MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Cindy Barnhart named president of INFORMS

February 13, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) announced that Professor Cynthia Barnhart is president of the organization, effective Jan. 1, for a one-year term. Barnhart, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and […]

Elfatih Eltahir elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union

February 6, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Elfatih Eltahir has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honor granted every year to only 0.1 percent of AGU’s 50,000 members. Fellows are elected based on their acknowledged eminence in the […]

MIT creates new center for Latin American logistics in Colombia

February 4, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (directed by Professor Yossi Sheffi of Civil & Environmental Engineering and ESD) and the Colombia-based company LOGyCA have signed an agreement creating the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation to […]

New MIT environmental research program seeks to monitor air and water quality continually, pervasively around the globe

January 31, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers from MIT and two Singaporean universities met on January 24-25 for an inaugural workshop to launch a bold new international research program called CENSAM. The program will develop […]

Cascading errors led to highway’s collapse

January 29, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering An extensive subway system with lines fanning out in many directions speeds transportation in small, crowded Singapore. On April 20, 2004, during construction for the new Circle line of […]

River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters

January 29, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Recent research at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering suggests how aquatic plants in rivers and streams may play a major role in the health of large areas […]

With seawalls, beauty is in the eye of the holder

January 9, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Maps of Cape Cod drawn over the last 150 years record major changes in the shoreline caused when storms pile up protective sand barriers or sweep them away. Without […]

Tracing arsenic in Bangladesh groundwater

January 8, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Ph.D. student Rebecca Neumann is researching groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. This month, Rebecca is in on site studying the role played by rice fields and ponds in the arsenic contamination problem. Read more. […]

The pursuit of clean drinking water and treated sewage

January 5, 2008 | 2008 News in Brief | ceemit

Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves systems essential to good health: drinking water […]

The pursuit of clean drinking water and treated sewage: helping refugees in Thailand and residents in Honduras

January 5, 2008 | 2008 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Many graduate students in the environmental and water quality engineering track of the Civil and Environmental Engineering M.Eng. program spend IAP in the developing world conducting research that improves […]

Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein’s H-bonds

October 30, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT studying the architecture of proteins have finally explained why computer models of proteins’ behavior under mechanical duress differ dramatically from experimental observations. This work could have […]

CEE alum credited with Nobel Peace Prize work will speak at MIT

October 29, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering CEE alumnus Adil Najam, a lead author on two of the reports that garnered the Nobel Peace Prize for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will speak on […]

Joseph Sussman named AAAS Fellow

October 26, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Joseph M. Sussman, the JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, is one of six MIT faculty members to be elected Fellows of […]

Rafael Bras to receive AGU’s Horton Medal

October 15, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

The American Geophysical Union will award Professor Rafael Bras the 2007 Robert E. Horton Medal at a ceremony in December, the AGU announced. An internationally recognized researcher in hydrology and hydroclimatology whose work encompasses many aspects […]

Increase in corn ethanol production could prove costly

October 11, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A committee of the National Research Council said in a report released yesterday that boosting ethanol production in the U.S. through increased corn crops nationwide without considering the quality […]