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https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine-archive/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/epp.jpg236340SEVERAL YEARS after he joined the senior professional staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in 1973, Allan W. Bjerkaas began teaching in the Hopkins programs for working engineers, now known as the Whiting School’s Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP). He has taught in the programs in Applied Physics, in...