Civil and environmental engineering

Biofuels report warns of strain on water resources

MIT professor is co-author of National Research Council report

October 11, 2007

MIT Professor Markus Buehler has helped reveal why bones are so tough. The object on the screen is a triple helical tropocollagen molecule, a fundamental building block of bone. Next to the molecule are nanosized hydroxyapatite chalk-like crystals. In his work he simulates the behavior of the composite of tropocollagen and hydroxyapatite during deformation.

MIT probes secret of bone's strength

September 6, 2007

Professors Roman Stocker, left, and John Bush display a mixture of oil, detergent and water. Their research explains what happens when an oil drop containing a water-insoluble surfactant is placed on a water surface.

Case closed: MIT gumshoes solve "throbbing" oil mystery

July 17, 2007

Civil engineering professor Herbert Einstein and former graduate student Artessa Saldivar-Sali. Saldivar-Sali developed the landslide risk-assessment system as part of her master's degree work with Einstein in 2004.

MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics

Property loss could be decreased using new system

June 25, 2007

Civil and environmental engineering sophomore Liz Labuz powers the radio to her right by pedaling her team's "The Pedaler Challenge", a pedal machine that powers a radio. As a member of the CEE sophomore design course, she and her fellow classmates were required to design and built an energy-producing machine.

Civil engineers pump energy into machines

June 22, 2007

Buehler of CEE receives national engineering honor

June 21, 2007

Prof sees vibrant life for environmental studies

June 6, 2007

Professor Patrick Jaillet (left), head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor Ole Madsen (right) of CEE present the Maseeh Award for excellence as a teaching assistant to CEE graduate student David Gonzalez Rodriguez.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 6, 2007

Model for tracking flu progression could reduce flu pandemic's peril

Engineer who survived pandemic of 1968 focuses on reducing influenza's death toll.

May 31, 2007

Professor Oral Buyukozturk of civil and environmental engineering, left, and student Tzu-Yang Yu in the lab with a concrete sample and an image (on the laptop screen) produced with the noninvasive damage-assessing technology they developed.

Handheld device 'sees' damage in concrete bridges, piers

Aging structures can be inspected immediately, onsite

May 18, 2007

MIT urged to educate 'geeks' and 'chiefs'

May 16, 2007

MIT architecture professor John Ochsendorf with wooden arch (above) and chain (making arch) below. He will be a fellow at the American Academy in Rome next year.

Ancient arches guide modern work

May 16, 2007

In this 2005 illustration of the "shoulder" of the Cape, the Cape Cod Canal is visible at the top. If the land is viewed as a clock, Bourne is at 11, Sandwich at 12:15, Barnstable at 3 and Mashpee at 5:30. Falmouth is in the bottom left corner. The salmon-colored area indicates the Massachusetts Military Reservation. Green indicates groundwater contaminant plumes made up mostly of explosive compou...

Costly Cape Cod cleanup has advanced groundwater hydrology research

April 23, 2007

Course focuses on transportation of spent nuclear fuel

April 17, 2007

Members of MIT's regional Steel Bridge Competition team replicated their high-speed construction at a department celebration of their victory. Shown in the photo are junior Tracy Takemura, right, and sophomore Jose Cano, left. Quinn Vollmert, a junior, is in blue T-shirt at back.

Bridge work

April 4, 2007

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