The annual CEE Awards recipients were announced during a ceremony banquet on May 17 at the Samberg Conference Center. Congratulations to all the students, postdocs, faculty and staff for their outstanding work, exceptional achievement and commitment […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty members have been granted tenure by MIT: Benedetto Marelli was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure effective July 1. […]
The award will support fundamental environmental research into ecological and agricultural resilience David Des Marais, the Cecil & Ida Green Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, has been selected […]
Two graduate students in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering were named fellows of the prestigious 2023 National Science Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Kirby Heck PhD ‘26 and Elijah Martin PhD ‘26 were among […]
The award will support the advancement of large-scale cyber-physical systems Cathy Wu has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members, for […]
Member companies of startup incubator Greentown Labs, Nth Cycle and QuantAQ are forging a path in the climatetech space based on research their CEO’s completed in graduate school. Nth Cycle is a metals refining company co-founded […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions: Saurabh Amin is being promoted to the rank of full Professor, effective July 1, 2023. Amin received his B.Tech degree in […]
As part of the MIT Superfund Research Program, Nicolette Bugher is working to expose the poisons lurking in our environment and discover what they mean for human health. Nicolette Bugher has just given up on a […]
Two CEE labs showcase how nature and natural materials can improve and sustain our planet Students and postdocs in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering led hands-on demonstrations for the Climate Day events on […]
A fourth-generation civil engineer, graduate student Katerina Boukin researches the growing yet misunderstood threat of pluvial flooding, including flash floods. “My job is basically flooding Cambridge,” says Katerina “Katya” Boukin, a graduate student in civil and environmental […]
Recognized for the paper, “Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Modal Split Prediction in Transportation Systems” graduate student Aron Brenner, former student Manxi Wu, and their advisor, Prof. Saurabh Amin won the Best Paper Award at the […]
Award bestowed for his dissertation: “Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Coupling during Interstorm Periods” Andrew Feldman PhD ’21 was selected as the winner of the 2021 Lorenz G. Straub Award for his meritorious thesis in hydraulic engineering. Feldman received his […]
The technology called carbon capture and storage is aptly named. It is supposed to capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and pump them deep underground. It was a big winner in the climate provisions of […]
MIT’s School of Engineering has named Colette Heald, the Germeshausen Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), the 2022 recipient of the Capers and Marion McDonald […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty have been granted tenure by MIT: Otto Cordero was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2022. Cordero’s research looks […]