News
Apr 09, 2018
CEE Professor Ganguly delivers invited talk on the Networked Digital Earth
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly delivered an invited talk on “The Networked Digital Earth (NDE) for Climate Adaptation and Resilient Engineering (CARE)” at the International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering (ICGCE 2018).
Apr 09, 2018
Climate Risk Analytics Startup with Northeastern Links Receives Phase II Funding Grant
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly’s climate analytics spinout, risQ, received $750K from NSF in the second phase of funding.
Apr 05, 2018
CEE Students win MIT Water Night Poster Competition
CEE undergraduate students Kestral Johnson and Madeline DuBois are among this year’s MIT Water Night poster winners for their research on water systems led by Professor Annalisa Onnis-Hayden. The event […]
Apr 05, 2018
River Engineering of the Mississippi Might Lead to Severe Flooding
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz is researching how the re-engineering of the Mississippi River to straighten and channelize it has had the unintended consequences of increasing the risk of severe flooding.
Apr 02, 2018
Real-time Pavement Profile Sensing System
CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for creating a “Real-time pavement profile sensing system using air-coupled surface wave”.
Mar 29, 2018
Studying How Dissolved Organic Carbon is Effecting Climate Change
COS/CEE Associate Professor Aron Stubbins is studying how carbon moves off the land, such as in frozen permafrost, and into rivers, where it eventually gets converted into carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas that’s causing global warming.
Mar 21, 2018
Building Resilient Steel Structures
CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar presented the 54th annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on March 19th about the need for “Urban Engineering: New Designs for a Resilient and Sustainable Future”.
Mar 16, 2018
Examining the Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse
CEE Professor & Chair Jerome Hajjar answered questions relating to the safety codes and procedures of accelerated bridge construction after the recent pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, FL.