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 on the Civil Engineering Website

The 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 and 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, including "SEAS" and "the engineering school."

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

Contents
1 History
2 Academics
3 Facilities
4 New objectives
5 Alumni
6 Programs
7 Departments
8 Specialized centers
9 External links

History

Initial home 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.

Academics

The selectivity of the SEAS application process is on par with other top-tier schools. Students' average standardized test scores are in a similar range as those of MIT or other top engineering schools, with SAT math scores usually 720-800. Also, 90% of SEAS students ranked in the top ten percent of their high school graduating class. Similar to the Columbia College requirements, there is a rigorous set of required "core classes". The first-year core classes typically consist of a semester or more of classes in each of these disciplines:

In addition to having technical required classes, engineers are required to take 29 credits of "non-technical" classes. This is often much more than other comparable engineering schools require.

Inside the engineering school, all classes (including introductory first-year classes) are taught by professors. While graduate students may teach recitation sections, all credited classes are taught by faculty. On average, the student to professor ratio in SEAS is 16:1.

Many students participate in collegiate design competitions. For example, 30% of the mechanical engineering students are in either Solar Splash (Solar Boating) or the Formula-One SAE competition.

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, and an axial tester commonly used for testing New York City bridge cables. Each department has numerous laboratories on the Morningside Heights campus; however, other departments have holdings throughout the world. For example, the Applied Physics department has reactors at Nevis Labs in Irvington, NY and conducts work with CERN in Geneva.

New objectives

Alumni

Famous Alumni

Programs

Departments

Specialized centers

External links

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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See also: Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1864, 1997, 2004, Applied Mathematics, Applied science, Biomedical Engineering