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 Z.Y. Fu, also known as Dze Nyoe Fu in Shanghainese or Fu Zaiyuan in Mandarin (; 1919 – August 26, 2011) was a Chinese-Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Sansaio Trading Corporation of Japan. The Fu Foundation School of Eng ...

, 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, MIT, 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

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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 (includin ...

and the

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program in

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

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and one

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. 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

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which shares housing with SEAS students. The School's current dean is

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, 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

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, engineering did not have a school under the Columbia umbrella. After Columbia outgrew its space on Wall Street, it relocated to what is now

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in 1857. Then President Barnard and the Trustees of the University, with the urging of Professor Thomas Egleston 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

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, 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, after whom Pupin Hall is named. Pupin himself was a graduate of the Class of 1883 and the inventor of the " Pupin coil", 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

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, inventor of FM radio. After graduating in 1913 Armstrong was stationed in France during World War I. There he developed the

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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.

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,

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, 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 Z.Y. Fu, also known as Dze Nyoe Fu in Shanghainese or Fu Zaiyuan in Mandarin (; 1919 – August 26, 2011) was a Chinese-Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Sansaio Trading Corporation of Japan. The Fu Foundation School of Eng ...

, 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

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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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. From ''

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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

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laboratory, a

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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

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campus; however, other departments have holdings throughout the world. For example, the Applied Physics department has reactors at

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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

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, Chess prodigy and the highest ranked chess player on the

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, designed and constructed the first section of the New York City Subway File:IrvingLangmuir.jpg, Irving Langmuir, winner of the

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in 1932 File:Edward Calvin Kendall 1940s.jpg, Edward Calvin Kendall, winner of the

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in 1950 File:Woodin2.jpg, William H. Woodin,

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, admiral of the

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in 2005 File:Robert C. Merton.jpg, Robert C. Merton, Winner of 1997

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, American billionaire businessman, founder of

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, chairman of New York Cosmos and

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and managing partner of

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, first African American woman to lead a

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company * Albert Huntington Chester (E.M. 1868, Ph.D. 1876), geologist and mining engineer, professor at

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and Rutgers College and the namesake of

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(E.M. 1869, Ph.D. 1877),

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to Meiji Japan * Roland Duer Irving (E.M. 1869, Ph.D. 1879),

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, pioneer in

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(E.M. 1873), executive with the

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* Eben Erskine Olcott (1874), president of the

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from 1901 to 1902 *

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(E.M. 1876), secretary of the

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from 1883 to 1906 * Marcus Benjamin (Ph.B. 1878), editor *

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(1878), architect who founded firm

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(1878),

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from

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(1879), co-founder of the New York Botanical Garden * Hamilton Castner (1879), American industrial

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famous for developing the Castner–Kellner process *

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(1879), American

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, Olympic fencer; founding president of the

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* Herman Hollerith (1879), co-founder of IBM *

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(1882), engineer, author, editor * William Parsons (1882), Chief Engineer of New York City's subway system *

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(B.S. 1883),

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and physical chemist whose inventions include the Pupin coil, winner of Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography *

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(1884), American

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* James Furman Kemp (1884),

; president of the

Geological Society of America The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. History The society was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitch ...

Joseph Harvey Ladew Sr. Joseph Harvey Ladew Sr. (April 10, 1865 – February 16, 1940) was one of the largest leather manufacturers in the world with Fayerweather & Ladew, and he was a yachtsman. Biography He was born on April 10, 1865, to Rebecca Krom (?-1905) and ...

(1885), founder of leather manufacturer

Fayerweather & Ladew Fayerweather & Ladew was one of the oldest and largest leather manufacturers in the world. It was located in Glen Cove, Long Island. History The company was started in 1870 by Joseph B. Hoyt, Harvey Smith Ladew and Daniel B. Fayerweather Dani ...

