MIT School of Engineering

Department award winners for the 2010-11 academic year were announced at the May 12 Annual Awards and Senior Dinner held at the Marriott Hotel in Cambridge. Research associate and lecturer Sheila Frankel received a special thanks […]

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In an analysis published in Physical Review Letters, researchers led by Professor Ruben Juanes show that the injection of a thin or low-viscosity fluid into a much more viscous fluid (think of water spurting into molasses) […]

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Senior Research Associate and Senior Lecturer John Germaine and co-principal investigator Peter Flemings of the University of Texas, Austin, hosted a meeting of the GeoFluids Consortium earlier this year. The consortium, which is supported by 12 […]

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Professor John Williams has been elected to the Learned Society of Wales, which was founded in May 2010 to recognize Welsh research and scholarship and promote it internationally. Williams, whose research focuses on large-scale computer analysis […]

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The Spring issue of Komaza, a student-run magazine about the international development experiences of MIT students, is on newsstands today. This issue contains a story about M.Eng. students Claudia Espinoza and Maclyn O’Donnell’s work on Senior […]

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A reality-based smartphone game that lets users help a village in Tanzania and a portable, low-cost water quality testing kit are two of the four projects involving CEE students or alumni that won awards in the […]

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The website of the MIT Geospatial Data Center was one of five nominees in the 2011 Webby Awards in the Schools/Universities category. Professor John Williams is director of the center, which, according to the website, is […]

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A paper by postdoctoral associate Chris Leonardi was selected as the Best High Performance Computing (HPC) paper at the 2011 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference in Boston. Co-authors on the paper are former postdoctoral associate David Holmes, Professor […]

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A paper by Assistant Professor Carolina Osorio won the Graduate Student Best Paper Award at the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) held in Long Beach, Calif. March 11. The paper, “A Simulation-Based Optimization Framework for Urban Traffic […]

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1A senior Alorah Harman has been awarded an MIT Eloranta Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She plans to go to Siberia to film a documentary on the nature of international collaboration in science, as explored through a […]

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1C senior Khalea Robinson has been selected as the 2011 Henry Ford II Scholar, an honor given to a senior in the School of Engineering who has attained the highest academic record at the end of […]

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In recognition of their academic achievement, four CEE seniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest honor society. The new members are Fatima Hussain (1E), Alexander […]

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On Thursday, May 5, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Lobby 13, students from the Terrascope freshman learning community will present their research projects focused on alleviating hunger and providing food security. The Terrascope (which is […]

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