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How crispy is your bonbon?

April 12, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

New theory, inspired by chocolate coatings, predicts thickness of thin shells Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office View the video. Since the 1600s, chocolatiers have been perfecting the art of the bonbon, passing down techniques for […]

Chocolate-inspired theory predicts thickness of coatings

April 12, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Researchers in Professor Pedro Reis’s lab, in collaboration with a team from EPFL in Switzerland, have developed a rapid fabrication technique and a theory that accurately predicts the final thickness of a shell of a known […]

Check out a video: Redesigned 1.101 class innovates for a better future Boston

March 29, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

In the fall semester of 2015, a group of Course 1 students enrolled in 1.101: Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design – all with the goal to innovate Boston challenges and design real-world solutions. Under […]

Buehler and Reis elected to Society of Engineering Science Board of Directors

December 23, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

The Society of Engineering Science (SES) announced on Dec. 7 that Professor Pedro Reis and Department Head Markus Buehler will join as two of its four new Board of Directors’ members, effective January 2016. The organization’s […]

MIT’s Buehler and Reis elected to Society of Engineering Science Board of Directors

December 21, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

The Society of Engineering Science (SES) announced on Dec. 7 that Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Mechanical Engineering, and CEE department head and McAfee Professor of Engineering Markus […]

Big Design Mini-Conference

November 30, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Dec. 2 from 1-3 pm in 1-050, join us for the opportunity to see how the student experiences in subject 1.101 (Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design) translate to real world problems and solutions. […]

Pedro Reis untangles the mechanics of knots

September 11, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Pedro Reis and his team analyzed the mechanical forces of simple knots to devise a theory that describes how a knot’s topology determines its mechanical forces. This theory, he says, holds potential positive impact for future surgical […]

CEE Graduate Student Receives MechE’s Outstanding TA Award

May 18, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On May 14, CEE graduate student Anna Tarakanova and two other TA’s received the award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant from the department of Mechanical Engineering (ME). This semester, Tarakanova taught in the 2.002 course, Mechanics and […]

New Perspectives for Computation, Transformation and Material Applications in the 2015 Active Matter Summit

May 4, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On April 24, 2015 CEE Department Head Markus Buehler and Professor Pedro Reis presented in the two-day Active Matter Summit (AMS) – a conference led by researchers as well as government, public institution and industry leaders. “Combining small […]

MIT Mathematicians and Engineers Develop Theory to Predict Wrinkle Pattern Formation on Curved Systems

February 9, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Many natural and engineered systems that wrinkle, including drying fruit, fingerprints and microlenses, typically have complex curved geometries. Whereas the mechanics of wrinkling of flat systems is well understood, rationalizing the pattern formation of wrinkles on […]

CEE Undergraduate Students Win Best Poster at NEW.Mech Conference

October 30, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Noor Khouri, a senior and a UROP in Professor Pedro Reis’s research group, presented a talk at NEW.Mech (New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures) on October 18 at UMass Amherst. NEW.Mech is […]

Movie Simulation Technology Predicts Cable Coiling Patterns in the Lab

October 14, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

The 550,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cables that transmit e-mail and other data around the world are typically unfurled from large spools on ships. A rip or tangle anywhere can lead to transmission glitches and data […]

Top Chefs Stir up Creative Cuisine with Materials Science

October 14, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

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 […]