JHU Connection
APL staff members partner with their Hopkins counterparts across the entire University to solve some of the nation's greatest challenges. These relationships enhance education and research, strengthen the University's intellectual outreach, and facilitate ties with the larger science and technology community. Specific collaborations include APL and JHU's Whiting School of Engineering, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey Business School, and School of Medicine, as well as The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Some examples are described below.
APL Joint Faculty Appointments
APL seeks both to leverage the expertise in the academic divisions of JHU on behalf of our sponsors and to contribute to the research and education missions of the University as a whole. Beginning several years ago, APL began supporting staff members holding or seeking joint academic appointments to enable them to spend up to 20% of their time collaborating with the academic divisions. This support enables research collaborations seeking external support for the academic/APL team from external funding agencies, as well as teaching and supervision of graduate students. At this point, more than 25 APL staff members hold joint appointments in four schools of the University (although by far the largest number have their academic appointments in the Whiting School of Engineering). Appointments range from assistant through full research professor.
APL Advanced Application Scholars Program
An APL program encourages JHU students to become interns supporting Laboratory programs. Internships are offered to well-qualified, highly motivated undergraduates and graduate students who have an interest in engineering and applied scientific research. In its first year, 40 JHU students applied, and 21 were placed at APL. The Laboratory employs the interns over the summer, with typical assignments involving software design and development; modeling and simulation; hardware design, testing, and evaluation; and scientific research. Part-time employment during the academic year is offered to the students on a continuing basis.
APL Education Center
In keeping with APL's commitment to continuing education, nearly 200 staff members teach engineering, technical management, and information technology courses within the JHU Whiting School's Engineering for Professionals (EP) program. Nine of the 15 master's degree programs are chaired by APL Professional Staff. The nearly 2,000 students who participated in these APL-based programs accounted for class enrollments of 6,600 for the three terms of the 2007-2008 academic year. These students attended classes at APL online, at seven other sites in Maryland, and on site at a half-dozen companies and organizations across the nation that have educational partnerships with JHU. More than 500 master's degrees are conferred annually in these programs.
APL-Based Programs
- Applied Biomedical Engineering
- Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Applied Physics
- Computer Science
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Information Assurance
- Information Systems Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Technical Management
Other Locations for EP Courses
- Dorsey Student Services Center, Elkridge, MD
- Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD
- Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, California, MD
- Higher Education and Technology Center, Aberdeen, MD
Business and Management Education
As a newly appointed professor in the JHU Carey Business School, APL Director Richard Roca is leading efforts to identify strategic initiatives and collaborations between the Carey School and APL. Dr. Roca is an advisor on the development of new MBA curricula and is helping the school address the management needs of federal agencies. Dr. Roca is also facilitating joint initiatives between the Carey Business School, APL, and the larger science and technology community.