Civil and environmental engineering

In the World: Clean Water for GhanaMIT students help a researcher build a factory that could provide water filters for 1 million people in northern Ghana

$3.5 million grant for bus rapid transit awarded to MIT, IST-Lisbon and global partnersCenter of Excellence on Bus Rapid Transit is eighth such center funded by the Volvo Research and Education Foundation

Mastering multicoreMIT researchers find a way to make complex computer simulations run more efficiently on chips with multiple processors.

Using plants to purify canal waterResearchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes

CEE’s Janelle Thompson chosen for Doherty Professorship

Unraveling silks’ secretsA new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials.

3 Questions: Eduardo Kausel on Chile’s massive earthquakeHow stringent building codes limited damage in Chile, and why there’s cause for concern in parts of the U.S.

MIT's chapter of Engineers Without Borders launches first projectStudents hope to bring electricity and clean water to Ugandan health clinic

Researcher's and artist's dynamic seascape art selected for cover of 'Science' magazine

Portuguese student at MIT develops risk-assessment methodology to help prevent tunnel accidents

Three professors win top national early-career honorsPresidential awards to Buehler, Dawson and Sheffield were presented this week at a White House ceremony

Solving history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’Research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi wells

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric arrangement

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringA 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.

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

Taking the heat offBiomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material

MIT engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean microbe samples

Separating the good from the badTwo-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

Bras eyes 'intertwined dance' of land, water, plantsProfessor returns to MIT to give annual Killian Award lecture

Children's book illuminates photosynthesis

Transportation, transformedMultidisciplinary research will go way beyond the car

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