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

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. 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

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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 mathematical s ...

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 Applied science, practical discipli ...

and the financial engineering 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 deci ...

are very famous and highly ranked. The current SEAS faculty include 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering 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 Columbia College 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

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, and amassed a fortune, which allowed his sons to found the Stevens Institute of Technology. (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 Thomas Egleston (December 9, 1832 – January 15, 1900) was an American engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines, now the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Columbia University), Fu Foundation School of Engineer ...

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 Interborough Rapid Transit Company. 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

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, 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

. 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, Hyman George Rickover, working with the Navy's

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, directed the development of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, 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

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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 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 l ...

3rd,

applied physics Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered to be a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering. "Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination ...

4th,

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

and

4th, material engineering 10th,

15th, and

15th, according to

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. From ''

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'', Columbia's engineering mechanics is 6th in the nation, its environmental engineering 4th, industrial engineering 7th, mechanical engineering 5th, applied physics 8th, and operations research 6th. Finally, Columbia's financial engineering program is ranked 3rd nationally, according to the 2020 ranking from Quantnet.

Facilities

Columbia's

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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

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, a

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laboratory, a

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TRIGA Mk. II nuclear

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, 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 Nevis Labs in Irvington, NY and conducts work with

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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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, developer of

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, namesake of

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, American civil engineer, founder of Parsons Brinckerhoff, designed and constructed the first section of the

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, winner of the

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under

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, admiral of the

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, Economist, Winner of 2012

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, winner of the

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, American billionaire businessman, founder of Mediacom, chairman of New York Cosmos and

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, Indian-American banker, former CEO of

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, former CEO of

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, first African American woman to lead a

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company *

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(E.M. 1868, Ph.D. 1876), geologist and mining engineer, professor at Hamilton College and

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and the namesake of Chester Peak *

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(E.M. 1869, Ph.D. 1877), Foreign advisor to Meiji Japan *

Roland Duer Irving Roland Duer Irving (April 27, 1847 – May 30, 1888) was an American geologist. He was born in New York city and graduated from Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia College School of Mines in 1869 as a mining engineer. In ...

(E.M. 1869, Ph.D. 1879),

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, pioneer in petrography *

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(E.M. 1873), executive with the

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* Eben Erskine Olcott (1874), president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers from 1901 to 1902 *

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(E.M. 1876), secretary of the

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from 1883 to 1906 *

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(Ph.B. 1878), editor * William Hamilton Russell (1878), architect who founded firm

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; designed the

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, The Langham and other New York landmarks *

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(1878), United States Congressman from

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(1879), co-founder of the New York Botanical Garden *

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(1879), American industrial

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famous for developing the

Castner–Kellner process The Castner–Kellner process is a method of electrolysis on an aqueous alkali chloride solution (usually sodium chloride solution) to produce the corresponding alkali hydroxide, invented by American Hamilton Castner and Austrian Carl Kellner in t ...

* Graeme Hammond (1879), American neurologist,

Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...

fencer; founding president of the

Amateur Fencers League of America The Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) was founded on April 22, 1891, in New York City by a group of fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union. As early as 1940, the AFLA was recognized by the Fédération Internationale ...

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

Charles Buxton Going Charles Buxton Going (April 4, 1863 - 1952 in France) was an American engineer, author, and editor. Biography Born in Westchester N.Y., Going attended Columbia College School of Mines, where he graduated in 1882. Columbia University awarded h ...

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

Mihajlo Idvorski 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 ...

(B.S. 1883),

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

and

physical Physical may refer to: *Physical examination In a physical examination, medical examination, or clinical examination, a medical practitioner examines a patient for any possible medical signs or symptoms of a medical condition. It generally co ...

chemist whose inventions include the

, winner of

for his autobiography *

Edward Chester Barnard Edward Chester Barnard (1863–1921) was an American topographer. Born in New York City, he was a graduate of Columbia University (1884). He was the chief topographer of the United States and Canada boundary survey (1903–1915); U.S. Boundary Comm ...

