About Us
Overview
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Civil Engineering offers programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Focal research areas in the Department include structural engineering, structural mechanics, coastal engineering, fluid mechanics, probabilistic methods, hazards management, geotechnical engineering, and geomechanics.
The small size of the CE Department fosters a collegial, close-knit relationship between the students, staff, and faculty, while our partnerships with the Departments of Geography & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Public Health, and other John Hopkins groups provide a wide range of opportunities that rivals those of much larger programs.
We hope the information provided on this webpage will be helpful to you as you explore the JHU CE program.
Wind-Wave-Ocean Interaction
Interaction among winds, surface waves, and ocean currents is at the heart of ocean and coastal engineering. Prof. Shen’s research group develops advanced numerical tools to simulate the physical processes directly.
Katherine Acton MSE ‘08
“I realized that I wouldn’t be satisfied unless I could get into something where [my math degree] could be physically applied.”
Katherine Acton took an unusual route to obtaining her MSE in Civil Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. As an undergraduate, she majored in English (her honors thesis was in creative writing) and also mathematics.