Mechanical engineering

Wild ocean bacteria organize into professions that partition resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering At Wednesday night’s CEE awards dinner, the department presented the 23 graduating seniors with diploma frames signed by department head Professor Patrick Jaillet and associate department head Professor Ole […]

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Fred Salvucci, senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and former Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe April 30 concerning the need […]

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Professor Oral Buyukozturk and Ph.D. student Tzu-Yang Yu received the 2008 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award for their work on far-field airborne radar for the condition assessment of critical civil infrastructure. ASNT is […]

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The MIT chapter of Chi Epsilon welcomed seven new members into its fold April 29 with a dinner at the Faculty Club and a talk by Professor Dee Ann Sanders, the first woman to hold the […]

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Professor Edward F. DeLong of the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences today. DeLong, a marine microbiologist whose groundbreaking work on ocean microbes […]

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Contact: Denise Brehm MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering brehm@mit.edu Professor Rafael L. Bras, who joined the MIT faculty shortly after earning his doctorate here in 1975, and who has served as a lab director, department head, […]

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MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle […]

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Markus Buehler, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in civil and environmental engineering, was recognized this year with three prestigious national research awards. He received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for […]

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CEE Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott started a nonprofit enterprise in 2005 to sell a simple, low-cost ceramic water filter system to residents of northern Ghana. The system is designed to remove bacteria, viruses and other hazards […]

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Junior Allison St. Vincent won the $5,000 Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Scholarship on April 7 at the annual “Student Night” of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES) of the American Society of Civil Engineers […]

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The Engineering School Alumni of the City College of New York (CCNY) have named Professor Joseph Sussman (’61 CCNY; PhD ’67 MIT) to receive their 2008 Career Achievement Award. The annual award is given to graduates […]

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“Somewhere in an MIT lab, a researcher is this close to saving the planet. Amid all the reports of out-of-control energy costs, melting ice caps, and vanishing natural resources, the headlines, to say the least, are […]

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