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Water Energy Climate

When it comes to Earth and its ever-changing environment, engineers are faced with a world of problems to solve. More

H2O Innovations: A Steady Flow of Solutions to Tackle the Global Water Crisis
Engineers Without Borders: Building a Global Community
From All Corners of Engineering, Sustainable Energy Solutions in the Works
On the Verge of a Battery-Powered Revolution
Materials Engineering for a More Sustainably Built Environment

In This Issue

A New Approach to Modeling Amazon Seasonal Cycles

SEAS Scientists Explore the World's Ever-Changing Climate

Exploring a Deeper Understanding of How Humans Affect the World's Water

Clearing the Air

Outside-of-the-Box Green Research

Faculty Q&A: Kartik Chandran

Ariane Coelho Brotto | Earth and Environmental Engineering | PhD Candidate

Pay It Forward

Hands-On Robotics

Introducing a Biologically Powered Chip

Lab to Market

Columbia University + edX Launch Online Data Science Education Series

Going Green One Monday at a Time

Building Change

Join Us, Alumni! Reunion Weekend 2016: June 2 to June 5

Engineering to the Extreme

Exploring Big Data Solutions for the Northeast

Engineering Icon: Santiago Calatrava, Engineer-Architect-Artist

New GE Partnership to Advance MRI Research

View from the Top

Engineering Design Challenge Taps Water Innovations

Also in This Issue

Letter From the Dean
Faculty News
Letter from the Alumni Association Presidents
Class Notes
Program Notes
In Memoriam
Spot News Roundup
Donor Spotlight

The Nanostructure Problem: Simon Billinge at Brookhaven National Labs

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In order to see inside nanomaterials and learn how nanoparticles evolve, Simon Billinge, applies the world’s newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory A physicist with a joint position at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Brookhaven, Billinge gives us a tour of his workflow at NSLS-II.

The Nanostructure Problem: Simon Billinge at Brookhaven National Labs

The Nanostructure Problem: Simon Billinge at Brookhaven National Labs

Runtime 3:17

In order to see inside nanomaterials and learn how nanoparticles evolve, Simon Billinge, applies the world’s newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory A physicist with a joint position at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Brookhaven, Billinge gives us a tour of his workflow at NSLS-II.

Inventing the Biomachine: Professor Kenneth Shepard

Inventing the Biomachine: Professor Kenneth Shepard

Runtime 2:55

The Shepard Group focuses on mixed analog-digital CMOS integrated circuit design. A growing number of research projects exploit custom CMOS microelectronics for nontraditional applications in chemistry and biology and combining CMOS electronics with non-traditional materials for novel applications. The multidisciplinary research involving tools and techniques in integrated circuit design, chemistry, biology, device physics, and nanofabrication.

Transmission Microscopy Lab: probing the structure of materials at nanoscales

Transmission Microscopy Lab: probing the structure of materials at nanoscales

Runtime 2:23

Materials science pioneer Katayun Barmak takes you behind the scenes at Columbia Nano Initiative’s new Electron Microscopy lab where researchers probe the nature of materials at the nanoscale.

EXTREME ENGINEERING: a conversation with Michael J. Massimino

EXTREME ENGINEERING: a conversation with Michael J. Massimino

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Michael J. Massimino, professor of Mechanical Engineering and former NASA astronaut, explains the Extreme Engineering initiative at at Columbia Engineering

Extreme Engineering with Kartik Chandran: A New Generation of Environmental Engineers

Extreme Engineering with Kartik Chandran: A New Generation of Environmental Engineers

Runtime 3:42

Kartik Chandran engineers bacteria to transform waste into resources. In this latest installment of Columbia Engineering's Extreme Engineering video series, Mechanical Engineering Professor and former NASA astronaut Michael J. Massimino takes the viewer on an inside tour of MacArthur winner and Environmental Engineering Professor Kartik Chandran's lab to see how bacteria are disrupting how we approach waste.

Extreme Engineering with Sam Sia and Mike Massimino: devising the future of digital health

Extreme Engineering with Sam Sia and Mike Massimino: devising the future of digital health

Runtime 3:09

As a former NASA astronaut, mechanical engineering professor Mike Massimino is an authority in Extreme Engineering. In the first in the series, he delves into the future of digital health with Biomedical Engineering professor Sam Sia. Together they explore how to couple a smart phone with Sia's lab-on-a-chip to empower patients worldwide.

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