Research by Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva will be featured in an episode of The History Channel’s “Modern Marvels,” scheduled to air Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. The episode, titled “Superhighways,” features a short interview with alumnus […]
Research by Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva will be featured in an episode of The History Channel’s “Modern Marvels,” scheduled to air Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. The episode, titled “Superhighways,” features a short interview with alumnus […]
On Feb. 15, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration announced the selection of Joseph M. Sussman to chair DOT’s Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Advisory Committee. Sussman is the JR East Professor in […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT reveal that the strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which […]
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) announced that Professor Cynthia Barnhart is president of the organization, effective Jan. 1, for a one-year term. Barnhart, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and […]
Professor Elfatih Eltahir has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honor granted every year to only 0.1 percent of AGU’s 50,000 members. Fellows are elected based on their acknowledged eminence in the […]
MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (directed by Professor Yossi Sheffi of Civil & Environmental Engineering and ESD) and the Colombia-based company LOGyCA have signed an agreement creating the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation to […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers from MIT and two Singaporean universities met on January 24-25 for an inaugural workshop to launch a bold new international research program called CENSAM. The program will develop […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Recent research at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering suggests how aquatic plants in rivers and streams may play a major role in the health of large areas […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering An extensive subway system with lines fanning out in many directions speeds transportation in small, crowded Singapore. On April 20, 2004, during construction for the new Circle line of […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Maps of Cape Cod drawn over the last 150 years record major changes in the shoreline caused when storms pile up protective sand barriers or sweep them away. Without […]
Ph.D. student Rebecca Neumann is researching groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. This month, Rebecca is in on site studying the role played by rice fields and ponds in the arsenic contamination problem. Read more. […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves […]
Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves systems essential to good health: drinking water […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT studying the architecture of proteins have finally explained why computer models of proteins’ behavior under mechanical duress differ dramatically from experimental observations. This work could have […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]