Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering Sixth Annual CEE Research Speed Dating showcases research to promote collaboration Approaching a global challenge from the bottom up often results in transformative large-scale impact. Such is the theme that […]
Frank E. Perkins, professor emeritus of CEE, former CEE department head, associate provost and dean for graduate education at MIT, died March 5 at age 82 following a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. The major portion […]
Big Engineering can be defined in many ways; one being small scale change with big impact. How does YOUR Course 1 science and engineering research reflect Big Engineering? This was the theme of the 3rd Annual Course […]
Graduate student Joanna Moody was selected by the Board of Regents of the Eno Center for Transportation to participate in the 24th annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC) in Washington, DC, June 5-9. Each year, […]
In the upcoming April publication of Nature Reviews Materials, Department Head Markus Buehler and a team of researchers will be featured for their comparative analysis of the composition, structure and mechanics of a set of representative biological interfaces […]
On March 11, the fourth annual MIT Water Night on Friday took place in MIT’s Walker Memorial with over 200 attendees. The night featured a keynote from Dr. Matt Silver (MIT ’01, CEO Cambrian Innovation), prize awards […]
Concrete Sustainability Hub Delegates from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s Global Procurement Initiative visited MIT to learn about innovative life cycle cost analysis models. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) welcomed a delegation of […]
Professor Admir Masic was selected to receive the WITec 2016 Gold Paper Award for his microscopic analysis of the teeth of the red sea urchin. Masic, a Raman microscopy specialist who joined the CEE faculty in […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero was selected to receive the 2016-2018 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization for his work on Systems Ecology of Particle Attached Microbial Communities. The two-year chair paves the way for promising, non-tenured professors to […]
Professor Carolina Osorio was invited as a speaker to the upcoming National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (EU-US FOE) symposium, to be held Oct. 17-19 in Aalto University, Finland. She is one of two […]
On March 4, Department Head Markus Buehler’s work was reviewed in a piece by the New York Times titled, “At MIT, Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art”. The article covers several artistic collaborations within the […]
The MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism and Philips Lighting announced that Professor Marta Gonzalez’s project, “Smarter Lighting for Urban Environments Informed by Mobile Phone Activity”, was selected for funding through the MIT-Philips Lighting Grand Challenge. Her […]
MIT News Office Research aims to encourage decision makers to think of infrastructure as part of the solution in a carbon constrained environment. Most people know that properly inflated tires can improve a vehicle’s fuel efficiency, […]
For the past two years, graduate students Fatima Hussain and Julia Hopkins have offered a mini-UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) for freshmen during the Independent Activities Period (IAP). Designed to provide a taste of the diverse […]
Professor Otto X. Cordero was selected as one of eleven MIT recipients of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship – a $50,000 fellowship given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising […]
