Working with a student-spawned company, One Earth Designs, environmental engineering graduate Wesley Koo ’09 helped write the business plan for a low-cost solar cooker that won the top prize in the Netherlands Green Challenge. The lightweight […]
Working with a student-spawned company, One Earth Designs, environmental engineering graduate Wesley Koo ’09 helped write the business plan for a low-cost solar cooker that won the top prize in the Netherlands Green Challenge. The lightweight […]
Eric Adams was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for disproving the adage that oil and water don’t mix. Adams and his co-investigators Scott Socolofsky S.M. ’97, Ph.D. ’01 and Stephen Masutani shared the […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Eric Adams, lecturer and senior research engineer in CEE, was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for disproving the adage that oil and water don’t mix. Adams […]
Professors Pedro Reis and Markus Buehler of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and CEE doctoral student Dipanjan Sen recently collaborated on a research project with Konstantin Novoselov, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize […]
CEE Professors Pedro Reis and Markus Buehler and doctoral student Dipanjan Sen recently collaborated on a research project with Konstantin Novoselov, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of graphene (with Andre […]
CEE junior Monica Oliver’s UROP research from spring 2010 led to the publication of a role play simulation that will be used as a teaching tool in Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. “Helping Cities Adapt […]
Charisma F. Choudhury Ph.D. ’07 was selected as a receipient of the 2010 Gordon Newell Memorial Prize for her doctoral work at MIT with Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva. The prize is awarded by the Hong Kong Society […]
On Oct. 5, Professor Franz-Josef Ulm delivered the Maurice A. Biot Lecture hosted by the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. Ulm dedicated his lecture,” Poromechanics: From Atoms to Concrete Structure,” to Olivier Coussy, who died […]
MIT has selected CEE postdoctoral associate Hector Hernandez as a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar, one of eight who will work on campus this academic year. Hernandez received his Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT in 2008 […]
A profile and Q&A with Parsons Lab administrative assistant Jim Long appears in the Sept. 10 issue of Goldmine magazine, a publication about recording artists, recordings, memorabilia and collectors. Jim has been collecting music recordings since […]
With EAPS, DUSP and MITEI, CEE co-sponsored a half-day symposium Sept. 28 on lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill. Researchers at the symposium said that it should be possible to drastically reduce the chances of […]
Using Killian Court as a testing ground over the summer, CEE senior research associate John Germaine measured pore pressure in soils for a fraction of the cost of previous tests made using a drilling rig in […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering In a research project run by CEE senior research associate John Germaine this past summer, a drilling rig on the lawn of Killian Court forced an experimental probe into […]
Fred Moavenzadeh, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Systems Engineering, was named president of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology last spring and began his new responsibilities in Abu Dhabi […]
Professor Cynthia Barnhart of CEE and the Engineering Systems Division has been appointed acting dean of the School of Engineering effective Sept. 8. Subra Suresh, the current dean, will be on sabbatical leave for the fall […]