Specialized Centers
Columbia Engineering faculty are a central force in creating many groundbreaking discoveries that today are shaping life tomorrow. They are at the vanguard of their fields, collaborating with other world-renowned experts at Columbia and other universities to bring the best minds from a myriad of disciplines to shape the future.
Large, well-funded interdisciplinary centers in science and engineering, materials research, nanoscale research, and genomic research are making step changes in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve theoretical and practical problems in other significant areas. Last year, Columbia Engineering's 2007–2008 research expenditures were $92,000,000, a very respectable number given the small size of the school. Harvard's research expenditures in the same period were $35,000,000. Columbia Engineering Ph.D. students have ~60% more monetary resources to work with using the research expenditure : Ph.D. student ratio.
- Henry Krumb School of Mines
- Center for Advanced Technology
- Center For Applied Probability
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Center for Computational Learning Systems
- Columbia Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
- Center for Financial Engineering
- Center for Integrated Science Engineering
- Center for Life Cycle Analysis
- Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems
- Center for the Study of Sustainable Use of Resources
- Clean Ocean and Shore Trust
- Columbia University Energy Frontier Research Center
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Columbia Water Center
- Computational Optimization Research Center
- Earth Engineering Center
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute
- Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants
- Center for Technology, Innovation, & Community Engagement
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