Undergraduate Advising Procedures
The advisor is an important source of guidance in the student's selection of electives, a set of options that may materially shape the student's interests. The advisor also helps the student to interpret requirements in the face of the inevitable changes in course availability. Civil Engineering advising activities are managed by an Advising Coordinator (currently Professor Tak Igusa) who assigns students to advisors, responds to students' requests for changes in advisors, and may, when necessary, act on behalf of the advisor.
Prior to their arrival on campus, students will be assigned a freshman advisor by the Coordinator. Students will be assigned to their upper-class advisor (a member of the faculty), whom they normally retain for the remainder of their undergraduate period, in the Spring of their freshman year. Course registration forms and add/drop forms must always be signed by the student's advisor. Students must maintain their copy of the Advising Sign-off Form (shown below) during their undergraduate program. Prior to graduation, this form is to be signed by the advisor and given to the Advising Coordinator as evidence that the curriculum has been satisfactorily completed.
Department of Civil Engineering Advising Forms
Semester Sign-off Form
For Students Entering JHU Fall 2008 and later » pdf | .xls
For Students Entering JHU Fall 2006 to Fall 2008 » pdf | .xls
For Students Enrolled Prior to Fall 2006 » pdf | .xls
Degree Checkout Form (Required for graduation)
For Students Entering JHU Fall 2008 and later » pdf | .xls
For Students Entering JHU Fall 2006 and later » pdf |.xls
For Students Enrolled Prior to Fall 2006 » pdf | .xls
Undergraduate Advising Manuals
Advising Manual--Word
WSE Engineering Academic Advising »
Ethics
Personal and professional ethics and integrity are important cornerstones of both your academic and professional life. As a student your role in ensuring academic integrity is important for your education and your fellow students' education; the university provides additional information on academic integrity at http://www.jhu.edu/advising/ethics.html. As a professional, ethics and integrity will rarely be a simple manner. As civil engineers you will often design for the betterment and safety of society, but the efforts may be led and funded by private development or government with more complicated motives. Considering ethics in civil engineering requires understanding the broader context of your efforts, and discussions are ongoing in all the professional societies (ASCE, SEA, etc.). For an example of a civil engineering code of ethics see http://www.asce.org/inside/ethics.cfm.
Damaged flood walls in New Orleans, LA after Hurricane Katrina. Professor Dalrymple was part of the first official team of engineers to examine the breaches around the city, looking for the failure mechanisms.
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.”