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The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering transforms society through innovative engineering

At Johns Hopkins Engineering, you’ll tackle real-world challenges, learn, and create in cutting-edge labs, learning spaces, and design centers, under the mentorship of renowned scholars and scientists.

05/26/2026

Design Day Feature: Crab pot recovery! Design Day Feature: "Crab-Back" is a low-cost acoustic release system developed by ECE students to help Chesapeake watermen recover lost crab pots and stop “ghost fishing.” It can even release a backup buoy when the line is cut. A HopStart winner! Read more: https://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/news/crab-back-brings-lost-pots-back-home/?utm_campaign=wse_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

05/21/2026

WSE Master's Recognition CeremonyMay 18, 2026

05/20/2026

Design Day Feature: A senior design team in Environmental Engineering proposed a bio-solar roof for the Brown Advisory Building on Bond St. in Fells Point—combining a green roof with 534 solar panels to capture rainwater, reduce stormwater runoff and street-level flooding, and generate clean energy for the building. The team incorporated NOAA climate data and input from experts at BGE and Furbish in their approach.

Their design could significantly reduce impervious runoff while generating enough renewable energy to power dozens of homes and avoid hundreds of metric tons of CO₂ emissions every year.

“We found that energy usage was a concern,” said team member Maya Savory. “With increased temperatures requiring more cooling in the summer, stronger storm events to break utility lines, and current outages already occurring, we wanted our project to focus on flood prevention and energy resiliency in the neighborhood. We ultimately found that a bio-solar roof was the best for both goals.”

Team members: Maya Savory, Victoria Ines, Guilian Laudisa, Juny Lee, Gianna Murphy

05/15/2026

Streaming links and keynote speakers for Monday's master's recognition and doctoral hooding ceremonies!

Master's Recognition: Monday, May 18 - 9 a.m. on Homewood Field
Streaming Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/6rnaS4ez9DU
Keynote: Chaomei Chen, Eng '88 (MSE)
A retired business executive and leading expert in risk management and operations, Chen held chief risk officer, chief credit officer, and executive vice president positions at LendingClub, JPMorgan Chase Card/Wamu, Wamu Card Services, Providian Financial Corporation, FleetBoston Financial Services, and PNC National Bank/Card Division. She is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and a member of the Whiting School of Engineering’s Advisory Board.

Doctoral Hooding: Monday, May 18 - 2:30 p.m. in Shriver Hall
Streaming Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/ErEEPMvBnUq
Keynote: Charles Goldstein, Engr ’68 (MSE)
Charles Goldstein has been acting as a strategic advisor to large and medium-sized companies seeking to expand further into or enter the health care market since retiring as a senior vice president from Becton Dickinson in January 2016. Goldstein also serves as a board member for innovative startups and is a seed-stage angel investor. Goldstein’s expertise covers all aspects of early-stage innovation, business, and go-to-market strategy with a deep knowledge of product development for medical devices, diagnostics, and life science research tools. Goldstein received an award from Johns Hopkins University for distinguished alumni service.

05/14/2026

Bayesian Health, founded by Assoc Prof Suchi Saria, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its sepsis-detecting Targeted Real-Time Early Warning System—one of the AI-based medical tools to do so. The federally funded work, which integrates electronic health records with advanced clinical AI, was deployed at several health systems, including Cleveland Clinic, MemorialCare in California, and the University of Rochester School of Medicine through a prior FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. Click to read more!

When clinicians act on Bayesian's alerts in time, sepsis patients are 18% less likely to die in the hospital. That finding comes from a 2022 peer-reviewed Nature Medicine study spanning 764,707 patient encounters (17,538 with sepsis) across five hospitals in both academic and community-based settings with 2,000+ providers using the software.

https://engineering.jhu.edu/news/fda-approves-early-warning-system-for-sepsis/?utm_campaign=wse_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

The AI system detects deadly infections faster than doctors, saving thousands of lives from a condition that claims more than 250,000 lives each year in the U.S.

05/08/2026

Meet Hopkins Engineering's 2026 Goldwater Scholars—one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the United States!

Henry Le Chang, a neuroscience and applied mathematics and statistics major, plans to pursue a PhD in biomedical sciences focused on chronic pain and itch. He works in Prof Xinzhong Dong's lab and leads an independent project on bacterial meningitis as a University Undergraduate Research Fellow. He is also active in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Nu Rho Psi, the Immunology and Immunoengineering Club, and Dragon Boat Club.

Roma Desai, majoring in biomedical engineering, plans to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering to conduct translational tissue engineering research and contribute to safer and more reliable laboratory research models. She has researched with Prof Deok-Ho Kim, Asst Prof John Miller, and Assoc Prof Nicholas Durr on drug-testing models, Lyme disease, and point-of-care diagnostics. She also holds leadership roles with the Biomedical Engineering Society, Maryland Science Olympiad, and Med Tech Network, and serves on the JHU Student Conduct Board.

Sameer Gabbita is majoring in biomedical engineering and plans to pursue an MD-PhD studying gene expression and disease. He works in Tej Azad’s lab on artificial intelligence applications for neurocritical care. He is president of the Hopkins AI Society, volunteers with the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center and Crisis Text Line, mentors student researchers, and co-founded Baltimore Benefits.

