Founded: 1912
Re-established as the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering: 1979
Operating Budget FY'09: $150 million
Endowment FY'09: $69.3 million
Applied Mathematics and Statistics (BA, BS, MA, MS, MSE, PhD)
Bioengineering Innovation and Design (MS)
Biomedical Engineering (BA, BS, MSE, PhD)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BS, MSE, PhD)
Civil Engineering (BS, MCE, MSE, PhD)
Computer Engineering (BS)
Computer Science (BA, BS, MSE, PhD)
Electrical Engineering (BA, BS)
Electrical and Computer Engineering (MSE, PhD)
Engineering Management (MS)
Engineering Mechanics (BS)
Entrepreneurship and Management (minor only)
Environmental Engineering (BS)
Financial Mathematics (MS)
General Engineering (BA)
Geography (BA)
Geography and Environmental Engineering (MA, MS, MSE, PhD)
Materials Science and Engineering (BS, MSE, PhD)
Mechanical Engineering (BS, MSE, PhD)
Security Informatics (MS)
Academic Centers and Institutes
Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design
Center for Educational Outreach
Center for Leadership Education
Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute
Degrees Awarded in 2008
BS: 266
MS: 186
PhD: 81
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Applied Biomedical Engineering
Applied Physics
Bioinformatics (online MS offered)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Civil Engineering
Advanced Certificate for Post-Master's Study in Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Computer Science (online MS offered)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Environmental Planning and Management (online MS offered)
Information Assurance
Information Systems Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Systems Engineering (online MS offered)
Technical Management (online MS offered)
Degrees/Certificates Awarded in 2008
MS: 617
Advanced Certificates: 34
Total Research Funding 2008: $50.5 million
FY '09 Reports of Invention in which WSE faculty were Lead Investigators: 43
Research Centers and Institutes
Advanced Technology Laboratory
Center for Multi-Function Appliqué
Center for Advanced Metallic and Ceramic System
Center for Contaminant Transport, Fate, and Remediation
Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics
Center for Imaging Science
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Center for Materials Sensing and Detection
Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center
Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology
Institute for Computational Medicine
Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling
Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
118 academic and 25 research faculty
18 associated research scientists and engineers
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
Robert Dalrymple
Alan Goldman
Frederick Jelinek
Charles O’Melia
Murray Sachs
Eugene Shchukin
James West
M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman
Selected Awards Received by Faculty in 2008 – 2009
DuPont Young Professor Award
Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Engineer Award
National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (3)
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Presidential Early Career Award
400 part-time faculty
Majority of faculty are working professionals
36% employed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
Undergraduate Students: 1,405
32% women
from 47 states
and 32 foreign countries
Undergraduate student/faculty ratio: 9:1
Graduate Students: 691
26% women
from 38 states
and 39 countries
Engineering Student Groups
Baja-SAE
Engineers for a Sustainable World
Engineers Without Borders
Hopkins Undergraduate Engineering Society
National Society of Black Engineers
Order of the Engineer
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Society of Women Engineers
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
Women of Whiting
Master's and Advanced Certificate students: 2,000
22% women
15% enrolled in online MS programs
90% receive full or partial tuition reimbursement from their employers
Alumni
Living Alumni: 27,322
Degrees Awarded:
BS: 10,220
MS: 17,441
PhD: 1,659
Notable Alumni:
Michael R. Bloomberg '64 BS Electrical Engineering, Mayor of the City of New York, founder and president of Bloomberg LP
Willard Hackerman '38 BS Civil Engineering, President and CEO of Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Jeong H. Kim '82 BS Electical Engineering, '89 MS Technical Management, President of Bell Telephone Laboratories
John C. Malone, PhD '64 Industrial Engineering, Chairman of Liberty Media
Abel Wolman’ 13, Arts and Sciences ’15, standardized the chlorination of water and brought clean, potable water to millions worldwide. Faculty of the Schools of Engineering and Public Health, 1920-1962
Philanthropy
Knowledge for the World Camapign (2000-2008)
Total Raised by JHU: $3.74 billion
Total raised by the Whiting School of Engineering: $162 million
Whiting School alumni and friends, foundations, and corporations who gave to the campaign: 7,000+
Initiatives funded through the campaign:
36 scholarships
19 graduate fellowships
9 full and junior professorships
Endowment of the Benjamin T. Rome Deanship
Whiting School of Engineering Leadership
Office of the Dean
Nicholas P. Jones, Benjamin T. Rome Dean
Marc D. Donohue, Vice Dean of Research
Andrew S. Douglas, Vice Dean of Faculty
Edward R. Scheinerman, Vice Dean of Education
James B. Aumiller, Associate Dean of Finance & Administration
Allan W. Bjerkaas, Associate Dean of Engineering for Professionals
Robert J. Spiller, Associate Dean of Development & Alumni Relations
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
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