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The undergraduate Columbia Engineering Class of 2026 will hear from a leader who knows how to navigate uncharted waters. Global shipping executive Angeliki Frangou MS'88, chair and CEO of Navios Maritime Partners, will serve as the Class Day speaker for the undergraduate ceremony on May 18.

Frangou built her career in commercial shipping at a time when few women occupied senior roles in the field, ultimately transforming Navios into a global transportation benchmark.

“The Class of 2026 is entering a world of both tremendous change—and, with it, great opportunity,” said Frangou. “I look forward to sharing my experience on how to navigate a changing and uncertain world that is a source of opportunity.”

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Engineering alum Thomas Caulfield earned three degrees at Columbia. Now he’s back to share words of wisdom with the Graduate Class of 2026 as this year’s Class Day speaker, on May 18.

As executive chairman of GlobalFoundries, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, Caulfield has had an extensive career spanning more than 30 years in engineering, executive management, and global operational leadership.

“I’m honored to address the Class of 2026 at this transformative time for technology and business in the world,” said Caulfield. “My time at Columbia Engineering shaped not only my technical foundation, but also my approach to critical thinking and structured problem-solving.”

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Watch our magazine in action.

The Columbia Engineering Magazine YouTube playlist brings you inside the partnerships and breakthroughs featured in the latest issue, from the 100-year history of quantum mechanics at Columbia to the launch of Gotham Foundry and students designing and fabricating real Apple chips.

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⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

⚒️ @ColumbiaEngineering Senior Design Expo is this week!

The senior capstone (aka Senior Design Expo) is a year-long project where students have the opportunity to form a team, research an existing problem, and then design, build, test, and showcase their inventive solutions.

Head to Lerner Hall on May 7, 12–3pm, to check out the projects. Learn more at @Columbia’s bio link.

📷 Timothy Lee Photographers #ColumbiaEngineering #ColumbiaUniversity #Columbia2026 #SEAStheWorld2026 #Engineering4Humanity

What happens when you take the lecture hall out of the equation? Real conversation.

This semester, we kicked off a new faculty-student lunch series designed to bring students and professors together outside the classroom for candid, casual conversation.

The series launched in March with Electrical Engineering Professor David Vallancourt and wrapped up in April with Computer Science Professor Tony Dear — with great conversations in between.

Born out of Dean Shih-Fu Chang's discussions with the Engineering Student Council, the initiative aims to build stronger connections between faculty and students beyond office hours and lectures.

What happens when you take the lecture hall out of the equation? Real conversation.

This semester, we kicked off a new faculty-student lunch series designed to bring students and professors together outside the classroom for candid, casual conversation.

The series launched in March with Electrical Engineering Professor David Vallancourt and wrapped up in April with Computer Science Professor Tony Dear — with great conversations in between.

Born out of Dean Shih-Fu Chang's discussions with the Engineering Student Council, the initiative aims to build stronger connections between faculty and students beyond office hours and lectures.

What happens when you take the lecture hall out of the equation? Real conversation.

This semester, we kicked off a new faculty-student lunch series designed to bring students and professors together outside the classroom for candid, casual conversation.

The series launched in March with Electrical Engineering Professor David Vallancourt and wrapped up in April with Computer Science Professor Tony Dear — with great conversations in between.

Born out of Dean Shih-Fu Chang's discussions with the Engineering Student Council, the initiative aims to build stronger connections between faculty and students beyond office hours and lectures.

The April 24 Art of Engineering Expo showcased budding innovations with a creative twist.

Taking place in Carleton Commons, First-year students from David Vallancourt’s Art of Engineering course presented their custom-built arcade games — proving that when you combine solid engineering fundamentals with a little creative grit, you can build just about anything. 👾

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first-year engineers and play with their creations. What an incredible way to wrap up the semester! 🎮🙌

The April 24 Art of Engineering Expo showcased budding innovations with a creative twist.

Taking place in Carleton Commons, First-year students from David Vallancourt’s Art of Engineering course presented their custom-built arcade games — proving that when you combine solid engineering fundamentals with a little creative grit, you can build just about anything. 👾

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first-year engineers and play with their creations. What an incredible way to wrap up the semester! 🎮🙌

The April 24 Art of Engineering Expo showcased budding innovations with a creative twist.

