Civil and environmental engineering
Civil and environmental engineering

Designing a new way to optimize complex coordinated systems

Using diagrams to represent interactions in multipart systems can provide a faster way to design software improvements.

A faster way to solve complex planning problems

By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.

MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail

A new international collaboration unites MIT and maritime industry leaders to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, alternative fuels, data-powered strategies for operation, and more.

Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe

U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions.

Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.

Puzzling out climate change

Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

The technique could make AI systems better at complex tasks that involve variability.

Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

An AI method developed by Professor Markus Buehler finds hidden links between science and art to suggest novel materials.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.