Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering?

HopefulDoge
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:26:50 +0000

@Emotive No problem!
There are definitely a lot of hands-on project opportunities within the four years. Even during the freshman year there are semester long team design projects for a friendly competition amongst other freshman meches at the end of the semester. These hands-on projects will continue through the other years and become more and more complex as you progress in your studies. Some of the labs you have to take can help you with these projects as they teach you designing and machining techniques. Most notably though is the senior design project where you and your team get matched up with a sponsor/company to do a year long design project that ranges from building a prosthetic limb to creating/testing better safety bike helmets.
The ME faculty usually are free to talk whenever they’re in their office and don’t really need to set up an appointment. If you wanna talk with them during non-office hours they are always incredibly welcoming, but some ME professors have packed schedules so it may be a bit harder to find them in their office without an appointment.
It really does vary, but most ME students end up doing engineering research or an engineering internship.