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Curriculum

Recent Professional-Level Courses Include:

  • Atomic-Scale Engineering of New Materials
  • Chemical Processing in Modern Society
  • Design of Buildings, Bridges, and Spacecraft
  • Earth Resources and the Environment
  • Engineering Graphics
  • Engineering in Medicine
  • Introduction to Architectural Design and Visual Culture
  • Introduction to Computational Mathematics and Physics

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Engineering Service-Learning Program

Columbia Engineering sponsors the only first year service-learning requirement of any American engineering school.

Major Advising

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The Beginning

A Core Curriculum that includes intensive work in chemistry, physics, calculus, and computer science, plus a focused version of Columbia College’s famed Core, featuring small, discussion-based classes examining foundational texts in the humanities. In the first year, applied engineering and design experience in the Botwinick Lab, the nation’s only required service-learning introductory design course for engineers. Also required a professional-level course that allows students to connect academic and professional work.

Columbia’s Botwinick Gateway Lab is a 40 million dollar multimedia interactive facility featuring a gigabit of network speed at each desktop.Columbia’s Botwinick Gateway Lab is a 40 million dollar multimedia interactive facility featuring a gigabit of network speed at each desktop.

Core Requirements

Beyond

Advanced course work that prepares students for leadership roles in engineering and applied sciences—and in nearly any professional field: law and government, business and finance, education and social science, medicine and social service. Hands-on lab work guided by prize-winning faculty. Hundreds of research opportunities every year, including the Undergraduate Research Involvement Program, offering students positions on faculty research projects.