Engineering

Advance technology, improve lives, and better the planet.

If you have the desire to be challenged, the impulse to dig deeper, and the belief that you can—and will—make a difference, engineering may be the path for you. As an undergraduate, you’ll dive into hands-on learning beginning your first semester and have opportunities to conduct research with faculty who are leaders in their fields, get internships with top technology and engineering companies, and showcase your work at national competitions.

Student Spotlight

Students Empower Independence Through Engineering

On Design Day, mechanical engineering students will present their system allowing blind people to manufacture their own canes.

Creating Sustainable, Civic-Minded Design

Kristen Corlay Sanmiguel arrived as a first-year student at Hopkins intent on improving life in communities like her home city of Monterrey, Mexico. Now a senior majoring in civil and systems engineering, she’s made big strides toward that goal—on a variety of fronts.

Improving Medical Care on Many Fronts

In middle school, Erick Rocher watched a friend fight cancer. The experience proved formative.

Engineering Team's Sustainable City Block Design Earns Top-Five Spot in ASCE Competition

The competition encourages students to learn more about sustainability and challenges them to include sustainable practices in engineering design in a practical way.

Hopkins Students Use AI to Predict Baseball's MVPs

Their tool employs a historical model that weighs the relative importance of eight statistical categories to determine which players have the best chance to take home MLB’s top awards.

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Through our flexible curriculum, our students are encouraged to deepen their interests and explore new ones. You’ll choose from courses across academic areas between our Whiting School of Engineering and our Krieger School of Arts & Sciences so you can expand your knowledge, dig deeper into topics that interest you, and discover connections at the intersection of disciplines.

TURN YOUR IDEAS INTO BUSINESS VENTURES

If you’re interested in turning your ideas into business ventures, the Center for Leadership Education (CLE) offers programs like multidisciplinary design where students from different academic backgrounds come together to tackle exciting design challenges.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION

SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

An annual celebration of creativity and innovation, Design Day is an opportunity for engineering students to put theoretical knowledge and skills into practice devising systems, processes, components, and products that solve important real-world problems.

LEARN MORE ABOUT DESIGN DAY

Majors and Minors

Majors

Minors

There are so many aspects of being an engineer, like working on problems that don’t have a single correct solution, or being part of a group that collects and analyzes data. We want to give the students an overview of the landscape and develop the skills of asking good questions and identifying good sources.

Claire Verhulst, Assistant Director of Engineering Innovation

Research Opportunities

As the #1 research university in the nation, we provide our undergraduates with resources and funding to pursue their ambitions. Here are just a few:

HOUR is our home for supporting and encouraging undergraduates in research endeavors by connecting them to opportunities both inside and outside of Hopkins.
The Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) offers students up to $2,500 and a partnership with a full-time faculty sponsor for research on any topic of their choosing.
CIRCUIT offers undergraduates a $5,000 stipend to take part in cutting-edge summer research at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to map the brain at nanoscale resolution and make significant contributions to science.
Highly qualified Hopkins Engineering undergraduate students can spend the summer doing paid research at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as part of the RISE @ APL program.

The Whiting School of Engineering offers their own research awards and opportunities at more than 20 established research centers and institutes.

See What Our Alumni Are Up To

Paige Senal ’17

Computer Science

Building NBA Analytics

When Paige Senal ’17 was a first-year student at the Whiting School, she imagined a future working to save the planet. She never dreamed that six years later, she would be building analytics for the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Maeve Garigan ’01, MA ’08

Mechanical Engineering

Homing in on the Range

As founder and CEO of Roper, Maeve Garigan ’01, MA ’08, aims to revolutionize beef production with innovative technology—a GPS-enabled ear tag for cattle.

Dr. Erika Moore Taylor ’13

Biomedical Engineering

Improving Human Health for Underserved Populations

Dr. Erika Moore Taylor, BS ’13, now an assistant professor at the University of Florida, was named Forbes 30 under 30 for her research on how to use immune cells to repair tissue for patients with lupus.

Ashwin Pasupathy ’23

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics

The Numbers Game: Hopkins Alums Help Orioles Rise to the Top

Whiting School of Engineering graduates have applied their math and analytics backgrounds behind the scenes for the playoff-bound Baltimore Orioles as the organization embraces a data-driven approach to the game.

Craig Schwitter ’89

Civil Engineering

Designing Iconic Environments

Craig Schwitter ’89 is a passionate advocate for integrating engineering, architectural design, and rapid advances in technology to improve people’s lives. His many projects include New York City’s High Line, the celebrated transformation of a long-abandoned stretch of an elevated Manhattan rail line into a public park overlooking the Hudson River.

Join the Club

Hopkins students pursue their interests outside the classroom. If you’re fascinated with engineering, you might consider getting involved in these student organizations.