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CEE undergrad shares internship experience with World Bank

August 27, 2020 | CEE Profiles | Zach Goodale

Natalie Northrup ’22 is an incoming junior in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Working from home is a challenge. I made it through the end of spring semester and I will make it […]

Interning in the midst of COVID-19: CEE undergrad shares her experience

August 21, 2020 | MIT CEE | Zach Goodale

Rovi Porter is a Junior in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. With all the craziness of Covid-19, being sent home, and constantly trying to soak in all the new information, my summer internship […]

CEE Student Runs Marathon for Black Lives Matter Movement

August 12, 2020 | Undergraduate Student Life | Zach Goodale

Luke Bastian is a senior in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Hey y’all, my name is Luke and I am going to be a senior this year in the Mechanics and Materials track […]

PhD Candidate, Alexandre Tuel, Tracks Drying Trends in the Mediterranean Basin

July 17, 2020 | Graduate Profile | ceemit

From his earliest days growing up in France, Alexandre Tuel PhD ’20, has had an interest in weather and the natural world. “In France I was very interested in hard sciences: maths, physics, and earth […]

Engineering for good

July 9, 2020 | CEE Profiles | CEE Chief Editor

Md Sami Hasnine, is in the business of understanding people. From his research developing and building predictive models of human behavior, to his work in MIT’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion community, the CEE postdoc has displayed […]

Research explores why C. difficile infection continues to spread despite increased sanitation practices and intervention methods

February 10, 2020 | News | ceemit

[fusion_text] Work underscores C. difficile infection is not a common hospital transmission CAMBRIDGE, MA – New research from MIT suggests the risk of becoming colonized by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) increases immediately following gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances […]

MIT CEE Awarded Gift to Use Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Device Design

January 22, 2020 | News | ceemit

Researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a gift to advance their work on a device designed to position living cells for growing human organs using […]

Mohamad Sindi '19 PhD awarded MIT Shoji Award for Innovation

November 15, 2019 | News | ceemit

[fusion_text]Mohamad Sindi CEE alumnus Mohamad Sindi was recently honored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his PhD work. He was awarded the MIT Shoji Award for Innovation for his thesis addressing the issue of fault-tolerance […]

Professor John R. Williams, Mohamad Sindi, PhD ‘19 win IEEE Innovative Paper Award

October 22, 2019 | News | ceemit

Professor John R. Williams and PhD alumnus Mohamad Sindi recently won the IEEE Innovative Paper Award for their paper titled “Using Container Migration for HPC Workloads Resilience”. The award was presented during the IEEE High Performance […]

Rising Ninth grader at Concord-Carlisle High School Naomi Miller part of the MIT-Concord Research Team presents findings at 2019 International Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference

September 13, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

On August 7, 2019, rising Ninth grader at Concord-Carlisle High School (CCHS) Naomi Miller, part of the MIT-Concord Research Team, presented their findings at the 2019 International Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference in Portland, Oregon. Miller and […]

Former postdoc Wenbo Shi in Professor Desiree Plata’s lab and colleagues from Yale University research featured on cover of Advanced Functional Materials

September 12, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Former postdoc Wenbo Shi in Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor Desiree Plata’s lab and colleagues from Yale University research is featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials. Their paper titled, “Engineering carbon nanotube […]

Professor Admir Masic and graduate student Janille Maragh publish research paper titled “The Temple Scroll: reconstructing an ancient manufacturing practice,” in Science Advances

September 12, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor Admir Masic, Graduate student Janille Maragh, and colleagues published today a research paper titled, The Temple Scroll: reconstructing an ancient manufacturing practice,” in Science Advances. The Temple […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir, Jeremy S. Pal SM ’97, PhD ’01 and postdoctoral associate Suchul Kang published research paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “Future heat stress during Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) projected to exceed ‘extreme danger’ levels”

September 4, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir, Jeremy S. Pal SM ’97, PhD ’01, and postdoctoral associate SuchulKang published research paperin Geophysical Research letters titled, “Future heat stress during Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) projected to exceed ‘extreme danger’ […]

Professor Cathy Wu’s PhD work on autonomous vehicles featured in Wired Insider article

August 30, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor Cathy Wu’s PhD work on Autonomous vehicles was featured in a Wired Insiderarticle. The article discusses the inevitable issue of traffic, and how researchers used reinforcement learning to create simulations and […]

MISTI Chile: “Dos chicas solas en las montañas, Guau”

August 27, 2019 | Study Abroad | ceemit

By Shannon Wing ’22 I woke up on Saturday morning at 9am to a text from a friend, “I am heading off to hike Cerro Provincia. I am assuming you and Lulu aren’t going to make […]