Engineering

CEE students win competition during conference for global poverty initiatives

June 4, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

The Global Poverty Initiative (GPI), a group formed by 40 MIT students including environmental engineering major Connie Lu, organized the Millennium Campus Conference, held at MIT April 18 to 20.The conference sponsored a Millennium Challenge Competition […]

Low-cost airlines are now the new major players

June 3, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design and […]

Lerman to become MIT’s vice chancellor

June 3, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Dean for Graduate Education Steven R. Lerman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will become MIT’s vice chancellor, effective July 1, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay announced last week. In his role as […]

Flexible airport design essential for courting low-cost airlines, the new major players

June 3, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to Professor Richard de Neufville, an expert on airport design and operations, who said […]

Rafael Bras wins MIT’s Killian Award

May 28, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science, is MIT’s James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2008-2009. Bras is “an internationally acclaimed researcher in surface […]

Researchers holding bash 20 years after microbe’s discovery

May 28, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

A sea-dwelling microbe of global importance discovered only 20 years ago by researchers, including CEE Professor Penny Chisholm, is the focus of a two-day “party” of sorts later this month. The Prochlorococcus Fest, to be held […]

Steel bridge team competes at nationals

May 28, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

The MIT Steel Bridge team had a construction time of just 5 minutes at nationals May 24, but suffered a few penalties that contributed to their final cost of $3.8 million. That earned the team a […]

Seniors cap their undergrad engineering education by designing portable bridges

May 28, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

People living in savanna climates can easily cross the small shallow streams that exist for most of the year. However, during the rainy season, these streams swell and create impassable barriers. As part of the senior […]

Seniors cap their undergrad engineering education by designing portable bridges

May 27, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering People living in savanna climates can easily cross the small shallow streams that exist for most of the year. However, during the rainy season, these streams swell and create […]

Scientists reveal the lifestyle evolution of wild marine bacteria

May 22, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating […]

Scientists reveal lifestyle evolution of marine bacteria

May 22, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Wild ocean bacteria organize into professions that partition resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached […]

At awards dinner, department congratulates seniors, who in turn honor technical instructor Rudolph

May 16, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering At Wednesday night’s CEE awards dinner, the department presented the 23 graduating seniors with diploma frames signed by department head Professor Patrick Jaillet and associate department head Professor Ole […]

Opinion piece: The danger of delaying road projects

May 14, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Fred Salvucci, senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and former Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe April 30 concerning the need […]

MIT welcomes seven new members to Chi Epsilon

May 5, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

The MIT chapter of Chi Epsilon welcomed seven new members into its fold April 29 with a dinner at the Faculty Club and a talk by Professor Dee Ann Sanders, the first woman to hold the […]

Buyukozturk and Tzu-Yang Yu win national award

May 5, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Oral Buyukozturk and Ph.D. student Tzu-Yang Yu received the 2008 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award for their work on far-field airborne radar for the condition assessment of critical civil infrastructure. ASNT is […]