For more than half a century, people interested in modeling the movement of people and goods between cities, states or countries have relied on a statistical formula called the gravity law, which measures the “attraction” between […]
An English-language interview with David Spivak, a postdoctoral associate in mathematics, and CEE Professor Markus J. Buehler and graduate student Tristan Giesa by the Voice of Russia radio program explores the MIT researchers’ work using mathematical ologs to compare […]
This Friday, 23 CEE speakers will share their research stories in five-minute soundbite presentations beginning at 1 p.m. in Bartos Theater (E15). The event will be followed by a reception from 5-7 p.m. Everyone in MIT […]
Professor Hamlin Jennings, executive director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH), tells reporter Tudor Van Hampton of Engineering News Record that developing an understanding of the microstructure in concrete is yielding new ways to manipulate the […]
Professor Dara Entekhabi was the Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology at the 2012 meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The citation for the selection reads: “For innovative and insightful contributions in hydroclimatology and its […]
The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey and dangle from your ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it’s not simply the material’s exceptional strength that […]
Senior Tiffany Cheng (1E) has been awarded a scholarship from the Rhode Island Consulting Engineers (RICE). RICE is a nonprofit professional organization representing independent consulting engineering firms. RICE awards three scholarships each year to undergradaute students […]
An essay by M.S.T student Dianne Kamfonik was one of 13 selected for publication in the Jan. 6 issue of Science in the NextGenVoices section. Science solicited essays that addressed the question “How will the practice […]
CEE researchers Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and postdoctoral associate Qinglu Zeng have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria need to beware of viruses bearing gifts. These viruses are really con artists carrying genetic material taken from […]
Graduate student Kevin Muhs will attend The Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting (known as TRB) in Washington, D.C., along with many other CEE graduate students, faculty and lecturers and about 10,000 other people from around the […]
Fourteen undergrads, seven advisors, two weeks, one active volcano. Follow the story of TREX 2012 by reading the undergrads’ blog about their time on the big island of Hawaii studying the Kilauea volcano and cloud-fed bogs. […]
M.Eng. student Adam Questad and his teammates Connie Lu, Matthew Miller and Weini Qiu on Ghana-4S are spending IAP in Tamale, Ghana, working on small-scale drinking water and sanitation systems with the nonprofit company Pure Home […]
The LIS Solutions team of four M.Eng students is spending January working with the Singapore Public Utility Board (PUB) to measure and find ways of controlling bacterial pollution in surface waters of a reservoir that the […]
NPR’s “Morning Edition” interviewed Professor Pedro Reis in late December, asking him about the work of a French physicist who used the size and shape of tree branches to explain Leonardo’s rule. NPR also posted Reis’s […]
Senior Scott Landers (1E) has been awarded scholarships from the Rhode Island Consulting Engineers (RICE) and the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA). RICE is a nonprofit professional organization representing independent consulting engineering firms. RICE awards […]