MIT School of Engineering

By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have for the first time recorded the entire genomic expression of both a […]

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By Oral Buyukozturk Civil & Environmental Engineering The tragic total and instant collapse of the Interstate 35 highway bridge in Minneapolis should force us as a nation to make a careful reassessment of the methods we […]

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London’s Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron met with MIT faculty, including half a dozen members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aug. 24 to discuss ways of reducing that city’s carbon dioxide emissions. Gavron has […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Scientists and engineers are eager to understand the secret behind bone’s lightweight toughness so they can mimic it in the design of new materials, but experimental studies have revealed […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Hey kids! Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. Then, mix a small amount of mineral oil with […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems program, received the Dupuit Prize from the World […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Engineers at MIT have devised a simple yet effective system for determining an area’s landslide risk, a tool that could help planners improve building codes, determine zoning, and strengthen […]

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Environmental engineering major Alia Whitney-Johnson admits to a bit of culture shock when she took time out of her semester’s work in Sri Lanka to return to the U.S. for a Glamour fashion photo shoot in […]

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Markus J. Buehler, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of 83 engineers invited by the National Academy of Engineering to attend its prestigious 2007 Frontiers of Engineering meeting. The annual three-day meeting […]

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Graduates gathered with families, friends and alumni last week to celebrate their new degrees during MIT’s Hooding Ceremony (June 7) and 141st Commencement Exercises (June 8). MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest gave the Commencement address. […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Students in the senior engineering design class (1.013 Civil Engineering Design) once again designed and built portable footbridges that could be used in a savannah climate where seasonal streams […]

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By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Start with a little sawdust. Throw in a flywheel, some pulleys, a pendulum, a ball and lever, and you’ve got…not just a gizmo, but also a vehicle for teaching […]

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Two decades ago, the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Later, in the 1990s, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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