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.
DNS and LES of Turbulent Flows over Wavy Boundaries
Interaction of turbulence with wavy surfaces is important to many applications including drag reduction using fish-like waving motions, sediment transport, and winds over ocean waves. Prof. Shen’s group uses numerical simulations to study the detailed flow structure and the underlying mechanism.
Lindsey Smith
Graduate Student at IGERT
“Composite materials have been designed somewhat by trial and error. Designers have an intuitive sense of how to arrange fibers in a matrix to make the material as strong as possible. At the civil engineering department at JHU, Professor Guest's lab is coming up with computational algorithms for determining exactly where those fibers should be. These algorithms would determine the structure at the microscale to make a material mathematically optimal for a desired performance property, such as stiffness or conductivity.”