Degree Programs & Offerings
Undergraduate Program
The undergraduate program provides students with an education that is unique in its depth, provides access to faculty, and offers an extraordinary range of educational opportunities beginning in freshman year. Get DetailsCombined BS/MS Degree
Earn a BS in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins in five years total. Learn MoreMSE in Civil Engineering
The master’s degree in civil engineering focuses on mechanics of materials, probabilistic methods, fire engineering, earthquake engineering, infrastructure design for resilience. Learn MoreMSE in Systems Engineering
The master's degree in systems engineering focuses on network and mathematical modeling, optimization, analysis of complex infrastructure systems, public health, and urban resilience. Learn MorePhD Program
Seek out—and solve—high-impact challenges related to the built environment. Research in this area includes: structural engineering, structural mechanics, probabilistic methods, hazards management, and systems engineering. Learn MoreGrand Societal Challenges
Rooted in fundamental mechanics, systems thinking, advanced computational methods and uncertainty quantification, our programs successfully navigate the conflicting objectives inherent in addressing the following grand societal challenges:
Resilient Cities - Creating more resilient cities by enhancing earthquake resistance of structures, using systems-based solutions to address food insecurity, and developing new materials and structures for improved fire safety. More
Space Exploration & Habitation - Develop technology that will support long-term exploration and inhabitation of space, including optimized ultra-lightweight materials, cutting-edge computational mechanics, and systems-based approaches to community design. More
Decision-Making & Health - Leverage systems modeling, modern analysis, and advanced optimization to help transform data into decisions that will ensure healthy and more equitable communities. More
Human Safety & Security - Improve technologies, policies, and infrastructure that are robust to evolving threats – from changing climate, to acts of war, to global pandemics. More
Future Energy Infrastructure - Find mechanics-based solutions, create structural engineering advances, and use systems-based planning to address the changing energy supply, aging distribution networks, dynamic markets, and increasing hazards. More
Focus Areas
Mechanics of Materials
Collaborate on research of significant interest to aerospace, automotive, defense, manufacturing, materials, biomedical and electronics industries by using computational and experimental modeling, machine learning, topology optimization, and material design. DetailsStructures
Find solutions for structures that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience and extreme efficiency under a variety of hazards. DetailsSystems
Ensure that society can recover from threats by connecting mathematics, engineering, social and physical sciences and medicine. Details
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Our world-renowned faculty are mentors and teachers, dedicated to providing students with the knowledge and experiences needed to graduate as leaders--no matter what professional path they choose.
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Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, has been selected to receive The Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society’s (TMS) 2023 Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. This award recognizes an individual who has made a long-lasting contribution to design, syntheses, processing, and performance of…
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The 2022 ASCE Engineering Mechanics (EMI) Conference was held in person on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in the early summer. The event welcomed over 800 registrants over four days, combining research activities as well as celebration. The conference included representation from groups of 15 faculty members in the Whiting School of Engineering and specifically…
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Benjamin W. Schafer, the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering, received the 2022 Market Development Industry Leadership Award from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) on June 28, 2022. The award was presented by Kevin Dempsey, president and CEO of AISI, at the Institute’s offices in Washington, DC. AISI’s market…