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UROP in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers the opportunity to work directly with faculty and research staff on a broad range of current topics in environmental, water resources, structural, geotechnical, and transportation engineering. Many studies involve significant social, economic, and legal factors; many involve computers, experimental laboratory work, or field work. Current environmental problems such as groundwater contamination and acid rain may be addressed.
The principal
research interests
of the faculty
and research
staff in Civil
and Environmental
Engineering
are listed
below. Students
are encouraged
to discuss
their research
ideas and
particular
objectives
with those
faculty members
whose research
interests
most nearly
match their
own. The Coordinator
can also answer
questions
on UROP policy.
Registration
for credits
in amounts
consistent
with the student's
interest and
participation
is encouraged;
alternatively,
student wages
may often
be arranged.
- Dr.
E.
Eric
Adams,
48-216B,
x3-6595, eeadams@mit.edu
- Environmental
fluid mechanics,
Boston Harbor,
mixing in
inland and
coastal
water bodies.
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- Prof.
Cynthia
Barnhart,
1-235A,
x3-3815, cbarnhar@mit.edu
- Marhematical programming nmodels and large-scale optimization approaches for transportation and logistics systems; service network design and operations planning for scheduled transportation systems.
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- Prof.
Moshe
Ben-Akiva,
1-181,
x3-5324, mba@mit.edu
- Transportation
systems
analysis,
intelligent
transportation
systems,
demand modeling,
data collection
and statistical
analysis,
infrastructure
management.
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- Prof.
Rafael
L. Bras,
48-213,
x3-2117, rlbras@mit.edu
- Hydrology, hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, fluvial geomorphology, land- atmosphere interactions, nonlinear systems, random processes.
Prof. Markus J. Buehler, 1-235A&B, x2-2750, mbuehler@MIT.EDU, Lab URL: http://web.mit.edu/mbuehler/www/- Our lab's research is focused on understanding the mechanics of deformation and failure of biological materials. By utilizing a computational materials science approach, our goal is to understand the mechanical properties of biological materials from a fundamental level. Catastrophic phenomena that afflict millions of lives, ranging from the failure of the Earth’s crust in earthquakes, to the collapse of buildings, to the failure of bones due to injuries, all have one common underlying theme: the breakdown of the basic constituents of any material ultimately leads to the failure of its overall structure and intended function. The failure and deformation of engineering materials has been studied extensively and has impacted our world by enabling the design of complex structures and advanced devices. However, the mechanisms of failure in biological systems are not well understood, and represents an opportunity to generate novel concepts to initiate a new paradigm of materials science.
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- Prof.
Oral
Buyukozturk,
1-280,
x3-7186, obuyuk@mit.edu
- Structural mechanics and design; high performance materials; fracture and deterioration; retrofit of structures; bridge engineering; nondestructive evaluation.
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- Prof.
Sallie
W. Chisholm,
48-425,
x3-1771, chisholm@mit.edu
- Biological
oceanography,
plankton
ecology.
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- Prof.
Jerome
J. Connor
Jr.,
1-253,
x3-8435, jjconnor@mit.edu
- Structural
engineering,
computational
mechanics,
large scale
systems.
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- Prof. Edward F. De Long, 48-427, x3-5271, delong@mit.edu
- Biology oceanography: Microbial ecology and evolution Biochemistry and Biogeochemistry Microbial and environmental genomics.
- Prof. Richard de Neufville, E40-245, x3-7694, ardent@mit.edu
- Technology
and policy,
dynamic
strategic
planning
system analysis,
airport
planning
and design,
transportation
systems.
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- Prof.
Herbert
H. Einstein,
1-342,
x3-3598, einstein@mit.edu
- Engineering
geology,
rock mechanics,
underground
construction,
risk analysis.
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- Prof.
El Fatih
Eltahir,
48-205,
x3-6596, eltahir@mit.edu
- Hydrology,
hydroclimatology,
water resources.
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- Prof.
Dara
Entekhabi,
48-333,
x3-9698, darae@mit.edu
- Physical hydrology. Remote sensing. Land-atmosphere interaction.
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- Dr.
Sheila
Frankel,
48-216G,
x3-2339, sfrankel@mit.edu
- Aquatic
ecology,
instrumentation,
flow cytometry,
aquatic
chemistry
instructor.
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- Dr.
John
T. Germaine,
1-353,
x3-7113, jgermain@mit.edu
- Laboratory
and field
instrumentation,
geotechnical
engineering,
data acquisition,
lab testing
automation.
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- Prof.
Philip
Gschwend,
48-413,
x3-1638, pmgschwe@mit.edu
- Environmental
organic
chemistry,
volatilization,
sorption,
transformation
processes,
modeling
fates of
organic
pollutants,
roles of
colloids.
- Prof. Charles Harvey, 48-309, x8-0392, charvey@mit.edu
- Groundwater hydrology; containment transport; environmental management.
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- Prof.
Harold
F. Hemond,
48-425,
x3-1637, hfhemond@mit.edu
- Cycling
of
chemicals
in
the environment,
acid
rain
and
hillslope
hydrology,
wetland
geochemistry,
and
environmental
instrumentation.
