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The Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Building
The new CSE Building, an 80,000 square foot, state-of-the-art research facility that opened in the fall of 2007, represents Johns Hopkins Engineering’s commitment to multidisciplinary research and education and the school’s strong ties to medicine and the life sciences.
The first building on the Homewood campus to be organized around collaborative, cross-disciplinary research, the CSE Building’s labs and academic spaces offer opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and researchers and clinicians from across the university, as well as members of industry, to work together to solve problems of common interest.
Research centers housed in the CSE Building include:
Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
The CLSP promotes research and education in all aspects of the science and technology of language and speech, with fundamental studies in areas such as language modeling, natural language processing, neural auditory processing, acoustic processing, optimality theory, and language acquisition.
Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology Engineering Research Center (CISST-ERC)
The CISST-ERC develops basic science, technology, and engineered systems to fundamentally improve the way surgery and interventional procedures are carried out. The Center produces systems that will greatly reduce costs, improve clinical outcomes, and increase the efficiency of health care delivery.
Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM)
Basic biological research has been transformed by technologies that allow us to collect and process massive amounts of medical and biological data. The ICM develops quantitative approaches to understand the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease through applications of mathematics, engineering, and computer science.
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) The LCSR views robotics as an essential link between computation and action that enhances the health, safety, and efficacy of humans. The LCSR fosters innovative robotics science and engineering research in areas such as robotics for health care and biomedical research, autonomous systems for safety and surveillance, and human-machine interaction.
Among the CSE Building’s facilities are:
The Robotics High-Bay
This two-story collaborative research space is surrounded by individual labs and is among the world’s largest, most technically advanced robotics research facilities.
Auditorium A high-tech, 98-seat space for classes and seminars.
The Richard A Swirnow Computer Integrated and Interventional Systems Mock Operating Room This laboratory provides opportunities for collaboration between faculty and students from the Whiting School and the School of Medicine to develop and test applications for surgical robotics.
Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) Server Room
Housing the ICM’s computational resources, this 1,000 square-foot room houses over 3,000 processors, with 500 terabytes of storage (equal to the capacity of 5000 80-gig iPods or 500,000 DVDs) as well as two 20-ton computer-cooling air conditioners.
"Growing up I was always interested in bridge and super structures shows and I knew I wanted to be a civil engineer," says Blair Johnson, a junior in the Department of Civil Engineering. "Now I’m focusing on coastal engineering in the lab of Professor Tony Dalrymple, studying ground conditions under seas and the way waves move over mud." The long term application of such research is of interest to the military, which could use satellite imagery to examine the wave behavior on the surface of water. Depending on the behavior of the wave, engineers could determine the ground conditions below and, hopefully, detect mines on the coasts of other countries.
