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Directions to Department

The main office of the Department of Civil Engineering is located in 210 Latrobe Hall at:

The Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus
3400 N Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Please note that that this is not the Department’s mailing address.  The Department’s mailing address is provided on the contact us page.

NOTE: When creating a Web-based map or using a GPS system to navigate to Homewood, enter the address of the Mason Hall visitor center and Decker Quad visitor parking garage as:

3101 Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21211

 

BY CAR: the campus is easily accessible from various highways.

From I-95 (northbound): Take exit 53 onto I-395 north toward downtown Baltimore, then take the exit to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and follow the directions from Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard below.

From Maryland 295 (the Baltimore-Washington Parkway): Entering Baltimore, the parkway becomes Russell Street. Stay on Russell Street until (with the M&T Bank Stadium to your right and Oriole Park at Camden Yards directly before you) you reach the right-hand exit marked Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (look carefully for this exit; the signs are small). This exit will put you very briefly on a service road parallel to Russell Street. Stay to the left and take the ramp marked Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Follow the directions (below) from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

From Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard: Take MLK Boulevard north until it ends at Howard Street (remain in one of the middle lanes of MLK Boulevard to avoid a premature forced right or left turn). Turn left at Howard Street and proceed about 2 miles. One block past 29th Street, turn left at the traffic light (just before the Baltimore Museum of Art) onto Wyman Park Drive. Continue past both the entrance to and the exit from the semicircular driveway in front of the Mason Hall visitors center. Just after the exit from the driveway, turn right into the South Garage. Visitors are welcome to park on the upper level of the underground garage, and on other  parking levels in spaces that are not marked as reserved.  Use the stairs or elevators to go up to the main Decker Quadrangle level.

From the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83) southbound: Take the 28th Street exit and go left on 28th Street. Turn left on North Howard Street. One block past 29th Street, turn left at the traffic light (just before the Baltimore Museum of Art) onto Wyman Park Drive. Continue past both the entrance to and the exit from the semicircular driveway in front of the Mason Hall visitors center. Just after the exit from the driveway, turn right into the South Garage. . Visitors are welcome to park on the upper level of the underground garage, and on other parking levels in spaces that are not marked as reserved.  Use the stairs or elevators to go up to the main Decker Quadrangle level.

BY TRAIN: the main train station in Baltimore is Penn Station, and there are various lines that service this area: Amtrak, MARC, Light Rail, and Metro Subway. From Penn Station, you can take the Homewood-JHMI shuttle. Northbound to the Homewood campus. The Hopkins shuttle is free of charge and operates about every 15 minutes in rush hour and every 30 minutes otherwise. Alternatively you can take a taxi from Penn Station to JHU Homewood campus.

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Optimal Design of Multifunctional Materials

Materials used in civil engineering need to evolve to meet tomorrow's challenges. Professor Guest's research uses topology optimization to create material microstructures that satisfy modern multiphysics demands.

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