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Burying the greenhouse gas: New tool could aid safe underground storage of CO2

December 1, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

To prevent global warming, researchers and policymakers are exploring a variety of options to significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere. One possible approach involves capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide […]

Burying the greenouse gas: New tool could aid safe underground storage of CO2

December 1, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

Deborah Halber Civil & Environmental Engineering Correspondent To prevent global warming, researchers and policymakers are exploring a variety of options to significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere. One possible approach involves […]

CEE research advisee wins best thesis award from MIT’S Center for Real Estate

October 24, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Anthony Guma, who graduated in June with a master’s degree in Real Estate Development, won the MIT Center for Real Estate Alumni Association’s best thesis award in September. Professor Richard de Neufville of CEE was Guma’s […]

Buehler’s book on atomistic modeling published by Springer

October 24, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

CEE Professor Markus J. Buehler’s new book, titled “Atomistic Modeling of Materials Failure” (Springer 2008), was published in July. Intended as a reference for engineers, materials scientists and researchers in academia and industry, the book provides […]

Two in CEE receive seed funding from MIT Energy Initiative

October 24, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Two faculty members in CEE received grants through the MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Program in September: Markus Buehler for a project on bioinspired thermal materials and Harry Hemond (with Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering) for […]

CEE’s Clune receives Britain and Ireland’s top engineering undergraduate student award

October 15, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Graduate student Rory Clune is winner of Britain and Ireland’s most prestigious award for science and engineering undergraduates: the GKN Award for the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year. The GKN Award (named for […]

Entekhabi to lead MIT Environmental Research Council

October 13, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Dara Entekhabi, the Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director of the Parsons Lab and director of the Earth Systems Initiative (ESI), will serve as chair of the […]

Software will improve hurricane planning and evacuation

October 13, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Many lives and dollars could be saved if emergency managers could make better decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, MIT student Michael Metzger, who works with Professor Richard Larson of CEE and the Engineering […]

Transportation alumnus wins top paper award for work in passenger-choice modeling

October 13, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Emmanuel Carrier, who earned the Ph.D. in transportation earlier this year, won the Anna Valicek Medal from the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies in September for his paper describing his modeling […]

De Neufville’s contributions to the aviation industry recognized by TRB

October 8, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Richard de Neufville of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division will receive the Francis X. Mc Kelvey Award from the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research […]

De Neufville’s contributions to the aviation industry recognized by Transportation Research Board

October 8, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

Professor Richard de Neufville of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division will receive the Francis X. Mc Kelvey Award from the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research […]

Shyam Sunder describes NIST investigation into WTC disaster

October 1, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Sunder, who earned the S.M. ’79, Sc.D. ’81 from CEE and was on the faculty for 13 years prior to joining NIST, gave a talk about the fire safety investigation he led into the World Trade […]

CEE contributes mightily to NAE publication

September 25, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT civil and environmental engineering faculty and alumni wrote most of the articles in the summer 2008 issue of the National Academy of Engineering’s quarterly magazine, The Bridge. All dealt with the urgent problems of transportation […]

MISTI lets CEE students combine summer work with international travel

September 25, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Internships across the world provided civil and environmental engineering students with a chance to engage in research projects and explore new environments over the summer. As the largest international […]

CEE Contributes Mightily to NAE Publication

September 24, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

By Debbie LeveyCivil & Environmental Engineering MIT civil and environmental engineering faculty and alumni wrote most of the articles in the Summer 2008 issue of the National Academy of Engineering’s quarterly magazine, The Bridge. All dealt […]