A paper co-authored by postdoctoral fellow Vitaly Belik, a member of Professor Marta González‘s research group, was recently published in the first issue (August 2011) of Physical Review X, the journal of the American Physical Society, […]
When President Sebastián Piñera of Chile visited campus Friday, Sept. 23 to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield, tour the Media Lab and address Chilean students in the Boston area, it was CEE Professor Eduardo Kausel […]
CEE graduate student Sergio Herrero-Lopez, Professor John Williams and research scientist Abel Sanchez of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity presented work at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Cluster conference, held Sept. 26-30 […]
For its Aug. 11 Industry Day, the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) released reports on “Construction Alternatives,” “Concrete Building Life Cycle” and “Pavement Life Cycle.” The CSH is an interdisciplinary research program established in 2009 with involvement […]
Professor Markus Buehler has joined the editorial board of the London-based Journal of the Royal Society Interface, a cross-disciplinary journal that publishes research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. The prestigious journal is […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in CEE and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) has been named interim director of ESD by Ian Waitz, dean of engineering, effective Sept. 1. Sussman succeeds Professor Yossi Sheffi, who […]
On Thursday, Aug. 11 more than 500 people are expected to attend the CSHub Industry Day, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. The MIT dean of engineering will give […]
In late June, MIT announced a new collaborative program with the French national scientific research center, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to be co-directed by CEE Professor Franz Ulm and Roland Pellenq, a […]
Pedro Reis, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in CEE and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was one of 60 engineers under the age of 45 selected to attend the U.S. National Academy of […]
A paper by recent CEE graduate Rouzbeh Shahsavari Ph.D. ’11, Professors Franz Ulm and Markus Buehler, and senior research scientist Roland Pellenq has been selected by the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACS) as […]
MIT is the top-rated civil and structural engineering school in the world according to the recently released QS World University Rankings. QS also named MIT No. 3 in earth and marine sciences and No. 4 in […]
Professors Oral Buyukozturk and Markus Buehler, doctoral student Denvid Lau and recent graduate Chakrapan Tuakta Ph.D. ’11 used molecular dynamics simulation to study how materials interact at the molecular level and recently applied it for the […]
While still in college, Edna Ezzell ’11 wrote the sustainability and humanities chapters, among others, of “Fundamentals of Civil Engineering: An Introduction to the ASCE Body of Knowledge” (CRC Press, 2011), with co-authors Professor Richard McCuen […]
Recent graduate Emily Moberg ’11 is co-author of a soon-to-be-published book, “Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Environmental Applications and Case Studies” (CRC Press, October 2011), with Igor Linkov of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The summer after […]
Professor Jerome Connor and Simon Laflamme Ph.D. ’11, working with physicists at the University of Potsdam in Germany, recently proposed a new method for the electronic, continual monitoring of structures. In papers appearing in Structural Control […]