By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Continuing its upward climb in the rankings, the MIT Steel Bridge team placed fifth in the national Student Steel Bridge Competition held at Texas A&M University May 20 and […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Continuing its upward climb in the rankings, the MIT Steel Bridge team placed fifth in the national Student Steel Bridge Competition held at Texas A&M University May 20 and […]
Moving up one place from last year’s rankings, the MIT Steel Bridge team finished fifth nationally in the 2011 Steel Bridge contest, held at Texas A&M University May 20 and 21. The 21-foot-long steel bridges are […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers at MIT say the process […]
It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but Professors Franz Ulm and Pedro Reis and graduate student Ange-Therese Akono say the […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk‘s research proposal “Remote Detection of Damage in FRP-Retrofitted Concrete Structures Using Accoustic-Laser Vibrometry” has been awarded the 2011 National ASNT Fellowship Award by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. The research allows the […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk chaired an international conference on nondestructive testing and health monitoring of materials and structures May 15-18 in Istanbul. About 500 authors from more than 40 countries were represented by the 200 papers presented […]
Weather permitting, on a spring afternoon every year the Course 1 senior class assembles and tests 10-foot-long bridges outside the MIT Student Center. While this eye-catching event always attracts a curious crowd, it is only one […]
Faculty, staff and students of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recognized graduating seniors and department award winners at the annual awards dinner held Thursday evening, May 12 at the Marriott Hotel in Kendall Square. […]
On Friday, June 3 CEE graduates will gather with families, friends and CEE faculty, staff and alumni for an afternoon party following MIT’s 145th Commencement exercises. This academic year, the department has awarded 123 degrees: 14 […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Weather permitting, on a spring afternoon every year the Course 1 senior class assembles and tests 10-foot-long bridges outside the MIT Student Center. While this eye-catching event always attracts […]
Course 1 senior Joel Veenstra and his teammates on Sanergy won the grand prize in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition May 11 for their proposal to build toilets in Kenyan slums and convert the waste to […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Course 1 senior Joel Veenstra and his teammates on Sanergy won the grand prize in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition May 11 for their proposal to build toilets in […]
Professor Markus Buehler will receive the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute’s Leonardo da Vinci Award for his “pioneering research in the integration of atomistic simulation with methods of continuum mechanics, applied to the multiscale modeling of the […]
Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva and his research group, the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program, received the IEEE ITS Outstanding Applications Award for creation of DynaMIT, a computer system designed to provide real-time information to travelers and […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi has been elected as an Academic Member to the Board of Governors of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, a post similar to an MIT Corporation member. Simchi-Levi received his B.S. from the […]