To be admitted to graduate study in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, students must submit credentials sufficient to convince the faculty that he or she has a good chance of completing the requirements for a graduate degree within a reasonable time frame. No academic degree is required, but the applicant should have achieved very high scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

Obtain unofficial transcripts from your school(s) student account or Registrar’s office. To obtain your unofficial JHU transcripts: Go to http://isis.jhu.edu sign in, enter your JHED ID and password, go to Registration/My Grades and click on View Unofficial Transcript. If your transcripts are not issued in English you must submit documents in both the original language and English translation from a professional third party service. Please refer to this site for available services www.atanet.org. Some departments may not require translations, please check the department’s website for more information.

Obtain the email addresses from your recommenders. In your Apply Yourself online application using your recommenders email addresses you will be able to request electronic letters of recommendations; and the Apply Yourself system is quite simple to use-it will simply solicit your recommender via their email account. They then only need to follow the instructions. We strongly recommend you use the Apply Yourself system. Do not mail in letters of recommendation.

We are able to accept recommendation letters using the Interfolio system. Please usegraduateadmissions@jhu.edu to have the letters sent to our office. Once the Office of Graduate Admissions and Enrollment receives the letter it will be added to your application. Please allow 14 business days processing time, do not mail letters of recommendation to our office.

For Interfolio instructions and FAQs please visit: http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062192-Requesting-Letters-of-Recommendation-Through-Interfolio-

Prepare your statement of purpose In lieu of the “statement of purpose”, please refer to the admission requirements of each department. M.F.A. applicants only should include in their statement of purpose a two-page introduction and critique of their work; the statement should give an insight into the scope and thoughtfulness of the work submitted and a sense of the student’s ability to contribute to the Writing Seminars program.Please note: The office of Graduate Admissions and Enrollment does not accept paper copies of the statement of purpose. Applicants are required to submit this document through the online application. The uploaded file cannot exceed 500KB in size. The document must also adhere to 1″ (inch) margins.

Our students and faculty operate on the cutting edge between science and engineering, exploring innovative applications such as robotics and human-machine interactions, micro- and nano-scale engineered devices and materials, energy and the environment, aerospace and machine systems, and biology and medicine.

Our graduates emerge from the mechanical engineering program prepared to face today’s rapidly and ever-changing technological environment. Traditional mechanical engineering coursework is complemented by hands-on laboratories and design-build-test projects every semester, in which our students apply and further develop the practical knowledge and skills of our profession. In our year-long senior design capstone course, students work in small teams to tackle unique and specific design challenges presented by government, industry, and non-profit organizations. Our students also have opportunities to work in research laboratories with our faculty in areas ranging from nano-scale engineering to bio-inspired robotics to computational engineering and space systems.