MIT School of Engineering Archives

Empowering people to adapt on the frontlines of climate change

April 19, 2022 | News | CEE Chief Editor

On April 11, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as quickly as possible. This article […]

Rising Ninth grader at Concord-Carlisle High School Naomi Miller part of the MIT-Concord Research Team presents findings at 2019 International Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference

September 13, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

On August 7, 2019, rising Ninth grader at Concord-Carlisle High School (CCHS) Naomi Miller, part of the MIT-Concord Research Team, presented their findings at the 2019 International Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference in Portland, Oregon. Miller and […]

Former postdoc Wenbo Shi in Professor Desiree Plata’s lab and colleagues from Yale University research featured on cover of Advanced Functional Materials

September 12, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Former postdoc Wenbo Shi in Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor Desiree Plata’s lab and colleagues from Yale University research is featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials. Their paper titled, “Engineering carbon nanotube […]

Professor Admir Masic and graduate student Janille Maragh publish research paper titled “The Temple Scroll: reconstructing an ancient manufacturing practice,” in Science Advances

September 12, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor Admir Masic, Graduate student Janille Maragh, and colleagues published today a research paper titled, The Temple Scroll: reconstructing an ancient manufacturing practice,” in Science Advances. The Temple […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir, Jeremy S. Pal SM ’97, PhD ’01 and postdoctoral associate Suchul Kang published research paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “Future heat stress during Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) projected to exceed ‘extreme danger’ levels”

September 4, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir, Jeremy S. Pal SM ’97, PhD ’01, and postdoctoral associate SuchulKang published research paperin Geophysical Research letters titled, “Future heat stress during Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) projected to exceed ‘extreme danger’ […]

Professor Cathy Wu’s PhD work on autonomous vehicles featured in Wired Insider article

August 30, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor Cathy Wu’s PhD work on Autonomous vehicles was featured in a Wired Insiderarticle. The article discusses the inevitable issue of traffic, and how researchers used reinforcement learning to create simulations and […]

MISTI Chile: “Dos chicas solas en las montañas, Guau”

August 27, 2019 | Study Abroad | ceemit

By Shannon Wing ’22 I woke up on Saturday morning at 9am to a text from a friend, “I am heading off to hike Cerro Provincia. I am assuming you and Lulu aren’t going to make […]

MISTI Bikepacks the Atacama

August 27, 2019 | CEE | ceemit

By Shannon Wing ’22 When hearing about the Atacama Desert from my coworkers, I immediately knew that it was where I wanted to go for my one long weekend of the summer. Not until a few […]

ONE-MA3: Atlantis and Gotham in One Roman City

August 27, 2019 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Marcin Hajduczek ’22 Standing in the middle of the city, I could barely open my eyes against the sun reflecting off of endless slabs of marble. The piazza I stood in was the size of […]

Flying Drones in the Construction Industry

August 23, 2019 | Undergraduate Student Life | ceemit

Zachary Roberts ’21 Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)—also known as drones—are disrupting the construction industry. They provide a cheap alternative for aerial surveying and surveillance, which has attracted the interest of many contractors and sent them in […]

Professor Martin Polz publishes research in Cell titled “A reverse ecology approach based on a biological definition of microbial populations”

August 16, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Martin Polz published a new research paper in Cell titled, “A reverse ecology approach based on a biological definition of microbial populations.” The researchers have developed a new method that allows for the identification of […]

Professor Lydia Bourouiba presents TEDMED Talk about the fluid dynamics of airborne disease transmission

August 16, 2019 | 2019 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba presented a TEDMED 2018 talk in front of a live audience. In the talk, now released, Professor Bourouiba distilled her recent work on fluid dynamics and respiratory disease transmission. Spanning the arch from the […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XXII: Walking Through Amazonian, Medieval, and Egyptian Histories and Culture

July 31, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 “When you first start, and then you fail, that’s when it gets interesting, and you realize what you need to do next.” The wise words of Professor Masic resonated in our ears […]

ONE-MA3 – Day XXI: Art Restoration and Artificial Pigments in Aramengo

July 31, 2019 | ONE-MA3 2019 | ceemit

By Sophia Mittman ’22 After spending three days in Turin, we traveled a short ways away to the nearby village of Aramengo, which has a population of about 500 (comparable to the occupancy of the Maseeh […]

How to see a total solar eclipse

July 31, 2019 | Study Abroad | ceemit

By Shannon Wing ’22 Living in Santiago for the summer, I was approximately 6 hours away from a total solar eclipse viewing on this past July 2. I was the closest I had ever been to […]