Frederick James Hamilton Merrill Frederick James Hamilton Merrill (1861–1916) was an American geologist. Biography Frederick James Hamilton Merrill was born in New York City on April 30, 1861. He graduated at the Columbia School of Mines in 1885, received his Ph.D. there fiv ...

(1885), geologist and former director of the

New York State Museum The New York State Museum is a research-backed institution in Albany, New York, United States. It is located on Madison Avenue, attached to the south side of the Empire State Plaza, facing onto the plaza and towards the New York State Capitol ...

Edward Pearce Casey Edward Pearce Casey (1864–1940) was an American designer and architect, noted for his work in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Early life and education Edward Pearce Casey was born June 18, 1864, in Portland, Maine; where his father, Brigadi ...

(1886), architect known for designing the Taft Bridge and Ulysses S. Grant Memorial *

Walter Hull Aldridge Walter Hull Aldridge (September 8, 1867 – August 8, 1959) was an American mining and metallurgical engineer. He was a recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal and the John Fritz Medal. Biography Aldridge was born in Brooklyn on ...

(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 * Jennings Cox (1887), mining engineer credited with inventing the cocktail Daiquiri * Graham Lusk (1887), American

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

and nutritionist * Allen Tucker (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; one of the three " Copper Kings" of

Butte, Montana Butte ( ) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers , and, according to th ...

* Winifred Edgerton Merrill (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 Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern termi ...

* George Oakley Totten Jr. (1891), prolific architect in Washington, D.C. who designed Meridian Hall, the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C. and the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C. * John Stone Stone (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 el ...

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 l ...

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

* Gano Dunn (1891), former president of

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

and recipient of IEEE Edison Medal; former Chairman and CEO of the National Research Council * Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui (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 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

, signer of the Hay-Quesada Treaty * Heinrich Ries (1892), American

economic geologist Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be used for economic and/or industrial purposes. These materials include precious and base metals, nonmetallic minerals and dimension stone, construction-grade stone. Economic geology i ...

; professor at

* Chester Holmes Aldrich (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 * V. Everit Macy (PhB, 1893), American industrialist, former president of the National Civic Federation, 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 a ...

* Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1894), American architect who designed the Havana Central railway station, Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, and the Murchison Building in

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 (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 has ...

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 th ...

(1895), American engineer and designer of the

Manhattan Bridge The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. The main span is long, with the suspension cables ...

* George Gustav Heye (EE. 1896), investment banker and founder of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, and namesake of the George Gustav Heye Center * Ambrose Monell (1896), American industrialist, first president of International Nickel Company, namesake of the Monel alloy * Alfred Chester Beatty (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 ...

* Hugh Auchincloss Brown (E.E. 1900), electrical engineer and conspiracy theorist, proponent of the cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis, member of the Auchincloss family *

Reno H. Sales Reno Haber Sales (1876 – 1969) was an American mining engineer who was Chief Geologist of Anaconda Corporation in Montana. He is known as the "father of mining geology." Early years Born in 1876 in Storm Lake, Iowa, Sales moved to Montana wit ...

(E. M. 1900), Chief Geologist of

Anaconda Copper The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company between 1899 to 1915, was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest m ...

, "father of mining geology" * Richard E. Dougherty (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 ...

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, p ...

* 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 Sir Stephen Joseph Pigott (January 30, 1880 – February 27, 1955) was an American-born British mechanical and marine engineer, and managing director of the Scottish shipbuilding firm John Brown & Company. He was awarded the ASME Medal in 1938. P ...

(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 Robert Sedgwick Stangland (October 5, 1881 – December 15, 1953) was an American athlete who competed in the early twentieth century in the long jump and the triple jump. Stangland won two bronze medals in athletics at the 1904 Summer ...

(1904), Olympic athlete; bronze medalist in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics * Peter Cooper Hewitt (1906), engineer who invented the first Mercury-vapor lamp in 1901, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, 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-f ...

