For its Aug. 11 Industry Day, the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) released reports on “Construction Alternatives,” “Concrete Building Life Cycle” and “Pavement Life Cycle.” The CSH is an interdisciplinary research program established in 2009 with involvement […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University are using both civil engineering and bioengineering approaches to study the behavior of a protein associated with progeria, a rare disorder in […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in CEE and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) has been named interim director of ESD by Ian Waitz, dean of engineering, effective Sept. 1. Sussman succeeds Professor Yossi Sheffi, who […]
On Thursday, Aug. 11 more than 500 people are expected to attend the CSHub Industry Day, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. The MIT dean of engineering will give […]
In late June, MIT announced a new collaborative program with the French national scientific research center, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to be co-directed by CEE Professor Franz Ulm and Roland Pellenq, a […]
In late June, MIT announced a new collaborative program with the French national scientific research center, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to be co-directed by CEE Professor Franz Ulm and Roland Pellenq, a […]
Pedro Reis, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in CEE and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was one of 60 engineers under the age of 45 selected to attend the U.S. National Academy of […]
Pedro Reis, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in CEE and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was one of 60 engineers under the age of 45 selected to attend the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s […]
A paper by recent CEE graduate Rouzbeh Shahsavari Ph.D. ’11, Professors Franz Ulm and Markus Buehler, and senior research scientist Roland Pellenq has been selected by the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACS) as […]
MIT is the top-rated civil and structural engineering school in the world according to the recently released QS World University Rankings. QS also named MIT No. 3 in earth and marine sciences and No. 4 in […]
MIT is the top-rated civil and structural engineering school in the world according to the recently released QS World University Rankings. QS also named MIT No. 3 in earth and marine sciences and No. 4 in […]
Professors Oral Buyukozturk and Markus Buehler, doctoral student Denvid Lau and recent graduate Chakrapan Tuakta Ph.D. ’11 used molecular dynamics simulation to study how materials interact at the molecular level and recently applied it for the […]
By Alice C. Waugh Civil & Environmental Engineering For more than a century, engineers studying the deterioration of materials used to build bridges, roads and dams have relied on continuum mechanics, an approach that looks at […]
While still in college, Edna Ezzell ’11 wrote the sustainability and humanities chapters, among others, of “Fundamentals of Civil Engineering: An Introduction to the ASCE Body of Knowledge” (CRC Press, 2011), with co-authors Professor Richard McCuen […]
Recent graduate Emily Moberg ’11 is co-author of a soon-to-be-published book, “Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Environmental Applications and Case Studies” (CRC Press, October 2011), with Igor Linkov of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The summer after […]
