By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Access to energy, clean water, air and food, building sustainable cities, and understanding the Earth’s oceans and climate are priority research and educational activities in the Department of Civil […]
William Finney, an M.Eng. student in the Environmental and Water Quality Engineering track, blogged during his January fieldwork in Uganda. Finney, grad students Joyce Cheung and Joel Kaatz, and senior lecturer Richard Schuhmann are working with […]
In a study published in the Journal of Air Transport Management, CEE graduate student Michael Wittman found that passengers of low-cost airlines complain less than passengers on major airlines, even though the quality of service may […]
Computer animation artists don’t have a simple mathematical means for describing bouncy, curl hair, so hair is usually extremely rigid or straight with a to-and-fro swing. But in the Feb. 13 issue of Physical Review Letters, […]
By Denise Brehm Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering The heroes and villains in animated films tend to be on opposite ends of the moral spectrum. But they’re often similar in their hair, which is usually […]
In a “Big Idea” article in the Feb. 5 issue of New Scientist, Professor Markus Buehler writes that the hidden structures of music are universal patterns of nature that can help engineers create new materials like […]
Doctoral student Alison Hoyt is in the peat forests of Borneo studying the hydrological and carbon cycles to determine if, over time, these forests serve as net carbon sinks or sources. Professor Charles Harvey is leading […]
Assistant Professor Pedro Reis has been promoted to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1, 2014. Reis works in mechanics of solids and structures, with an emphasis on instabilities associated with thin objects, such as thin […]
MIT President Rafael Reif on Feb. 3 named CEE Professor Cynthia Barnhart chancellor of MIT. Barnhart received her doctoral degree from MIT CEE in 1988 and, after serving on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of […]
Seeking to make the invisible visible, Professor Roman Stocker, postdoc Vicente Fernandez and former postdoc Orr Shapiro used video microscopy a to reveal the path of water as it flows around coral, movement caused by the […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Seeking to make the invisible visible, scientists in Professor Roman Stocker’s lab used video microscopy to reveal the path of water as it flows around coral. The resulting image, […]
Sophomore Holly Josephs asks, “What if running were the norm instead of walking?” in a radio story about sophomore Wesley Lau, who says running is the “most convenient” form of transportation. “A Runner’s Highs and Lows,” […]
Read a Q-and-A with Professor Dara Entekhabi, science team leader of a NASA satellite mission scheduled for launch November 2014. […]
By 2020, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, says Professor Marta González. She hopes to improve urban livability, transportation and energy networks through her study of human mobility via cellphone data. “Cellphones […]
CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler has accepted a two-year appointment as editor of the Materials: Synthesis or Self Assembly section of the journal Nanotechnology, the first journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscale science and […]
