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Mechanical engineering

You’re invited to the community hike

Join the department in its first autumn outing – a hike in Wompatuck State Park on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 10 am – 3 pm. Organized by the Outings Committee, the day will include a beautiful […]

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Winners of the #CEEsummer competition

Two winners were selected for the #CEEsummer Instagram competition: Course 1 senior Holly Josephs for the best photo, and Course 1 junior Kali Rosendo for most submissions. Josephs’ photo demonstrates her experience participating in MISTI Brazil testing a storm […]

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Moshe Ben-Akiva awarded the Pyke Johnson Paper Award

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee selected Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva and his team’s paper as this year’s winner of the Pyke Johnson Award. The MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research […]

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Pedro Reis untangles the mechanics of knots

Professor Pedro Reis and his team analyzed the mechanical forces of simple knots to devise a theory that describes how a knot’s topology determines its mechanical forces. This theory, he says, holds potential positive impact for future surgical […]

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Saurabh Amin receives NSF Career award

Professor Saurabh Amin was a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award for his project titled, “Resilient Design of Networked Infrastructure Systems: Models, Validation, and Synthesis”. The $400,000 grant will go toward his project, […]

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Course 1 team quantifies the impacts of irrigation

A CEE team investigated the impacts of large-scale cropland irrigation on rainfall patterns in the East African Sahel around the Gezira Irrigation Scheme. The researchers – Associate Department Head Elfatih Eltahir, Research Affiliate Ross Alter, and […]

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Ruben Juanes announced as new director of Pierce Laboratory

Associate Professor Ruben Juanes is the new director of Pierce Laboratory. Juanes’s vision and expertise will benefit Pierce’s focus on using innovative science and engineering approaches to advance the design of infrastructure materials, transportation systems, cities, […]

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A new molecular design approach

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials. For decades, materials scientists have worked to infuse the lessons learned from natural proteins into the design of new materials. […]

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