Civil and environmental engineering

The scene following the April, 2004 collapse of a section of tunnel being built for the Circle Line in Singapore. MIT professor Andrew Whittle was part of a team charged with investigating the accident and determining its causes.

IAP class probes Singapore highway collapse

February 1, 2008

MIT Professor Heidi Nepf of civil and environmental engineering is working with scaled physical models of river plants, at right, to understand more precisely how water moves through such plants and their effect on aquatic ecology.

River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters

January 31, 2008

A Sudanese farmer operates a treadle-powered foot pump. Two MIT students have set up a company to sell the pumps to help subsistence farmers in the region.

Pumping up desert agriculture

January 23, 2008

For seawalls, beauty is in the eye of the holder

January 11, 2008

MIT student Julia Kiberd '08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike, generating power for the laptop she's using to check her e-mail. Helping to host the Student Center display of the bike are (from left) technical instructor Stephen Rudolph, Kendra Johnson '09, IT energy coordinator Laxmi Rao and civil and environmental engineering senior research associate John Germaine.

Students get charge out of pedal power

November 8, 2007

This figure from an atomistic model shows a protein in the process of unwinding in response to pressure.

Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein's H-bonds

November 7, 2007

Rafael Bras to receive AGU's Horton Medal

October 17, 2007

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