School of Engineering and Applied Science

Engineers map city energy consumption

A team at the School of Engineering and Applied Science measured the amount of energy that buildings consume on every block in New York City.

By Jeremy Budd | Feb 8 05:39 am ET

Lab, Brazilian mine team up for ‘green’ research

The mining company—the Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração—has partnered with a SEAS lab, and is funding the partnership with a $150,000 grant.

By Jeremy Budd | Jan 25 02:11 am ET

SEAS students take winter break trip to Hong Kong

Five engineers spent ten days in Hong Kong earlier this month, the first trip in a new initiative meant to allow more SEAS students to study abroad.

By Margaret Mattes | Jan 18 03:44 am ET

Cornell wins NYC competition, but city still in talks with Columbia

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that Cornell had won a $100 million grant to build an engineering campus in NYC, but the city might still give support to Columbia, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon as well.

By Casey Tolan | Dec 19 07:15 pm ET

Dean Peña-Mora under fire from faculty

Many SEAS professors signed a letter in October calling for the ouster of Dean Feniosky Peña-Mora, saying that if he remained dean, it would cause “irreparable damage–including loss of key faculty and complete alienation of those who remain.”

By Sammy Roth, Jeremy Budd, and Finn Vigeland | Dec 7 07:36 pm ET

GRAPHIC: Proposals for city's engineering campus competition

The seven proposals the city has received for its engineering campus competition vary in location, size, cost, and vision.

By Abby Mitchell | Nov 2 02:54 am ET

Revamped Gateway allows freshman choice of nine projects

Faculty from each of the engineering school's nine departments have developed projects to help first-years develop pre-professional skills.

By Sammy Roth | Sep 7 01:34 am ET

CC, SEAS '14 more selective than ever

In what is once again the most selective admissions process ever, Columbia College and SEAS accepted 9.16 percent of total applicants for the Class of 2014.

By Amber Tunnell | Apr 1 10:48 am ET

At SEAS Class Day, Albaugh calls upon engineers to ‘rebuild the world’

A sense of responsibility to confront the daunting future united the School of Engineering and Applied Science class of 2009 at the college’s Class Day Monday morning, as James Albaugh, SEAS M.A. ’74 and the executive vice president of aerospace company Boeing, recognized the graduating seniors as a “generation that will rebuild the world.”

By Angela Radulescu | May 19 02:30 am ET

SEAS budget withstands endowment decrease

As schools across Columbia cope with a decrease in endowment funds, a recent University statement said that the School of Engineering and Applied Science will be affected relatively minimally.

By Claire Stern | May 3 10:16 pm ET

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