In the creativity and innovation of the chefs at Mugaritz, one of the world’s top restaurants, Professor Pedro Reis recognized a strong resemblance to research in the EGS.Lab (Elasticity, Geometry & Statistics Laboratory). The EGS.Lab works […]
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid can quickly change both the color and texture of their skin to blend into their surroundings, a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic materials. In a […]
On August 2, CEE’s Innovation@ONE Boot Camp and Business Plan Pitch Breakfast brought together eight teams of students and postdocs who presented business ideas to a panel of successful entrepreneurs. The new company concepts ranged from […]
Professor Roman Stocker will chair the new Committee on the MIT Climate Change Conversation, which will seek broad input from the Institute on how the US and world can most effectively address global climate change. The […]
Professor Xuanhe Zhao now holds a joint appointment with CEE and Mechanical Engineering, where he is advancing fundamental knowledge of interfaces between solid mechanics, soft materials, and bioinspired design. His research goals include understanding and designing […]
Scientists will soon gain new insights into how the Earth system’s three major cycles – energy, water and carbon – are linked over global land regions. NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission, scheduled to […]
During National Postdoc Appreciation Week in September, about 30 CEE postdoctoral scholars representing different research areas gathered for lunch and were greeted by Department head Markus Buehler. Professor John Williams and research scientist Abel Sanchez PhD […]
This past summer Holly Josephs ’16 spent two months in Ghana, funded by the MIT Public Service Center, helping design a rainwater harvesting tank made from plastic bags. The bags can store enough water during the […]
Tackling some of the world’s hardest problems, four CEE students participated in winning teams in the 2014 MIT IDEAS Global Challenge. Now three appear in a video briefly describing their projects: Sidhant Pai ’14 and Katie […]
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has elected Professor Franz-Josef Ulm as an active member in the Technical and Environmental Sciences section. Ulm, who is the faculty director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub, describes his […]
To showcase their community during Freshman Orientation, East Campus residents led by juniors Wesley Lau and Ben Katz (Mechanical Engineering) created a 146-foot-long wooden roller coaster in their courtyard. The thrilling 30-second ride plunged from a […]
Professors Edward DeLong, Penny (Sallie) Chisholm and Mick Follows are among the eight founders of the Simons Foundation’s new Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), a five-year program centered at the University of Hawaii […]
Contrary to the traditional view that corals passively depend on ocean currents to deliver sustenance, Professor Roman Stocker and colleagues discovered that the organisms actually engineer their environment to sweep water into turbulent patterns and greatly […]
The MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) “Institute Insider” profile series recently featured Professor Saurabh Amin, head of the Resilient Infrastructure Networks Lab. Considering the potentially catastrophic impacts of malicious attacks on the IT networks controlling critical […]
In an evening event on Sept. 25 at the MIT Museum, Professor Markus Buehler and visiting artist Tomás Saraceno will discuss their work on materials and structures inspired by the intricate geometry of spider webs. Buehler […]
