computer Science, inventor of 360° camera and developer of Oren–Nayar Reflectance Model * David E. Shaw, former professor of Computer Science, founder of hedge fund, private equity and technology development firm D. E. Shaw & Co. * Mary Cunningham Boyce, former dean of the school, provost of

Specialized centers

Columbia Engineering faculty are a central force in creating many groundbreaking discoveries that today are shaping life tomorrow. They are at the vanguard of their fields, collaborating with other world-renowned experts at Columbia and other universities to bring the best minds from a myriad of disciplines to shape the future. Large, well-funded interdisciplinary centers in science and engineering, materials research, nanoscale research, and genomic research are making step changes in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve theoretical and practical problems in other significant areas. Last year, Columbia Engineering's 2007–2008 research expenditures were $92,000,000, a very respectable number given the small size of the school. Harvard's research expenditures in the same period were $35,000,000. Columbia Engineering PhD students have ~60% more monetary resources to work with using the research expenditure : PhD student ratio.

Specialized labs

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science occupies five laboratory and classroom buildings at the north end of the campus, including the Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research and the new Northwest Building on Morningside Heights. Because of the School's close proximity to the other Morningside facilities and programs, Columbia engineering students have access to the whole of the University's resources. Carleton Laboratory Hi-Bay Panorama

The School is the site of an almost overwhelming array of basic and advanced research installations which include both the NSEC and the MRSEC NSF-funded interdisciplinary research centers, as well as the Columbia High-Beta Tokamak, the Robert A.W. Carleton Strength of Materials Laboratory, and a 200g geotechnical centrifuge. The Botwinick Multimedia Learning Laboratory is the School's facility for computer-aided design (CAD) and media development. It is equipped with 50 Apple Mac Pro 8-core workstations, as well as a cluster of Apple Xserves with Xraid storage, that serve the lab's 300-plus users per semester.

Other programs

* Undergraduate Research Involvement Program **Each SEAS department sponsors opportunities to do novel undergraduate research which have applications in the real world. Departmental Chairs supervise students through the process, and mentoring with a professor is provided. * Materials science and Materials Engineering, engineering ** Program in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, sharing teaching and research with the faculty from Henry Krumb, Henry Krumb School of Mines. * Computer engineering ** Administered by both the electrical engineering and computer science departments through a joint computer engineering committee. * The combined plan program ** The 3–2, B.A./B.S., is designed to provide students with the opportunity to receive both a B.A. degree from an affiliated

college and a B.S. degree from SEAS within five years. Students complete the requirements for the liberal arts degree along with a pre-engineering course of study in three years at their college and then complete two years at Columbia.

References

External links

Engineering School Home Page

CUSJ – Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal

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History

Original charter of 1754

Renaming to the School of Mines

Recent and future developments

Admissions

Academics

Rankings

Facilities

Notable alumni

Affiliates of the school

Specialized centers

Specialized labs

Other programs

See also

References

Further reading

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