Homewood Campus Tour

The 80,000-square-foot Computational Science and Engineering Building, opened in fall 2007, is home to research centers that use computational tools to solve important problems. Their work ranges from creating computer models of the beating heart to advancing computerized speech recognition to programming robots to assist in surgery or navigate inaccessible underwater terrain.

The building strengthens not only the Whiting School of Engineering's ability to support multidisciplinary research and education but also its already-strong ties to medicine and the life sciences. The interior represents a departure from traditional design of academic buildings at Homewood, generally organized around departments. In the belief that the future lies in collaborations among various engineering disciplines, and between engineering and other disciplines, the university and its architects designed the new building to offer opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, as well as other researchers from a variety of disciplines across Johns Hopkins and industry, to work together under one roof on problems of common interest.

The building houses the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Teaching Lab, and the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

The facility was designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott of Boston, which also designed Mason Hall and the underground garage beneath Decker Quadrangle.

Learn more about the Computational Science and Engineering Building online here:
Breaking New Ground in Interdisciplinary Research
Two-Year South Quadrangle Construction Project Begins [The Gazette, July 11, 2005]

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