MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Archives - Page 120 of 120

New graduate fellowship announced at awards dinner

May 11, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

Michael Messner, who received the S.M. in transportation (1980) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his wife, Jenny Messner, have established a new fund to support graduate student fellowships in CEE. The Messners […]

Grant may help tap into enormous new energy source

May 10, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to a young professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ruben Juanes, could lead to a better understanding […]

Steel bridge assembled in just 7 minutes takes second place

April 3, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering A team of CEE students won the award for fastest construction and took second place overall in the regional ASCE/AISC Steel Bridge Competition at the University of Connecticut March […]

Teaching students to think small, quickly

March 27, 2007 | 2007 News Releases | ceemit

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Civil engineers by tradition are concerned with the big picture, but some are refocusing their vision, zooming in to solve minute problems we can’t see with the naked eye, […]