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WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns HopkinsWhiting School of EngineeringWyman Park Building, Suite 400 3400 North Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21218410-516-8723 800-548-5422 rising.jhu.edu

Redefining What is Possible

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INNOVATING FOR OUR FUTUREIn the hundred years since the first engineering students matriculated at Johns Hopkins University, our school has emerged as a world leader in engineering research and education. The history of today’s G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering is marked by intellectual curiosity and passion and punctuated by celebrated break-throughs, from the work that brought clean water to millions around the world to the cardiopulmonary research that led to the creation of the portable defibrillator.

Today we build on our proud history, routinely expanding the traditional bounds of engineering to address this century’s most urgent challenges. Whether it is improving our ability to diagnose and treat cancer, averting the global water crisis, building earthquake-resistant structures, or better under-standing energy markets, engineers, working collaboratively and across disciplines, provide the enabling technologies and systems approaches that such challenges demand.

Beyond the breadth and depth of our people’s accomplishments and expertise, the Whiting School has

enriched Johns Hopkins University in the broadest sense, crossing departmental and divisional boundaries, and indeed geographic and political boundaries, to better define problems and join with others to design, build, innovate, and implement solutions.

Now, more than ever, it is this capacity that will be the keystone to real progress in the field of engineering and in our ability to address effectively the challenges and opportunities on which we and our colleagues across Johns Hopkins have set our sights. At the Whiting School, we are focused on four strategic priorities: educating for leadership, leveraging data to knowledge, engineering human health, and improving global well-being and security. To support these priorities, we seek to establish new professorships and scholarships, and enhance programs and facilities, not only to further our technological expertise, but also to facilitate collaborations across the university. Supported by alumni and friends who share our belief in the centrality of cross-disciplinary thinking to our future success, we are poised and committed to advance our school, our university, and the field of engineering in innovative and exciting ways.

WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGRISING TO THE CHALLENGE

LEFT: MARGARET CHOW ’14 DEMONSTRATES A

GLOVE, CREATED BY HER BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

DESIGN TEAM, WHICH USES AN ACCELEROMETER

TO MEASURE TREMORS IN PATIENTS SUFFERING

FROM PARKINSON’S DISEASE. IT IS PART OF A

SYSTEM THE TEAM IS DEVELOPING TO QUANTITA-

TIVELY AND REMOTELY ASSESS THE SEVERITY OF

PARKINSON’S SYMPTOMS.

Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for

Johns Hopkins will raise unprecedented

levels of support to attract, sustain, and

further empower the people of Johns

Hopkins—our students, faculty, and

researchers—who through their work

improve the lives of millions around the

world. Together with our philanthropic

partners we will:

ADVANCE DISCOVERY AND CREATIVITY

through support of our exceptional faculty

and researchers. Their innovative work

drives the development of new knowledge,

new forms of expression, and new ways to

save lives and improve health, and furthers

progress across our core disciplines in

science and technology, the humanities

and arts, and public health and medicine.

ENRICH THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

by investing in scholarships and fellowships,

inspirational spaces for collaborative

learning and social opportunities, and

new programs that will enhance student-

faculty interactions, ensure diversity on

campus, link learning in the classroom to

life after graduation, and strengthen

connections between our students and

our surrounding communities.

SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS AS ONE

UNIVERSITY by creating new cross-

disciplinary solutions in crucial areas

such as sustaining global water resources,

revitalizing America’s cities, advancing

individualized and population health, and

understanding how we learn and teach.

The Whiting School of Engineering is

committed to playing a key role in the

success of the campaign. Please join

with us in this important mission.

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the classroom and their years at Johns Hopkins University.

Tomorrow’s engineering leaders must be prepared to address the demands of an increasingly complex world. Investment in the Whiting School’s students, faculty, and infrastructure will enable us to continue to attract the most committed and qualified students, further grow our reputation for excellence and innovation in engineering education and research, and prepare our students to be global leaders.

the arts—and where the integration of engineering practice and theory are combined through application to real-world problems. Our graduates possess a deep understanding of engineering’s role in society and are leaders in research, industry, and the public sector.

In today’s rapidly changing world, it is imperative that we continue to attract an extraordinary caliber of students, further grow our reputation for excellence and innovation in engineering education and research, and prepare our students to be global leaders, able to anticipate and address tomorrow’s challenges. The Whiting School is committed to providing this next generation of students with ample opportunities to unleash entrepreneurial spirit, engage in pioneering research, and cultivate a love of learning that extends beyond both

We will provide an engineering education of the highest caliber in an environment that encourages and supports collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship and that prepares students to flourish in a global environment.

