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Research Concentrations

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At Cooper Union, a community of creative and dedicated scholars works to find solutions to global problems and to make a meaningful impact in changing the world for the benefit of humankind. We benefit from the diversity of our academic vision, our multi-disciplinary research areas, and our historical strengths, including our ties to the City of New York. 

WE EMPHASIZE EIGHT KEY RESEARCH CONCENTRATIONS:

 

 

Additional Research Clusters

Building Information Modeling

Cooper Union Motorsports

Clinical Informatics

Decision Support Systems

Dynamic Networks

Encaustic Art

Energy Reclamation

Invention Factory

Natural Language Processing

Open Source Community

Robotic Monitoring in Oceans

Signal Processing

 

Biomechanics for Sleep Apnea

Tissue Engineering

Transport and Biotransport Phenomena

Wireless Research

 

 

 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.