[fusion_text]On October 12 and 13, CEE hosted 20 distinguished women for the second CEE Rising Stars Workshop to provide insight into careers in academia. The event featured faculty panels, research presentations, networking sessions and campus tours. […]
[fusion_text]On October 23, Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir spoke on a panel about the impact of climate change on malaria at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Eltahir discussed his research into the various […]
[fusion_text]New research from Professor Oral Buyukozturk and research scientist Kunal Kupwade-Patil shows that mixing discarded plastic bottles, in the form of flakes exposed to harmless irradiation, with cement paste can make stronger concrete. The project began […]
[fusion_text]Applying to graduate school is one of the most exciting times of an academic’s career. Each university has a different feel, program, and experience. Even at MIT CEE, we have various program ranging from the 9-month […]
[fusion_text]New research from Professor Charles Harvey and graduate student Brittany Huhmann shows that the presence of arsenic in groundwater, deposited through irrigation, damages the rice yield in Bangladesh. The field study was conducted during the 2015 […]
[fusion_text]The Engineering Accreditation Commission of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), a nonprofit organization that accredits programs in applied science, computing, engineering and engineering technology, voted to accredit CEE’s undergraduate degree program. ABET accreditation provides […]
[fusion_text]H.M. King Bhumibol Professor Dennis McLaughlin, Mitsui Chair Professor Serguei Saavedra, and assistant professors Tal Cohen and Otto X. Cordero were recently awarded CEE cross-disciplinary seed funds. The annual seed fund awards are given to promote […]
[fusion_text]Assistant Professor Dave Des Marais was profiled on MIT News for his research into plant physiology and how plants naturally respond to environmental stresses. Des Marais officially joined the department on October 1, and works in […]
[fusion_text]Mitsui Chair Professor Serguei Saavedra and Professor Jeff Gore of the Department of Physics are co-organizing the second MIT Ecology Meeting, a biennial event that strives to bring together faculty, postdocs, and students doing ecology research […]
[fusion_text]New research from McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Professor Markus Buehler, along with research scientist Zhao Qin and postdoctoral associate Chun-Teh Chen, on thin layers of functionalized graphene that folds and unfolds into predetermined […]
[fusion_text]New research from Professor Oral Buyukozturk shows that the microscopic properties of cement are key to stronger, more sustainable concrete. Buyukozturk, graduate student Steven Palkovic and Sidney Yip, professor emeritus in Department of Nuclear Engineering, created […]
[fusion_text]Actor and rapper Jaden Smith visited MIT on Monday, September 11, and stopped by CEE to learn more about Course 1. Undergraduates Amber VanHemel, Mark Mockett and David Wu, as well as department head Markus Buehler, […]
[fusion_text]A new machine-learning algorithm from Professor David Simchi-Levi has helped online retailers determine the ideal price for products. The method led to an increase in revenue, profit and market share for retailers such as Rue La […]
[fusion_text]On Friday, September 8, Assistant Professor Otto Cordero and Visiting Associate Professor Roman Stocker hosted a group of researchers at MIT for the first meeting of the Simons Foundation collaboration “Theory of Microbial Ecosystems” (THE-ME). THE-ME […]
[fusion_text]Professor Oral Buyukozturk recently received a $1.3 million research grant from Shell to develop innovative technologies to detect and characterize oil operation induced earthquakes in areas near urban populations and to study the effects in neighborhood […]
