Zara L’Heureux, a senior in 1C, presented a poster at the American Association of Aerosol Research’s (AAAR) annual meeting in October 2012 based on fieldwork research performed by civil and environmental engineering undergraduates in CEE’s Traveling […]
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (Blue Sky Press, May 2012), a book co-authored by Molly Bang and CEE Professor Penny Chisholm and illustrated by Bang, will be honored by the American Association for […]
The blog, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Operations, recently named the 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time, based on the number of citations for books found by Google Scholar. Books by two CEE faculty […]
Professor Markus Buehler will co-chair the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2013 Global Congress on Nano-engineering for Medicine and Biology, which will be held Feb. 4-6 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston. The […]
The International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) has selected Professor Herbert Einstein to be an ISRM Fellow, honoring his outstanding accomplishments in rock mechanics and rock engineering. Einstein will be inducted formally in September during the […]
Professor Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for scientists and engineers. President Barack Obama will present the medal to Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor […]
In most cities, traffic growth has outpaced road capacity, leading to increased congestion, particularly during the morning and evening commutes. One way to prevent traffic tie-ups is to have fewer cars on the road by encouraging […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering In most cities, traffic growth has outpaced road capacity, leading to increased congestion, particularly during the morning and evening commutes. In 2007, congestion on U.S. roads was responsible for […]
In the MIT Alumni Association’s next Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor Andrew J. Whittle ScD ’87, head of CEE, will discuss the challenges of flood protection using examples from experiences in New York, New Orleans and […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi and doctoral student Yehua Wei applied a combination of optimization and stochastic methodologies to explain the effectiveness of “long chain” flexibility design in manufacturing operations. With the long chain design, manufacturing plants are […]
The proceedings of the May 2011 conference on the Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Structures have been published as a book edited by CEE Professor Oral Buyukozturk and Mehmet Ali Tasdemir, Oguz Gunes and Yilmaz Akkaya. […]
Postdoctoral associate Gabriel Juarez received a Conference Travel Grant from the MIT Postdoctoral Association‘s Professional Development Committee to attend the annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in San Diego Nov. 18 […]
MIT News writer David Chandler profiles Professor Roman Stocker and his research, describing Stocker’s early exposure to civil engineering via his father’s work to his own niche studying marine microbes using microfluidics technology. As the headline […]
The Oceans at MIT website ran an article by Genevieve Wanucha about the research of CEE Professor Roman Stocker‘s environmental microfluidics lab, which uses small devices to create mini-habitats for ocean microbes. “It’s the same as […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) announced that Charles C. Ladd III, the Edmund K. Turner Professor Emeritus of CEE, will receive a 2013 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) lifetime achievement award for his contributions […]
