From a beach cleaning robot to affordable diagnostic tools and better-fitting prosthetics, Columbia Engineering’s fourth annual Senior Design Expo showcased the ingenuity and innovation of the Class of 2017. This video goes behind the scenes and shows how Columbia Engineers plan, design, and build their projects.

At Columbia Engineering, the Electrical Engineering Department is hands-on, multidisciplinary, research-driven and creative. Join us in a tour of our classes, laboratories, and research.

The Columbia Nano Initiative team set about meticulously creating these new world-class facilities to empower researchers from across the university as well as from industry and fellow academic institutions.

At the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, the paradigm for building and repairing tissues is one from nature: cultivate cells’ natural growth process. Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic’s lab creates custom bone structures from stem cells and, recently, successfully bioengineered lung tissue. Ongoing research includes a “human-on-a-chip.”