{"id":56544,"date":"2026-06-12T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/?p=56544"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:17:38","slug":"partnerships-prepare-students-for-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/from-the-dean\/partnerships-prepare-students-for-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships Prepare Students for Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As engineers, our work does not begin and end with problem solving through elegant equations or optimized modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/schlesinger_final-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Dean Ed Schlesinger \" class=\"wp-image-50180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/schlesinger_final-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/schlesinger_final-862x1024.jpg 862w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/schlesinger_final-768x912.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/schlesinger_final.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The most impactful solutions we create must also navigate context\u2014from budgets, regulations, and organizational timelines to aesthetics and cultural expectations. That is why our partnerships with external organizations\u2014corporations, research sponsors, government labs, and nonprofits\u2014are not ancillary to an engineering education; they are essential to how engineering is taught and learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue highlights how partnerships prepare students for real practice. Take undergraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/inquiring-minds\/data-in-the-drivers-seat\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/inquiring-minds\/data-in-the-drivers-seat\/\">Talia Hovsepian<\/a>\u2019s gap year with an F1 racing team in London: While translating raw data into race strategy, she discovered that insights must be actionable under extreme time pressure and strict parameters. Students in our <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/features\/the-mvps-of-data-analytics\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/features\/the-mvps-of-data-analytics\/\">Sports Analytics Research Group<\/a> work with professional teams to produce analyses that optimize performance while requiring deep knowledge of team needs and sport regulations. In a past issue, we reported on important, corporate collaboration, <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/inquiring-minds\/research-meets-reality\/\">the JHU + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, which lets graduate students work with industry mentors to develop customer-driven products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Beyond domain knowledge, these partnerships teach students accountability: how to set milestones, report progress, and revise plans when obstacles arise. These are professional habits that cannot be fully learned in isolation; they bring students face-to-face with the messiness of implementation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Even as the tools we use to solve problems evolve rapidly\u2014driven largely by advances in AI and machine learning\u2014there is no virtual substitute for the experience of working directly with external clients and the iterative process of adjusting needs, expectations, financial constraints, and unforeseen challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m proud of the rich range of real-world experiences we provide which equip our students with the judgment, resilience, and professional habits they\u2019ll need to lead responsibly in industry, academia, and public service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for all that you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/ed-schlesinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ed Schlesinger<\/a><br>Benjamin T. Rome Dean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Illustration by Joel Kimmel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-world experiences equip our students with the judgment, resilience, and professional habits they\u2019ll need to lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":50180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"issue":[105],"class_list":["post-56544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-dean","issue-spring-2026"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Partnerships Prepare Students for Practice - Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/from-the-dean\/partnerships-prepare-students-for-practice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Partnerships Prepare Students for Practice - 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