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The MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is dedicated to balancing the built environment with the natural world. In our research, we seek to understand natural systems, to foster the intelligent use of resources and to design sustainable infrastructure systems.

We provide leadership in the field by focusing on technological innovations, seeking advances in basic knowledge and taking a systems perspective. We concentrate our efforts on quantitative and analytical approaches, novel experiment-based modeling, and the development and/or use of appropriate tools and technology.

CEE is an innovative and vibrant place of learning, where undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers pursue their educational and research interests in order to lead the next generation in transforming the disciplines of civil and environmental engineering.

Our research and graduate education programs coalesce around three fields of inquiry: environmental science and engineering; mechanics, materials and structures; and transportation. We offer ABET-accredited undergraduate degree programs in civil engineering and environmental engineering science.

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Buehler: Examining Failure to Test Limits of Materials ...

Buehler: Examining Failure to Test Limits of Materials Function

Markus J. BuehlerEsther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringCenter for Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Computational EngineeringGroup Leader, Mechanics and Materials in CEEDirector, MIT-Germany ...

Buehler: Materials Simulation Through Computation and ...

Buehler: Materials Simulation Through Computation and Predictive Models

Markus J. BuehlerEsther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringCenter for Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Computational EngineeringGroup Leader, Mechanics and Materials in CEEDirector, MIT-Germany ...

Buehler: Using Computation to Validate Predictability of ...

Buehler: Using Computation to Validate Predictability of Materials Models

Markus J. BuehlerEsther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringCenter for Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Computational EngineeringGroup Leader, Mechanics and Materials in CEEDirector, MIT-Germany ...

Buehler: Why Industry Comes to MIT

Buehler: Why Industry Comes to MIT

Markus J. BuehlerEsther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringCenter for Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Computational EngineeringGroup Leader, Mechanics and Materials in CEEDirector, MIT-Germany ProgramCo-Director, MIT Computation for ...

The role of U.S. airports in disease epidemics

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The role of U.S. airports in disease epidemics

Researchers at MIT are using a new mathematical model to better understand how contagious diseases are spread by air travel.

Putting it all together

Putting it all together: Steel Bridge Competition

Go behind the scenes as MIT sends a team to compete in a steel bridge building contest.

Miller Lecture: Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Complex Sociotechnical Systems: The Case for a New Field of Study

The Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture (recorded on 4/25/12), with Interim ESD Director Joseph Sussman

2012 Freeman Lecture: "Climate Change and Water Resources: ...

2012 Freeman Lecture: "Climate Change and Water Resources: Characterizing ...

Richard N. Palmer, Ph.D.Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, AmherstRecorded 4/23/12Scientific evidence tells us that global climate is changing. However, precise impacts on natural and man-made systems ...

Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City

Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City

This is an animation visualizing the movement and activities (differentiated by nine colors in the legend) of the surveyed individuals in the Chicago metropolitan area for an average weekday in 2008. Data source: Chicago Travel Tracker Household Travel Inventory ...

EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald

EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald

Atmospheric chemist Professor Colette Heald joined MIT this spring as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in EAPS and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She received her BS in Engineering Physcs from Queen's Universityin Kingston, Ontario (she is ...

Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL

Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL

Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. Modeled by Shan Jiang and recorded by Shan Jiang and Mikel Murga in 2007.

The Buckliball

The Buckliball

Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.

Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground

Carbon Capture & Storage: Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground

A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired powerplants.

The Impact of the Panama Canal on Global Shipping

Global Leadership Lecture Series: The Impact of the Panama Canal on Global ...

Global Leadership Lecture Series: The Impact of the Panama Canal on Global ShippingAlberto Aleman Zubieta, CEO, Panama Canal Authority 03/15/2012 | 11:30 am | Room E51-345 The expansion of the Panama Canal, scheduled to open in 2014, is an incredibly large and ...

MIT Creates: A New Approach to Environmental Engagement

MIT Environmental Research Forum - MIT Creates: A New Approach to ...

MIT Environmental Research Forum - Dara Entekhabi, Ernest Moniz, and James Yoder

Oceans

Oceans

MIT Environmental Research ForumOceans - John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT

DES4: "From Network Science to Human Dynamics"

DES4: "From Network Science to Human Dynamics"

The first of the CEE Distinguished Engineering and Science Speaker Seminar Series, presented Oct. 26, 2011 by Dr. Albert-Laszlo BarabasiCenter for Complex Networks Research Northeastern University Department of Medicine and CCSB Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ...

Scratch test on paraffin wax

Scratch test on paraffin wax

This video shows a laboratory experiment of a scratch test on paraffin wax. For more information on this research performed by Professors Franz-Josef Ulm and Pedro Reis and graduate student Ange-Therese Akono, please visit the CEE website: http://cee.mit.edu/news/releases/2011/fracture-test ...

Bacteria and Turbulence

Bacteria and Turbulence

Elongated Microbes Align With Turbulent Flow

Elongated Microbes Align With Turbulent Flow

This is a culture flask being shaken in front of a video camera. The dark whorls are actually light backscattering off elongated microbes locally aligned with the turbulent flow. Video / Marcos, Seymour, Luhar, Durham, Mitchell, Macke and Stocker from the paper, ...