21st Century Engineering Education

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Students

Columbia Engineering’s 2026 Graduate Student Award Winners

May 13, 2026

In a classroom, three instructors in blue “Girls Science Day” T-shirts lead a lesson on color. A projector screen shows a slide titled “Looking at colors!” with overlapping color-circle diagrams, while several students sit around a long table holding small prisms or color filters and watching a glowing light in the middle of the table.

Campus

Girls’ Science Day at Columbia Sparks STEM Curiosity for Middle School Girls

May 11, 2026

by Xintian Tina Wang

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Students

Columbia Engineering Student Earns STEM Mentor of the Year Honor

May 08, 2026

by Kate Cammell

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Students

Danielle Maydan and Samir Farraj Named 2026 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

April 21, 2026

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Alumni

Lessons in Leadership from McKinsey Veteran Asheet Mehta BS’87

March 31, 2026

by Beatrice Mhando

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Students

Navios Maritime Partners CEO Angeliki Frangou Named Columbia Engineering Undergraduate Class Day Speaker

March 30, 2026

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Students

GlobalFoundries Chairman Thomas Caulfield to Speak at Columbia Engineering Graduate Class Day

March 30, 2026

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Campus

How does AI Change Teaching and Learning?

March 24, 2026

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Students

This Columbia Startup Wants to Take Computer Chips to the Atomic Limit

March 24, 2026

by Ellen Neff

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Faculty & Staff

Peter Kinget Receives National Award for VLSI Design Lab Course

March 10, 2026

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Faculty & Staff

The Mind Behind C++

February 23, 2026

by Anna Louie Sussman

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Students

Computer Science Student Learning Center Opens its Doors

February 23, 2026