Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries and volatility in the price of oil can disrupt a company’s entire supply chain and threaten its ability to compete. In Professor David Simchi-Levi’s new book, “Operations […]
Working with a student-spawned company, One Earth Designs, environmental engineering graduate Wesley Koo ’09 helped write the business plan for a low-cost solar cooker that won the top prize in the Netherlands Green Challenge. The lightweight […]
Eric Adams was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for disproving the adage that oil and water don’t mix. Adams and his co-investigators Scott Socolofsky S.M. ’97, Ph.D. ’01 and Stephen Masutani shared the […]
CEE Professors Pedro Reis and Markus Buehler and doctoral student Dipanjan Sen recently collaborated on a research project with Konstantin Novoselov, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of graphene (with Andre […]
CEE junior Monica Oliver’s UROP research from spring 2010 led to the publication of a role play simulation that will be used as a teaching tool in Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. “Helping Cities Adapt […]
Charisma F. Choudhury Ph.D. ’07 was selected as a receipient of the 2010 Gordon Newell Memorial Prize for her doctoral work at MIT with Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva. The prize is awarded by the Hong Kong Society […]
On Oct. 5, Professor Franz-Josef Ulm delivered the Maurice A. Biot Lecture hosted by the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. Ulm dedicated his lecture,” Poromechanics: From Atoms to Concrete Structure,” to Olivier Coussy, who died […]
MIT has selected CEE postdoctoral associate Hector Hernandez as a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar, one of eight who will work on campus this academic year. Hernandez received his Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT in 2008 […]
A profile and Q&A with Parsons Lab administrative assistant Jim Long appears in the Sept. 10 issue of Goldmine magazine, a publication about recording artists, recordings, memorabilia and collectors. Jim has been collecting music recordings since […]
With EAPS, DUSP and MITEI, CEE co-sponsored a half-day symposium Sept. 28 on lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill. Researchers at the symposium said that it should be possible to drastically reduce the chances of […]
Using Killian Court as a testing ground over the summer, CEE senior research associate John Germaine measured pore pressure in soils for a fraction of the cost of previous tests made using a drilling rig in […]
Fred Moavenzadeh, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Systems Engineering, was named president of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology last spring and began his new responsibilities in Abu Dhabi […]
Professor Cynthia Barnhart of CEE and the Engineering Systems Division has been appointed acting dean of the School of Engineering effective Sept. 8. Subra Suresh, the current dean, will be on sabbatical leave for the fall […]
Professor Joseph Sussman was invited to give the keynote speech at the World Bank Transportation Sector’s annual meeting Sept. 8, after members of the organization saw a video of a similar talk he gave at MIT […]
Doctoral student Simon Laflamme gave a seminar Sept. 22 to the Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems, the Nonlinear Dynamics Group, and the Theory of Chaos Group at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His talk, “Self-Organizing […]