A paper based on work by graduate student (and first author) Amer Deirieh S.M. ’12 and former postdoctoral associate J. Alberto Ortega S.M. ’06, Ph.D. ’10, Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and Younane Abousleiman of the University of […]
Graduate student Anna Tarakanova and Professor Markus Buehler were selected as recipients of the 2012 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Structural Materials Division JOM Best Paper Award. The paper, “A Materiomics Approach to Spider Silk: […]
The MIT International Development Initiative selected M.S.T. student Andrés Felipe Archila won a 2013 Carroll L. Wilson Award for his project to develop a framework for transportation planning in Colombia, his native country. Archila, who works […]
Professor Saurabh Amin will appear on a panel at the MIT-Stanford Game-Changers Workshop, “Energy on the Move,” on Thursday, March 7 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Amin will discuss resilient […]
An article about the work of MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub appeared in the Feb. 21 issue of Nature. Writer Ivan Amato describes the CSHub’s research initiative to gain an understanding of cement at the atomic scale […]
Research by Professor Marta González and former postdoctoral associate Pu Wang was the topic of an article in the Feb. 17 issue of the Boston Sunday Globe Ideas section. Gonzalez’s work using cellphone data to map […]
Shengkun Yang, an M.Eng. student in the environmental and water quality engineering track, is participating in the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition at his alma mater, the University of Washington. Yang’s team, Aquafiltro, has designed a drinking-water […]
CEE students used Legos, straws and leaves to inspire youngsters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days last weekend. A book co-authored by Professor Penny Chisholm also played a role, […]
CEE graduate Daniel Jimenez S.B. ’10, M.Eng. ’11 has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar for 2013. Jimenez will go to the University of Cambridge next fall to study for a master of philosophy in engineering […]
CEE doctoral student Hamed Alemohammad is director of the MIT Water Club’s upcoming Water Night, a research showcase for MIT research groups (students, faculty, researchers and alumni) to present posters of their water-related work. The event […]
At the AAAS Family Science Days this weekend, Professor Jesse Kroll‘s research group, working with the MIT Center for Environmental Health Science, will present “Understanding Air: Climate Change & Air Pollution.” In this activity booth, visitors […]
MIT closed last Friday because of winter storm Nemo, so the CEE Research Speed Dating Event has been rescheduled to this Friday, Feb. 15, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and relocated to the Skyline Room […]
The Concrete Sustainability Hub will hold a two-day “Meet the CSHub” event on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 26 and 27. Tuesday’s schedule will be primarily industry task group meetings, but all members of the CEE community […]
Students in CEESA, the MIT chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, will participate in Family Science Days during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting at the Hynes Convention Center. […]
This Friday, Feb. 8, CEE will hold its third annual Research Speed Dating Event from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Killian Hall (14W-111). Twenty-four faculty members and postdoctoral associates will talk about their research in […]