The complex, technology-based challenges of the 21st century require engineers to be nimble problem solvers, transformational thinkers, and ethical leaders. The Whiting School of Engineering’s rigorous academic program combines core scientific principles with unparalleled research and entrepreneurial opportunities and access to the full spectrum of resources of the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Our students are immersed in an environment where creativity is valued, where the study of engineering intersects with multiple disciplines—from health care to the humanities, social sciences, and

WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGEDUCATING FOR LEADERSHIP

“Our vision for Whiting School

undergraduates is to create

Johns Hopkins engineers who

possess deep knowledge and

pursue boundless innovation

with noble aim. The kind of

personalized education we

provide fosters critical

thinking, data savvy, global

perspective, and the capacity

for collaboration with other

disciplines, both within and

outside of engineering.”

Michael Falk,

Associate Professor, Materials

Science and Engineering

ABOVE: REBECCA SCHULMAN, AN ASSISTANT

PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL

AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING, IS WORKING

WITH GRADUATE STUDENT ABDUL MAJEED

MOHAMMED TO BUILD CIRCUITS TO CONNECT

NANOSCALE DEVICES. HER RESEARCH COULD

PAVE THE WAY FOR FASTER COMPUTERS

AND MORE SENSITIVE MOLECULAR

DETECTION SYSTEMS.

LEFT: EVERY YEAR, UNDERGRADUATES ON

THE WHITING SCHOOL’S BAJA TEAM, A POPULAR

STUDENT-RUN PROGRAM, GET THEIR HANDS

DIRTY DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING A

SINGLE-SEAT OFF-ROAD VEHICLE FOR

NATIONAL COMPETITIONS. “BAJA RELIES

ON THE MOTIVATION AND INTEREST OF THE

STUDENTS,” EXPLAINS ONE TEAM MEMBER.

ABOVE: MASTER’S STUDENTS IN THE WHITING

SCHOOL’S CENTER FOR BIOENGINEERING

INNOVATION AND DESIGN WORK WITH

CLINICIANS AT JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE,

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN THE

DEVELOPING WORLD, AND MEMBERS OF

INDUSTRY TO IDENTIFY AND SOLVE GLOBAL

HEALTH CARE CHALLENGES BY CREATING

NOVEL MEDICAL DEVICES.

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progress in data acquisition, management, and analysis—work that will be the enabling and transformative technology behind many of the university’s top research priorities. We are leading data-driven initiatives that are providing new insights into the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, improving our ability to utilize wind energy, and tracking global pandemics. The impact of the new scientific approaches and associated analytical tools will be profound and far-reaching. Ultimately, the Whiting School has the potential to direct national and international priorities and policies in critical areas as diverse as global health, climate change, financial markets, energy, environmental regulation, and cybersecurity.

Digital data has opened a new realm of science that promises to revolutionize how we understand the world. The Whiting School and its partners are poised to create an unprecedented resource for discovery, problem solving, and collaboration and establish our reputation as a world leader in data science.

We will advance scientific inquiry, the creation and sharing of knowledge, and our understanding of the world by conceiving, developing, and implementing new approaches to the acquisition, management, and analysis of vast data sets.

Advances in computation, modeling, and simulation, coupled with the availability of data at a previously unimagined scale, enable us to quantify and analyze nearly every aspect of the human condition, our Earth, and beyond. This explosion in the quantity of data we now have at our disposal presents us with tremendous possibilities. It is an unprecedented resource that, if harnessed and used to its full potential, will enable us to advance scientific knowledge and spawn wholly new areas of research and economies.

Because of their access to the vast data generated across the Johns Hopkins Institutions and considerable strength in data mining, statistics, machine learning, and pattern recognition, Whiting School of Engineering researchers hold a unique competitive advantage in this arena. Working with colleagues across the university, our engineers already are making huge

WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

ABOVE: WHITING SCHOOL RESEARCHERS IN

GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ARE LEADING A

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL, MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL

EFFORT THAT IS UTILIZING ENORMOUS DATA

SETS TO BETTER DESIGN AND MANAGE POWER

FROM WIND AND OTHER RENEWABLE

ENERGY SOURCES.

RIGHT: COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE

STUDENT KEL GUERIN HELPED DEVELOP THE

BALAUR WALL, A HIGH-TECH, INTERACTIVE

VIDEO DISPLAY IN THE BRODY LEARNING

COMMONS. AMONG ITS USES: COLLABORATIVE

VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM

MULTIPLE SOURCES, SUCH AS IMAGES FROM

THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE AND A “MAP” OF

BRAIN SYNAPSES.

