By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen has been running competitively for a decade. He placed 13th in his first half-marathon at age 17 in Phoenix, competed in NCAA Division I […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE graduate student Thomas Petersen has been running competitively for a decade. He placed 13th in his first half-marathon at age 17 in Phoenix, competed in NCAA Division I […]
Khalid Jawed, a graduate student from Pedro Reis’ research group, won the Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics’ Best Student Speaker Award at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Denver, Colo., for […]
CEE graduate student Philip William Kreycik led an MIT team that won a Best Proposal award in the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge. Kreycik, who is getting a dual master’s degree in city planning and […]
A study by CEE Professor Lydia Bourouiba and Professor John Bush of mathematics shows that coughs and sneezes have associated gas clouds that keep their potentially infectious droplets aloft over much greater distances than previously realized. […]
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 […]