CE Department Newsletter >>
March 2005
X. Frank Xu selected as finalist for
Melosh
Competition
February 19, 2005
Maryland Wood
Bridge Challenge
February 2005
Professor
Dalrymple inspects damage from tsunami
Engineering experts see how buildings, materials fared against
walls of water
July 2004
Professor Nick
Jones, former Civil Engineering Chair returns to JHU
to be the 4th Dean of the Whiting
School of Engineering.
June 2004
Civil Engineering Senior
Design Students win $25,000
May, 2004
Junior Christina Terpeluk has been awarded a Vredenburg
Scholarship for engineering study abroad.
April 2004
Hopkins
CE aids in the Maryland Wood Bridge Challenge
January 2004
Senior
Liakos Ariston's Isler inspired thin-walled ice structures
Senior
Ryan Hanley named Mitchell Scholar
Senior Ryan Hanley has been awarded a George J. Mitchell
Scholarship for 2004-2005. The Mitchell Scholarships allow
Americans to pursue one year of post-graduate study in any
discipline offered at institutions of higher learning in
Ireland and Northern Ireland. The George J. Mitchell Scholarships,
named in honor of the former Senator's pivotal contribution
to the Northern Ireland peace process, are intended to familiarize
and engage the next generation of America's leaders with
the island of Ireland. Ryan plans to spend a year of study
at Trinity College, Dublin.
October 2003
The Department's undergraduate program has been
ranked 17th by U.S. News and World Report in its annual
educational rankings of undergraduate programs in schools
with Ph.D. programs. This is the fourth year the Department
has been ranked among the top 25, moving up at least 2 places
each year since 2001.
September 2003
A new design method for cold-formed steel structures, authored
by Assistant Professor Ben Schafer, has recently been adopted
by the American Iron and Steel Institute Committee on Specifications
for Cold-formed Steel Structures. The method is based on
Professor Schafer's research in combining numerical methods
with traditional design procedures in order to provide more
flexible and robust design rules for thin-walled steel structures.
Research related to this new method recently received the
American Society of Civil Engineer's (ASCE) Collingwood
Prize, a society wide award for an outstanding paper authored
by an ASCE member under 35. In addition, a presentation
of the new method given at the annual ASCE Structural Engineering
Institute (SEI) congress in Seattle tied for best presentation
at the congress. Articles discussing the numerical method
which supports the new design process have appeared in Civil
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering magazines. Professor
Schafer will receive his Collingwod Prize, and reprise his
ASCE-SEI congress presentation at the upcoming ASCE National
convention in November. For more information go to Professor
Schafer's web site.
August 2003
Steve Kelly '98, '99 was recently profiled as part of the
ASCE "New Faces of Civil Engineering." This website
highlights the achievements of outstanding young civil engineers.
See the story at the ASCE
website.
June 2003
Professor Benjamin Schafer has been awarded the 2003 Collingwood
Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his
paper Local, Distortional, and Euler Buckling of Thin-Walled
Columns.
May 12, 2003
The Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Lian Shen
will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor in January,
2004. Dr. Shen comes to Hopkins from M.I.T., where is is
currently a Research Scientist in their Department of Ocean
Engineering. Dr. Shen's research interests include ocean
engineering, coastal processes, and environmental fluid
flows. He received his B.S. degree from the University of
Science and Technology (Hefei, China) and his Doctor of
Science degree from M.I.T.
May 2003
Freshman Allan Olson is a recipient of a Summer Provost's
Undergraduate Research Award. The title of Alan's project
is "Network Modeling of Polycrystals."
April 2003
Sam Phillips, a junior in Civil Engineering, is part of
a group of seven Hopkins students who traveled to NASA headquarters
in Houston to conduct experiments studying how liquids mix
on a surface when gravity is not a factor. See the article
in the Hopkins
Gazette on-line.
If there is a news story you think Civil Engineering should
highlight, please feel free to contact us:
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Civil Engineering
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Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-8680
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Chair: J. Hugh Ellis
