On September 21, join us from 6-7:30 pm for a pizza dinner and viewing of the Boston Athenaeum’s panel “Boston: Sink or Swim,” featuring MIT faculty discussing the impacts of climate change in the Boston area. […]
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On September 21, join us from 6-7:30 pm for a pizza dinner and viewing of the Boston Athenaeum’s panel “Boston: Sink or Swim,” featuring MIT faculty discussing the impacts of climate change in the Boston area. […]
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee selected Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva and his team’s paper as this year’s winner of the Pyke Johnson Award. The MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research […]
Professor Marta Gonzalez was awarded a STL (Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab) Faculty Research Grant for her project, “Mining Big Data to Link Affordable Housing Policy with Traffic Congestion Mitigation in Beijing, China”. Gonzalez, […]
On November 20, CEE will host a conference at the MIT Media Lab titled “Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference”. Students and postdocs are invited to showcase their work by submitting posters to be displayed […]
Using a mathematical approach, a CEE team developed a domain-specific programming language for generating custom materials based on design specifications. The software, dubbed Matriarch for “Materials Architecture”, allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks […]
Published on Sept. 7 in Business Insider, Associate Professor Colette Heald was named as one of, “12 of the most impressive professors at MIT”. Number two on their list, Heald is celebrated for her recent achievements […]
Professor Pedro Reis and his team analyzed the mechanical forces of simple knots to devise a theory that describes how a knot’s topology determines its mechanical forces. This theory, he says, holds potential positive impact for future surgical […]
Professor Saurabh Amin was a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award for his project titled, “Resilient Design of Networked Infrastructure Systems: Models, Validation, and Synthesis”. The $400,000 grant will go toward his project, […]
A CEE team investigated the impacts of large-scale cropland irrigation on rainfall patterns in the East African Sahel around the Gezira Irrigation Scheme. The researchers – Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir, Research Affiliate Ross Alter, and […]
Associate Professor Ruben Juanes is the new director of Pierce Laboratory. Juanes’s vision and expertise will benefit Pierce’s focus on using innovative science and engineering approaches to advance the design of infrastructure materials, transportation systems, cities, […]
CEE kicked off the academic year with a launch of a new department logo at the Registration Day Barbecue. In a message to the community, Department Head Markus Buehler wrote that it reflects a “new, bold, […]
Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials. For decades, materials scientists have worked to infuse the lessons learned from natural proteins into the design of new materials. […]
Associate Professor Ruben Juanes of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is the new director of Pierce Laboratory, effective Sept. 1. The Pierce Lab pushes the frontiers of infrastructure science and engineering by addressing […]
MIT News New model predicts the force required to tie simple knots. Got rope? Then try this experiment: Cross both ends, left over right, then bring the left end under and out, as if tying a […]
Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering A new study describes how irrigation development modifies local and regional climate. With approximately 70 percent of all freshwater consumption worldwide used for agriculture, the reliance on large-scale irrigation development […]