Taking place in Carleton Commons, First-year students from David Vallancourt’s Art of Engineering course presented their custom-built arcade games — proving that when you combine solid engineering fundamentals with a little creative grit, you can build just about anything. 👾

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first-year engineers and play with their creations. What an incredible way to wrap up the semester! 🎮🙌

The April 24 Art of Engineering Expo showcased budding innovations with a creative twist.

Taking place in Carleton Commons, First-year students from David Vallancourt’s Art of Engineering course presented their custom-built arcade games — proving that when you combine solid engineering fundamentals with a little creative grit, you can build just about anything. 👾

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first-year engineers and play with their creations. What an incredible way to wrap up the semester! 🎮🙌

May the 4th be with you!

On #StarWarsDay, raise your lightsaber in tribute to @WaltDisneyImagineering's Lanny Smoot (SEAS'77), pictured here with @ColumbiaEngineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang. A prolific inventor, Lanny Smoot created the extendable lightsabers seen in Disney parks worldwide.

Learn more about Lanny's life and inventions at the link in @Columbia's bio. #ColumbiaUniversity

May the 4th be with you!

On #StarWarsDay, raise your lightsaber in tribute to @WaltDisneyImagineering's Lanny Smoot (SEAS'77), pictured here with @ColumbiaEngineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang. A prolific inventor, Lanny Smoot created the extendable lightsabers seen in Disney parks worldwide.

Learn more about Lanny's life and inventions at the link in @Columbia's bio. #ColumbiaUniversity

May the 4th be with you!

On #StarWarsDay, raise your lightsaber in tribute to @WaltDisneyImagineering's Lanny Smoot (SEAS'77), pictured here with @ColumbiaEngineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang. A prolific inventor, Lanny Smoot created the extendable lightsabers seen in Disney parks worldwide.

Learn more about Lanny's life and inventions at the link in @Columbia's bio. #ColumbiaUniversity

Investors have poured billions of dollars in seed funding into fusion companies. Now, those startups are racing to build the first fusion power plant. But how are they spending the money?

Hear more from Carlos Paz-Soldan on the startup race to build fusion energy, and learn more from his colleagues at Columbia Engineering and beyond — Subscribe to The Lever newsletter today #linkinbio #columbiaengineering #thelever #fusion @apammsecu

Entrepreneurs from the Columbia Engineering community took home $50,000 in prize pool money after their successful pitches at the Millard Chan ‘99 Technology Challenge on April 16. The Technology Challenge, which is in its fourth year, was created to reward startups that propose technological solutions for real-world problems. The competition is sponsored by serial life sciences entrepreneur Millard Chan, MBA’99BUS. Read more at the link in our bio.

Entrepreneurs from the Columbia Engineering community took home $50,000 in prize pool money after their successful pitches at the Millard Chan ‘99 Technology Challenge on April 16. The Technology Challenge, which is in its fourth year, was created to reward startups that propose technological solutions for real-world problems. The competition is sponsored by serial life sciences entrepreneur Millard Chan, MBA’99BUS. Read more at the link in our bio.

Entrepreneurs from the Columbia Engineering community took home $50,000 in prize pool money after their successful pitches at the Millard Chan ‘99 Technology Challenge on April 16. The Technology Challenge, which is in its fourth year, was created to reward startups that propose technological solutions for real-world problems. The competition is sponsored by serial life sciences entrepreneur Millard Chan, MBA’99BUS. Read more at the link in our bio.

Entrepreneurs from the Columbia Engineering community took home $50,000 in prize pool money after their successful pitches at the Millard Chan ‘99 Technology Challenge on April 16. The Technology Challenge, which is in its fourth year, was created to reward startups that propose technological solutions for real-world problems. The competition is sponsored by serial life sciences entrepreneur Millard Chan, MBA’99BUS. Read more at the link in our bio.

Out of all the colors… it was always blue 🩵

We can’t wait to welcome the Class of 2030 home 🦁 so much is waiting for you here. Happy Decision Day!

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A power plant running on fusion would produce efficient, reliable energy with no direct carbon emissions.

But researchers have to solve some hard engineering problems before the first fusion power plants are plugged into the grid.

Subscribe to The Lever to learn from Elizabeth Paul and other collaborators on what it takes to build a star on Earth.

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Why did fusion look like a sci-fi dream for generations? Society didn’t want it badly enough.

But things have changed. The private sector is now investing in fusion more than ever, with a handful of startups poised to build demonstration facilities within a decade.

Hear more from Carlos Paz-Soldan and his colleagues at Columbia Engineering — and beyond — through The Lever, our limited series newsletter.

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