By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Bacteria are the most populous organisms on the planet. They thrive in almost every known environment, adapting to different habitats by means of genetic variations that provide the capabilities […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Bacteria are the most populous organisms on the planet. They thrive in almost every known environment, adapting to different habitats by means of genetic variations that provide the capabilities […]
At a remote village in Rwanda, a clinic faced chronic shortages of water during the nation’s twice-yearly dry seasons. Collecting rainwater during the rainy periods was the obvious answer, but figuring out how to do so […]
The 2012 MIT Steel Bridge Team placed second this year at the regional competition held March 30-31 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The team took 1st place in the Paper Competition (thanks to 1E senior […]
Looking for the simplest 3-D structure that could use mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, CEE Professor Pedro Reis, alumnus Jongmin Shim and co-authors created the buckliball, a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University […]
A new study by CEE Professor Ruben Juanes and graduate students Christopher MacMinn Ph.D. ’12 and Michael Szulczewski shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least […]
By Debbie Levey Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Robert V. Whitman S.M. ’49, Sc.D. ’51, a world-renowned geotechnical engineer and expert on earthquakes in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), died on February 25 […]
For more than half a century, people interested in modeling the movement of people and goods between cities, states or countries have relied on a statistical formula called the gravity law, which measures the “attraction” between […]
By Denise Brehm Civil & Environmental Engineering For more than half a century, many social scientists and urban geographers interested in modeling the movement of people and goods between cities, states or countries have relied on […]
An English-language interview with David Spivak, a postdoctoral associate in mathematics, and CEE Professor Markus J. Buehler and graduate student Tristan Giesa by the Voice of Russia radio program explores the MIT researchers’ work using mathematical ologs to compare […]
This Friday, 23 CEE speakers will share their research stories in five-minute soundbite presentations beginning at 1 p.m. in Bartos Theater (E15). The event will be followed by a reception from 5-7 p.m. Everyone in MIT […]
Professor Hamlin Jennings, executive director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH), tells reporter Tudor Van Hampton of Engineering News Record that developing an understanding of the microstructure in concrete is yielding new ways to manipulate the […]
Professor Dara Entekhabi was the Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology at the 2012 meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The citation for the selection reads: “For innovative and insightful contributions in hydroclimatology and its […]
The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey and dangle from your ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it’s not simply the material’s exceptional strength that […]
Senior Tiffany Cheng (1E) has been awarded a scholarship from the Rhode Island Consulting Engineers (RICE). RICE is a nonprofit professional organization representing independent consulting engineering firms. RICE awards three scholarships each year to undergradaute students […]