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Decker Quad opens to hopes of greater unity
Issue date: 9/13/07
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Later this month the Decker Quad will open to the relief of the engineering and admissions staffs.
The tenants of the new?Decker Quad buildings?anticipate that Mason Hall and the Computational Science and Engineering Building (CSEB) will become the?new faces?of Hopkins in taking on the University's educational missions.
The upper levels of Mason Hall will house the Hopkins admissions officers who?currently reside in a disconnected?space in Levering Hall and throughout Garland Hall. Engineers have already begun unpacking into the CSEB, and to some, the move-in is?their own?unpacking from their former scant rooms.
"We no longer have to sit on top of each other," a grateful engineering staff member said.
However, these new buildings are intended to do more than merely allow for elbow room. The new?inhabitants appear to converge on the theme of perpetuating both Hopkins' rich traditions as well as the institution's academic direction.
For example the CSEB was built as an intentional step towards advancing the university's computational science engineering programs. The future of computational engineering requires extensive, seamless collaboration between different departments - thus, interdisciplinary collaboration is regarded as a key area of growth that the CSEB should be able to better support.
This vision called for faculty and students from the departments of Mechanical, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, as well as Computer Science from disparate corners of the Homewood campus to work together and to collaborate with other JHU divisions such as the Hopkins School of Medicine and the Applied Physics Lab.
"Computational engineering doesn't fall within one department," explained Dr. Louis Whitcomb, director of the new Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) in the CSEB.
During CSEB's planning stages, the potential tenants all pitched in ideas to consider the people and projects to inhabit the building. Now the space will bring faculty together along with graduates, undergrads and staff - "forcing all of us to work together," Whitcomb said.
The tenants of the new?Decker Quad buildings?anticipate that Mason Hall and the Computational Science and Engineering Building (CSEB) will become the?new faces?of Hopkins in taking on the University's educational missions.
The upper levels of Mason Hall will house the Hopkins admissions officers who?currently reside in a disconnected?space in Levering Hall and throughout Garland Hall. Engineers have already begun unpacking into the CSEB, and to some, the move-in is?their own?unpacking from their former scant rooms.
"We no longer have to sit on top of each other," a grateful engineering staff member said.
However, these new buildings are intended to do more than merely allow for elbow room. The new?inhabitants appear to converge on the theme of perpetuating both Hopkins' rich traditions as well as the institution's academic direction.
For example the CSEB was built as an intentional step towards advancing the university's computational science engineering programs. The future of computational engineering requires extensive, seamless collaboration between different departments - thus, interdisciplinary collaboration is regarded as a key area of growth that the CSEB should be able to better support.
This vision called for faculty and students from the departments of Mechanical, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, as well as Computer Science from disparate corners of the Homewood campus to work together and to collaborate with other JHU divisions such as the Hopkins School of Medicine and the Applied Physics Lab.
"Computational engineering doesn't fall within one department," explained Dr. Louis Whitcomb, director of the new Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) in the CSEB.
During CSEB's planning stages, the potential tenants all pitched in ideas to consider the people and projects to inhabit the building. Now the space will bring faculty together along with graduates, undergrads and staff - "forcing all of us to work together," Whitcomb said.
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