CIEN at Columbia University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. CIEN E4129MANAGING ENG ＆ CONST PROCESSES.
  2. CIEN E4133CAPITAL FACILITY PLANNING/FIN.
• 1. CIEN E3126COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN.
  2. ENME E3113MECHANICS OF SOLIDS.
  3. CIEN E3125STRUCTURAL DESIGN.
  4. CIEN E3127STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS.

A suggested order for the 41 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CIEN coursework.

• CIEN E3125STRUCTURAL DESIGN.opens 11 courses (8 directly)
• CIEN E3141SOIL MECHANICS.opens 7 courses (6 directly)
• CIEN E3127STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS.opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• CIEN E4232ADVNCD DSGN-CONCRETE STRUCTURS.opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• CIEN E4133CAPITAL FACILITY PLANNING/FIN.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• CIEN E4241GEOTECHNCL ENGNEERNG FUNDMNTLS.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CIEN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 41 CIEN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 75 more CIEN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CIEN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIEN E4233

  1. ENME E3113MECHANICS OF SOLIDS.
  2. CIEN E3125STRUCTURAL DESIGN.
  3. CIEN E3127STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS.
  4. CIEN E4233DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BRIDGES.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIEN E4235

  1. ENME E3113MECHANICS OF SOLIDS.
  2. CIEN E3125STRUCTURAL DESIGN.
  3. CIEN E4232ADVNCD DSGN-CONCRETE STRUCTURS.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIEN E4244

  1. ENME E3113MECHANICS OF SOLIDS.
  2. CIEN E3141SOIL MECHANICS.
  3. CIEN E4241GEOTECHNCL ENGNEERNG FUNDMNTLS.

• 3 courses deep, ending at CIEN E4137

  1. CIEN E4129MANAGING ENG ＆ CONST PROCESSES.
  2. CIEN E4133CAPITAL FACILITY PLANNING/FIN.
  3. CIEN E4137Managing Civil Infrastructure Systems.

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on CIEN sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Ayse Polat
• Dominick Pilla
• Hoe Ling
• Ibrahim Odeh
• Julius Chang
• Markus Schlaepfer
• Paul Haining
• Raimondo Betti
• Songtao Yang
• Steven Charney
• Tom Panayotidi
• Vincent Tirolo
• Virginia Mosquera
• Zhengbo Zou

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CIEN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CIEN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Columbia campus feed.