News - cee.mit.edu

MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

November 22, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

The technique could make AI systems better at complex tasks that involve variability. […]

Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

November 12, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

An AI method developed by Professor Markus Buehler finds hidden links between science and art to suggest novel materials. […]

Admir Masic: Using lessons from the past to build a better future

November 12, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

The associate professor of civil and environmental engineering studies ancient materials while working to solve modern problems. […]

Bridging military service and engineering

November 8, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Two MIT graduate students share similar journeys from West Point to MIT. […]

MIT Assistant Professor Michael Howland named 2025 Young Investigator Program awardee from Office of Naval Research

November 4, 2024 | Awards | Callie Ayoub

Michael Howland, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The […]

Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

November 1, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Researchers across MIT are working on ways to boost food production and help crops survive drought. […]

MIT graduate student Sofie Stribos aims to build resilient infrastructure

October 25, 2024 | Graduate Spotlight | Callie Ayoub

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 […]

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

October 23, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report. […]

Discarded steel beams, shown here as scrap steel mid-preparation to be shipped and melted down. The grant aims to enable the use of this usable structural steel, intercepting it prior to scrap processing.

MIT awarded federal grant to support clean manufacturing of U.S. steel

October 22, 2024 | News | CEE Chief Editor

Reusing steel will reduce carbon emissions and lower the costs of construction John Ochsendorf, the Class of 1942 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at MIT, and Juliana Berglund-Brown SM ‘23, a PhD candidate in […]

How climate change will impact outdoor activities in the US

October 22, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Using the concept of “outdoor days,” a study shows how global warming will affect people’s ability to work or enjoy recreation outdoors. […]

Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow

October 11, 2024 | Awards | Stephanie Martinovich

MIT professor honored for significant contributions in understanding how fluids move through porous materials Ruben Juanes, an MIT professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, has been elected […]

MIT Postdoctoral Fellow Meng Li awarded U.S. Department of Agriculture fellowship

September 12, 2024 | Awards | Callie Ayoub

Meng Li, a postdoctoral fellow working with Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Benedetto Marelli, has been selected to receive a postdoctoral research fellowship from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of […]

New filtration material could remove long-lasting chemicals from water

September 6, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Membranes based on natural silk and cellulose can remove many contaminants, including “forever chemicals” and heavy metals. […]

Faculty Spotlight: Gioele Zardini

August 29, 2024 | Faculty Spotlight | CEE Chief Editor

Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Career Development Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Gioele Zardini joins CEE from Stanford University, where he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He will […]

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Jevan Yu awarded NASA fellowship

August 27, 2024 | Awards | Callie Ayoub

Graduate student Jevan Yu was among those selected from a competitive pool of applicants to receive the 3-year Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship to support his research in civil […]