New research by Professor Markus Buehler and doctoral student Zhao Qin on the fracture mechanism of ice shows that ice cracks more easily when exposed to carbon dioxide. Using a series of atomistic-level computer simulations to analyze the dynamics of molecules, they found that carbon dioxide forms […]
About 80 of CEE’s Parsons Lab members, friends and families wielded knives Friday evening, Oct. 26, during the annual Halloween party and pumpkin carving contest. This year’s winner was a set of five pumpkins carved with […]
Reporter Martha Spizziri writes in the Engineering News Record Oct. 15: “Fuel economy has been largely the province of automakers and government initiatives, such as Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. However, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking at ways to boost fuel efficiency […]
Professor Roman Stocker answered a question posed by 14-year-old Rahul of Cambridge on the School of Engineering’s Ask an Engineer web page: How can middle school students learn about civil engineering? “’Civil engineering was born as engineering to serve society, and almost everything you […]
Senior lecturer Susan Murcott‘s new book, Arsenic Contamination in the World: An International Sourcebook (IWA Publishing, 2012), details arsenic contamination by source and region in 105 countries and territories, representing a larger database than any previously published work. Murcott’s research […]
CEE is the focus of the MIT Homepage today, Oct. 25. The feature includes a story written by David Chandler of the MIT News Office and a slideshow of photos by Stuart Darsch and M. Scott Brauer. […]
Through a strategic planning process, CEE’s faculty has identified six overlapping, cross-disciplinary areas that support the department’s mission and frame the major directions for future research: Smarter Cities, Ecosystems, Coastal Zone, Water and Energy Resources, Chemicals […]
Two postdoctoral researchers in Professor Roman Stocker’s research group received awards Aug. 24 at the International Symposium on Microbial Ecology in Copenhagen. Yutaka Yawata won the Brock Postdoctoral Research Award for his talk, “Mapping Genotypic Diversity Onto […]
In July, Professor Carolina Osorio received the prestigious Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) Doctoral Dissertation Award for her thesis, “Mitigating Network Congestion: Analytical Models, Optimization Methods and Their Applications.” The award recognizes the best thesis from the […]
All MIT alumni, faculty, staff, students and families are invited to participate in the inauguration events Sept. 19-22 a series of three symposia scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; the inauguration ceremony for President Rafael Reif on Friday afternoon; and the community festival on Saturday. CEE […]
On Thursday, Sept. 27 researchers in the Concrete Sustainability Hub will present their latest research findings at a symposium titled, “Research With An I4 Sustainable Change: Invest, Innovate, Invigorate and Implement,” to be held in Kresge […]
CEE will hold the inaugural Chiang C. Mei Lecture in Applied Mechanics on Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall E14-633. The speaker will be Julian Hunt, Professor of Climate Modeling in […]
In mid-August, Professor Markus Buehler was a guest on NPR’s On Point program on a show called “The Amazing World of Spiders.” Buehler’s research on the mechanical properties of spider silk placed him in a good […]
A research paper, “Capillary Fracturing in Granular Media,” by former postdoctoral associate Ran Holtzman, graduate student Michael Szulczewski and Professor Ruben Juanes published in the June 28 issue of Physical Review Letters was subsequently highlighted in […]
Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes; those individuals best equipped to obtain resources adapt and reproduce, while others may fall by the wayside. Many organisms also form cooperative social […]
