All MIT alumni, faculty, staff, students and families are invited to participate in the inauguration events Sept. 19-22 a series of three symposia scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; the inauguration ceremony for President Rafael Reif on Friday afternoon; and the community festival on Saturday. CEE […]
On Thursday, Sept. 27 researchers in the Concrete Sustainability Hub will present their latest research findings at a symposium titled, “Research With An I4 Sustainable Change: Invest, Innovate, Invigorate and Implement,” to be held in Kresge […]
CEE will hold the inaugural Chiang C. Mei Lecture in Applied Mechanics on Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall E14-633. The speaker will be Julian Hunt, Professor of Climate Modeling in […]
In mid-August, Professor Markus Buehler was a guest on NPR’s On Point program on a show called “The Amazing World of Spiders.” Buehler’s research on the mechanical properties of spider silk placed him in a good […]
A research paper, “Capillary Fracturing in Granular Media,” by former postdoctoral associate Ran Holtzman, graduate student Michael Szulczewski and Professor Ruben Juanes published in the June 28 issue of Physical Review Letters was subsequently highlighted in […]
Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes; those individuals best equipped to obtain resources adapt and reproduce, while others may fall by the wayside. Many organisms also form cooperative social […]
This fall, William “Mack” Durham S.M. ’07, Ph.D. ’12, who worked with Professor Roman Stocker, will receive the 2012 American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics’ (APS/DFD) Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award for the best thesis in fluid […]
Professor Emeritus Robert J. Hansen Sc.D. ’48, whose Cold War research in atomic-bomb-resistant structures helped lay the foundation for the field of structural dynamics, has died at age 91. He was on the CEE faculty for […]
For his article in Technology Review, “Can Fracking Be Cleaned Up?” reporter Kevin Bullis asked Professor Franz-Josef Ulm how the quality of cement used in natural gas wells might affect aquifer contamination due to fracking. “Whenever […]
The MIT Steel Bridge Team placed second at the 2012 National Steel Bridge Competition, out-engineering 45 other teams that had been winnowed from 200 in regional contests. The University of California, Berkeley, took first place at […]
Research by Professor David Simchi-Levi was the topic of an article in the July 18 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Simchi-Levi surveyed 108 U.S. manufacturing companies, mostly with annual sales over $1 billion, and found […]
As part of their campaign to educate the public on the importance of photosynthesis to all life on the planet, Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and co-author/illustrator Molly Bang have written a second children’s book, this time […]
This summer, the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, D.C., honored Frederick Salvucci ’61, S.M. ’62, senior lecturer and senior research associate in CEE, at its annual Eno Leadership Development Conference Fundraising Dinner. […]
MIT is the top-rated civil engineering school in the world according to the QS World released in July. QS also named MIT No. 4 in environmental sciences. The rankings, published by QS — Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. […]
Public health crises of the past decade have heightened awareness that new viruses or bacteria could spread quickly across the globe, aided by air travel. While epidemiologists and scientists who study complex network systems are working […]