Tag: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bill McConnell: Education has no Finish Line
Lifelong Learner is Engineering the Effort to Make Vertex a Billion-Dollar Business by 2030
By Richard Massey
It’s kind of difficult to describe Bill McConnell. The...
Scientists Revisit the Cold Case of Cold Fusion
Scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are...
Nitsch Engineering receives award for MIT North Corridor Project
Nitsch Engineering of Boston earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 52nd annual Engineering Excellence Awards for the North Corridor project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Fortifying concrete with recycled plastic
Discarded plastic bottles could one day be used to build stronger, more flexible concrete structures, from sidewalks and street barriers to buildings and bridges,...
Firms, organizations issue statements on Trump Administration’s Paris Climate Accord decision
Following the June 1 announcement from President Donald Trump that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord a number of engineering firms, building groups, and higher education organizations issued press releases offering their responses.
The first lady of structural engineering
Ninety years ago, two of the country's pioneer civil-structural engineers, sisters Elmina T. and Alda H. Wilson, were integral to the passage of the...
