The National Science Foundation (NSF) with industry partners is investing $100 million to advance next generation wireless networks. Led by Columbia Engineering with research partners at Rutgers, and NYU, the platform, called COSMOS, will be a testbed in West Harlem for data-intensive applications, virtual reality, and smart cities.

The department is home to such diverse research activities as biomechanics, mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, control and robotics, manufacturing, energy systems, MEMS, and nanotechnology. Our faculty members have distinguished themselves internationally through a wide-ranging array of groundbreaking research areas and activities, including: robotics, smart machines, nanomaterials, morphogenesis and tissue development, and sustainable systems.

At Columbia Engineering, the Electrical Engineering Department is hands-on, multidisciplinary, research-driven and creative. Join us in a tour of our classes, laboratories, and research.

By working at the intersection of engineering, biology, and medicine, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University offers students a unique opportunity to solve problems and better understand living systems and their behavior. From this knowledge comes the development of biomedical systems and devices that improve the health of humanity.

The Columbia Nano Initiative team set about meticulously creating these new world-class facilities to empower researchers from across the university as well as from industry and fellow academic institutions.

Our vision—Columbia Engineering for Humanity—sets a bold path for a sustainable, healthy, secure, connected, and creative humanity. It is exemplified by the pioneering work our faculty and students are doing across departments and disciplines, in partnership with sister schools, institutes, government, and industry. We have never been more optimistic about the role engineering can play in the service of society and in bringing those advances to the many challenges facing our world. See the impact Columbia Engineering is having today. Soundtrack by $3.33

In the first year, Columbia Engineering students take The Art of Engineering, a hands-on design course that introduces scientific concepts re-framed in engineering terms and introduces them to five major areas of technical inquiry: engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science. In this course, students see how their high school science and math knowledge can be applied in an engineering context to solve real world problems through classroom presentations and participation in an in-depth, hands-on project. Along the way, guest lecturers discuss social implications of technology, entrepreneurship, project management, and other important nontechnical issues affecting the practicing engineer.

Karen Kasza, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, won the prestigeous NSF Early Career award for her proposal on “Biophysical Mechanisms Underlying the Generation of Tissue Structure and Mechanics during Drosophila Development.” Kasza, who joined the School in 2016, uses approaches from engineering, biology, and physics to understand and control how cells self-organize into functional tissues with precise mechanical and structural properties. She is particularly focused on discovering fundamental physical and biological mechanisms that underlie tissue morphogenesis—how shape and form are generated in biological materials. Because many genes and cell behaviors are shared by fruit flies and humans, she is using Drosophila (the fruit fly) as the model organism in these studies.

The CNI is an interdisciplinary community within Columbia University dedicated to supporting and developing research in Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

Data is pervasive in today's world. Everything can be sensed, from the environment that surrounds us to the health of the cells within us, adding to the massive amounts of online and mobile data generated each month. The Data Science Institute at Columbia University is developing technology to unlock the power of global data to help solve some of society's most challenging problems. It will develop the tools and talent to monitor and protect the critical infrastructure we depend upon, improve societal health and patient care, enhance communication and interactions within communities, predict financial failures, and keep personal data safe.

From a beach cleaning robot to affordable diagnostic tools and better-fitting prosthetics, Columbia Engineering’s fourth annual Senior Design Expo showcased the ingenuity and innovation of the Class of 2017. This video goes behind the scenes and shows how Columbia Engineers plan, design, and build their projects.

In our Extreme Engineering series, former NASA astronaut Professor Michael Massimino joins Eitan Grinspun in the Computer Graphics lab to take a look at extremely creative computing. Extreme Engineering, Eitan Grinspun, Computer Graphics, Columbia Engineering, animation, simulation, Moana, Jungle Book, Disney, calculus of variations, geometry

Kartik Chandran engineers bacteria to transform waste into resources. In this latest installment of Columbia Engineering's Extreme Engineering video series, Mechanical Engineering Professor and former NASA astronaut Michael J. Massimino takes the viewer on an inside tour of MacArthur winner and Environmental Engineering Professor Kartik Chandran's lab to see how bacteria are disrupting how we approach waste.

With a $15.8M DARPA grant, Dr. Kenneth Shepard’s lab is revolutionizing brain-computer interfaces using silicon electronics. Read the full story on our website.

For the National Building Museum in Washington DC, Columbia Engineering runs a crush test on a prototype of “Hive,” an interactive installation that is part of a series of temporary structures inside the museum’s historic Great Hall. Civil Engineering's Carleton Lab worked with architects Studio Gang to measure the carrying capacity of an assembly of three 10-foot cardboard tubes interlocked with three 4’10” tubes — which topped out at nearly 15 feet. After building and placing the structure in the lab’s Southwark Emery Universal Testing Machine, the team put the structural limits of both the connections and tubes to the test.

