Graduates gathered with families, friends and alumni last week to celebrate their new degrees during MIT’s Hooding Ceremony (June 7) and 141st Commencement Exercises (June 8). MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest gave the Commencement address. […]
Graduates gathered with families, friends and alumni last week to celebrate their new degrees during MIT’s Hooding Ceremony (June 7) and 141st Commencement Exercises (June 8). MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest gave the Commencement address. […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Students in the senior engineering design class (1.013 Civil Engineering Design) once again designed and built portable footbridges that could be used in a savannah climate where seasonal streams […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Start with a little sawdust. Throw in a flywheel, some pulleys, a pendulum, a ball and lever, and you’ve got…not just a gizmo, but also a vehicle for teaching […]
Two decades ago, the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Later, in the 1990s, […]
Michael Messner, who received the S.M. in transportation (1980) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his wife, Jenny Messner, have established a new fund to support graduate student fellowships in CEE. The Messners […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to a young professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ruben Juanes, could lead to a better understanding […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A team of CEE students won the award for fastest construction and took second place overall in the regional ASCE/AISC Steel Bridge Competition at the University of Connecticut March […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Civil engineers by tradition are concerned with the big picture, but some are refocusing their vision, zooming in to solve minute problems we can’t see with the naked eye, […]