MIT graduate student Anouk Fontaine has received the Marvin E. Goody Award to support her thesis project focused on reusing steel studs to build load-bearing steel frame walls, using geometry and multi-objective optimization in a top-down […]
U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions. […]
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions. […]
MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer writes algorithms that optimize overall function, minimize carbon footprint, and produce a manufacturable design. […]
MIT graduate student Kirby Heck advances wind power by merging fluid mechanics and sustainable energy Graduate student Kirby Heck’s interest in physics and fluid mechanics led him to study engineering mechanics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. […]
Two MIT graduate students share similar journeys from West Point to MIT. […]
While exploring her hometown of Brussels and on family trips through Europe, graduate student Sofie Stribos developed a fascination with the architecture that surrounded her. “I was always the one looking around at the buildings,” she […]
After earning her bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from MIT, Theo Rosenzweig worked in environmental consulting in Salt Lake City. There, she witnessed firsthand the pollution of the city’s air by corporations and saw how, despite […]
Hometown: Park City, Utah Who is your advisor/PI?: Josephine Carstensen Degree Program: SM/PhD Anticipated Graduation Year: 2027 How did you first become interested in Civil and Environmental Engineering?I’ve been passionate about civil and environmental engineering for […]
August is National Water Quality Month, serving as a reminder to protect and make the most of the fresh water sources we have. Clean water is vital to our individual health, our collective agricultural needs, and […]
Hometown: Saddle Brook, NJ Advisor/PI: John Ochsendorf Degree Program: MEng – Structural Anticipated Graduation Year: 2023 How did you first become interested in Civil and Environmental Engineering? I found my way to structural engineering through my […]
MEng student Mollie Wilkinson seeks to combat climate change through methane research Mollie Wilkinson first became interested in methane removal during her undergraduate studies in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Wilkinson was inspired […]
Hometown: Chicago, IL Degree track of the MEng: Structural Mechanics & Design (SMD) Who is your advisor: John Ochsendorf Why did you choose the MIT CEE MEng degree program? I chose the MIT CEE MEng SMD program mainly because it provided a […]
Hometown: Brasília, Brazil Degree Program: Transportation PhD Lab and advisor: Center of Transportation and Logistics (CTL), LIFT Lab, Josué Velázquez How did you first become interested in Civil and Environmental Engineering? During high school physics lab, […]
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey Degree Program: SM/PhD Who is your advisor/PI: Randolph Kirchain How did you first become interested in Civil and Environmental Engineering? Both of my parents are civil engineers. I grew up listening to stories […]