Student News from JHU Engineering

MechE Senior Wins Churchill Scholarship

2013-01-15T15:23:34+00:00

Tiras Lin wins prestigious Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University in England. more »

CBID Students Take Top Prize in 2012 BMEidea Competition

2012-05-30T15:31:03+00:00

The winning design, Cyropop, is a low-cost device that uses dry ice to treat cervical pre-cancerous lesions in low-resource settings. more »

NFL Player Gives Back

2011-12-20T17:20:56+00:00

Hopkins Engineering's Allison Watts appears on ESPN after receiving a scholarship from NFL wide receiver Braylon Edwards. more >>

Congrats to Our Newest Students!

2011-12-16T16:08:03+00:00

Congratulations to our admitted, early-decision Class of 2016 members! Join us on Facebook. more >>

Cyclone Sweeps the Series!

2011-12-05T13:56:17+00:00

Powered by rubber bands, Walt Mayfield and Khari Douglas' Texas Cyclone wins the annual MechE freshman design competition. more>>

JHU iGem Team Places in Sweet Sixteen

2011-10-07T19:49:56+00:00

JHU's iGem team placed in the Sweet Sixteen at MIT's world championship! More on their super-nutritious VitaYeast. more >>

Five Siebel Scholars Named

2011-09-19T12:58:44+00:00

Five JHU Engineering doctoral students named to the 2012 class of Siebel Scholars will receive $35,000 each to use in their final year of graduate studies. more>>

CBID Students Blog from Asia and Africa

2011-08-10T14:06:25+00:00

Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design students report from Asia, Africa and India while studying the health needs of the poor. more>>

Hands-On Learning

2011-07-07T18:24:25+00:00

Students pursue everything from high-octane adventures to understanding the importance of protective football helmets. more >>

Addressing the Global Water Challenge

2011-03-28T15:08:02+00:00

Faculty and students from across Johns Hopkins, including Brian Shell '12 (see video), are working to improve the quality and quantity of clean water throughout the world. more >>

Final Projects Hopkins-Style

2010-12-06T15:33:43+00:00

In its 9th year, the annual mouse trap and rubber bands vehicle competition serves as the final project for freshman mechanical engineering students. more >>

Engineering Design Team Rings Closing Nasdaq Bell

2010-08-23T19:15:56+00:00

A JHU biomedical engineering design team that developed a system to improve spinal surgery outcomes rang the Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Aug. 23. Watch the video. Read more >>

Global Health Project Sends Engineering Students to Africa and Asia

2010-08-11T17:04:26+00:00

Students from WSE's Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) are in Tanzania, Nepal and India this summer, working with healthcare providers and assessing their needs. After they return, the 15 students will spend the year designing low-cost medical devices that improve maternal and child care. Read about their experiences in Nepal, India and Tanzania.

Hopkins Summer Engineering Program Sparks High Schoolers’ Interest

2010-08-02T13:44:51+00:00

The Washington Post reports on Engineering Innovation, an intensive summer program for high school students offered nationwide by Johns Hopkins Engineering. More>>

Studying Cells in 3-D to Advance Cancer Research

2010-06-21T19:38:51+00:00

Studying cell behavior in a 3-D environment has provided Hopkins engineers with some surprising results. It's information that could help prevent cancer's spread. Listen to the interview on WYPR>> More>>

JHU Design Team Wins BMEidea 2010

2010-06-11T13:09:08+00:00

A team of Biomedical Engineering students, "Rapid Hypothermia Induction Device," won first prize (and $10,000) in the BMEidea 2010 competition, sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. More>>

INBT Welcomes 16 Undergraduate Researchers

2010-06-10T16:55:36+00:00

JHU's Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) is providing summer research opportunities to 16 of the "best and the brightest" undergraduates from across the country through an NSF-funded program. More>>

Student Design Project Improves Quality of Life

2010-05-24T18:22:46+00:00

A team of Mechanical Engineering seniors designed a mechanized arm for a wheelchair that provides a grateful college-bound teen with independence--and earned the students first place in the Senior Design Day competition. More>>

Engineering Design Days Highlight Student Ingenuity

2010-05-11T18:18:27+00:00

Students in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering presented the results of their year-long design projects at events held on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. More>>

Biomedical Engineering Design Team Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition

2010-05-03T14:00:31+00:00

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students who developed a system to improve spinal surgery outcomes in patients with osteoporosis won the $20,000 Grand Prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition. More>>

Undergrads Create Marketing Plan for FBI

2010-04-28T18:07:01+00:00

Students in the Whiting School of Engineering's Entrepreneurship and Management Program received praise for a semester-long project--creating a collegiate recruitment campaign for the FBI. Read more>>

Hopkins Baja Team Hits the Road (and the Mud and Water)

2010-04-22T12:59:04+00:00

Undergraduates on the Hopkins Baja team had their best finish ever in Greenville, SC in April...They take to the road to compete in Rochester, NY from June 10 - 13...Watch them in action>>

BME Design Teams Win Honors in Business Plan Competitions

2010-04-12T12:50:59+00:00

Three biomedical engineering design teams, Cortical Concepts, CervoCheck and InSpiro, have received honors--and awards--in national business plan competitions. Read more>>

Positive Employment Outlook for JHU Engineers

2010-01-11T13:43:26+00:00

USA Today interviews senior Christopher Hutchens, whose "coursework at Johns Hopkins had prepared him for one of the nation's hottest careers: biomedical engineering." More>>

Mousetraps and Rubber Bands

2009-12-14T17:29:57+00:00

A boisterous crowd gathered to cheer on the entrants in "Plant Your Flag," this year's version of WSE's annual Freshman Experiences in Mechanical Engineering mousetrap-and-rubber-band-powered car tournament. More>>

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>>