Department Chair: Ben Schafer
Number of:
Faculty: 12
Undergraduate Students: 62
Graduate Students: 22
Civil Engineering at Hopkins is small department that provides students with a highly personalized educational experience in a wide range of topics, including structural, geotechnical, environmental, coastal, and ocean engineering.
The department’s faculty is known for exceptional teaching and research. All faculty teach and conduct research with both graduate and undergraduate students and over the past two years, they have been recognized nationally for their contributions to the field through awards and honors including election to the National Academy of Engineering, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and two NSF CAREER awards.
Undergraduate classes rarely exceed 15 students. While the curriculum provides a firm foundation for a wide breadth of activities in modern civil engineering, it also has enough flexibility that students can pursue their particular interests. Recognizing that the expertise of the modern civil engineer must include environmental engineering, and an understanding of social and economic issues, the undergraduate program is offered in cooperation with the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.
At the graduate level, the program integrates new concepts from research into classroom and laboratory study to develop in students an enthusiasm for independent, creative activities that lead to new knowledge in problem areas of national importance. Graduate studies in civil engineering are focused on four areas: structural engineering and mechanics, geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, probabilistic methods and hazard management, and coastal/ocean engineering.
B.S. in Civil Engineering
Combined B.S./M.S. degree
M.S.E. in Engineering
M.C.E. Master of Civil Engineering
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Civil Engineering
Latrobe Hall 210
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-8680
Fax: (410) 516-7473
Email: civil@jhu.edu
Undergraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc.
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"Growing up I was always interested in bridge and super structures shows and I knew I wanted to be a civil engineer," says Blair Johnson, a junior in the Department of Civil Engineering. "Now I’m focusing on coastal engineering in the lab of Professor Tony Dalrymple, studying ground conditions under seas and the way waves move over mud." The long term application of such research is of interest to the military, which could use satellite imagery to examine the wave behavior on the surface of water. Depending on the behavior of the wave, engineers could determine the ground conditions below and, hopefully, detect mines on the coasts of other countries.
The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2608
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