CEE graduate student Sergio Herrero-Lopez, Professor John Williams and research scientist Abel Sanchez of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity presented work at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Cluster conference, held Sept. 26-30 […]
For its Aug. 11 Industry Day, the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) released reports on “Construction Alternatives,” “Concrete Building Life Cycle” and “Pavement Life Cycle.” The CSH is an interdisciplinary research program established in 2009 with involvement […]
Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University are using civil engineering and bioengineering approaches to study the behavior of a protein associated with progeria, a rare disorder in children that causes rapid aging and usually ends in death before age […]
Professor Markus Buehler and former MIT postdoctoral associate Raffaella Paparcone will receive the 2011 Alfred Noble Prize for a paper published in the journal JOM last year. (“Failure of Alzheimer’s Aß(1-40) amyloid nanofibrils under compressive loading,” […]
In a summer internship with a collaborative program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, CEE senior Tiffany Cheng created a remote-sensing toolkit for state and local agencies to […]
Professor Markus Buehler has joined the editorial board of the London-based Journal of the Royal Society Interface, a cross-disciplinary journal that publishes research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. The prestigious journal is […]
Joseph Sussman, the JR East Professor in CEE and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) has been named interim director of ESD by Ian Waitz, dean of engineering, effective Sept. 1. Sussman succeeds Professor Yossi Sheffi, who […]
CEE will hold a game of softball on Registration Day, pitting the faculty and postdocs against the graduate students. The game, a Parsons Lab tradition now extended to the entire department, will be played from 4 […]
All known biological sensory systems, including the familiar examples of the five human senses – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – have one thing in common: when exposed to a sustained change in sensory input, […]
On Thursday, Aug. 11 more than 500 people are expected to attend the CSHub Industry Day, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. The MIT dean of engineering will give […]
In late June, MIT announced a new collaborative program with the French national scientific research center, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to be co-directed by CEE Professor Franz Ulm and Roland Pellenq, a […]
Pedro Reis, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in CEE and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was one of 60 engineers under the age of 45 selected to attend the U.S. National Academy of […]
A paper by recent CEE graduate Rouzbeh Shahsavari Ph.D. ’11, Professors Franz Ulm and Markus Buehler, and senior research scientist Roland Pellenq has been selected by the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACS) as […]
MIT is the top-rated civil and structural engineering school in the world according to the recently released QS World University Rankings. QS also named MIT No. 3 in earth and marine sciences and No. 4 in […]
Professors Oral Buyukozturk and Markus Buehler, doctoral student Denvid Lau and recent graduate Chakrapan Tuakta Ph.D. ’11 used molecular dynamics simulation to study how materials interact at the molecular level and recently applied it for the […]