Civil and environmental engineering

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

August 25, 2009

The image at top depicts a healthy collagen fibril. The image below it depicts a fibril with brittle bone disease displaying the small rifts (in orange) that form in collagen tissue at the sites where an incorrect amino acid has been substituted for glycine. These tiny rifts lead to the brittle tissue, broken bones and deformity characteristic of the disease.

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

August 4, 2009

Three researchers win presidential early career awards

July 10, 2009

International Engineering Systems Symposium addresses complex, large-scale challenges

June 17, 2009

The figure illustrates a hierarchical network of carbon nanotubes mimicking a cell's protein network to connect a small heat source (red area) to a larger area that serves as a heat sink.

Taking the heat off

Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material

June 16, 2009

Professor Franz-Josef Ulm with the nanoindentation machine in his research lab.

MIT engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

June 15, 2009

Students enjoyed themselves at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) senior and awards dinner held at Endicott House May 15. Left to right: Graduate student J. Alberto Ortega, winner of the Trond Kaalstad (Class of 1957) Fellowship; senior Mahalia Miller, winner of the Steinberg Prize; and graduate students Zenzile Brooks and James Vanzo.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 3, 2009

Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean microbe samples

May 14, 2009

Researchers used a microfluidics device and a microscope (shown here) in research involving microbes that could lead to a new way of isolating harmful forms of drugs.

Separating the good from the bad

Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

April 17, 2009

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rafael Bras, currently on leave from MIT serving as Dean of Engineering at University of California at Irvine, gave the Killian lecture Monday to a packed house.

Bras eyes 'intertwined dance' of land, water, plants

Professor returns to MIT to give annual Killian Award lecture

March 31, 2009

Bras to deliver Killian Award lecture on March 30

March 25, 2009

Illustration from 'Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life.'

Children's book illuminates photosynthesis

March 10, 2009

Transportation, transformed

Multidisciplinary research will go way beyond the car

March 4, 2009

Researchers discovered that thin layers of phytoplankton form where strong variations in flow velocity cause the cells to overturn. These flow conditions form a watery trap: phytoplankton can swim in but not out.

Stuck in the middle

MIT research explains how thin layers of tiny organisms form at sea; work could help predict harmful algal blooms like red tide

February 19, 2009

Jacobs to give inaugural School of Engineering lecture

Alumnus, digital wireless pioneer to speak Feb. 19 in 10-250.

February 13, 2009

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