Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

   

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Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Logo, Property of Columbia University in the city of New York, from the webpage of Dr. Hoe I. Ling (http://www.civil.columbia.edu/~ling/others/seas1.gif) on the Civil Engineering Website

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science is a school of Columbia University which awards degrees in mathematics, engineering, physics and applied science. Formerly known as the School of Mines and then the School of Mines, Engineering, Chemistry, it was the United States's first mining school. When Chinese businessman Z Y Fu gave $26 million to the Columbia Engineering School, it was renamed in his honor on October 1, 1997. On campus, the school is known by many names, inluding SEAS and the engineering school. Fu is pronounced foo or fooh; it is never pronounced such that the letters are verbally spelled out.

Today the school is known for its ongoing research, numerous patents, and involvement in Biosphere 2. It is also the only academic institution to hold a share of the patents for MPEG-2.

History of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Birthplace of the Manhattan Project and home of Columbia's new High-Beta Tokamak (HBT), the school of engineering has a reputation for innovation in nuclear engineering.

Facilities

Columbia's Plasma Physics Laboratory is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), in which the HBT and Columbia Non-Neutral Torus are housed.

The school also has two wind tunnels, a machine shop, a nanotechnology laboratory, a General Electric Nuclear Fission Reactor, an axial tester commonly used for testing New York City bridge cables, with a maximum load of 600,000 lbs in tension and compression, and numerous other labs and equipment in each of the departments.

Departments of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Programs of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Materials Science and Engineering
    • Program in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, sharing teaching and research with the faculty from Henry Krumb School of Mines.
    • Location:
      • 200 S. W. Mudd, MC 4701
    • APAM Webpage (http://www.apam.columbia.edu/)
    • Program Webpage (http://www.seas.columbia.edu/matsci/)
    • In Charge of Materials Science and Engineering
      • Professor James S. Im (http://www.seas.columbia.edu/matsci/Im/Members/Im.html)
    • In Charge of Solid-State Science and Engineering
      • Professor Siu-Wai Chan (http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/faculty/Chan.html)
      • Professor Irving P. Herman (http://www.cise.columbia.edu/herman/?content=research.radlab.columbia.edu/herman/)
  • Computer Engineering
    • Administered by both the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments through a joint Computer Engineering Committee.
    • Locations:
      • 450 Computer Science, MC 0401
      • 1312 S. W. Mudd, MC 4712
    • Webpage (http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~compeng/)
    • In Charge: Kenneth L. Shepard (http://www.cisl.columbia.edu/faculty/shepard/)

Specialized Centers Contained within the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Undergraduate Minors

New Objectives

  • In recent years, the engineering school has reworked its curriculum scheme, with the novel Gateway Lab (http://gateway.seas.columbia.edu/) course.
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Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Established in 1864
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SubjectEngineering Number of FacultySeveral HundredNumber of Students1200-1400, approximately 425 per class
History of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Established as the School of Mines, located between 1864 and 2004 on the three campuses that Columbia University had occupied in New York City.

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