Updates and Guidance
For operational updates and health guidance from the University, please visit the COVID-19 Resource Guide.
To learn more about our spring term, please visit the Updates for Undergraduate Students page.
For operational updates and health guidance from the University, please visit the COVID-19 Resource Guide.
To learn more about our spring term, please visit the Updates for Undergraduate Students page.
Columbia Engineering is at the forefront of many strategic areas of research, from environmental sustainability and the human genome to infrastructure sensors, nanotechnology, and data sciences. Our professors and students collaborate with other leading experts not only within the Columbia research community but also at other world-renowned universities and institutions, bringing together the best minds from myriad disciplines to tackle and solve the most challenging problems in society, technology, the environment, infrastructure, and more.
The many interdisciplinary institutes, centers, and initiatives at the School are equipped with the latest technology, tools, and equipment, giving our professors and their students the ideal environment to be creative and thrive. Here is a sample list of the School’s institutes and centers as well as links to university initiatives, showcasing some of the broad subject areas in which the School is conducting cutting-edge research.
Columbia Nano Initiative (CNI)
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Research Centers
Working Groups
Artificial Intelligence at Columbia
Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency
Center for Financial Engineering (CFE)
Center for Life Cycle Analysis
Center for Neuroengineering and Computation
Computational Optimization Research Center (CORC)
Earth Engineering Center (EEC)
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2)
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory