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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.