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 Yury Dvorkin will join Johns Hopkins University later this year as a faculty member of the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) with a joint appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE). Dvorkin is the first external faculty member to have been recruited…

Gregory Falco, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and a faculty member in the Institute for Assured Autonomy, where he also holds an appointment at the Applied Physics Laboratory in the Asymmetric Operations Sector, has been recognized with a Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. These awards aim to develop the…

Each year, the department recognizes truly exceptional graduate students by presenting them with one of the following awards. Awards are given at the annual Blue Hat Ceremony, following the Design Day events. Excellence in Civil Engineering Masters Studies – This award is given to a departmental graduate student who excels at their education in the…

The following undergraduate students were honored with convocation awards for 2022. This event is a celebration of student and faculty achievements within the Whiting School of Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland Section Scholarship – The ASCE Maryland Section Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate member of Johns Hopkins’ student chapter in recognition of…

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…

Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis? (Published in Nature on March 23, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00792-2)

Cross country skier Caitlin Patterson and speed skater Emery Lehman, both graduate students in the Engineering for Professionals program, will join Team U.S.A. in Beijing Caitlin Patterson and Emery Lehman have a lot in common. Both study civil engineering in the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals program. Both love participating in winter sports. And both are heading…

Todd Chang, a doctoral candidate in Johns Hopkins’ Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE), is working with Tak Igusa, a professor in CaSE and a member of JHU’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), on applying systems engineering strategies to the field of autonomous vehicles. Can you…

Johns Hopkins Engineering’s online graduate degree programs continue to be among the country’s best, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Overall, the Whiting School’s online graduate programs in engineering occupy the No. 12 spot, and its online computer information technology programs maintained their place at No. 2. In specialty area rankings, the school’s programs…

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…

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…