The Hubs of Research and Teaching
SEAS offers broad-based instruction within a major research university and is ideally suited to educate tomorrow’s engineering leaders and encourage technical literacy.
Our engineering and applied science departments and programs, which are among the nation’s oldest and most influential, embrace new technologies and interdisciplinary possibilities.
Innovative approaches—including computer-assisted design, the use of “smart” materials, and collaborations with other Columbia departments in basic science, medicine, and business—are opening frontiers in an expanding host of fields: from financial engineering to corrosion control, and nanotechnology to biomedical engineering.
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
The Department provides a home for students seeking study of basic physics and mathematics and real exposure to the state-of-the-art and to the applications derived from such study.
Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering, has teaching and research programs in three primary research and educational tracks: Cell and tissue engineering, Biomechanics, and Biomedical imaging.
Chemical Engineering
The Department is interested in a large number of problems that are often characterized as belonging to “electrochemical engineering” as well as the emerging field of microfludics.
Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics focuses on the classical field of civil engineering and the science of mechanics and its applications to various engineering disciplines.
Computer Science
The curriculum for the Department places equal emphasis on theoretical and experimental computer science. Areas of research range across the entire spectrum of computer science, and students at all levels are encouraged to participate in our world-class research centers.
Earth and Environmental Engineering
The Department strives to develop effective solutions to such complex and multidisciplinary problems as rapid consumption of our natural resources, extensive waste production, environmental degradation, threats to human health, and climate change, reconciling a deep concern for the environment with the needs of our global industrialized society.
Electrical Engineering
Contemporary electrical engineering is a broad discipline that includes the use of electrical and electromagnetic signals for the generation, transmission, processing, storage, conversion, and control of information and energy, as well as the human interface and the role of individuals as the sources and recipients of information
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
The IEOR Department is the home to four disciplines, including Engineering Management Systems, Financial Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Operations Research.
Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers advanced instruction and research opportunities in a variety of areas of current interest in mechanical engineering, including such diverse activities as biomechanics, mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, control, manufacturing, energy systems, MEMS, and nanotechnology.
Programs
Computer Engineering
The computer engineering program, run jointly by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments through a joint faculty committee, allows students in the program to have two “home” departments and the advantages of each.
Materials Science
Drawing from physics, chemistry, and other disciplines to provide a coherent background for immediate application in engineering or for subsequent advanced study, the program provides the basis for developing, improving, and understanding materials and processes for electronic, structural, and other applications.