CEE held its first video competition March 14, screening 10 videos illustrating science and engineering advances that hold clues to a sustainable future. After the audience voted, official judges Professor Christopher Kaiser of biology and CEE […]
On March 14, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) held its first ever video competition in Room 32-155, complete with popcorn and candy. Competitors included teams of students, faculty, and staff from various departments […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering When the MIT Big Data Challenge asked, “What can you learn from data about 2.3 million taxi rides?” graduate students in Professor Marta González’ research lab had some answers. […]
MIT Strong, the MIT team running the Boston Marathon, is a group of 38 students, faculty, alumni and staff from every corner of the MIT community who are training hard and raising money for the Collier […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm made a connection between the patterns of houses and streets in an aerial photo of city and the underlying molecular structure of concrete. This observation led to research tying together the seemingly disparate […]
John Ochsendorf, Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his exceptional undergraduate teaching, educational innovations and mentoring. An MIT News article […]
Two new faculty members — Lydia Bourouiba and Benjamin Kocar — joined CEE in January. “The department welcomes Lydia and Ben, and we are excited about the strengthening of key strategic directions,” says Professor Markus Buehler, […]
CEE graduate student Himani Gupta is director of the MIT Water Club’s MIT Water Night 2014 and graduate student Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren is marketing director for the event, which will be held tonight, March 20, from […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this month that CEE Assistant Professor Carolina Osorio will receive a 2014 Early Career Award for her project, “Simulation-Based Optimization Techniques for Urban Transportation Problems.” The Early Career Award is […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Two new faculty members — Lydia Bourouiba and Benjamin Kocar — joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in January, expanding the department’s strengths in the mechanistic […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this month that Assistant Professor Carolina Osorio of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will receive a 2014 Early Career Award for her project, “Simulation-Based Optimization Techniques for Urban […]
An exhibition about the work of Rafael Guastavino, who is known for the vaulted ceilings he created in landmark buildings like the Boston Public Library, Ellis Island’s Registry Hall and the Grand Central Terminal in New […]
Friday, March 14 at 5 p.m. in Room 32-155 the department will host a video screening of entries in the CEE video competition inspired by the National Academy of Engineering’s E4U video contest. Refreshments, including freshly […]
In a surprising new finding, researchers in CEE have discovered that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces. The new work could have implications for the […]
PBS NewsHour reporter Rebecca Jacobson spent an afternoon in Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm’s laboratory documenting Chisholm’s work with the photosynthetic bacteria Prochloroccocus. The phytoplankton, discovered by Chisholm and colleagues in 1985, provides an estimated 5-10 percent […]
