Beginning fall 2014, CEE will offer a new flexible undergraduate program, 1-ENG, which will give students the flexibility of designing their unique and challenging educational programs to suit their individual interests, career goals, and aspirations. Students […]
The flexible undergraduate program, launching this fall, mixes rigor and depth with applications to critical areas of societal importance Beginning fall 2014, the Department of Civil and Environmental (CEE) will offer a new Course 1 flexible […]
CEE’s own Thomas Petersen, a graduate student working with Professor Franz-Josef Ulm’s research group, has joined the MIT Strong Boston marathon team to help raise money for the Collier Fund. Petersen qualified for the marathon by […]
Course 1 junior Marisa Fryer, an environmental engineering science major with a minor in literature, has been named a 2014 Burchard Scholar. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences bestowed the award to 31 sophomores […]
When the MIT Big Data Challenge asked, “What can you learn from data about 2.3 million taxi rides?” graduate students in CEE Professor Marta González’ Human Mobility and Networks Lab (HuMNet) had some answers. The students […]
CEE held its first video competition March 14, screening 10 videos illustrating science and engineering advances that hold clues to a sustainable future. After the audience voted, official judges Professor Christopher Kaiser of biology and CEE […]
On March 14, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) held its first ever video competition in Room 32-155, complete with popcorn and candy. Competitors included teams of students, faculty, and staff from various departments […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering When the MIT Big Data Challenge asked, “What can you learn from data about 2.3 million taxi rides?” graduate students in Professor Marta González’ research lab had some answers. […]
MIT Strong, the MIT team running the Boston Marathon, is a group of 38 students, faculty, alumni and staff from every corner of the MIT community who are training hard and raising money for the Collier […]
Professor Franz-Josef Ulm made a connection between the patterns of houses and streets in an aerial photo of city and the underlying molecular structure of concrete. This observation led to research tying together the seemingly disparate […]
John Ochsendorf, Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his exceptional undergraduate teaching, educational innovations and mentoring. An MIT News article […]
Two new faculty members — Lydia Bourouiba and Benjamin Kocar — joined CEE in January. “The department welcomes Lydia and Ben, and we are excited about the strengthening of key strategic directions,” says Professor Markus Buehler, […]
CEE graduate student Himani Gupta is director of the MIT Water Club’s MIT Water Night 2014 and graduate student Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren is marketing director for the event, which will be held tonight, March 20, from […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this month that CEE Assistant Professor Carolina Osorio will receive a 2014 Early Career Award for her project, “Simulation-Based Optimization Techniques for Urban Transportation Problems.” The Early Career Award is […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Two new faculty members — Lydia Bourouiba and Benjamin Kocar — joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in January, expanding the department’s strengths in the mechanistic […]
