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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Allison completed a PhD in infrastructure systems at Cornell University in 2011. After working for a few years in DC and post-doc’ing at Hopkins, she’s now an assistant professor at…

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 &…

Julie earned a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from JHU in 2010, JHU, and completed our Master’s program in civil engineering in 2012. She then traveled to the University of…

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.