CEE Professor Roman Stocker, chair of the MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee, submitted the committee’s findings on June 12 to the Conversation Leadership: Provost Marty Schmidt, MITEI Director Bob Armstrong, Environmental Solutions Initiative Director Susan Solomon, and Vice […]
CEE is excited to announce an Instagram photo contest, and opportunity for everyone in the department to share summer experiences. Every picture you take, tag @MIT_CEE and #CEEsummer. Photos will be evaluated based on the following criteria: creativity, originality, and […]
Throughout the last few decades, large swaths of aquatic vegetation have disappeared around the world, including in the United States. In response, a team of CEE researchers has developed a model to help scientists understand how […]
CEE graduate student Ruby Fu says that, growing up, she was a witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China. Environmental challenges always on her mind, Fu now works under advisor Professor Ruben […]
After a successful panel on academic jobs was held in the spring, the CEE postdoctoral committee is excited to follow up with an organized Lunch and Learn session on industry career paths. The event, open to […]
In mid-April, students of the CEE 1.011 Project Evaluation and Management course took to the field in an unprecedented way – they journeyed to the building site of MIT.nano to see, firsthand, the decision-making that goes into large-scale […]
Part of the Institute since 2006, CEE Professor Ruben Juanes knew he wanted a future in the sciences since he was in middle school. Now, the majority of his research is dedicated to flows related to […]
Until now, studies of human interactions through mobile communication and social media have always been conducted at the country scale. Ultimately, they conclude that social networks are primarily determined by geographic proximity. Now a new study, […]
The connection between rain and contagion has long been a point of interest for scientists, including fluid dynamics expert and CEE professor Lydia Bourouiba. In 2014, she coauthored a study that employed high-speed videography to demonstrate […]
CEE graduate Elaine Kung ’15 has been awarded $5,000 by the MIT engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi to continue her inspiring work on the design of compost toilets in El Salvador. In January, Kung traveled to Santa Ana […]
To encourage researchers to come up with new solutions, Elsevier is holding its first ever “Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge” – open to individuals or organizations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors from all countries. Projects in […]
On Tuesday, July 7 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in E38-300, MIT Sea Grant funded researcher Cascade Sorte will present a seminar entitled, “Are blue mussels declining in the Gulf of Maine: Population dynamics across space and time”. Using a […]
Over 50 CEE alumni, staff and faculty came together for an alumni breakfast hosted in Maseeh Hall on June 4. The event featured a buffet-style breakfast, a networking session for all attendees, and a variety of […]
Congratulations to all of the new graduates from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering! On June 5, the new CEE graduates gathered with families and friends as well as CEE faculty, staff and alumni for […]
Following the MIT Hooding Ceremony the morning of June 4, CEE celebrated its incredible doctoral graduates with a luncheon for grads, their friends and families, and CEE affiliates. Department Head Markus Buehler, who conferred hoods with MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart to […]