Lecture/Reading

MIT and Building the Quabbin Reservoir: 1920-1946

Hosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor Andrew Whittle, this talk will focus on MIT’s influence on the history, design and construction of the Quabbin Reservoir project of the 1920s and 1930s, which destroyed and flooded four towns in western Massachusetts. The speaker will show contemporaneous photos taken by Quabbin engineers and a rare Commonwealth-produced Technicolor silent film, and relate the Quabbin conflict to contemporary climate change, managed retreat, and water rights. You can learn more about this topic, in the MIT Technology Review article, "Our water infrastructure needs to change."

About the speaker:

Elisabeth C. Rosenberg is the author of Before the Flood: Destruction, Community, and Survival in the Drowned Towns of the Quabbin (Pegasus Books/Simon & Schuster, 2021). She is a writer and editor who focuses on the interplay between individuals, demographic groups, and disruptive technology and has contributed to the Boston Globe, Technology Review, Boston Magazine, Fast Company, Harvard University Press, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She divides her time between Washington, DC, and Amherst, MA. 

ONE-MA3 Info Session

Professor Admir Masic will be leading the annual ONE-MA3 summer program in which MIT undergraduates conduct two weeks of fieldwork in Italy as a prerequisite for the Fall 2022 MIT course, 1.057 Heritage Science and Technology. The program involves real-world analysis of ancient infrastructures and materials and focuses on teaching ways to improve sustainability of the future through the study of ancient successes. CEE will be hosting an informational session about the program. Please RSVP at the link below and if you are interested in attending the session via Zoom, please email cee-apo@mit.edu

More information about how to apply to the program can be found at: https://cee.mit.edu/one-ma3/

mini-UROP Lightning Lectures

Calling all first-year students! Get a taste of what it's like solving the grand challenges facing our planet in the areas of climate, renewable energy, resilient systems and mobility, and sustainable materials and infrastructure. Gain hands-on research experience over IAP, working closely with a CEE graduate student or postdoc. Learn more about this year's research projects at our mini-UROP Lightning Lecture happening on November 16 in 1-390.

Undergraduate Open House

Climate change, resilient infrastructure, transportation logistics; these are just some of the timely challenges that Course 1 undergraduate students are taking on. If you’re interested in learning more about the undergraduate program in Course 1, join us on, November 14 at noon in 1-131. Learn more about our undergraduate program and fieldwork experiences, chat with our faculty and current students, and see for yourself why Course 1 is the course for you! Lunch will be provided!

CEE Faculty Seminar Series

Please join us for the CEE Faculty Seminar Series with Speaker Prof. Charles Harvey May 11 at 12 p.m. ET For more information or how to attend this virtual event, please contact jmmarch@mit.edu

Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series

Please join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with MIT CEE alumni, Speaker Domniki Asimaki (CalTech) who will discuss his research, “On the Complexity of Seismic Waves Trapped in Shallow Geologic Features”