Simchi-Levi and colleagues win INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
Team awarded for utilizing Simchi-Levi’s Risk Exposure Index to identify risk and mitigate disruptions in the automotive supply chain.
New way to predict how traffic will flow
Model provides a more accurate tool for city planning, emergency evacuations, tracking disease spread.
Concrete Sustainability Hub names Randolph Kirchain as co-director
Engineer studies materials' role in manufacturing and infrastructure.
3 Questions: The launch of the MIT Climate Change Conversation
New committee aims to catalyze community discussion on how MIT can help address climate change.
Crumpled graphene could provide an unconventional energy storage
Two-dimensional carbon “paper” can form stretchable supercapacitors to power flexible electronic devices.
Untangling how cables coil
A simulation technology from movies is used to predict coiling patterns in the lab.
How to make stronger, “greener” cement
Analysis of material's molecular structure leads to a new formula that could cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Protecting infrastructure with smarter CPS
Saurabh Amin builds resiliency in essential infrastructure networks for transportation, energy, and water distribution.
Nature’s tiny engineers
Coral organisms use minuscule appendages to control their environment, stirring up water eddies to bring nutrients.
Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration between MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes.
Learning how things fall apart
New research reveals how bonded materials, from airplane wings to dental crowns, lose their bonding.
Study: Climate change and air pollution will combine to curb food supplies
Ozone and higher temperatures can combine to reduce crop yields, but effects will vary by region.