New research from Professor Markus Buehler and Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) shows spider silk can help understand how bones regenerate. The MIT researchers modeled how a cell membrane protein receptor, integrin, folds and […]
Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir wrote about the Nile water conflict for Nature Middle East. Eltahir discusses how population growth and the increased demand on water resources, in addition to the low agricultural productivity, are […]
This year marks the 10 year anniversary of the Microbiology PhD graduate program at MIT, a program co-directed by Professor Martin Polz. The program spans 50 labs across 10 departments and divisions at MIT and offers […]
The School of Engineering recently announced the addition of sixteen new professors to departments across the School, including three new faculty in CEE. Assistant professor David Des Marais joined the department in October; Tami Lieberman will […]
CEE alumna Karina Funk SM ’97 was profiled on Forbes for her work as a Portfolio Manager/Head of Sustainable Investing at Brown Advisory. The article discusses Funk’s personal story and the criteria she uses to evaluate […]
Research from graduate student Justin Montgomery and Francis O’Sullivan, director of research for the MIT Energy Initiative, was featured on Bloomberg. The pair found that the role that technology has played in the tight oil boom has been overstated and this […]
Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao, in collaboration with Professor of EECS and Biological Engineering Timothy Lu, created a “living tattoo” made of genetically programmed living cells that can respond to environmental chemicals and […]
Professor David Simchi-Levi was selected editor-in-chief of Management Science, one of the two flagship journals from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Simchi-Levi served as the editor-in-chief of Operations Research, the other […]
CEE alum Han Wu MEng ’15 was awarded a 2018 Schwarzman Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Wu was selected as one of 142 Schwarzman Scholars out of over 4,000 applicants. He […]
Research from McAfee Professor of Engineering and head of CEE Markus Buehler models the mechanisms of molybdenum disulfide, a two-dimensional material that could inform the creation of flexible, transparent electronics. The research was conducted in collaboration […]
Research from Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic focuses leveraging ancient successes to create new, sustainable materials, a concept referred to as an ‘antiqua-inspired’ method. Masic collaborated with a team of international […]
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor Saurabh Amin delivered two keynote lectures on cyber-security of transportation systems, one at the New York University Abu Dhabi’s Transportation Symposium on November 19, and the other at the […]
The CEE subject 1.079 (Rock-on-a-Chip), created by associate professor Ruben Juanes, was recently featured on MIT News. The class focuses on multiphase flow in porous media and uses a novel laboratory technique to visualize media properties. […]
