Civil and environmental engineering

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

A better way to pinpoint underground oil reserves

CEE mapping technology could make extraction more efficient

January 16, 2009

MIT civil and environmental engineering student Mustafa Dafalla '09 gathers water samples at a pond in Niger to check for malaria larvae.

How to fight malaria by changing the environment

Leveling land can help control disease's spread, computer modeling finds

December 19, 2008

Water supplies could be strongly affected by climate change

Changes in rainfall can be amplified, up or down, in changes to aquifers

December 18, 2008

Schematic of an oscillating water column. Waves enter through a subsurface opening into the chamber with air trapped above. The wave action causes the captured water column to move up and down, pushing the trapped air into an electricity-generating turbine. The turbine turns continuously, despite the changing direction of the air stream as the waves come in and out.

Catch the wave

Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast

December 17, 2008

Roman Stocker holds the small microbial ecosystem he developed.

A plankton-eat-plankton world

Tiny ecosystem may shed light on key ocean microbes and their role in influencing climate

December 15, 2008

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