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Hopkins undergraduates have access to world-renowned faculty and resources designed for collaboration across disciplines. Many classes are also cross-registered between departments and schools, facilitating a truly interdisciplinary learning environment. You can choose from a variety of programs to do groundbreaking research and solve real-life problems. Below are some options to connect your engineering and natural science interests with related fields like medicine and biotechnology.

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Participating in these groups is a great way to meet new people, learn more about your major, make professional connections, and have fun!

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Chemical and biomolecular engineering.

The chemical and biomolecular engineering major is dedicated to the essential chemical and biomolecular engineering paradigms of transport, kinetics, and thermodynamics essential to solving complex engineering problems.  You can pursue one of two concentrations:

• Interfaces and nanotechnology: If you’re interested in nanomaterials, surface science, self-assembly, and applications of these subjects.
• Molecular and cellular bioengineering: If you’re interested in molecular and cellular events in biological systems and their applications.

Biomaterials

An interdisciplinary field at the intersection of materials science, engineering, biology, and medicine, biomaterials engineering is a track within the materials science and engineering major. Biomaterials engineers develop materials used in applications such as tissue engineering, drug and gene delivery, and medical implants and devices.

Biomechanics

Biomechanics is a concentration offered within the mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics majors. It offers a flexible experience that can be tailored to your interests. At the macroscopic level, the biomechanics of soft and hard tissues play important roles in computer-integrated surgical systems and technologies, such as medical robotics. At the cellular level, issues such as cell motility and chemotaxis can be modeled as mechanical phenomena. At the subcellular level, conformational transitions in biological macromolecules can be modeled using molecular dynamics simulation, statistical mechanics, or techniques that rely on principles from the mechanics of materials.

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Computer engineering.

Airbag systems in automobiles, biomedical sensors that automatically administer medication, computer-controlled flight management systems in aircraft, speech recognition systems—these are just a few of the transformative technologies that involve computer engineering. Our program emphasizes hands-on laboratory experience to complement more theoretical courses.

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Computer science is an evolving field which consists not only of fascinating problems and fundamental techniques, but also impacts many other disciplines. You’ll have the flexibility to choose from a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Both programs build a balanced foundation in computer science, but also allow you to specialize in your junior and senior years. Concentrations within the department include computer security, natural language processing, computer systems, computer games, software engineering and robotics.

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Our biology department is home to 27 research laboratories investigating a wide range of biological problems with the goal of obtaining explanations in quantitative and molecular detail. The program will guide you as you develop a detailed, nuanced view of biology, integrating knowledge at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. Many of our undergrads also participate in research at the School of Medicine.

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Solving puzzles for prey at the Maryland Zoo

Johns hopkins undergraduate engineers bring the thrill of the hunt to bobcats kilgore and josie with their high-tech take on the classic 'whac-a-mole' arcade game.

By Jaimie Patterson

Specialists at the Maryland Zoo know how important it is for animals living in captivity to be able to socialize, rest, and feed as they would in the wild. But helping bobcats Kilgore and Josie achieve those natural feeding behaviors has posed a challenge.

"These behaviors are incredibly difficult to elicit in zoos for many reasons, but in this case, it's primarily because the general public doesn't want to see a bobcat kill a rabbit when they visit the zoo," explains Joey Golden, the curator of animal behavior at the Maryland Zoo.

Design Day 2024

Check out the annual showcase for the creative problem-solving inventions by Hopkins engineering students on Wednesday, May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT on the Homewood campus

Enter students from the Johns Hopkins Multidisciplinary Engineering Design course. As part of their final project, they were tasked with creating an automated hunting opportunity that allows the zoo's bobcats to express proper feeding behaviors without ever killing live prey. The team—mechanical engineering students Will Leger and Raphael Stadler and computer science students Jonathan Liu and Peter Xu—will present its work at the Whiting School of Engineering's annual Design Day on May 1.

Previously, the bobcats "hunted" for their food by solving static puzzles; for instance, the food might be hidden in containers that challenged the animals' ability to gain access. The Hopkins students wanted to better elicit the cats' natural seven-step hunting process: identify, stalk, chase, pounce, swipe, kill, and dissect.

Their solution? A high-tech take on the classic "Whac-A-Mole" arcade game.

In this implementation, prey "nodes"—or boxes that might contain food—pop up around the habitat for the bobcats to identify and stalk. When activated, each node plays an audio clip of prey noises; this signals to the bobcats that it's time to hunt.

"When they interact with a node, they're sensed with its ultrasonic sensor, which communicates with the other nodes and the main system through radio frequency signals," says team member Will Leger.

A user interface on a nearby computer allows the zookeepers to vary the number and pattern of nodes that pop up so that there's a new "game" for the bobcats to play every time.

Once the bobcat is sensed at the last node, a mechanism releases a food-filled "boomer ball" on a slope so that it rolls around the exhibit. The bobcat can then chase it, batting it to release the food.

"It holds a lot of promise from the technical engineering perspective," says Alissa Burkholder Murphy , a senior lecturer at the Whiting School of Engineering's Center for Leadership Education and the director of the Multidisciplinary Design Program . "The team is really strong and they're building something cool."

The students appreciate the unique challenge of designing for animals.

"Because we're not working with human end users, it's hard to test as we go along," says Leger. "Obviously we're doing it, but the bobcats don't speak English, so it's a little hard to get a feel for how much they care."

The students are designing the system to be used inside of the bobcats' exhibit so that it's visible to the public. And since most felines share the same hunting processes, they hope their system can eventually be utilized for larger cats like lions and tigers, too.

"Just with a lot stronger materials!" Leger adds.

See their project in action at this year's Design Day .

For more Design Day stories, visit the Whiting School's newsroom .

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