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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…

Congratulations to Ben Schafer, professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and director of the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium, on his election as a Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Fellow. Schafer is one of the world’s leading experts on structures designed from steel, and his research focuses on increasing the efficiency and safety of…

Lori Graham-Brady, professor and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, was recently named a Fellow for the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). Graham-Brady received her award at the 15th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics held in Austin, Texas on July 29. Graham-Brady was recognized for her outstanding research contributions in the…

Congratulations to Prof. Michael Shields on receiving a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award! Prof. Shields’s project, titled, “Low-dimensional Manifold Learning for Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Multi-scale Stochastic Systems” leverages large-scale so-called dimension hyper-reduction methods to enable uncertainty quantification for complex multi-scale systems. The advanced modeling approach is likely to be more computationally…

Congratulations to Department of Civil Engineering graduate student Xiaohui Tu, who was recently awarded second place in the EMI Computational Mechanics Student Poster Competition for her poster, “Application of Wavelet-Enriched Hierarchical Finite Element Formulation in Simulating Crack Propagation in Polycrystalline Microstructure with the Coupled Crystal Plasticity-Phase Field Model”! Sponsored by the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI)…

Winning project teams—chosen from a record 222 proposals—include 120 individuals from across the university.

Six award recipients are from the Whiting School of Engineering.

Congratulations to the following students who were honored at the annual WSE Convocation Awards Ceremony! This event is a celebration of student and faculty achievement at the Whiting School of Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland Section Scholarship Recipient: Awoenam Mauna-Woanya The ASCE Maryland Section Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate member of Johns…

ASME, SES, and ICCM have recognized him for his contributions to engineering mechanics.