News Archive - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering

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Making Waves With Better Flood Damage Forecasting
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Resilient Cities

Research
Gonzalo Pita's new riverine models could enhance preparedness and budgeting.
Eternal Flame: Buildings at Risk Even Once Blazes are Vanquished
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Research
Assistant Professor Thomas Gernay's findings could inform the design of more fire-resistant structures.
Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon to co-lead new NASA institute
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Research
The JHU-CMU team is spearheading a Space Technology Research Institute to prevent failure in additively manufactured spaceflight materials.
JHU COVID-19 tracking experts: Better data needed to defeat misinformation
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Research

Decisionmaking and Health

Systems
Global COVID map creator Lauren Gardner and data lead Beth Blauer say scientists can reclaim public standing with better communication
Thwarting Cyberattacks
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Human Safety & Security

Systems

Research
Gregory Falco, assistant professor of civil and systems engineering and a member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, speaks to his research efforts on spotting cyber vulnerabilities and defending against them…
Driving Force: CaSE PhD candidate Todd Chang speaks about his role in autonomous vehicle research
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Student Experience

Resilient Cities

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Systems

Department News
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…
‘Governing AI safety through independent audits’ – CaSE’s Gregory Falco provides perspective in July issue of Nature Machine Intelligence
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Human Safety & Security

Systems
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,…
‘Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering’ – Scientific American interview with CaSE’s Ben Schafer
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Structures

Resilient Cities
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…
Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) founded under the leadership of Ben Schafer
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Department News

Future Energy Infrastructure

Research
The institute will serve as the university's interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.
Totally tubular: NSF grant fuels advances in wind energy
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Research

Future Energy Infrastructure
Wind turbines perched atop slender steel tubular towers have become a common site as the nation’s renewable energy infrastructure expands rapidly. These supporting towers, which have a diameter-to-thickness (D/t) of…
Somnath Ghosh receives funding from Defense University Research Program to create a dedicated, high-performance computing cluster
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Research

Mechanics of Materials
Using an award from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense University Research Program (DURIP), a team led by Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil…
Profs. Kimia Ghobadi and Tak Igusa Receive 2020 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
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Department News

Research
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…