We all know that BME at JHU is basically the beat BME school in the USA, but how is its MechE department? Anyone out there know much about it?
Thanks in advanced
Johns Hopkins may not be #1 in MechE, but they have a very strong program. I know that USWNR and ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ are not the most reliable sources in the world, but here are some sources for you:
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http://engineering.jhu.edu/graduate-studies/graduate-school-rankings/
http://me.jhu.edu/
This CC comment by someone who has had first-hand experience with JHU is very helpful as well. (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/14049517/#Comment_14049517)
This question may be better focused if it was on the JHU board though.
@TheDidactic thanks! This was very helpful!
Perhaps it’s too late since decisions came out and you’re looking at other schools, but I can shed some light onto the Meche program and department here for you or any future Blue Jay looking into Mechanical Engineering.
I’m a current MechE and I love the program here. Hopkins cares a lot for the MechE program here and we are a tight knit community. Even in your freshman year you’ll be able to take a freshman MechE class where you will begin to learn a lot about mechanical engineering in the real world as well as be in the same class as all your other mechE classmates. Upper level MechE courses you’ll have to take in the later years are also incredibly well structured and well taught by some of the best professors and researchers.
In addition, if you are going into the biomechanics concentration you’re basically going to be taking a lot or most of the upper level BME classes, so education-wise you’ll be taking some of those classes taught by professors that are ranked number 1 in BME as a MechE. If biology is not in your interest, we also have an Aerospace concentration where we can take classes like Mechanics of Flight or Jet and Rocket Propulsion. Plus, with close proximity to the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) you can work with the most cutting edge technology that the government pours the most money out of any other college into.
The MechE research areas are so diverse so with whatever you’re interested in you’ll be able to find an amazing lab that does something really cool. Whether it is with the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute where you can work with materials unheard of or even the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics where you can work with the da Vinci surgical machine.
If you are looking for a broad view of engineering that can be applied in any field. Mechanical Engineering at JHU is clearly a solid program with huge amounts of research and job opportunities as well as a welcoming and corporative student body.
Is it possible to double major in Mech E and BME (or Chem E and BME?)
@bioninja
Well that depend .
To major in BME you need to be accepted into the BME program as a freshman or transfer in later (the later option isn’t very common though it has been known to happen).
Assuming you’re accepted to the BME department it should be possible to double major in MechE or ChemBE though it would be difficult.
http://eng.jhu.edu/wse/asen_undergraduate_handbook/majors-minors
@HopefulDoge Thanks a lot for that information! I’m actually only a junior in high school, so I am still very much considering JHU. This was an excellent post! Do you have a specific concentration area like biomechanics or aerospace? And, what other schools did you apply to? Why’d you pick JHU?