By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering We’ve all heard it: The Internet has flattened the world, allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status. Who needs face time with the […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Complex networks as dissimilar in size, age and character as the metabolic processes of a yeast cell, the World Wide Web, and the airline system of the United States […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock appear to freely and rapidly exchange genetic material related to human […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University are using both civil engineering and bioengineering approaches to study the behavior of a protein associated with progeria, a rare disorder in […]
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 Engineering’s […]
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 […]
By Alice C. Waugh Civil & Environmental Engineering For more than a century, engineers studying the deterioration of materials used to build bridges, roads and dams have relied on continuum mechanics, an approach that looks at […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering In 2009, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned a grade of “D” to the overall quality of infrastructure in the United States, saying that ongoing evaluation and […]
Charles M. Vest, former president of MIT and the current president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), announced today that three MIT faculty members have been selected to attend the NAE’s 17th U.S. Frontiers of […]
EMPA, the Swiss Federal Research Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, awarded the Golden Mirko Roš Medal to CEE Professor Oral Buyukozturk on May 16, during opening session of the 2011 International Symposium on Nondestructive Testing […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering When civil engineering graduate student Steve Cranford, a native of Newfoundland, Canada, arrived at MIT in 2008, he brought with him a love of hockey. After attending a few […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Continuing its upward climb in the rankings, the MIT Steel Bridge team placed fifth in the national Student Steel Bridge Competition held at Texas A&M University May 20 and […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers at MIT say the process […]