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Offering advanced instruction and research opportunities in a variety of areas of current interest in mechanical engineering.

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🚨⭐️Introducing the 2026-2027 Eboard!!!⭐️🚨
We are so excited for the year ahead and cannot wait to welcome all of our new members to campus this Fall! Stay tuned for upcoming insta takeovers, recruitment timelines, and event info!

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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 Dozens of university students wearing dark blue "Senior Design Expo 2026" shirts smile and pose in front of Alma Mater statue and Low Library at Columbia University on an overcast day.

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Join us TODAY at 4 PM in Pupin 301 for a talk with Dr. Hillary Duenas. She is a Columbia alum working in psychiatric services for the space industry. See everyone there!

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Our rocket and team are ready, but new testing restrictions mean we can’t move forward without your help.
To keep our mission on track and make it to @faroutcompetition , we are fundraising to cover the cost of off‑campus testing.
Every share and every donation brings us closer to launch day. 💙 Thank you for being part of this journey with us 🚀
🔗 Link in bio to donate!

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Do you have an innovative solution to a problem? Do you want to meet more people in engineering? Do you just like food and Red Bull? Join us on Saturday, 03/28, on the first floor of the Schapiro Lounge for an Engineering Mixer x Red Bull Basement 🪽 Come with a device 💻📱

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Pi day Fundraiser is here 🥧 Support us by donating through the link in our bio and specifying in the special instructions BEFORE YOU PAY “For Columbia Space Initiative” 🚀
Thank you so much to everyone who already donated and everyone who participated in our “pie a CSI member” fundraiser on Tuesday 💙 Your contributions allow hundreds of students at Columbia and the broader NYC community to work on cool space technology 🪐

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Meet our amazing SUITS mission who were accepted to the 2026 NASA SUITS challenge! Congratulations 🎉

Edited by: Thea Mulia

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On Friday, January 23rd, we were joined by @astro_chrisw on the @iss for a phenomenal downlink 🛰️ Big thank you to everyone who attended, and everyone who made this possible!❤️ Conversations like this make space feel just a little closer 🌌 Thank you @astro_chrisw!

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Our spring liftoff meeting is TOMORROW at 4pm! 🌸 Come learn about our wonderful missions 🚀

All majors, all grade levels, all experiences welcome! WOOHOO 💫

(Location subject to change)

Photo Credit: Tim Kopra / NASA

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Join us this Friday (01/23) for a call with the International Space Station!🌠 We're excited to announce that we will have the chance to speak with NASA Astronaut and medical physicist Christoper Williams 👨‍🚀!
See you in the Davis Auditorium at 9:45 AM🚀

Image Credit
Background: NASA
Portrait: NASA/James Blair

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These robots were made for walking 🤖

Nearly 100 students in @mechcu Hod Lipson's Robotics Studio were tasked to design, fabricate, and program their own walking robots this semester. Almost every student built their own device —because when you create something this cool, who wants to share custody?
This year featured a "choose your own adventure" twist: mid-semester, students could “upgrade” their course registration from a 4000-level course to a 6000-level course, if they used AI instead of programming the robot manually. Only 10% of students took the challenge.

“My goal is to encourage Mechanical Engineering students to use AI, and to encourage Computer Science students to use hardware,” said Lipson.

The end result? A fleet of robots taking their first steps. #ColumbiaEngineering

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Join us TOMORROW (Friday, November 21) at 4PM in Pupin 329 for our panel with Icarus Robotics‼️We are thrilled to welcome Columbia alumni Jamie Palmer and Dimitris Anastasiou. 🤖 Come ready with questions!

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