(1884), American

topographer Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary scie ...

with the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

* 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. Hitchco ...

* Joseph Harvey Ladew Sr. (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 (1885), geologist and former director of the New York State Museum *

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 The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a Presidential memorials in the United States, presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War General (United States), general and 18th President of the United States, United States Presid ...

* Walter Hull Aldridge (1887), President and Chairman of the

Texas Gulf Sulphur Company The Texas Gulf Sulphur Company was one of the largest sulfur mining companies in the world from 1919 to 1981. By 1925 the company controlled 40% of the U.S. sulfur market. It was formed in 1909 and acquired in 1981, after expanding across the Unit ...

; 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 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 * 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 a ...

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 *

F. Augustus Heinze Frederick "Fritz" Augustus Heinze () (December 5, 1869 – November 4, 1914) was an American businessman, known as one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, along with William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly. He was an intelligent, charis ...

(1889), copper magnate and founder of United Copper; 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 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 the ...

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 United States, American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.Kell ...

(PhD. 1889), first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics *

James Monroe Hewlett James "Monroe" Hewlett (August 1, 1868 – October 18, 1941) was an American Beaux Arts architect, scenic designer, and muralist. Hewlett was born into an old Long Island family at Rock Hall in Lawrence, New York. He is descended from a ...

(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 terminus ...

* George Oakley Totten Jr. (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. The Embassy of Turkey in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Turkey, Republic of Turkey to the United States. It is located at 2525 Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., Northwe ...

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 (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 l ...

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 fa ...

(PhB. 1890), physicist and mountaineer *

(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 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 territorie ...

, 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 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 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 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 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 Ca ...

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 the ...

* 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 (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 be ...

George Gustav Heye George Gustav Heye (1874 – January 20, 1957) was an American collector of Native American artifacts in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in North America. He founded the Museum of the American Indian, and his collection became the core of ...

(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 in

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

* 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 (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 min ...

, "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 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 ...

(1903), Winner of the 1932

, produced gas-filled incandescent lamp, explorer of the vacuum *

Don Gelasio Caetani Gelasio Caetani (Rome March 7, 1877 – Rome October 23, 1934) was an Italy, Italian nobleman and diplomat from the princely Caetani family who rose to fame during the First World War as an army officer and Mining (military), mining enginee ...

(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 * Robert Stangland (1904),

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, 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 and ...

* Reginald J. S. Pigott (1906), former president of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the

* Edward Calvin Kendall (1908), Winner of 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine *

Edmund Prentis Edmund Astley Prentis, Jr. (1883 – March 12, 1967) was an American engineer and art collector. He was a former president of the American Standards Association. Biography Prentis was born in New York City in 1883. His father, Edmund Astley Pren ...

(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 Standardization or standardisation is the process of implementing and developing techn ...

, art collector * Roger W. Toll (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 s ...

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 Yellowston ...

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. * 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 Alfonso Valdés Cobián (June 23, 1890 - February 14, 1988), was an industrialist, banker, sportsman and politician. Valdés Cobián was a cofounder of Cervecería India, Inc., currently Puerto Rico's largest beer brewery. Early years Valdés ...

(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 opposin ...

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 The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River ...

* 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 (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 no ...

, co-founder of

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

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 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,

United States Ambassador to Guatemala The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Guatemala. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently ''Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.'' See ...

(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 Architecture, Occupations ...

, head of

National Safety Council The National Safety Council (NSC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, NSC is a member organization, founded in 1913 and granted a congressi ...

'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 Seeley Greenleaf Mudd, M.D. (April 18, 1895 – March 10, 1968) was an American physician, professor, and major philanthropist to academic institutions. Early life Mudd was born in Denver, Colorado in 1895, and was the son of noted mining engine ...

(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 Prince ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

* Philip Sporn (E.E. 1917), Austrian engineer and recipient of IEEE Edison Medal; former president and CEO of American Electric Power *

Allen Carpé Allen Carpé (December 20th, 1894 – May 9, 1932) was an American engineer and mountaineer who is the namesake of Mount Carpe in Alaska. He was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather. Biography 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 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). Mount ...

