CLAIRITY, the senior capstone air quality network, was selected by the MIT Museum for its summer exhibition, Inventions: 2014 Student Showcase. The show features a number of different student projects that exemplify creativity and practical problem-solving. […]
Lorna Ogolla Omondi ’12 won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue an MPhil in management science and operations at the University of Cambridge. After completing this program, she will go to Stanford University for a master’s […]
Professor Marta C. González and graduate student Carlos Herrera-Yague are organizers of a satellite symposium of NetSci2014. The symposium, titled Urban Systems and Networks, fosters network science as an effective method to analyze cities in quantitative […]
In Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day (Union Park Press, 2014), Lauren Clark, communications officer for the Concrete Sustainability Hub, takes the reader through the history of beer in New […]
CEE senior Sidhant Pai’s team — Protoprint — won $10,000 in the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge May 5. MyH2O, a team managed by doctoral student Charlene Ren, won a $1,500 prize in the competition, as did […]
CEE personnel administrator Borislava Stoyanova has won an MIT Infinite Mile Award for Excellence from the School of Engineering (SOE). The award recognizes staff members who “stand out because of their high level of commitment and […]
CEE administrative assistant Sharon Lacey was awarded a Council for the Arts at MIT grant to fund the creation of a new series of paintings. For this project, entitled Psychomachia, Lacey will use a manuscript painting […]
Photos by sophomores Josefin Betsholtz, Nicolas Gomez, Meryl Gibbs and Emily Shorin were winners in the class photo competition in 1.060 Engineering Mechanics II. “In deciding what to photograph, how to capture the phenomenon, and how […]
An article about the work of Professor Markus Buehler published in the April 29 issue of Civil Engineering describes his work making connections between the patterns in spider silk and music. Kevin Wilcox writes: “As a […]
A background paper written for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction makes use of Professor David Simchi-Levi’s new methodology for assessing supply chain risk. “Flood Risks and Impacts Future Research Questions and Implication to […]
Juan Carlos Murillo, a visiting student from Tecnologico de Monterrey is one of five winners of the Microsoft Youth Spark Challenge for Change. Murillo’s project, Sin Miedo a la Corriente (Spanish for “no fear of current”), […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, was recently presented with the Transportation Research Forum’s Distinguished Researcher Award, which recognizes individuals with distinguished careers as research scholars in transportation. […]
CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler announced the names of the winners of the 2014 CEE awards in an informal ceremony held May 12 in Room 1-131. The ceremony was followed by an ice cream social. […]
CEE Leadership and Community Award — Recognizes an undergraduate student who has made exemplary contributions to improve the CEE community, fostered excellence, diversity, and contributed to our culture of inclusiveness. Catherine Cheng ’14 Leo (Class of […]
Every senior at MIT has come to know the campus in a personal way, having established favorite haunts for studying, eating, resting and playing during their four years at the Institute. But the Course 1 Class of 2014 is […]
