On April 15, the department and MIT Water Club will host writer, lawyer, activist, and serial entrepreneur Seth Siegel – author of the New York Times bestselling book Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World. The […]
Big Engineering can be defined in many ways; one being small scale change with big impact. How does YOUR Course 1 science and engineering research reflect Big Engineering? This was the theme of the 3rd Annual Course […]
Graduate student Joanna Moody was selected by the Board of Regents of the Eno Center for Transportation to participate in the 24th annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC) in Washington, DC, June 5-9. Each year, […]
In the upcoming April publication of Nature Reviews Materials, Department Head Markus Buehler and a team of researchers will be featured for their comparative analysis of the composition, structure and mechanics of a set of representative biological interfaces […]
On March 11, the fourth annual MIT Water Night on Friday took place in MIT’s Walker Memorial with over 200 attendees. The night featured a keynote from Dr. Matt Silver (MIT ’01, CEO Cambrian Innovation), prize awards […]
Professor Admir Masic was selected to receive the WITec 2016 Gold Paper Award for his microscopic analysis of the teeth of the red sea urchin. Masic, a Raman microscopy specialist who joined the CEE faculty in […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero was selected to receive the 2016-2018 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization for his work on Systems Ecology of Particle Attached Microbial Communities. The two-year chair paves the way for promising, non-tenured professors to […]
Professor Carolina Osorio was invited as a speaker to the upcoming National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (EU-US FOE) symposium, to be held Oct. 17-19 in Aalto University, Finland. She is one of two […]
On March 4, Department Head Markus Buehler’s work was reviewed in a piece by the New York Times titled, “At MIT, Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art”. The article covers several artistic collaborations within the […]
The MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism and Philips Lighting announced that Professor Marta Gonzalez’s project, “Smarter Lighting for Urban Environments Informed by Mobile Phone Activity”, was selected for funding through the MIT-Philips Lighting Grand Challenge. Her […]
For the past two years, graduate students Fatima Hussain and Julia Hopkins have offered a mini-UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) for freshmen during the Independent Activities Period (IAP). Designed to provide a taste of the diverse […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero was selected as one of eleven MIT recipients of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship – a $50,000 fellowship given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising […]
For graduate student Alison Hoyt, her last several summers have been spent researching the hydrology and carbon cycling of the peat swamp forests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. More specifically, her CEE passions are centered […]
Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir has long been interested in the Aedes aegypti mosquito — responsible for the devastating virus, Dengue, and now Zika. In a Q&A with the MIT School of Engineering, Eltahir explains how his work […]
Enter the Third Annual Course 1 Video Competition and present an original video that answers the question, “Big Engineering can be defined in many ways; one being small scale change with big impact. How does YOUR […]