CEE Professor Joseph Sussman recently chaired a congressionally mandated committee that released a report calling for the Pentagon to pay some of the cost of new transportation infrastructure needed to mitigate the relocation of tens of […]
Adding particles to liquids to make currents visible is a common practice in the study of fluid mechanics, one that was adopted and perfected by artist Paul Matisse in sculptures he calls Kalliroscopes. Matisse’s glass-enclosed liquid […]
Doctoral student Pierre Fuller, whose research applies computing techniques to solve problems in civil engineering, and civil engineering senior Khalea Robinson were selected as the two students to make presentations at MIT’s 37th annual Martin Luther […]
Tiffany Cheng, a junior majoring in environmental engineering science and minoring in applied international studies, has been named a 2011 Burchard Scholar. The award, given by the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, recognizes students […]
M.Eng. student Marne Zahner was selected as the spring 2010 Marvin E. Goody Award winner for his thesis proposal, “Energy Dissipation Behavior of the Modified Friction Device.” The $5,000 Goody Award is given to an MIT […]
A team of MIT students including CEE senior Joel Veenstra formed Sanergy, a company that plans to build thousands of modular “sanitation centers” in developing countries to provide an alternative to defecating in the open, which […]
A new book by Professor Chiang C. Mei and co-author Bogdan Vernescu of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Homogenization Methods for Multiscale Mechanics” (World Scientific, 2010), provides researchers with a concrete treatment of the theory of homogenization — […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has selected Professor Ed DeLong as a AAAS Fellow, a distinction that recognizes his important contributions to microbial systems science. Long is a pioneer in the field […]
The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (known as TRB) in Washington, D.C. is attended by about 10,000 people from around the globe. M.S.T. student Naomi Stein is blogging. Read Naomi Stein’s TRB blog. […]
Professor Jesse Kroll and graduate student Sean Kessler have found a new approach to characterizing atmospheric aerosols using the carbon oxidation state, which up to now has been used primarily as a teaching tool. Theirs is […]
Seventeen undergrads accompanied by four faculty members and three TAs will spend three weeks on the big island of Hawaii studying the Waiulaula Watershed. The students will take turns blogging. Read the TREX Hawaii blog. […]
M.Eng. students Claudia Espinoza and Maclyn O’Donnell are doing research in the Terai region of Nepal to find out why arsenic drinking water filters are failing under certain conditions. Read Claudia Espinoza’s blog. […]
M.Eng. students Katie Pucket and Kent Walker will spend January performing an assessment of the wastewater treatment in the Lake Yojoa subwatershed in western Honduras. Katie Puckett is blogging about their work. […]