Researchers at MIT including CEE’s Professor Pedro Reis have conducted a variation on Galileo Galilei’s experiments on the motions of falling and rolling objects on an inclined plane. While Galileo used rigid materials for his tests, […]
A poster by graduate student Rouzbeh Shahsavari on the “Transferability of Empirical Force Fields” received the Best Poster award from the American Ceramic Society, Cements Division at the organization’s annual meeting held at Purdue University in […]
In May, NASA announced that the Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) mission has been selected as one of the first Earth Venture projects, which use new technologies to monitor Earth systems through remote […]
The cover of the May 2010 special issue of The Proceedings of the IEEE on “Remote Satellite Sensing: Monitoring Water, Carbon and Global Climate Change” features an artist’s rendition of the satellite in NASA’s Soil Moisture […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm gave a presentation at the 2009 Falling Walls Conference, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The conference was organized by the Einstein Foundation. Ulm’s talk was on […]
Professor John Ochsendorf and students prepared a full-scale prototype of a timbrel vault for an exhibit in the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewett, National Design Museum in New York City. The timbrel vault demonstrates that […]
During the 2009-2010 academic year, Transportation@MIT hosted a series of presentations by MIT faculty members about their transportation research. The presentations were videotaped and are now available for viewing. To see the collection of the Transportation@MIT […]
Service workers at MIT sometimes lack English language skills, but have few opportunities to study. Thanks largely to efforts by CEE administrative assistant Nancy Kelly, MIT now runs four classes plus tutoring sessions specifically to help […]
Despite government reports that most of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has dispersed, researchers have confirmed the existence of a huge plume of oil that is dissipating slowly. Richard Camilli S.M. ’00, Ph.D. ’03 […]
The salp, a smallish, barrel-shaped organism that resembles a kind of streamlined jellyfish, may help remove carbon dioxide from the upper ocean by processing tiny particles into pellets that sink, say researchers including CEE Professor Roman […]
Postdoctoral fellow Kurt House testified April 20 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on proposed carbon capture and sequestration legislation. View a video of his testimony or download the text as a […]
CEE graduate Travis Dunn, who just completed his Ph.D. in transportation, has received a Fulbright scholarship to live in Mexico next year to study advanced transportation technologies for mobility, the environment and economic development. Dunn’s thesis […]
The regionally top-ranked MIT Steel Bridge Team placed sixth at the national competition at Purdue University May 29, an extraordinary feat for this young team of undergraduates in its fourth year of participation. MIT ranked first […]
Provost Rafael Reif today released the report of the Environmental Research Council (ERC), chaired by CEE Professor Dara Entekhabi, and asked the council to design an implementation plan for launching an MIT Environmental Initiative in January […]
Juniors Connie Liu (1E) and Khalea Robinson (1C) were MIT Burchard Scholars during spring 2010. The Burchard Scholars Program brings together distinguished members of the faculty with sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated excellence in some […]