Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. […]
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Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. […]
Michael Howland, the Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is recipient of a 2026 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), its most prestigious […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions effective July 1, 2026: Michael Howland has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor without Tenure. Howland received his B.S. […]
MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. […]
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 […]
The first comprehensive model of rotor aerodynamics could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled. […]
The MIT assistant professor works to get more electricity out of renewable energy systems. […]
By modeling the conditions of an entire wind farm rather than individual turbines, engineers can squeeze more power out of existing installations. Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, […]
Meet Assistant Professor Michael Howland who joined the CEE community in September of 2021. This fall, he will teach the graduate-level 1.65 Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows and Wind Energy. The class introduces the flow physics in […]