Student News from JHU Engineering

Five Johns Hopkins Students Named Siebel Scholars

2009-09-25T16:00:13+00:00

The Siebel Foundation has selected five JHU students from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine as recipients of its annual Siebel Scholars awards. More>>

Students Embed Stem Cells in Sutures to Enhance Healing

2009-08-20T15:54:31+00:00

Undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in sutures that are used to repair serious orthopedic injuries--a technology that could speed up and improve the healing process. More>>

Enrollment Spikes at Homewood

2009-08-04T13:26:49+00:00

In face of overwhelming economic uncertainty, it seems the university may have underestimated its appeal. The incoming Homewood undergraduate class of 2013 will be significantly larger than expected. Read more>>

High School Students Build Spaghetti Bridges

2009-07-27T12:52:25+00:00

Students enrolled in JHU's summer program, Engineering Innovation, competed to build weight-bearing bridges out of spaghetti and epoxy. The wining bridge at the UC Santa Barbara/CSU Channel Islands contest supported 74.8 lbs while the Baltimore champ, a record-breaking 167.2 lbs!

Blogging from Belgium: Michael Keung ‘10 Receives Fellowship to Study Microfabrication

2009-06-09T15:20:15+00:00

With an International Research Experience for Students (IRES) fellowship from WSE's Institute for NanoBioTechnology, rising senior Michael Keung is spending his summer studying the fabrication of nanocubes at Belgium's Inter-University MicroElectronics Centre. Read about his experiences>>

JHU’s Engineers Without Borders Receives EPA Sustainable Development Award

2009-06-02T13:58:03+00:00

Using pumps constructed of recycled materials, the JHU chapter of Engineers Without Borders has provided remote South African villages with irrigation systems. The group received national recognition for their efforts when they received the 2009 ASCE-EPA Sustainable Development Award. More>>

Roll up Your Sleeves!

2009-05-20T15:53:08+00:00

First-year mechanical engineering students get familiar with the one cylinder, four-stroke, 3.5 horsepower Briggs & Stratton internal combustion engine.

Providing Solutions for At-Risk Pregnancy in Developing Countries

2009-05-20T15:31:30+00:00

Britni Crocker '09 dreams of the difference her research may one day make—and that day may come sooner than she ever could have imagined.

Twitter Jay and the Recyclists: Ingenuity in Motion

2009-05-12T19:02:30+00:00

Hopkins students engineered JHU's first entry in Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race--a 15-mile course over land, water, mud, and sand. Watch the video »

Problems Solved: Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Design Days

2009-05-12T19:01:15+00:00

Brainstorming, building, and testing--teams of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering undergraduates demonstrated their work at their departments' annual Design Days.

Entrepreneurship and Management: Training Leaders at Hopkins

2009-05-08T18:36:18+00:00

The W.P. Carey Minor in Entrepreneurship and Management, one of the most popular minors on the Homewood campus, grooms students from the schools of Engineering and Arts and Sciences to become leaders in the corporate world.

16th Annual PURA Ceremony

2009-04-07T15:21:09+00:00

To recognize the recipients of the 2008 Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards, an event will be held on Thursday, April 9, in Homewood's Glass Pavilion. more information »

Building Proteins-Building Potential

2009-03-25T16:34:39+00:00

Using methods that are quantitative and rational--and trial and error--undergraduates learn to design and build proteins. Or at least they get to try.

Students Develop Facebook Apps

2009-02-04T16:25:32+00:00

In Facebook 101, a course taught by computer science graduate students Carol Reiley and Daniel Mirota, students created new applications for the social networking site. Read more>>