“Big Data has emerged as a

new frontier for science and

technology. In almost every

field, we are subjected to a

deluge of data due to our ever-

increasing ability to measure,

record, simulate, and store. Now

we face the challenge of how to

extract fundamental knowledge

from these data. In my research

group, we study the mechanics

of highly intermittent turbulent

flows, where our approach to

storing data from large-scale

computer simulations has

provided us with new ways

of doing science. Better

understanding of turbulence

intermittency will one day help

us design better wind farms

and energy systems subjected

to highly variable sources.”

Charles Meneveau,

Louis M. Sardella Professor

of Mechanical Engineering

LEVERAGING DATA TO KNOWLEDGE

We will lead multidisciplinary research and educational initiatives in critical areas that will improve the well-being and security of our planet and its inhabitants.

The same scientific and technological discoveries that have improved many aspects of society have also engendered a multitude of new threats to the health, safety, and security of humankind and our natural environment. In our increasingly complex and interdependent world, new approaches are needed to understand and manage current vulnerabilities and identify emerging threats in areas as diverse as our natural and built environments, global climate change, pandemics, natural hazards, water supply and sanitation, alternative energy sources, national defense, global economic systems, and electronic data.

The Whiting School will build upon its collaborative research and educational programs across the Johns Hopkins Institutions, as well as with government and industry, in order to deepen our understanding of these global threats. Through the application

of sound engineering approaches, we will lead the creation of scalable and effective solutions to these problems.

Safeguarding the well-being and security of our planet and its inhabitants is central to the Whiting School’s mission, and to our future. Our people stand ready to embrace this audacious challenge, and to chart the course for a more secure tomorrow.

For more than a century, the people of Johns Hopkins engineering—our faculty and students, staff, donors, alumni, and friends—have boldly taken on many of society’s most pressing challenges and made strides on behalf of mankind. We are now uniquely positioned to aggressively further our research mission and generate the technologies that lead to fundamental new approaches in the engineering disciplines and translate into improved quality of life and enhanced safety and security of future generations.

The opportunity for advancement is great and our aim is high. We will reach these heights only through collaboration with the right partners whose knowledge and resources are essential to our ability to achieve our goals. In order to maximize our impact on the world, we need interdisciplinary partners from across Johns Hopkins University and we need your belief in us, your informed guidance and, more than ever, your generous investment. Partnering with the Whiting School of Engineering in our efforts will enable us to build upon our existing strengths, invent, discover, educate the next generation of engineering leaders, and rise to the challenges of our time.

“As engineers, I think we have

a responsibility. We have to

not just care about erecting

structures, but think about

what kind of impact they will

have on society. At Johns

Hopkins, we are integrating

engineering, medicine, and

public health to improve our

understanding of how natural

and technological hazards

impact critical infrastructure

systems and are developing

interdisciplinary computational

tools to assess emergency

preparedness and predict

community resilience.”

Judith Mitrani-Reiser,

Assistant Professor of

Civil Engineering

“This is a watershed moment.

Across a whole spectrum of

components—molecular

genetics, epigenetics, imaging,

diagnostics, and treatment—

we are doing pioneering work in

engineering and in medicine.

Hopkins is probably better

positioned than anyone to

make revolutionary advances

in human diseases, like cancer,

that could only be imagined

a decade ago. It’s just a

question of how we bring

it all together.”

William Nelson,

Marion I. Knott Professor &

Director, The Sidney Kimmel

Comprehensive Cancer Center

at Johns Hopkins

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We will lead collaborations among Johns Hopkins University divisions, industry, and government agencies, leveraging the Whiting School of Engineering’s tremendous strengths in bioengineering, information sciences, data analytics, and systems engineering in order to unleash the promise of new technologies and solve some of today’s most pressing health care challenges.

The future of human health exists at the interface of biology, medicine, and engineering. Medicine’s evolution into an information- and technology-driven discipline, combined with Johns Hopkins’ recognized leadership in

bioengineering, public health, nursing, and medicine, provide the Whiting School with unprecedented opportuni-ties. By leading multidisciplinary collaborations that span the university, the Whiting School has the potential to advance dramatically our ability to diagnose and treat disease, identify public health trends, and improve the delivery, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care on a global scale.

Whiting School experts in computer science and applied mathematics and statistics will help realize the potential of recent advances in genomics through the practice of individualized health.

Others will implement a systems- engineering approach to improve our understanding of health trends, advance patient safety, and make hospital operational systems more effective and cost-efficient. We will build upon the Whiting School’s strengths in Computational Medicine, NanoBioTechnology, and medical robotics by partnering with colleagues throughout the university to increase our collective intellectual capital and capacity.