, son of New York mayor and philanthropist Abram Hewitt * Reginald J. S. Pigott (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

* Edward Calvin Kendall (1908), Winner of 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine * Edmund Prentis (B.S. 1906), former president of the

American Standards Association The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organ ...

, art collector *

Roger W. Toll Roger Wolcott Toll (October 17, 1883 – February 25, 1936) was an American mountaineer, writer, and a National Park Service official who served as the superintendent of Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and Yellowstone National Parks. Biography To ...

(B.S. 1906), mountaineer, former superintendent of

Mount Rainier Mount Rainier (), indigenously known as Tahoma, Tacoma, Tacobet, or təqʷubəʔ, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, located in Mount Rainier National Park about south-southeast of Seattle. With a ...

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 Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is border ...

s *

James Kip Finch James Kip Finch (December 1, 1883–1967) was an American engineer and educator. Personal life James Kip Finch was born to James Wells and Winifred Florence Louise (Kip) Finch, in Peekskill, New York. He attended Columbia University, receiving ...

(B.S. 1906), American engineer and educator, dean of Columbia Engineering from 1941 to 1950 *

Maurice L. Sindeband Maurice Leonard Sindeband (1885 – December 5, 1971) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive. He was a former president of the Ogden Corporation. Biography Sindeband was born in 1885 in the Russian Empire and moved to the United S ...

(E.E. 1907), American electrical engineer, former president of the Ogden Corporation *

Kingdon Gould Sr. Kingdon Gould Sr. (August 15, 1887 – November 7, 1945) was an American financier and champion polo player. Early life He was born on August 15, 1887 in Manhattan, New York City, the eldest son born to George Jay Gould I and Edith Kingdon, Edit ...

(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 businessman, Gould was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg, a pos ...

* Grover Loening (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 confi ...

(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 * Eugene Dooman (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 World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

* David Steinman (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 My ...

ing * Harvey Seeley Mudd (B.S. 1912), Metallurgical Engineer, president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, co-founder of Claremont McKenna College and namesake of

Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering. It is part of the Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. The college enrolls 902 undergraduate students ...

of Engineering *

Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1886–1966) was an American government official and diplomat. Patterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Richard Cunningham Patterson, an attorney, and Martha Belle Neiswanger. After working as a laborer i ...

(E.M. 1912), United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia,

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 F ...

, 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 Run-length limited#FM: .280. ...

transmission method *

Willard F. Jones Willard F. Jones I (February 27, 1890 – August 18, 1967) was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist. He served as a general manager and Vice President of the Gulf Oil corporation during the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1 ...

(M.S. 1916),

naval architect This is the top category for all articles related to architecture and its practitioners. {{Commons category, Architecture occupations Design occupations Occupations ...

, 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 The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the institutional archives of Princeton University and is part of the Princeton University Library's department ospecial collections The Mudd Library houses two major collection areas: the history of Princ ...

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 n ...

* Philip Sporn (E.E. 1917), Austrian engineer and recipient of IEEE Edison Medal; 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 gen ...

* 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 unive ...

, Mount Fairweather, and

Mount Logan Mount Logan () is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali. The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mou ...

* Radu Irimescu (1920), former Romanian ambassador to the United States *

Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, H ...

(1922), poet of the Harlem Renaissance * Arthur Loughren (M.S. 1925), Pioneer in radio engineering and

television 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 par ...

* Edward Lawry Norton (M.S. 1925), Bell Lab engineer, developer of Norton equivalent circuit * Hyman Rickover (M.S. 1928), Father of the Nuclear U.S. Navy * Raymond D. Mindlin (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 Sciences, recipient of National Medal of Science *

Helmut W. Schulz Helmut W. Schulz (1912 – 28 January 2006) was a German chemical engineer and professor at Columbia University known for his many works in disparate fields like nuclear physics, rocketry and waste-to-energy processes. He developed the proces ...

