News
Aug 18, 2011
Prof. Sheahan Discusses Ground Failures in the Big Dig
Tom Sheahan, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, discussed the ground-freezing process used for Big Dig construction and whether it caused a sinkhole to form beneath Boston's tunnels.
Aug 18, 2011
Self-Organizing Traffic Lights
CIV Professor Peter Furth was awarded a $230K NSF grant to develop an algorithm that will control traffic lights based on communicating with the signals from neighboring intersections.
Aug 16, 2011
Preventing Ground Failure Due to Earthquakes
CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $1.2M NSF grant to use Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to try and prevent ground liquefaction from occurring under structures during earthquakes.
Aug 16, 2011
COE Alum appointed MassDOT Highway Administrator
Frank DePaola, a MS’84 graduate in civil engineering, has been appointed the highway administrator for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Aug 15, 2011
One of the Top Articles
ECE Associate Professor, Hossein Mosallaei’s paper “Array of Planar Plasmonic Scatteres Functioning as Light Concentrator” is one of the top downloaded articles in July 2011 from the journal Optic Letters.
Aug 15, 2011
Studying a Cell at a Time
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch was awarded a $174K NSF grant to use nanofluidic electrochemical detection and optics as an improved method for studying individual bacterial cells.
Aug 10, 2011
Prof. Bernal Researches New Energy Dissipation Strategies for Buildings
Professor Dionisio Bernal has received a $161,580 grant from the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) from the National Science Foundation to estimate damping in buildings during earthquakes.
Aug 10, 2011
Upmanyu Awarded $320K Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received a $320K NSF grant to use computational analysis to study the formation of nanocrystals in semiconducting nanowires.