Research Centers and Laboratories

Columbia Engineering faculty are a central force in creating many groundbreaking discoveries that today are shaping life tomorrow. They are at the vanguard of their fields, collaborating with other world-renowned experts at Columbia and other universities to bring the best minds from a myriad of disciplines to shape the future.

Large, well-funded interdisciplinary centers in science and engineering, materials research, nanoscale research, and genomic research are making step changes in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve theoretical and practical problems in other significant areas.

Research Centers Web sites

• Center for Advanced Technology (CAIM)
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP)
• Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2)
• Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS)
• Computational Optimization Research Center (CORC)
• Earth Engineering Center (EEC)
• Columbia Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures (NSEC)
• Columbia University Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)
• Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute (EMSI)
• Center for Financial Engineering (CFE)
• Henry Krumb School of Mines (HKSM)
• Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants (IUCS)
• Center for Integrated Science & Engineering (CISE)
• Center for Life Cycle Analysis
• Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems
• Columbia University Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
• Columbia Water Center
• Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council

Related Research Centers

• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
• The Earth Institute at Columbia
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy