Remember what it was like to be a freshman at Columbia Engineering? Maybe, you didn’t even take an engineering course until the junior year. Maybe you never saw an engineering professor until then either, and when you did, it was always from afar. Did it seem as if you spent all your time in calculus, chemistry and physics recitations? [More]

Three years ago, Dr. Jack McGourty, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, began widening the educational purview of the Engineering School when he won a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to work with New York City teachers in grades K-12. Teachers and students from more than 50 schools, including many in the Harlem community, are part of this K-12 program. [More]

“To google” is one of the newest verbs in the English lexicon and last month the inspirers of the word and inventors of the process became the latest winners of the Marconi Fellowship Award. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who, as Stanford graduate students created Google, the Internet search engine, were awarded the 2004 prize in a ceremony in Bologna, Italy, marking the 30th anniversary of The Marconi Foundation. [More]

Last year, Marvin Hidalgo ’05, Catherine Manzo ’04, Shawna Fei Li ’04, and Gail Amurao BC ’05 founded the Columbia chapter of the national organization Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), bringing on campus a way to improve people’s lives in developing communities through engineering. In May, five SEAS students did just that by traveling to Samli, Thailand, and building a medical clinic. [More]