[fusion_text]When I was a refugee, education gave me hope. As a professor, I want to return the favor. When I was a teenager in 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, war broke out and changed everything. Our […]
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[fusion_text]When I was a refugee, education gave me hope. As a professor, I want to return the favor. When I was a teenager in 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, war broke out and changed everything. Our […]
Billy Ndengeyingoma’s time at MIT has been marked by transitions. He has moved from one continent to another, from an undergraduate program to a master’s, and from a civil engineering specialty to urban planning. Yet no […]
[fusion_text]MIT, AMS Institute will collaborate to solve complex urban problems for Amsterdam with the development of autonomous “roboats.” MIT has signed an agreement to engage in research collaborations with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions […]
[fusion_text]Innovators from many sectors to tackle issues involving the digital economy, education, and more. How can the benefits of the digital economy be shared more broadly? How can recent technological advances — from algorithms to apps, […]
[fusion_text]MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment research partnership could reduce the carbon footprint of materials such as concrete. MIT President L. Rafael Reif joined a high-level delegation of French officials at MIT on Friday to […]
[fusion_text]When the Chinese first discovered silk, its superior quality and properties were thought so special, it was reserved exclusively for clothing the emperor, his relatives, and dignitaries. And for more than two millennia, the mechanisms of […]
Juan Jose Hermosilla ’57 has spent his professional career working to keep his native Guatemala safe. Shortly after earning his degree in civil engineering, Hermosilla founded an engineering firm that designed buildings able to withstand earthquakes. […]
Frank E. Perkins, professor emeritus of CEE, former CEE department head, associate provost and dean for graduate education at MIT, died March 5 at age 82 following a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. The major portion […]
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub A leader in the field of cement chemistry, Jennings developed the first fully quantitative model of the nanostructure of CSH, the major component of hydrated cement. Hamlin M. Jennings, adjunct professor in […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering In most cities, traffic growth has outpaced road capacity, leading to increased congestion, particularly during the morning and evening commutes. In 2007, congestion on U.S. roads was responsible for […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) announced that Charles C. Ladd III, the Edmund K. Turner Professor Emeritus of CEE, will receive a 2013 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) lifetime achievement award for his contributions […]
By Denise Brehm Civil and Environmental Engineering Concrete may be one of the most familiar building materials on Earth, but its underlying structure remains a bit of a mystery. Materials scientists and concrete engineers still don’t […]
By Denise Brehm Civil and Environmental Engineering Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes; those individuals best equipped to obtain resources adapt and reproduce, while others may fall by the […]
By Amy Cavaretta and Pamela Shepherd Eno Center for Transportation This summer, the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, D.C., honored Frederick Salvucci ’61, S.M. ’62, senior lecturer and senior research associate in […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Public health crises of the past decade — such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, which spread to 37 countries and caused about 1,000 deaths, and the 2009 H1N1 flu […]