Civil and environmental engineering

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 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

MIT urged to educate 'geeks' and 'chiefs'

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

$Atomistic simulation provides unparalleled insight into fracture processes. Under the weight of an applied load, a crack in a silicon crystal (above, left) propagates until the crystal is cleaved.$

Think small! Think quickly! Atomistic model helps students visualize nanoscale problems

Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading

April 2, 2007

MIT researchers David Simchi-Levi, left, and Olivier L. de Weck released version 1.3 of their SpaceNet software this month.

Engineers create SpaceNet--the supply chain

Network of nodes could ensure delivery to moon

March 19, 2007

MIT students traveled to Lesotho in January 2006 to work on developing a solar micro-generator that would provide affordable energy.

PSC grants expand MIT's global reach

March 7, 2007

A team of eight MIT students and their advisor, Susan Murcott, brought their ingenuity and technical skills to villages in Nepal in 2002 to try to solve a very basic practical problem--the need for clean drinking water at very low cost. Here, a young girl pumps water from a well outside Lumbini, Nepal.
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Co-engineers share designs on clean water

March 5, 2007

Carbon dioxide could be injected underground into the briny porous rock below. Most of the CO2 gas would be immobilized (light blue), trapped as small bubbles (white) in the pore space of the rock (gray). Only a small portion of the CO2 (dark blue) will continue to flow up towards the impermeable layer of caprock (yellow).

Storing carbon dioxide below ground may prevent polluting above

February 7, 2007

MIT Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and post-doc Georgios Constantinides have shown that the strength of concrete lies in the way its nanoparticles are organized -- like oranges stacked in a supermarket. Their findings could lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions during concrete manufacturing.

Nanoengineered concrete could cut carbon dioxide emissions

January 30, 2007

MIT students help design new exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific

January 26, 2007

Flu vaccine shortages can be avoided, MIT engineers say

December 27, 2006

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