Johns Hopkins was the nation’s first research university, founded on the express purpose of “expanding knowledge and putting that knowledge to work for the good of humanity.” The university’s annual research budget is more than $1.4 billion, making Johns Hopkins the United States’ largest recipient of research funding.
Since 1914, engineers at Johns Hopkins have maintained an interdisciplinary research tradition, collaborating across the boundaries of departments, disciplines, and divisions.
Today the Whiting School includes more than 20 established research centers and institutes in addition to laboratories, and the school’s faculty and students work routinely with colleagues from Johns Hopkins Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, and Public Health and with academic and research institutions throughout the world.
Visit the Office of Research for contact information and important information about WSE research policies and procedures, technology transfer, and corporate partnerships.
"Growing up I was always interested in bridge and super structures shows and I knew I wanted to be a civil engineer," says Blair Johnson, a junior in the Department of Civil Engineering. "Now I’m focusing on coastal engineering in the lab of Professor Tony Dalrymple, studying ground conditions under seas and the way waves move over mud." The long term application of such research is of interest to the military, which could use satellite imagery to examine the wave behavior on the surface of water. Depending on the behavior of the wave, engineers could determine the ground conditions below and, hopefully, detect mines on the coasts of other countries.
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