CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen is running the Boston Marathon with the MIT Strong team — not to compete, he says, but to honor the memory of Sean Collier, the MIT police officer who was slain […]
Professor Markus Buehler, head of CEE, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Journal of Applied Mechanics Award honoring the best paper published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics during the two calendar years preceding […]
Khalid Jawed, a graduate student from Pedro Reis’ research group, won the Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics’ Best Student Speaker Award at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Denver, Colo., for […]
CEE graduate student Philip William Kreycik led an MIT team that won a Best Proposal award in the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge. Kreycik, who is getting a dual master’s degree in city planning and […]
A study by CEE Professor Lydia Bourouiba and Professor John Bush of mathematics shows that coughs and sneezes have associated gas clouds that keep their potentially infectious droplets aloft over much greater distances than previously realized. […]
Beginning fall 2014, CEE will offer a new flexible undergraduate program, 1-ENG, which will give students the flexibility of designing their unique and challenging educational programs to suit their individual interests, career goals, and aspirations. Students […]
CEE’s own Thomas Petersen, a graduate student working with Professor Franz-Josef Ulm’s research group, has joined the MIT Strong Boston marathon team to help raise money for the Collier Fund. Petersen qualified for the marathon by […]
Course 1 junior Marisa Fryer, an environmental engineering science major with a minor in literature, has been named a 2014 Burchard Scholar. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences bestowed the award to 31 sophomores […]
When the MIT Big Data Challenge asked, “What can you learn from data about 2.3 million taxi rides?” graduate students in CEE Professor Marta González’ Human Mobility and Networks Lab (HuMNet) had some answers. The students […]
CEE held its first video competition March 14, screening 10 videos illustrating science and engineering advances that hold clues to a sustainable future. After the audience voted, official judges Professor Christopher Kaiser of biology and CEE […]
MIT Strong, the MIT team running the Boston Marathon, is a group of 38 students, faculty, alumni and staff from every corner of the MIT community who are training hard and raising money for the Collier […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm made a connection between the patterns of houses and streets in an aerial photo of city and the underlying molecular structure of concrete. This observation led to research tying together the seemingly disparate […]
John Ochsendorf, Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his exceptional undergraduate teaching, educational innovations and mentoring. An MIT News article […]
Two new faculty members — Lydia Bourouiba and Benjamin Kocar — joined CEE in January. “The department welcomes Lydia and Ben, and we are excited about the strengthening of key strategic directions,” says Professor Markus Buehler, […]
CEE graduate student Himani Gupta is director of the MIT Water Club’s MIT Water Night 2014 and graduate student Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren is marketing director for the event, which will be held tonight, March 20, from […]