Whiting School engineers will delve further into the collaboration, research, and systems necessary to chart the course for a healthier future.

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IMPROVING GLOBAL WELL-BEING AND SECURITYENGINEERING HUMAN HEALTH

LEFT: WORKING WITH WSE ROBOTICS EXPERTS

AND SPECIALISTS AT JHU’S WILMER EYE

INSTITUTE, JIN KANG, CHAIR OF ELECTRICAL

AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND THE JACOB

SUTER JAMMER PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING, USES FIBER OPTICS SENSING/

IMAGING TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP “SMART”

SURGICAL TOOLS THAT CAN IMPROVE THE

ACCURACY AND SAFETY OF DELICATE RETINAL

MICROSURGERY.

RIGHT: RESEARCHERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF

GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER-

ING COMBINE HIGH- AND LOW-TECH TOOLS

TO LEARN HOW RAGWEED REPRODUCE AND

SCATTER THEIR POLLEN. SUCH RESEARCH

COULD AID IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF

AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS.

LEARN AND SHAREVisit engineering.jhu.edu to learn more about the Whiting School of Engineering, hear directly from our faculty, students, and alumni, and engage with others who are passionate about our work. Share your thoughts with us and help us spread the word through your professional and personal networks.

MAKE A GIFTPlease contact one of our development officers, who stand ready to guide you in exploring gift opportunities, and planning and structuring gifts in ways that answer your goals and ours.

TAKING THE NEXT STEPRising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins is a multi-billion-dollar effort that focuses on helping people—our faculty, students, and the countless individuals around the world whose lives will be improved through our work.

Accomplishing our ambitious goals will not only require the renowned drive and expertise of Whiting School people and individuals from across the university, but significant philanthropic investment in their efforts.

The Whiting School has committed to raise $275 million as part of the Rising to the Challenge campaign. With your unwavering support we know we can reach this ambitious target, and we invite you to partner with us in commitment to the following goals:

People

• Establish at least 100 new undergradu-ate scholarships and 50 new graduate fellowships that will enable the best and brightest students to attend the Whiting School, regardless of their financial need.

• Invest in providing students with additional experiential opportunities that will enhance their leadership skills, provide them with a global perspective, and offer them opportu-nities to apply engineering concepts to complex, real-world problems.

• Endow at least 10 new full professor-ships and at least five new faculty scholar awards to enable us to recruit and recognize the very best faculty whose research has the potential to make a global impact.

• Fund the development and expansion of our full-time and part-time master’s degree programs to prepare future generations of technical leaders in industry and government.

Programs

• Raise $10 million in flexible funds to enable the Whiting School leadership to provide academic venture capital as opportunities emerge.

• Raise $5 million in endowed funds and $10 million in outright gifts for key initiatives and programs that will advance the strategic directions of the Whiting School.

• Increase opportunities for active and interdisciplinary learning, and for more fully integrating experiential learning, independent research, and professional experiences in the Johns Hopkins engineering curriculum.

• Nurture and support technological development and commercialization, and build an entrepreneurial culture through the establishment of a technology accelerator and innovation ecosystem that provides our faculty and students with access to mentors, business consultants, and experts.

• Invest in the Homewood undergraduate experience to create programs that enrich campus life; allow students to delve deeply in the world of knowledge, freely traverse societal, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in the creative application of their skills; and tackle the most important problems facing humanity today.

Infrastructure

• Develop state-of-the-art facilities that foster and empower collaboration across and beyond engineering disciplines and house cross-disciplinary efforts.

• Establish and support a design studio that serves as an environment in which to nurture technological innovation for our faculty and students.

• Invest in modern teaching and labora-tory facilities that enhance learning and enrich the student experience.

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WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGRISING TO THE CHALLENGE

IN THE LABORATORY FOR

COMPUTATIONAL SENSING AND

ROBOTICS, GREG HAGER, CHAIR

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER

SCIENCE, WORKS ON THE STEADY

HAND ROBOT. THIS SURGICAL

WORKSTATION INTEGRATES UNIQUE

SENSING AND VISUALIZATION

CAPABILITIES WITH MANIPULATION

ENHANCEMENTS TO IMPROVE A

SURGEON’S FINE MOTOR CONTROL

AND MITIGATE HUMAN ERROR.

CONTACT US TODAYTo pursue any of these options, please contact:Megan HowieAssociate Dean of Development and Alumni RelationsJohns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineeringengineering@jhu.edu 410-516-8723