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.
Hopkins Team Named Finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition
The team developed a simpler and more comfortable brace to treat kids born with clubfoot.
Engineering Students Show Off Creative Solutions to Real-World Challenges
Our annual Design Day showcases students’ ability to apply the knowledge they accumulated in classrooms and labs to real-world challenges.
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
LEARN ALONGSIDE THE VERY BEST
Our BDP Summer Program offers Hopkins undergraduates the opportunity to work with one of our Bloomberg Distinguished Professors (BDPs) full-time for 10 weeks over the summer. The professors are all preeminent scholars whose work merges at least two traditional academic disciplines.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR BLOOMBERG DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSMajors and Minors
Majors
- Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Mechanics
- Environmental Engineering
- General Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
Minors
- Accounting & Financial Management
- Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Business
- Civil Engineering
- Computational Medicine
- Computer Science
- Energy
- Engineering for Sustainable Development
- Entrepreneurship and Management
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Leadership Studies
- Marketing & Communications
- Robotics
- Space Science and Engineering
Claire Verhulst, Assistant Director of Engineering InnovationThere 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.
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.
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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.