Doctoral student Amer Deirieh was selected by the MIT Global Fellows Program to attend a workshop about research collaborations held March 26-30 at the Imperial College London. Deirieh works with Professor Franz Ulm. […]
The MIT chapter of the civil engineering honor society, Chi Epsilon, welcomed nine new initiates at its banquet held April 23 at the MIT Faculty Club. The CEE students joining the honor society are juniors Talal […]
U.S. News & World Report recently placed Civil Engineer at No. 6 in its Best Technology Jobs rankings and No. 26 in all Best Jobs of 2012, based on the industry employment rate and expected job […]
Professor Oral Buyukozturk and graduate student Justin Chen received an ASNT (American Society For Nondestructive Testing) Fellowship Award for their research on “Remote Detection of Damage in FRP-Retrofitted Concrete Structures Using Acoustic-Laser Vibrometry.” The cash award […]
Professor Markus Buehler was recently honored by three national societies. Last fall, the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. In January, the Society […]
Professor Joseph Sussman gave the DaVinci lecture on “Vertical vs. Horizontal Thinking in Engineering: Engineering Science and Engineering Systems” Thursday, April 12, at the MIT Tau Beta Pi faculty dinner. At the March 12 dinner of […]
Chemical & Engineering News magazine ran an article about Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm in the Feb. 27 issue. In the article, Chisholm talks about the importance of public outreach as a means of improving scientific literacy […]
An interview with Professor Herbert Einstein ran in the January/February 2012 issue of World Tunneling magazine. In the article, titled “A Rock-Solid Career,” Einstein comments on tunneling research and education and on recent important advances in […]
The Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers has selected Professor Franz-Josef Ulm to receive the 2012 Theodore von Karman Medal, which recognizes distinguished achievements in engineering mechanics. The selection committee chose Ulm […]
Bacteria adapt to habitats through random genetic mutations and gene exchange. But how does an advantageous mutation spread from a bacterium to a population? Does the gene sweep through a population or does an individual bacterium […]
At a remote village in Rwanda, a clinic faced chronic shortages of water during the nation’s twice-yearly dry seasons. Collecting rainwater during the rainy periods was the obvious answer, but figuring out how to do so […]
The 2012 MIT Steel Bridge Team placed second this year at the regional competition held March 30-31 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The team took 1st place in the Paper Competition (thanks to 1E senior […]
Looking for the simplest 3-D structure that could use mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, CEE Professor Pedro Reis, alumnus Jongmin Shim and co-authors created the buckliball, a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no […]
A new study by CEE Professor Ruben Juanes and graduate students Christopher MacMinn Ph.D. ’12 and Michael Szulczewski shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least […]
Longtime CEE Professor Robert V. Whitman S.M. ’49, Sc.D. ’51, died February 25 at age 84. A world-renowned geotechnical engineer and expert on earthquakes, he was with CEE from 1948 until his retirement in 1993, except […]