I CEE You
Do you even Massachusetts?
Famous "Bridges"
That's Some Old Engineering
100
This professor is fluent in English, German, and Italian
Luis Dorfmann
100
You'll see colonial cemeteries, churches, and various houses if you take this historic trail
The Freedom Trail
100
This bridge and its connecting tunnel were built as part of the Big Dig, the largest highway construction project in the United States. The bridge's unique styling quickly became an icon for Boston, often featured in the backdrop of national news channels, to establish location, and included on tourist souvenirs.
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (Zakim Bridge)
100
This building in Italy tilts 3.97 degrees off the vertical.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
200
Professor Brenner worked on this bridge, located in Worcester, MA.
Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge (Burns Bridge)
200
Rumors that these snacks were named for a physicist are untrue; they're named for a town in Massachusetts.
Fig Newtons
200
This famous artist painted The Japanese Bridge in 1899.
Claude Monet
200
The Egyptians constructed more than 100 of these with the Great one taking a relatively quick 23 years to build.
The Pyramids
300
This professor goes by their middle name and is the Associate Chair for the CEE Department.
C. Andrew Ramsburg
300
This Boston museum offers a $10 million reward for information leading to the recovery of 12 works of art, stolen in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
300
The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, the world's longest continuous bridge, was built in just four years to provide high-speed rail service across China. The bridge spans for this length.
164,800 meters or 102.4 miles
300
The Eiffel Tower was built using 2.5 million rivets & 14 million pounds of this material.
Iron
400
This professor received their PhD in Science Education with a focus on learning sciences and technology design from Stanford University. Their scholarship specializes in the interdisciplinary study of language and cognition for students who experience a cultural and linguistic mismatch between the practices of their communities and those in engineering and science.
Greses Pérez
400
In 1998, childhood friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for the screenplay of this film, set at MIT and around Harvard, where Damon originally began writing the script.
Good Will Hunting
400
This bridge is located here.
Brooklyn, New York
400
It was the Persians not the Dutch who invented this energy-producing machine to grind grain.
Windmill
500
These three CEE faculty members were taught by Dr. Germaine (aka the man who doesn't age) when they attended MIT.
Chris Swan, Lucy Jen, and Brian Brenner
500
John Smeaton the first to call himself a civil engineer built one of these ship-guiding structures near Plymouth.
Lighthouse
500
The funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II, including the announcement of her death, the period of official mourning, and the details of her state funeral. The plan was created as early as the 1960s and revised many times in the years before her death in September 2022.
Operation London Bridge
500
Containing 167 arches one of these built in 50 A.D. is still delivering water from the Frio River to Segovia Spain.
Aqueduct