(B.S. 1933, M.S. 1934), President Dynecology, developed uranium centrifugation ( gas centrifuge), 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 tel ...

from 1972 to 1976 * Herbert L. Anderson (B.S. 1935), established Enrico Fermi Institute 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 (PhD. 1939), American engineer and recipient of National Medal of Science * Antoine Marc Gaudin (E.M. 1921), professor at MIT and a founding member of

* John R. Ragazzini (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-t ...

method in discrete-time

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 Arthur Hauspurg (August 27, 1925 – February 19, 2003) was an American businessman who was the chairman of Consolidated Edison. Biography Hauspurg was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received his B.S. from ...

(B.S. 1943, M.S. 1947), chairman of

Consolidated Edison Consolidated Edison, Inc., commonly known as Con Edison (stylized as conEdison) or ConEd, is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues as of 2017, and over $62 ...

* Samuel Higginbottom (B.S. 1943), former CEO of

Eastern Air Lines Eastern Air Lines, also colloquially known as Eastern, was a major United States airline from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution, it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida. Ea ...

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 de ...

, chairman of Columbia's

board of trustees A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organ ...

* 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 ...

* Elmer L. Gaden (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 in ...

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 (B.S. 1946), acting dean of

Columbia College, Columbia University Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college of Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded by the Church of England in 1754 as King's ...

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 disco ...

. * Joseph F. Engelberger (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 robot welding, welding, painting, assembly, Circu ...

ics *

Edward A. Frieman Edward Allan Frieman (January 19, 1926 – April 11, 2013) was an American physicist who worked on plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 through 1996, and then the senior vice ...

(B.S. 1946), former director of the

Scripps Institution of Oceanography The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in San Diego, California, US founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public servi ...

* 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 Founda ...

from 1980 to 1986 * Ira Millstein (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 Bernard Emmanuel Spitzer (April 26, 1924 – November 1, 2014) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist. Early life and education Spitzer was born to Molly and Morris Spitzer, Jewish Austrian immigrants

(M.S. 1947), real estate developer and

philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

, father of

Eliot Spitzer Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008. Spitzer was born in New York City, attended Pr ...

, 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 operati ...

* Lotfi Asker Zadeh (PhD. 1949), Iranian mathematician,

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the ...

, and computer scientist * Henry Michel (B.S. 1949), Civil Engineer, President of

Anna Kazanjian Longobardo Anna Kazanjian Longobardo (1928 – December 7, 2020) was the former director of the engineering firm Woodward Clyde Group and a former executive at Unisys Corp. She headed Unisys, supporting the development of military systems and weather radar ...

(B.S. 1949), founder of the National Society of Women Engineers * Edward Jaworski (B.S. 1949), Olympic water polo player who represented the

in the 1952 Summer Olympics * Edmund DiGiulio (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 *

Eliahu I. Jury Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at ...

(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 test *

Sheldon Weinig Sheldon Weinig (born in New York City) is an American businessman who studied at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate and served as a professor. In 1957, he founded Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a global manufacturer and sup ...

(M.S. 1953, PhD. 1955), CEO of

Materials Research Corporation right Materials Research Corporation (MRC) was a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment. Timeline *1957: Materials Research Corporation founded by Dr. Sheldon Weinig 47 Buena Vista Ave., Yo ...

, 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 professional ...

America *

Robert Spinrad Robert J. Spinrad (March 20, 1932 – September 2, 2009) was an American computer designer, who was on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory and who created many of the key technologies used in modern personal computers while director of ...

(B.S. 1953, M.S. 1954), American computer engineer and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center * Ferdinand Freudenstein (PhD. 1954), mechanical engineer, professor, and widely considered the "Father of Modern Kinematics" *

Donald R. Olander Donald R. Olander is an emeritus professor of nuclear engineering and the James Fife Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Biography Olander received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1953 and B.S. in 1954. He then r ...

