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On April 30, 2022, Ashwini Gupta, CaSE PhD candidate, was selected as the Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Public Engagement through Research Communication winner of the 2022 Empower Your Pitch competition. Held by PHutures and open to all doctoral students at JHU, Empower Your Pitch is a research competition that develops the research communication skills of presenters from…

Ashwini Gupta and Kristen Nixon, both graduate students in the department, have been selected as finalists in the 2022 Empower Your Pitch competition. Held by PHutures and open to all doctoral students at JHU, Empower Your Pitch is a research competition that develops the research communication skills of presenters from across the Hopkins’ graduate schools to…

Lauren Gardner, the Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, gave the opening keynote of the American Society of Civil Engineers Structures Congress 2022 on April 21, 2022.  Structures Congress is the annual conference of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of ASCE and the premier event in structural engineering.…

Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the 2022 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Given annually, this medal recognizes an individual’s outstanding research contributions to applied solid mechanics. Somnath was honored for “outstanding novel contributions to the…

When building a sound structure, a variety of factors are considered including strength, durability, and resistance to fire and heat. To help gauge a structure’s reaction under extreme heat conditions, Thomas Gernay, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, and Jean-Marc Franssen of the University of Liege in Belgium developed SAFIR, a computer…

On April 9-10, 2022, the Johns Hopkins Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) co-hosted the 2022 ASCE Mid-Atlantic East Symposium with Morgan State University and the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). ASCE Regional Symposia are annual events designed to facilitate networking among civil engineering students who attend college within similar geographic regions, and to provide a…

Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis? (Published in Nature on March 23, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00792-2)

Cross country skier Caitlin Patterson and speed skater Emery Lehman, both graduate students in the Engineering for Professionals program, will join Team U.S.A. in Beijing Caitlin Patterson and Emery Lehman have a lot in common. Both study civil engineering in the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals program. Both love participating in winter sports. And both are heading…

Todd Chang, a doctoral candidate in Johns Hopkins’ Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE), is working with Tak Igusa, a professor in CaSE and a member of JHU’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), on applying systems engineering strategies to the field of autonomous vehicles. Can you…

Johns Hopkins Engineering’s online graduate degree programs continue to be among the country’s best, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Overall, the Whiting School’s online graduate programs in engineering occupy the No. 12 spot, and its online computer information technology programs maintained their place at No. 2. In specialty area rankings, the school’s programs…

The Johns Hopkins Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has been selected to co-host the 2022 ASCE Mid-Atlantic East Symposium with Morgan State University and the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) on April 9 – 10, 2022, The Symposium is an annual event designed to facilitate networking among civil engineering students in the…

In advance of his book ‘Confronting Cyber Risk,’ engineer Gregory Falco discusses how and why organizations should incorporate cybersecurity into everyday business and planning In 2020, a hack believed to have been perpetrated by the Russian intelligence service compromised more than 100 clients of the SolarWinds network management company. Affected organizations included tech giants Microsoft,…