Oliver Nizet is majoring in chemical and biomolecular engineering and computer science and plans to pursue a PhD in bioengineering focused on cancer and infectious disease therapeutics. He works in Prof Denis Wirtz’s lab on gynecologic and prostate cancer research. He also serves as a PILOT peer leader and an elementary school tutor with the Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project.

This year, 454 Scholars were selected from a pool of more than 5,000 college sophomores and juniors demonstrating exceptional promise in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Each Goldwater Scholar receives up to $7,500 toward the cost of tuition, mandatory fees, books, and room and board. Sophomore recipients receive a second year of funding.

Established by Congress in 1986 to honor the legacy of soldier and statesman Barry Goldwater, the Goldwater Scholarship is one of the earliest significant national scholarships focusing on STEM fields.

05/04/2026

Crab pot recovery in the Bay. Recovery shoes. A hip revision surgery tool. Sustainability in data centers. Check out some more student projects from . Watch!

04/30/2026

As the new Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Ive Hermans focuses on finding cleaner, faster industrial practices that reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing and boost the production of renewable energy.

“The products of the chemical industry play a very important role in defining our current standard of living. “We need plastics to sustain that standard. The questions we need to be asking are, ‘How can we acquire the materials we need with minimal impact on the environment?’ and ‘How can we handle the waste in a responsible way? Can it be repurposed, put back into the value chain instead of wasting it?’ We should be prepared, as a society, to sustain the standard of living that we want, at a price that people can afford, while reducing the burden on the environment.”

Read more:

Ive Hermans develops catalytic methods that make chemical manufacturing cleaner and more sustainable. His work focuses on improving the efficiency of chemical transformations for applications spanning industrial manufacturing, environmental remediation, and…

04/27/2026

Design Day 2026 is TOMORROW (Tuesday): 900 Hopkins Engineering students share their projects, demos, and prototypes across campus at our annual showcase! Stream the keynote, delivered by Carol Reiley, ENGR ’07 (MS), CEO of DeepMusic.AI LIVE at noon.

Streaming Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/HopkinsEngineer/live

Visit the official Design Day website for schedule, locations and project previews! https://engineering.jhu.edu/designcenter/designday/

Follow Hopkins Engineering Instagram for project features and student interviews live from the floor all day: https://www.instagram.com/hopkinsengineer/

More about our Keynote Speaker: Carol Reiley, (a.k.a the “Mother of Robots”) is a serial entrepreneur, AI roboticist, and artist. She is currently CEO of AI and arts nonprofit DeepMusic.ai, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics. She previously founded Drive.ai—which was acquired by Apple—is a children’s book author, and a mentor for young kids in engineering.

Reiley is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems in applications such as surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue, and self-driving cars. She previously worked at Drive.ai, Intuitive Surgical, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric. She co-founded, invested, and was president of Drive.ai, raising over $77 million. She also founded Tinkerbelle Labs for low-cost health care as well as Squishybotz for educational robotics.

She is the author of "Making A Splash," a children’s book on the first growth mindset, which has sold more than 20,000 copies. She was also the first female engineer on the cover of MAKE Magazine and the youngest member on the IEEE Robotics and Engineering Board.

She earned her master’s degree in computer science from the Whiting School of Engineering in 2007 and led a robot outreach event for more than 1000 low-income students in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area. She is an advocate for underrepresented groups in technology and speaks out about bias in AI. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Wired.

04/24/2026

Design Day Preview: Delivering therapies to the stomach without surgery! A mechanical engineering student team has designed a multi-needle injector that can pass through a standard 2.8 mm endoscope and deploy four small, angled needles simultaneously, enabling broader and more uniform drug distribution in a single insertion.

Encouraged by School of Medicine Assistant Prof Venkata Akshintala, the project supports ongoing research into a sustained-release bleomycin microparticle formulation designed to remodel stomach tissue. The approach is being explored as a minimally invasive alternative to bariatric procedures such as gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy.

The injector is one of 200 student projects on display April 28 at Design Day!

Inserting the endoscope was the easy part; the challenge was delivering medication efficiently once inside the stomach. The team’s solution uses four 25-gauge needles—similar in size to those used in hypodermic injections—arranged in a compact, expandable array.

“The whole environment is a lot smaller than all of us expected,” said team member Tunde Ayodeji. “We had to get used to working at this scale as none of us have ever done that before.”

A central fluid channel connects to a manifold that distributes the drug evenly to each needle. The needles pass through a guide with angled pathways that allow them to fan outward during deployment.

To achieve even coverage, the team designed pre-bent needles that expand once inside the stomach, with each needle guided along a curved path. Ensuring this motion was precise and repeatable at a very small scale was a key challenge.

“The handheld system at the top had to reliably trigger the components inside the patient to ensure the needles reached their destination every time,” said team member Kennedi Woods. “The small components required a lot of attention to detail in terms of tolerances and adjustment.”

The team validated the design through ex vivo testing using porcine stomach tissue to simulate real conditions.

“We used pig stomachs to simulate the human stomach,” Ayodeji said. “That whole internal environment is smaller than we’re used to working in, so we had to wrap our heads around that.”

Team members: Ayodeji, Woods, Cyrus L., Eva Loftus, Aidan Chan Montano.

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