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Modeling air quality requires large-scale models that consider multiple domains using high performance computing. Professor Ellis regularly tackles problems of this nature for the EPA and others.
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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.