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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…

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…

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…

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,”…

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

This award is given in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to computational science, engineering, and mathematics.

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering is very pleased to share with you the news that Lauren Gardner, associate professor in the department, co-director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and affiliated faculty in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named to the BBC’s 100 Women 2020 list,…

Congratulations to Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, has been named a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS). This honor recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy, materials science, and technology. Somnath’s research focuses on computational mechanics…

Lauren Gardner 36, associate professor, civil and systems engineering, Johns Hopkins University As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard has tracked each of its movements since the tool’s creation in January. “We decided that there’s a lack of real-time data that’s dynamic enough that you can understand the…

Congratulations to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering team, particularly CaSE associate professor Lauren Gardner and graduate student Ensheng Dong, who recently received the Making a Difference Award from Esri, an international supplier of geographic information system software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. The Making a Difference Award honors organizations or individuals who,…

Congratulations to Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, who was recently named as the recipient of the 2020 International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) Computational Mechanics Award, which is conferred every two years to honor exceptional accomplishments in computational mechanics. Somnath’s research focuses on computational…