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 Naval Forces, Romanian Navy and, being first in his class, was sent to German Empire, Ger ...

(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, Hug ...

(1922), poet of the

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the t ...

* 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 dev ...

in radio engineering and television engineering *

Edward Lawry Norton Edward Lawry Norton (July 28, 1898 – January 28, 1983) was an accomplished engineer and scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and is known for Norton's theorem. His areas of active research included network theory, acoustical systems, electro ...

(M.S. 1925),

Bell Lab 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 mul ...

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 (M.S. 1928), Father of the Nuclear U.S. Navy *

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 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 Herbert Lawrence Anderson (May 24, 1914 – July 16, 1988) was an American nuclear physicist who was Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the firs ...

(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 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 National Medal of Science * Antoine Marc Gaudin (E.M. 1921), professor at MIT and a founding member of National Academy of Engineering *

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 method in discrete-time

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

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 b ...

* 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 def ...

, 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 organiz ...

Richard Skalak Richard Skalak (February 5, 1923 – August 17, 1997) was an American pioneer in biomedical engineering. He is known for his groundbreaking work in the mechanics of blood flow, bone growth, white blood cell response to infections, and biologic ...

(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 *

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 Sheldon E. Isakoff is a chemical engineer, former director of Engineering Research and Development at DuPont, and former committee member of the National Research Council. His major contributions include the development of EFT Dacron and nylon pr ...

(B.S. 1945, M.S. 1947, PhD. 1951), chemical engineer and former director of

DuPont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...

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 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' ...

who was held hostage during the Columbia University protests of 1968. *

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 a ...

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 oceanography, ocean and Earth science research ...

Wilmot N. Hess Dr. Wilmot N. Hess (October 16, 1926 – April 16, 2004) was an American physicist who was involved with many ambitious scientific projects of the 20th century, including the Plowshares project, the NASA Apollo moon missions, the National Ocea ...

(B.S. 1946), former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research 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 (United States), Democratic Party, he was the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008. Spitzer was b ...

, 54th

Governor of New York The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has ...

* James H. Mulligan Jr. (PhD. 1948), American electrical engineer, former executive officer of National Academy of Engineering 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 operation ...

* 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 l ...

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

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 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 in 1946 but graduated with a B.S. from th ...

(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. Sawye ...

(B.S. 1950), founder of the

Cinema Products Corporation Cinema Products Corporation was an American manufacturer of motion picture camera equipment. History The company was formed in 1968 by Ed DiGiulio, a former director and vice-president of the Mitchell Camera Corporation. Their first product was ...

, 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 z-transform (the discrete time equivalent of the

Laplace Transform In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (), is an integral transform In mathematics, an integral transform maps a function from its original function space into another function space via integra ...

), and created Jury stability criterion 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 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 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 Stamf ...

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. dissertation ...

(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 *

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 re ...

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 physical sci ...

* Robert Moog (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 ( electroac ...

, 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 20 ...

* 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 Edward Botwinick is an American businessman, investor, and IT industry entrepreneur. Biography Botwinick graduated from Columbia College with a BA in 1956 and the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science with a BS in 1958. Upon gra ...

(B.S. 1958), IT entrepreneur and former president of Unisys Networks *

Joseph F. Traub Joseph Frederick Traub (June 24, 1932 – August 24, 2015) was an American computer scientist. He was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held posi ...

(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 (al ...

; head of the

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science The School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US is a school for computer science established in 1988. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. A ...

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 Applied science, practical discipli ...

department at

* Richard G. Newman (M.S. 1960), Chairman and former CEO of world-leading engineering firm AECOM *

Masanobu Shinozuka Masanobu Shinozuka (December 23, 1930 – November 5, 2018) was a Japanese applied mechanics expert in earthquake and structural engineering. Shinozuka's research focuses on field theory and risk assessment methodology in civil engineering. His ...

