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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.

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

The institute will serve as the university's interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.

The ABET Symposium is an annual event for accreditation, assessment and the global exchange of best practices in STEM education.

The purpose of the Architected Materials Committee is to promote and disseminate knowledge on the design and synthesis of Architected Materials (AM), as well as on the fundamental understanding of their unique properties.

In an OpEd piece published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, assistant research professor Gregory Falco shares his thoughts on the SolarWinds hack and how he feels it calls for a cyber-endurance strategy from the government. “The SolarWinds hack is problematic. Troves of data are now in Russian hands, including Microsoft’s source code. That…

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering is pleased to announce that Kimia Ghobadi and Tak Igusa are part of two separate projects that were recently named as recipients of 2020 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards. Kimia, the John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department, is part of a team whose project is titled, “Emulating…

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering is pleased to share the news that Benjamin Schafer, professor in the department and director of the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium, has been appointed the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering. This endowed professorship, created in 1981 through a gift from Margaret Whiting in honor of…

With 110 concurrent attendees from 15 time zones and 51 papers and talks the global online Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) Colloquium provided a unique forum for sharing and learning about the latest research and innovations in cold-formed steel structures. The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) hosted the Colloquium which was delivered in four main…

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Gregory Falco and Dr. Jochen Mueller. Dr. Gregory Falco currently holds an appointment as an assistant research professor. In fall 2021, Falco will become an assistant professor in the department and in the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), a…

Michael Shields was promoted to Associate Professor in early 2020. Shields is an expert on uncertainty quantification for wide-ranging problems in computational mechanics and computational materials science. His group, the Shields Uncertainty Research Group (SURG), conducts methodological research in uncertainty quantification, machine learning, and stochastic methods to better understand the effects of uncertainties and random…

Earlier this month, CaSE associate professor Jamie Guest, along with PhD candidates Julia Carroll and Alberto Torres, represented their research during the Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) Program Technology Day on Capitol Hill. The event gives NASA the opportunity to showcase the cutting edge space technologies that are being developed at universities nationwide. Selected STRG…