Fred Salvucci, senior lecturer and senior research associate in CEE and former Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth, will be honored by the Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA) at a gala May 13. Salvucci and former Governor […]
Senior Naomi Stein was one of two MIT students to receive the 2010 AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Senior Academic Award at the MIT Awards Convocation May 4. The award is given to women students for […]
Three CEE graduate students — Zenzile Brooks, Kari Hernandez and Jessica Molly Patrick — were named Graduate Women of Excellence by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. They and others were celebrated at an […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Hamlin Jennings, who is known among academic and industry researchers for his influential work on the fundamental chemistry of cement, will be the inaugural executive director of the Concrete […]
On Monday, May 10, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Lobby 13, students from the Terrascope freshman learning community will present their research on ways to reduce the concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in […]
The May 3 entry on the Alumni Association’s “Slice of MIT” blog was about the Steel Bridge team’s victory at the regional competition in early April. Read the blog. […]
On Wednesday, May 5, students in the CEE senior capstone course (1.013) will test their bridges in front of the Student Center between 1-3 p.m. Six teams will put together and load-test their portable bridges, all […]
Nearly 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. The problem is particularly dire in Ghana. Part of the problem is that large, centralized water filtration and sanitation systems aren’t designed to reach […]
Patricia Glidden, CEE graduate admissions coordinator, received an Infinite Mile Award from the School of Engineering at a ceremony April 28. In presenting the award, Assistant Dean Eileen Ng-Ghavidel praised Glidden’s management of the admissions process, […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi will speak at the Sustainability Gala 2010, an evening celebration associated with the Sustainable Supply Chains Conference to be held June 2 on the Noordwijk coast of The Netherlands. Simchi-Levi will give a […]
Professor John Williams, CEE postdoc David Holmes, and Peter Tilke, a visiting scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, have developed software that exploits the idiosyncrasies of multicore chips to improve performance. In […]
On Thursday, April 29, MIT Provost Rafael Reif will give the 9th annual Miller Lecture at 4 p.m. in Room 34-401B. The Miller Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles L. Miller, who served as CE […]
CEE alumnus Bob Whittier ’51 was project manager for construction of the Monsanto House of the Future, a futuristic house set in 1986, developed by MIT and Monsanto Co. in the 1950s and displayed at Disneyland […]
Kortney Adams S.M. ’00 plays the role of a mural painter, Emma, in the world premiere of “From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story,” a play commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate […]
Three CEE seniors are among the 80 MIT students elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society this year. Membership in the national honor society recognizes academic excellence and educational commitment. Kelcie Abraham, Nicholas Murlo and Naomi […]