Read the full interview in Columbia Engineering magazine. After almost a decade of long-distance collaborations, Keren Bergman, Michal Lipson, and Alex Gaeta are working together in one place, here at Columbia Engineering. Lipson and Gaeta joined the School this summer as the Eugene Higgins Professor in Electrical Engineering (EE) and the David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and of Materials Science, respectively. And now, together with Bergman, who is the Charles Batchelor Professor and EE chair, the trio is set to break new ground in nanophotonics, or, as Lipson, a preeminent leader in nanophotonic fabrication, puts it, “optics on a very, very small scale.”

Take a walk back through history to see some of the milestones and achievements that made The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science the institution it is today.

The Shepard Group focuses on mixed analog-digital CMOS integrated circuit design. A growing number of research projects exploit custom CMOS microelectronics for nontraditional applications in chemistry and biology and combining CMOS electronics with non-traditional materials for novel applications. The multidisciplinary research involving tools and techniques in integrated circuit design, chemistry, biology, device physics, and nanofabrication.

Columbia Engineers Develop the First On-Chip RF Circulator that Doubles WiFi Speeds with a Single Antenna “This technology could revolutionize the field of telecommunications,” says Krishnaswamy, director of the Columbia High-Speed and Mm-wave IC (CoSMIC) Lab. “Our circulator is the first to be put on a silicon chip, and we get literally orders of magnitude better performance than prior work. Full-duplex communications, where the transmitter and the receiver operate at the same time and at the same frequency, has become a critical research area and now we’ve shown that WiFi capacity can be doubled on a nanoscale silicon chip with a single antenna. This has enormous implications for devices like smartphones and tablets.”

As a former NASA astronaut, mechanical engineering professor Mike Massimino is an authority in Extreme Engineering. In the first in the series, he delves into the future of digital health with Biomedical Engineering professor Sam Sia. Together they explore how to couple a smart phone with Sia's lab-on-a-chip to empower patients worldwide.

In this video, Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, takes us to the Computer Vision Laboratory to demo the self-powered video camera. Nayar, working with research engineer Daniel Sims BS’14 and consultant Mikhail Fridberg of ADSP Consulting, designed an image sensor that harvests incident light into electric power. This breakthrough technology enables a camera to run without an external power supply. The goal: a camera that can function as an untethered device for digital imaging in emerging fields such as wearables, the internet of things, and personalized medicine.

In order to see inside nanomaterials and learn how nanoparticles evolve, Simon Billinge, applies the world’s newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory A physicist with a joint position at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Brookhaven, Billinge gives us a tour of his workflow at NSLS-II.

A Columbia Engineering Magazine Extra Highlight was born when the team took part in last fall’s Ebola Design Challenge sponsored by the Engineering School and the Mailman School of Public Health to develop low-cost, technology-driven solutions to meet the urgent challenges posed by the Ebola crisis. The goal of the rapid-fire design challenge was to bring together students and faculty across Columbia and across disciplines to come up with solutions to better protect the many healthcare workers who are at high risk for infection.

James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Colin Nuckolls, Higgins Professor of Chemistry, are director and associate director, respectively, of Columbia University’s new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), supported by a $15 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Their goal is to learn about the properties of atoms and molecules and then determine how to assemble these nanoscale building blocks into materials and structures that will define the next generation of medicine, electronics, energy production, and consumer products.

Materials science pioneer Katayun Barmak takes you behind the scenes at Columbia Nano Initiative’s new Electron Microscopy lab where researchers probe the nature of materials at the nanoscale.

What is a Hack? Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science's Inaugural Spring hardware hackathon.

A conversation about work and life with Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering. For more than 20 years, Vunjak-Novakovic has made tremendous headway in the promising field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, nabbing numerous honors along the. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a founding fellow of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, and more recently, she was elected to the National Academy of Inventors and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. For the full story go to Columbia Engineering Magazine Engineering.columbia.edu/web/newsletter

A Columbia Engineering Magazine Extra “We have pioneered a way to use ultrasound to assess the elasticity of tissues such as the heart, the vessels, and tumors in the breast and pancreas,” says Konofagou. “We use the intrinsic movement of the organ, or the movement induced by the acoustic wave, to detect the elasticity.”

The Art of Engineering (AoE) is an introduction to Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science and to the profession of engineering. It takes the fundamental concepts of math and science and demonstrates how engineers use them to create new things. Here is the end of semester project: the Rocket Launch Challenge. PROFESSORS Dave Vallancourt Mike Massimino TA Morgan Degnan Caglianone Nicole Margaret Lewis Michael Mournighan Ashley Gala Nagel MAKER SPACE Andrei Shylo LOCATION Baker Field, Columbia University ADDTIONAL ROCKET FOOTAGE Mark Robert Cartolanos Dino Moshova Andrew Moshova DIRECTOR Jane Nisselson