Ruben Juanes, the ARCO Associate Professor in Energy Studies, and Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, a postdoctoral associate, received the Physical Review Letters (PRL) Editors’ Suggestion for a paper on “Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of hydrate growth on a gas-liquid […]
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. […]
[fusion_text]Associate Professor and Director of the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Engineering Ruben Juanes, along with researchers from Harvard University, recently delivered a report to the Minister of Energy of Spain that confirmed […]
From June 13 to 17, 2016, the CEE department and the MIT Professional Education program will be offering a new short course, Agriculture, Innovation, and the Environment. The instructors include Professors Robert S. Langer, Martin Polz, […]
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) released its second round of seed grant recipients, which includes funding for three CEE professors. Professor Heald was awarded a grant for her project “Air […]
Associate Professor Ruben Juanes is the new director of Pierce Laboratory. Juanes’s vision and expertise will benefit Pierce’s focus on using innovative science and engineering approaches to advance the design of infrastructure materials, transportation systems, cities, […]
Associate Professor Ruben Juanes of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is the new director of Pierce Laboratory, effective Sept. 1. The Pierce Lab pushes the frontiers of infrastructure science and engineering by addressing […]
Department Head Markus Buehler announced the official appointment of Professor Ruben Juanes as the new director of Pierce Laboratory, effective September 2015. “I am truly excited that Ruben has agreed to serve in this important role,” […]
The formulas scientists use to describe traditional fluid flow indicate that puddle water should spread endlessly. However, as most know, this is not the case. Now a team of CEE researchers has solved the mystery of […]
MIT News Office Simple everyday phenomenon was unexplained by physics — until now. When you spill a bit of water onto a tabletop, the puddle spreads — and then stops, leaving a well-defined area of water […]
CEE graduate student Ruby Fu says that, growing up, she was a witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China. Environmental challenges always on her mind, Fu now works under advisor Professor Ruben […]
Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering A witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China, grad student Ruby Fu now studies the fate of methane bubbles in the ocean. Environmental concerns piqued the […]
Part of the Institute since 2006, CEE Professor Ruben Juanes knew he wanted a future in the sciences since he was in middle school. Now, the majority of his research is dedicated to flows related to […]
An audience of 30 MIT postdocs gathered on Tuesday, March 10 for a discussion on the academic job process held by four MIT faculty members and two MIT department heads. The panel consisted of CEE professors […]
Graduate student Jane Chui won an Outstanding Student Paper Award in hydrology at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Conference in San Francisco in December 2014. The paper, “Interface Evolution during Radial Miscible Viscous Fingering,” describes how […]