(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 Donald E. Ross (May 2, 1930 – January 18, 2021) was an American engineer who served as managing partner of the engineering firm Jaros, Baum & Bolles. Biography Ross received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1952 and B.S. from the Columbia ...

(B.S. 1954), managing partner of Jaros, Baum & Bolles * Saul Amarel (PhD. 1955), computer scientist and pioneer in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machine A machine is a physical system using Power (physics), power to apply Force, forces and control Motion, moveme ...

Sheldon M. Wiederhorn Sheldon M. Wiederhorn (May 4, 1933 – June 3, 2021) was an American materials scientist affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Biography Wiederhorn was born on May 4, 1933, in The Bronx, the son of immigrants. He r ...

(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 Outline of p ...

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 synthes ...

(M.S. 1957), pioneer of

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

, inventor of the

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 2014 ...

* Rudolf Emil Kálmán (PhD. 1957), electrical engineer and recipient of National Medal of Science *

Bernard J. Lechner Bernard J. Lechner (25 January 1932 – 11 April 2014) was an electronics engineer and formerly vice president, RCA Laboratories, where he worked for 30 years covering various aspects of television and information display technologies. Biogra ...

(B.S. 1957), electronics engineer and vice president of RCA Laboratories * Edward Botwinick (B.S. 1958), IT entrepreneur and former president of Unisys Networks * Joseph F. Traub (PhD. 1959), prominent

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

; head of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science from 1971 to 1979 and founder of the

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 (includin ...

department at

Richard G. Newman Richard G. Newman is an engineer and businessman. He was president, CEO and chairman emeritus for AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a United States provider of professional technical and management support services. Newman led the launch of AECOM as an independ ...

(M.S. 1960), Chairman and former CEO of world-leading engineering firm

AECOM AECOM (, ; formerly AECOM Technology Corporation) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm. AECOM has approximately 51,000 employees, and is number 157 on the 2019 Fortune 500 list. The company's official name from 1990 ...

* Masanobu Shinozuka (PhD. 1960), probabilistic mechanics, structural stability, and risk assessment * Jeffrey Bleustein (PhD. 1962), former chairman and CEO of

Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depressi ...

Roy Mankovitz Roy Jack Mankovitz (1941–2011) was an American entrepreneur. Mankovitz worked as a rocket scientist, lawyer, inventor, entrepreneur nature-based illness prevention researcher, and author. He also described himself as a disruptive innovator. E ...

(B.S. 1963), scientist, inventor, health strategist * Jeffrey Ullman (B.S. 1963), professor at Stanford University and winner of the 2020

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...

* Richard D. Gitlin (M.S. 1965, PhD. 1969) – engineer, co-invention of DSL at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

* Robert C. Merton (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 The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

in 2007 *

Harry L. Tuller Harry L. Tuller is an American materials scientist. He is the R. P. Simmons Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Tuller received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, an ...

(B.S. 1966, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1973), professor of materials science at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

* 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 The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

professor and 2005

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...

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 The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of ...

, and

JSTOR JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of j ...

, former vice-president of

* Jae-Un Chung (B.S. 1964, M.S. 1969), Former President, Vice chairman of

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, a ...

and honorary chairman of Shinsegae Group, husband of Lee Myung-hee,

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

heiress * Feisal Abdul Rauf (B.S. 1969),

imam Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, se ...

, author, activist; sponsor and director of Park51 *

Eugene H. Trinh Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh (Vietnamese: Trịnh Hữu Châu, born September 14, 1950) is a Vietnamese American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist, becoming the first Vietnamese American astron ...

(B.S. 1972), Vietnamese-American scientist and

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

Eduardo M. Ochoa Eduardo M. Ochoa is an Argentinean-American economist and academic administrator who served as the president of California State University, Monterey Bay 2012 to 2022. Ochoa was the Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education dur ...

(M.S. 1976), President of California State University, Monterey Bay * Kevin P. Chilton (M.S. 1977), engineer, the current Commander,

U.S. Strategic Command United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nuclear deterre ...

