A background paper written for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction makes use of Professor David Simchi-Levi’s new methodology for assessing supply chain risk. “Flood Risks and Impacts Future Research Questions and Implication to […]
Juan Carlos Murillo, a visiting student from Tecnologico de Monterrey is one of five winners of the Microsoft Youth Spark Challenge for Change. Murillo’s project, Sin Miedo a la Corriente (Spanish for “no fear of current”), […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, was recently presented with the Transportation Research Forum’s Distinguished Researcher Award, which recognizes individuals with distinguished careers as research scholars in transportation. […]
CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler announced the names of the winners of the 2014 CEE awards in an informal ceremony held May 12 in Room 1-131. The ceremony was followed by an ice cream social. […]
CEE Leadership and Community Award — Recognizes an undergraduate student who has made exemplary contributions to improve the CEE community, fostered excellence, diversity, and contributed to our culture of inclusiveness. Catherine Cheng ’14 Leo (Class of […]
Every senior at MIT has come to know the campus in a personal way, having established favorite haunts for studying, eating, resting and playing during their four years at the Institute. But the Course 1 Class of 2014 is […]
CEE personnel administrator Borislava Stoyanova will receive the MIT Laya Wiesner Community Award, established as a memorial to the wife of the late MIT President Jerome Wiesner. The award celebrates “a member or friend of the […]
Course 1 Class of 2014 designs, creates and deploys sophisticated air-quality monitoring system for MIT campus. By Denise Brehm Civil and Environmental Engineering Every senior at MIT has come to know the campus in a personal […]
The MIT chapter of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society, formally initiated eight new members April 27, and will welcomed them at a banquet May 5. Chi Epsilon recognizes students who are in the […]
Course 1 seniors will demonstrate CLAIRITY — the air-quality sensor network they designed, built and deployed across campus — in a public presentation Tuesday, May 6 at 4 p.m. in Room 46-3002. The network is made […]
Two projects demonstrating the exciting opportunities that arise by combining the diverse research interests of faculty in CEE have been selected to receive inaugural CEE cross-disciplinary seed funding. The program provides a one-year graduate student fellowship […]
The department requests nominations for the department’s annual awards, including several new awards for undergraduate leadership and community, best doctoral thesis, postdoctoral scholars, and staff excellence. The deadline is Friday, May 2. The awards recognize the […]
Two projects demonstrating the exciting opportunities that arise by combining the diverse research interests of faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have been selected to receive inaugural CEE cross-disciplinary seed funding. The […]
Course 1 seniors presented work from the capstone class at the Cambridge Science Festival’s Science Carnival held Saturday, April 19 at the Cambridge Public Library. Zach Balgobin, Sydney Beasley, Derek Chang and Paula Gonzalez showed their […]
Professor Sallie Chisholm and former postdoctoral associate Nadav Kashtan performed a cell-by-cell genomic analysis on a wild population of the marine microbe Prochlorococcus living in a milliliter — less than a quarter teaspoon — of ocean […]
