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