Welcome to the Graduate Program at JHU Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering offers a graduate program that is based primarily in structural engineering/structural mechanics, geotechnical engineering/geomechanics, probabilistic methods/hazards management, and coastal engineering. To be admitted to the program, students are expected to have graduated with an outstanding record in an appropriate undergraduate program.
Structural, geotechnical, and coastal engineering today are dynamic, complex, and technologically sophisticated fields. Powerful computational methods and high-strength materials have offered new opportunities and new challenges. The graduate program is designed to instill in the student the fundamental theoretical concepts of mechanics as well as practical knowledge of modern structural, geotechnical, and coastal engineering.
Tsunami damage to a coastal resort in Thailand. Professor Dalrymple, with an ASCE team, examined tsunami damage shortly after the disaster to examine lifeline damage and to see what construction survived better.
Leah Zambetti '10
Construction Intern at Bovis Lend Lease
“I love pretty much everything construction – the noise, the problem solving, the team atmosphere…the list goes on.”