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So you want to build a solar or wind farm? Here’s how to decide where.

December 6, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. […]

Engineering the future of wind power

December 6, 2024 | CEE Profiles | Callie Ayoub

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. […]

Q&A: Transforming research through global collaborations

December 2, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Josephine Carstensen and David McGee discuss the value and impact that MIT Global Seed Funds, which create synergistic partnerships between faculty and peers abroad, added to their research. […]

Gioele Zardini receives 2024 ETH Doctoral Dissertation Award

December 2, 2024 | Awards | CEE Chief Editor

The prestigious awards are given annually by ETH Zurich for the top dissertations Gioele Zardini has received the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich for his 2023 doctoral thesis, “Co-Design of Complex Systems: From Autonomy to Future […]

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. […]

Rallying around graduate student parents

October 29, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

From helping new parents to coordinating play dates and sharing information, MIT students who are parents are there for one another. […]

MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society

October 28, 2024 | MIT News | CEE Chief Editor

Two faculty, a graduate student, and 10 additional alumni receive top awards and prizes; four faculty, one senior researcher, and seven alumni named APS Fellows. […]

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 […]