McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler and the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) was featured in the New York Times for their research about the camouflaging characteristics of squid. Due to tiny […]
Postdoctoral associate Sarah Fletcher received the 2019 American Water Works Association Academic Achievement award for Best Doctoral Thesis on “Learning and flexibility for water supply infrastructure planning under diverse uncertainties.” The award recognizes contributions within the […]
McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler, former postdoc Anna Tarakanova and Claire Hsu ’20 published a paper in Science Advances about the use of spider silk for robotics muscles. The spider silk’s robustness […]
PhD student Josh Moss studying Atmospheric chemistry in Professor Jesse Kroll’s Lab, is examining the chemistry of gases and particles in the atmosphere that humans are releasing, and their interactions with existing particles in the atmosphere. […]
The 2019 QS World University Rankings announced that CEE is ranked first in civil and structural engineering and second in environmental science. The rankings are based on research quality and accomplishments, academic reputation and graduate employment. […]
McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler, research scientist Francisco Martín-Martínez, and research affiliate Jingjie Yeo from the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) published a paper in Nature Communications on paraffin-enabled graphene […]
Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir hosted a workshop at MIT, organized by the Lincoln Laboratory in collaboration with CEE, to examine national security repercussions of climate change. The workshop was attended by MIT researchers and […]
PhD student Isabelle Su performed the sonification of a digital spider web, based on research with McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Professor Markus Buehler’s lab, at the U.S. premiere of Spider’s Canvas at MIT […]
Professor Ben-Akiva and co-authors Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train, published “Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation: Consumer Behavior and Choice-based Conjoint Analysis” in Foundations and Trends Econometrics. It provides the reader with stated preference data collection methods, […]
In January, the first cohort of students graduated from Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor Admir Masic’s MIT Refugee Action (ReACT) Certificate Program. The graduation ceremony took place in Amman, Jordan and was hosted by […]
On the latest Live Long and Master Aging podcast entitled “How Did I Get This Cold?”, Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba discusses our vulnerability to infectious diseases, flu shot effectiveness, living in dense populations, their implications for […]
Associate Professor Jesse Kroll and Professor Colette Heald organized real-time air quality research efforts on the Big Island of Hawaii following the Kilauea volcanic eruption in May 2018. Professor Kroll and researchers deployed low-cost sensors around […]
Department Head and McAfee Professor of Engineering, Markus Buehler and his lab, Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, (LAMM) were highlighted in the article “How AI and 3D Printing are Revolutionizing Materials Design,” by R&D Magazine. […]
Professor Saurabh Amin has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Amin’s research is focused on designing network control algorithms and economic incentive schemes that help infrastructure users and operators make better decisions in the face […]