(PhD. 1960), probabilistic mechanics,

structural stability In mathematics, structural stability is a fundamental property of a dynamical system which means that the qualitative behavior of the trajectories is unaffected by small perturbations (to be exact ''C''1-small perturbations). Examples of such q ...

, and risk assessment *

Jeffrey Bleustein Jeffrey L. Bleustein is an American business executive, and the former Chief executive officer of Harley-Davidson. He is credited with helping save the company from possible bankruptcy in the 1980s, and leading the company's resurgence as the domi ...

(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 (B.S. 1963), scientist, inventor, health strategist * Jeffrey Ullman (B.S. 1963), professor at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

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 Richard D. Gitlin (born April 25, 1943) is an electrical engineer, inventor, research executive, and academic whose principal places of employment were Bell Labs and the University of South Florida (USF). He is known for his work on digital subscri ...

(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 The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

and co-author of the Black–Scholes pricing model * Stephen Schneider (B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1971), environmental scientist at

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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

in 2007 * Harry L. Tuller (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 land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

Dorian M. Goldfeld Dorian Morris Goldfeld (born January 21, 1947) is an American mathematician working in analytic number theory and automorphic forms at Columbia University. Professional career Goldfeld received his B.S. degree in 1967 from Columbia University. ...

(B.S. 1967), American mathematician and editor of the ''

Journal of Number Theory The ''Journal of Number Theory'' (''JNT'') is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of number theory. The journal was established in 1969 by R.P. Bambah, P. Roquette, A. Ross, A. Woods, and H. Zassenhaus (Ohio State Un ...

'' *

(PhD 1968), California Institute of Technology 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." Alfr ...

laureate *

Lewis A. Sanders Lewis A. "Lew" Sanders is the founder, CEO and Co-CIO oSanders Capital, LLC a value-oriented investment manager serving institutional and high-net-worth clients. Formerly, he was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBern ...

(B.S. 1968), co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of

AllianceBernstein AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (AB) is a global asset management firm providing investment management and research services worldwide to institutional, high-net-worth and retail investors. AllianceBernstein's headquarters are located in Nashvill ...

Ira Fuchs Ira H. Fuchs (born December 1948) is an internationally known authority on technology innovation in higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET, an important precursor of the Internet. He wainductedinto the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. Sin ...

(B.S. 1969), co-founder of

BITNET BITNET was a co-operative U.S. university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. The name BITNET original ...

, 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 corporation, multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of ...

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, ser ...

, author, activist; sponsor and director of

Park51 Park51 (originally named Cordoba House) is a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The developers hoped to promote an interfaith dialogue within the greater comm ...

* Eugene H. Trinh (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 Mediacom, 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

(B.S. 1971), Economist, 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics * David Marquardt (B.S. 1973), venture capitalist and founder of

August Capital August Capital, legally August Capital Master Management Company, LLC, is a venture capital firm founded by David Marquardt and John Johnston (venture capitalist), John Johnston in 1995. It is focused on information technology and is based in Men ...

* 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 wor ...

, EVP of its parent company,

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. *

(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 Ralph Izzo is an American businessman and former nuclear physicist. He was the Chairman, President, and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group, a Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in New Jersey. He is also the Chairman of the Nuclear Ener ...

(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 American billionaire, Chairman and CEO of

Altair Engineering 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 artificial ...

* 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 context ...

and a former

Sanjiv Ahuja Sanjiv Ahuja is a telecommunications executive, the chairman and CEO of Tillman Global Holdings. On 15 June 2016 his company, Apollo Towers Myanmar, began drawdowns on a $250 million loan from the United States Overseas Private Investment Corp ...

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

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

—mission specialist, STS-109, STS-125 * Gregory H. Johnson (M.S. 1985), Current Colonel (United States), colonel, engineer,

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 * Douglas Leone (M.S. 1986), billionaire venture capitalist and partner at

*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

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 Shutterstock * Andy Ross (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 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 *

Professor,

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

and

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. *

Founding chairman of the

department at Columbia * Emanuel Derman, Professor and Director of Columbia's financial engineering 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 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 National Academy of Engineering, 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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