4/27/08: Theresults are in! The Department og Mechanical Engineering awarded its own prizes in he 2008 WSE Video Competition. Click here to see all of the winning entries.
4/01/08: Associate professor Allison Okamura is highlighted in the April issue of Popular Mechanics for her work using haptics to improve robotic telesurgery. More Information »
2/29/08: Professor Kevin Hemker, chair of the mechanical engineering department, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). More Information »
2/14/08: Professor Kevin Hemker, chair of the mechanical engineering department, has article on nanoscale deformation published in Nature Materials. Read more »
1/8/08: Professor Louis Whitcomb was a lead scientist on an expedition in the South Atlantic Ocean where he, with colleagues including those from WHOI and MIT, grad students and post docs, unleashed two autonomous deep-sea robots to test novel navigation and communication technologies and search for hydrothermal vents. Read more »
12/16/07: Research by Charles Meneveau focusing on the long-term implications of wind energy received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under their newest funding category, Energy for Sustainability. Read about it in the Baltimore Examiner. Click here to view the video release.
12/10/07: 13 teams of Johns Hopkins students in a freshman mechanical engineering course competed in a single-elimination Flippy Car Tournament. More information »
11/16/07: Professor Greg Chirikjian is featured in "Making Machines That Make Others of Their Kind," a story in Science magazine. More information »
7/19/07: The new Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics has received a $2 million Major Research Instrumentation grant (Allison Okamura, PI, Mechanical Engineering) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). More information »
Department Chair: Kevin Hemker
Number of:
Faculty: 19
Undergraduate Students: 140
Graduate Students: 80
Post-Doctoral Fellows: 14
The Whiting School’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) is a close-knit group of both established and energetic, young faculty who work with their students across disciplines in a research-intensive environment. In their work, they combine science and engineering in new and innovative ways in order to meet the challenges of today’s rapidly changing technological world.
In recent years, the ME department moved away from an organizational structure based on traditional topics and fields within mechanical engineering. Now, faculty and students focus their efforts on cutting-edge research that spans departments and divisions, both within the school of engineering and across the university.
In addition to research, one-on-one interactions between faculty and students and the free development and exchange of ideas are also integral to the department’s structure and philosophy.
Academic Program Coordinator: Mike Bernard
Mailing Address:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
223 Latrobe Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2681
Phone: (410) 516-7154
E-mail: mech_eng@jhu.edu
Undergraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc.
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“I build robots that allow us to work in extreme environments—to perform tasks that we humans otherwise cannot do and to go places we otherwise cannot go.”
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