, former

(B.S. 1971), Italian-American billionaire, founder and CEO of

, the 8th largest cable television company in the United States *

James L. Manley James Manley is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences at Columbia University, where his laboratory studies gene expression in mammalian cells. Manley and colleagues identified and characterized the key factors responsible for pol ...

(B.S. 1971), professor of life sciences at

* Alvin E. Roth (B.S. 1971), Economist, 2012 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 Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is a division of The Boeing Company. It designs, assembles, markets, and sells jet airliners and business jets (Boeing Business Jets), and also provides product-related maintenance and training to customers w ...

, EVP of its parent company,

The Boeing Company The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product ...

. * Vikram Pandit (B.S. 1976), former CEO of

Citigroup Citigroup Inc. or Citi (Style (visual arts), stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking ...

* Ralph Izzo (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981), Chairman, President, and CEO of

Public Service Enterprise Group The Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and was established in 1985 with a legacy dating back to 1903. The company's largest subsidiary is Public Service Elec ...

James R. Scapa Altair Engineering Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It provides software and cloud solutions for simulation, IoT, high performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and artificia ...

(B.S. 1978), Greek American billionaire, Chairman and CEO of Altair Engineering * Ken Bowersox (M.S. 1979), engineer, United States

Naval officer An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant officer. However, absent cont ...

and a former

* Sanjiv Ahuja (M.S. 1979), current CEO of Augere and former CEO of

Orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower * Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum ...

* William G. Gregory (M.S. 1980),

* Len Blavatnik (M.S. 1981), billionaire, founder of Access Industries * 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 Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC is an English manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. Its predecessor was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated ...

* Anrika Rupp (B.S. 1981), artist * Joshua Bloch (B.S. 1982), Software engineer, Chief Java Architect at

Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...

* Jay Mehta (B.S. 1983), Indian businessman, owner of the conglomerate Mehta Group and Indian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

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 The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's water supply and works to reduce air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. Under a 1.3 billion do ...

* 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 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...

* Michael Massimino (B.S. 1984), Current engineer and

—mission specialist, STS-109,

STS-125 STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the last solo flight of the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. The launch of the Space Shuttle ''Atl ...

* Gregory H. Johnson (M.S. 1985), Current

colonel Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge ...

, engineer,

for

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest Modular design, modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos ( ...

. STS-109, support for

. * Amr Aly (B.S. 1985), winner of the 1985

Hermann Trophy The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top men's and women's college soccer players. History In 1967, Bob Hermann, the president of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) and th ...

and Olympic soccer player * Robert Bakish (B.S. 1985), current president and CEO of Viacom *

Marshall Nicholson John Marshall Nicholson () is a Hong Kong investment banker. Career Nicholson worked at Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan in New York City before moving to Hong Kong in 2002 to take up a position as Credit Suisse First Boston's Asia-ex-Japan head of ...

(B.S. 1985), managing director at

China International Capital Corp China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC; 中国国际金融股份有限公司) is a Chinese partially state-owned multinational investment management and financial services company. Founded in China in 1995, CICC provides investment ...

Chuck Hoberman Chuck Hoberman (born 1956) is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere. Early life and education Hoberman's father was an architect, and his mother, Mary Ann Hoberman, was a c ...

(M.S. 1985), inventor and architect; designer of the Hoberman sphere * Douglas Leone (M.S. 1986), billionaire venture capitalist and partner at

Jon Normile Jon Normile (born July 20, 1967) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He fenced for the Columbia Lions fencing team. Normile graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in civil eng ...

(B.S. 1988), American Olympic fencer *

Angeliki Frangou Angeliki Frangou (born 1965) ( grc-gre, Αγγελική Φράγκου) is a Greek shipowner. She is the chairman, chief executive officer and Director of Navios Maritime Holdings., of Navios Maritime Partners L.P., of Navios Tankers Manageme ...

