This year, Columbia University celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding as “King’s College” in 1754. Since the history of our School is inextricably intertwined with that of the University at large, I would like to use this occasion to share a few reflections on the history—and the future—of engineering and applied science at Columbia. [More]

Zvi Galil, Dean of the Engineering School and Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science and the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering, has been elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE). [More]

As dry and, at times impenetrable, as a curriculum may appear, it does identify the way in which an institution expresses its culture and understanding of its mission and goals. Columbia Engineering has always taken a leadership role in developing new curricular concepts. [More]

The history of women at Columbia Engineering parallels the emergence of women as a vital part of the country’s work force. Columbia Engineering was opened to women through the efforts of Virginia Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard College, who saw this as one way in which her college could help the nation during World War II. At that time (1942), the School of Engineering was concentrated in the last two years of the four-year sequence. Barnard students would spend their first two years at Barnard and the last two at Columbia Engineering. [More]