- Prof.
Patrick
Jaillet 1,290,
x452-3379, Jaillet@mit.edu
- On-line
problems;
real-time
and dynamic
optimization;
network
design and
optimization;
probabilistic
combinatorial
optimization;
financial
engineering.
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- Prof.
Eduardo
Kausel,
1-271,
x3-5336, kausel@mit.edu
- Structural
dynamics,
soil dynamics,
soil-structure
interaction,
earthquake
engineering,
structural
mechanics,
machine
vibration,
non-destructive
testing.
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- Prof.
Richard
Larson 1-170, x3-3604 rclarson@mit.edu
- Operations research especially transportation systems; technology- enabled education and establishing distance learning.
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- Prof.
Steven
R. Lerman,
9-317,
x3-4277, lerman@mit.edu
- Educational
uses of
computing,
large scale
distributed
computing
systems,
parallel
algorithms,
transportation
demand modeling.
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- Prof.
Ole
S. Madsen,
48-216C,
x3-2721, osm@mit.edu
- Coastal
and oceanographic
engineering,
turbulent
boundary
layer flow,
sediment
transport,
free surface
flow.
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- Prof.
David
H. Marks,
E40-455,
x3-1992, dhmarks@mit.edu
- Sustainable development, environmental
engineering,
water resource
systems,
industrial
ecology.
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- Mr.
Carl D.
Martland,
1-153,
x3-5326, martlan@mit.edu
- Freight
transportation
management,
railroad
systems,
engineering
economics,
regional transportation planning.
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- Prof.
Dennis
B. McLaughlin,
48-329,
x3-7176, dennism@mit.edu
- Surface
and groundwater
hydrology,
water resource
systems,
estimation
and control.
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- Prof.
Chiang
C. Mei,
1-346,
x3-2994, ccmei@mit.edu
- Theoretical
hydrodynamics,
ocean and
coastal
wave phenomena,
fluid-solid
interaction,
poroelasticity,
seabed mechanics,
land subsidence,
debris and
mud flow, mechanics of soil remediation.
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- Prof.
Fred
Moavenzadeh,
1-173,
x3-7178, moaven@mit.edu
- Construction
industry,
international
construction,
innovation
and technological
development.
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- Prof.
Heidi
M. Nepf,
48-216D,
x3-8622, hmnepf@mit.edu
- Physical mechanisms which affect transport and fate of containments and nutrients in lakes, wetlands, and coastal zones, vegetated flow dynamics.
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- Prof.
Amedeo
R. Odoni,
33-219,
x3-7439, odoni@mit.edu
- Operations
research,
transportation
systems
analysis,
airport
planning
and design,
air traffic
control.
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- Prof.
Martin
Polz,
Rm. 48-417,
x3-7128, mpolz@mit.edu
- Environmental microbiology, microbial community structure & population dynamics, environmental geomics, ecology of pathogens, arsenic and uranium reducing bacteria.
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- Prof.
Daniel
Roos,
E40-263,
x3-1661, roos@mit.edu
- Technology
and policy,
transportation
systems,
industry
studies.
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- Prof.
Yosef
Sheffi,
E40-275,
x3-5316, sheffi@mit.edu
- Transportation and logistics systems analysis; decision support systems for network optimizations with application to logistics management and carrier operations; supply chain management.
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- Prof.
David
Simchi-Levi, 1-171,
x3-6160, dslevi@mit.edu
- Transportation and logistics systems analysis; e-comerce and supply chain management; revenue and yield management; optimization based decisin support systems; operations research; telecommunications systems.
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- Prof. Roman Stocker, 48-335, x3-3726, romans@mit.edu
- Environmental
microfluidics,
small scale
fluid- dynamics,
fluid- microorganisms
interactions.
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- Prof.
Joseph
M. Sussman,
1-163,
x3-4430, sussman@mit.edu
- Transportation
systems
and institutions,
regional
strategic
transportation
planning,
intercity
freight
and passenger
rail, intelligent
transportation
systems,
simulation
and risk
assessment
methods.
- Prof.
Franz-
Josef
Ulm, 1-263,
x3-3544, ulm@mit.edu
- Durability
mechanics
of engineering
materials
and structures.
Computational
mechanics.
Chemoporo-
mechanics.
High performance
composite
materials.
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- Prof.
Daniele
Veneziano,
1-348,
x3-7199, venezian@mit.edu
- Risk
assessment,
probabilistic
modeling,
statistical
data analysis,
stochastic
hydrology.
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- Prof.
Andrew
Whittle,
1-353,
x3-7122, ajwhittl@mit.edu
- Geotechnical
engineering;
constitutive
modeling
analysis
methods
for foundations
and underground
structures,
monitoring
technology,
in-situ
testing.
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- Prof.
John
R. Williams,
1-250,
x3-7201, jrw@mit.edu
- Information
technology,
web based
education
technology,
computer
simulation,
discrete
element
analysis
of granular
and powder
systems.
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- Prof.
Nigel
Wilson,
1-238,
x3-5046, nhmw@mit.edu
- Public
transportation,
transport
system design,
new transportation
systems.
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