(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

* Alan E. Willner (PhD. 1988), professor of Electrical Engineering at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8. ...

, president of

The Optical Society Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

* Semyon Dukach (B.S. 1989), former chairman of

SMTP The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typic ...

and managing director of Techstars * David Eppstein (PhD. 1989), developer of computational geometry,

graph algorithms The following is a list of well-known algorithms along with one-line descriptions for each. Automated planning Combinatorial algorithms General combinatorial algorithms * Brent's algorithm: finds a cycle in function value iterations using on ...

, and recreational mathematics * Ursula Burns (M.S. 1991), Current CEO of

Xerox Corporation 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 Stam ...

, the first woman African-American

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

Lebanese Lebanese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Lebanese Republic * Lebanese people The Lebanese people ( ar, الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ', ) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may al ...

Prime Minister and billionaire Najib Mikati * Neil Daswani (B.S. 1996), founder of Dasient *

Feryal Özel Feryal Özel (born May 27, 1975) is a Turkish-American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the Department Chair and a professor a ...

(B.S. 1996), professor of astronomy at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. ...

* Judy Joo (B.S. 1997), American chef and TV personality, starred in the show '' Iron Chef UK''; *

David Yeung David Yeung is the co-founder of Green Monday, founder of social enterprise Mind Reset Institute, soul book "Communication Positive Energy", "Starting Positive Energy" and "Dong Du Zen". The author, "East Weekly", "Warm the World", etNet and other ...

(B.S. 1998), Hong Kong entrepreneur; founder of

Green Monday Green Monday is an online retail industry term similar to Cyber Monday. The term was coined by Shopping.com, an eBay company, in 2007 to describe the best eCommerce sales day in December, usually the second Monday of December. After doing some ...

* Jon Oringer (M.S. 1999), billionaire founder and CEO of Shutterstock *

Andy Ross Andrew Ross is an American musician. He has been the guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for the rock band OK Go since 2005. He is also behind a solo project, Secret Dakota Ring, which released albums in 2004 and 2008. Ross is also co-founder of ...

(B.S. 2001), Ok Go band member: guitarist, keyboard, backup vocals * Regina Barzilay (PhD. 2003), professor at

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 In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) architectures are those that are based on registers or data buses of ...

musician and founder of the 8bitpeoples collective. * Miloš Tomić (B.S. 2005), Olympic rower representing

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

* Samantha John (B.S. 2009), American computer engineer, founder of

Hopscotch Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a chi ...

* Chris Chyung (B.S. 2016), real-estate businessman, member of the

Indiana House of Representatives The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana. The House is composed of 100 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. House mem ...

Affiliates of the school

* Horst Ludwig Störmer I.I. Rabi professor of

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

and

, winner of 1998

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Professor,

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

and physical chemist whose inventions include the Pupin coil * 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 The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Intere ...

and

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

* Harold Clayton Urey Professor,

Nobel Laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make ...

(1934), extensive development in the

, discoverer of

Deuterium Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two Stable isotope ratio, stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being Hydrogen atom, protium, or hydrogen-1). The atomic nucleus, nucleus of a deuterium ato ...

. *

Dimitris Anastassiou Dimitris Anastassiou is an electrical engineer and Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Columbia University School of Engineering. Anastassiou's earlier work focuses primarily on signal and information processing and reve ...

Professor of Electrical Engineering, developer of

MPEG-2 MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods, w ...

technology * Thomas Egleston, founder of Columbia School of Mines and professor of mining and metallurgy *

John B. Medaris John Bruce Medaris (12 May 1902 – 11 July 1990) was an officer in the United States Army during World War II and post war government administrator overseeing development of ballistic missiles. During World War II Medaris was a colonel in the ...

Commanding General of U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command (ABMA), planned Invasion of Normandy; professor * Isidor Isaac Rabi Professor, PhD from Columbia (1927),

, Discoverer of

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a ...

