Faculty Awards: Summer 2022
Awards and Honors Five members of the Whiting School’s faculty recently received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, which recognize early-stage…
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At WSE View All
A New Major and New Minor Make Their Debut
Venturing beyond the confines of traditional engineering coursework, the Whiting School’s new bachelor of science degree program in Systems Engineering,…
Lifelong Learning for Engineers
Early-career engineers and seasoned professionals wishing to remain at the cutting edge of their professions can now enroll in executive…
Impact View All
3 Questions: Michael Falk
On the job, physicists who identify as LGBTQ+ experience—and also witness —behaviors ranging from shunning and homophobia to harassment at…
Tech Tools: Easier on the Head–and the Environment
Johns Hopkins engineers have created a shock-absorbing material that is light and reusable—and potentially a game changer in the manufacturing…
Trending: Summer 2022
“The first thing we’re thinking of is testing at airports and stadiums.” 4/13/22, Fast Company Ishan Barman, Mechanical Engineering, on…
Students View All
Solving Real-World Problems with AI
As artificial intelligence transforms the world, Michael Chungoyn, a PhD candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering, doesn’t want public school…
Space Ambassador
When he was 12, Apurva Varia wrote to NASA to ask if a deaf person could go to space. It…
A Termite Killer Poses Danger to Environment
Structural fumigation—tenting a house and piping in chemicals to kill the bugs—is the most effective way to do it. But…
Alumni View All
Blooming Opportunity
Using low-cost but accurate tools, Ikbal Choudhury ’21 and his partners are bringing science education and environmental conservation to young…
Ready for Takeoff
Ayushi Mishra, MS ’16, grew up the daughter of academics. Her father held a doctorate in physics; her mother, a…
Using Food to Fight Anti-Asian Hate
When Tim Ma, MS ’05, left his job as a senior hardware engineer with Raytheon to attend culinary school, his…
My Other Life View All
‘Attuned to the Clay’
Tamer Zaki is an expert on turbulence and how fluids twist and whirl—when waves break on the ocean surface or…
From The Dean
From the Dean: Spring 2022
An academic year that started with an undercurrent of uncertainty and caution has drawn to a close with the campus again bustling with activity. Spring Fair, commencement ceremonies on Homewood Field, and students hanging out on the “Beach” signal a return to normalcy that I think we all craved.