Columbia's tradition in engineering
and applied science education traces back to the chartering of king's college
in 1754. Steamboat inventor John Stevens graduated from the college a few years
before the Revolutionary War, and Dewitt Clinton, the statesman responsible for
the Erie Canal, earned his Columbia degree in 1786. Columbia's legacy of engineering
instruction continued in the nineteenth century was formalized in 1864 with the
founding of the engineering school, the third oldest in the country.
As the Engineering School has
diversified and grown, it has built an enduring reputation as a center of
research excellence in select fields and as Alma Mater to generations of alumni
who have shaped academic departments and industrial research program across the
country. In 1997, Z.Y. Fu and The FU Foundation announced a gift of $26
million, designed broadly for "support of engineering excellence at
Columbia," and more specifically for support of faculty and the
enhancement of interdisciplinary research in areas of emerging strength.
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