* Mario Salvadori Architect, Structural Engineer, Professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on

, inventor of thin concrete shells *

Klaus Lackner Klaus S. Lackner is the Founding Director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE) and a professor in School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State ...

, Professor of Environmental Engineering *

Chien-Shiung Wu ) , spouse = , residence = , nationality = ChineseAmerican , field = Physics , work_institutions = Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica University of California at BerkeleySmith CollegePrinceton UniversityColumbia UniversityZhejiang Univ ...

"Chinese Marie Curie", first lady of physics, and Professor (1944–1980) who disproved "

conservation of parity In physics, a parity transformation (also called parity inversion) is the flip in the sign of ''one'' spatial coordinate. In three dimensions, it can also refer to the simultaneous flip in the sign of all three spatial coordinates (a point ref ...

" *

Cyril M. Harris Cyril Manton Harris (June 20, 1917 – January 4, 2011) was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in mathematics and his M.S. in physics ...

, Professor of Electrical Engineering and architect *

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the con ...

Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter ...

. 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

, discoverer of

muon A muon ( ; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 '' e'' and a spin of , but with a much greater mass. It is classified as a lepton. As wi ...

neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989). M.A., PhD Columbia * Eric Kandel Biophysicist,

, 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

* Gertrude Fanny Neumark one of the world's leading experts on doping wide-band

semiconductors A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...

* Charles Hard Townes professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning

who helped to invent the

laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The firs ...

About Seas
Birth Place of Laser *

Jacob Millman Jacob Millman (1911 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Russian Empire – May 22, 1991 in Longboat Key, Florida) was a professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother, Gertrude (Nach ...

Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of Millman's Theorem *

John R. Dunning John Ray Dunning (September 24, 1907 – August 25, 1975) was an American physicist who played key roles in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. He specialized in neutron physics, and did pioneering work in gaseous diffusio ...

School Dean,

who played key roles in the development of the

atomic bomb A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions ( thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...

* Steven M. Bellovin Professor of

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 (includin ...

* Philip Kim Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics *

Mihalis Yannakakis Mihalis Yannakakis ( el, Μιχάλης Γιαννακάκης; born 13 September 1953 in Athens, Greece)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 (includin ...

, famous scholar noted for his work in the fields of

Computational complexity theory In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other. A computational problem is a task solved ...

Databases In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

* Maria Chudnovsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering * David E Keyes, professor of applied mathematics *

Awi Federgruen Awi Federgruen (born 1953, in Geneva) is a Dutch/American mathematician and operations researcher and Charles E. Exley Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School and affiliate professor at the university's School of Engineering and A ...

, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering * Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor of Electrical Engineering *

Clifford Stein Clifford Seth Stein (born December 14, 1965), a computer scientist, is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Scien ...

Professor of

and

Ronald Breslow Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Dep ...

Professor of chemical engineering, now University Professor *

Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose scul ...

(Honorary Doctorate, 2007), world renowned architect, sculptor and

structural engineer Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economi ...

, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and World Trade Center Transportation Hub * Ferdinand Freudenstein, Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering *

Henry Spotnitz Henry M. Spotnitz is George H. Humphrey II Professor of Surgery, chairman of the Columbia University Medical Center Conflict of Interest Committee, co-chair of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Information Systems Clinical Advisory Committee, chair ...

, 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 *

, Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and founder of

* Chris Wiggins, professor of applied mathematics, chief data scientist of ''

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'' * Man-Chung Tang, professor of civil engineering and former chairman of

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, professor of biomedical engineering and member of the

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* Matt Berg, member of Mechanical Engineering Department research group and one of Time 100 Most Influential People in the World *

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, Professor in Computer Science, inventor of C++ programming language *

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and technology development firm D. E. Shaw & Co. *

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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

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

** Program in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, sharing teaching and research with the faculty from Henry Krumb School of Mines. *

Computer engineering Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer enginee ...

** 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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