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School of Engineering An MIT class goes on a field trip — to the center of campus. In mid-April, members of 1.011 (Project Evaluation and Management), a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) class, donned […]

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CEE salutes its recent graduates

Congratulations to all of the new graduates from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering! On June 5, the new CEE graduates gathered with families and friends as well as CEE faculty, staff and alumni for […]

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New PhDs celebrated at annual luncheon

Following the MIT Hooding Ceremony the morning of June 4, CEE celebrated its incredible doctoral graduates with a luncheon for grads, their friends and families, and CEE affiliates. Department Head Markus Buehler, who conferred hoods with MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart to […]

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Using desalination to address drought

CEE alumnus Carlos Riva ’75 is CEO of Boston-based Poseidon Water – a company that plans to develop what will be the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. The project is expected to deliver […]

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Tough biogel structures produced by 3-D printing

MIT News Office Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering. Researchers have developed a new way of making tough — but soft and wet — biocompatible materials, called “hydrogels,” into complex […]

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Course 1 junior wins 2015 Dean Horn award

Hayoon Chung, a Course 1 junior and UROP of CEE Senior Research Engineer Eric Adams, won the 2015 Dean A. Horn award for undergraduate study in marine research. Chung worked with Adams during the fall of 2014, and […]

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Spinning a new version of spider silk

A team of researchers led by CEE Department Head Markus Buehler has succeeded in producing samples of spider silk, an exceptionally strong and resilient material, in the laboratory. The new synthetic fibers’ proteins were created by genetically modifying bacteria […]

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2015 CEE Capstone Prize Winners

On May 15, four Course 1 students – Michael Eck, Michelle Dutt, Noor Khouri and Dimitrios Pagonakis – presented their senior capstone projects to an audience of faculty, staff and students for subsequent selection for the prizes. Two winners were […]

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Spinning a new version of silk

MIT News Office Simulations and experiments aim to improve on spiders in creating strong, resilient fibers.  After years of research decoding the complex structure and production of spider silk, researchers have now succeeded in producing samples […]

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