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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,…

The 2022 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) conference will be hosted by the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering on May 31- June 3, 2022 in Baltimore. James Guest, associate professor within the department, is the conference chair. Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the department, serves as co-chair.  The conference aims to bring…

Michael Shields, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, and Dimitris Giovanis, assistant research professor in the same department, are establishing practices for uncertainty quantification in hazards modeling through the renewal of the National Science Foundation’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter). The renewal award provides $12.75M…

Lauren Gardner, associate professor of civil and systems engineering, recently was appointed as the inaugural Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor. This endowed professorship, established this year by Sandra and Alton B. Cleveland, Jr., supports exceptional faculty with a preference for those whose research focuses on sustainability and resiliency of the built environment and the multiple…

Gregory Falco, assistant professor in the department, recently contributed insight to the Safe Cities Index 2021. The Safe Cities Index 2021 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, and is based on the fourth iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 76 indicators covering digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental security. Findings…

As highly automated systems are becoming more and more popular, assurance challenges have become increasingly visible through high-profile crashes and incidents. In a recently published article for Nature Machine Intelligence, Gregory Falco, assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and a team of collaborators…

As news broke on June 24 regarding a deadly collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in Surfside, Fla., Benjamin Schafer, Williard and Lillian Hackerman Chair, spoke with Scientific American regarding structural engineering and the long-term significance of the event for building designers. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be viewed in its…

Jinlei Shen and Preetam Tarafder, both graduate students in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, recently were awarded first and second place in the EMI 2021: Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior Student Paper Competition. Jinlei’s paper, titled “Microstructure-informed Fatigue Crack Nucleation Prediction for Dual Phase Ti-64 Alloys using Experimentally validated Parametrically Homogenized Constitutive Models,”…

He succeeds Lori Graham-Brady, who has served as chair since 2015, and whose vision helped lead the transformation of the Department of Civil Engineering into the expanded and refocused Department of Civil and Systems Engineering in 2019.

The Sudler Prize has been awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence and the highest standards of proficiency in the visual or performing arts.

This annual Convocation Awards event is a celebration of student and faculty achievements within the Whiting School of Engineering.