The Roundtable will provide independent research into carbon capture and storage technologies Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies aim to mitigate the effects of burning fossil fuels by capturing carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks and storing […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the promotion of Associate Professor Admir Masic to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure effective July 1, 2024. Masic’s work explores the ancient materials […]
Lydia Bourouiba, associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, who leads The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory in the Fluids and Health Network, was the […]
Participants from the 2021 Rising Stars in Civil and Environmental Engineering bond over shared experiences. When Lauryn Spearing, Sofia Pérez-Guzmán, and Lisa Losada-Rojas attended the 2021 Rising Stars Workshop in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at […]
The two-day MIT workshop provides distinguished women in Civil and Environmental Engineering and related fields guidance and mentoring towards a successful academic career. The MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s fifth Rising Stars Workshop was […]
On a rainy September day, accented by more extreme weather-related news of the catastrophic flooding in Libya, students, postdocs, and faculty gathered for the 1-12 Climate System Science and Engineering degree half-day symposium hosted by the […]
Postdoc Wenzhe Jiao receives highest honor for his PhD dissertation Growing up in a small village in Hubei Province, China, Wenzhe Jiao’s curiosity and desire to continue his education led him to becoming the first person […]
Desirée Plata aims to capture methane before it warms the climate. At one of the nation’s largest dairy farms, environmental engineer Desirée Plata and her students wade through the muck of a thousand cattle. Inside the football field–sized […]
Three researchers affiliated with the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been recognized in the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list identifies the world’s most influential researchers who […]
Lydia Bourouiba is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, where she directs The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory. Her research and contributions in 2020 led to a newer […]
[fusion_text] Work underscores C. difficile infection is not a common hospital transmission CAMBRIDGE, MA – New research from MIT suggests the risk of becoming colonized by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) increases immediately following gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances […]
Researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a gift to advance their work on a device designed to position living cells for growing human organs using […]
[fusion_text]Mohamad Sindi CEE alumnus Mohamad Sindi was recently honored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his PhD work. He was awarded the MIT Shoji Award for Innovation for his thesis addressing the issue of fault-tolerance […]
Professor John R. Williams and PhD alumnus Mohamad Sindi recently won the IEEE Innovative Paper Award for their paper titled “Using Container Migration for HPC Workloads Resilience”. The award was presented during the IEEE High Performance […]
McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler and the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) was featured in the New York Times for their research about the camouflaging characteristics of squid. Due to tiny […]
