Draft:Johns Hopkins Engineering Lifelong Learning

• Comment: A lot of this is just a copy of Whiting School of Engineering, nothing to indicate the Lifelong Learning program is notable in its own right KylieTastic (talk) 15:08, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

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Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering has a Lifelong Learning program, which provides flexible professional education and executive education options for working professionals. Educational programs are offered in various live formats including virtual and in-person, as well as asynchronous online courses. Lifelong Learning courses are taught by Johns Hopkins Engineering faculty members and subject-matter experts in the field of engineering.

Accreditation

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals is part of The Johns Hopkins University, which is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The Master of Science in Engineering in Systems Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

Degree Programs

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals offers online and part-time master’s degrees and certificates in 24 programs that span multiple engineering disciplines and applied science. [3]

Johns Hopkins Engineering Program Rankings

• The Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals program overall, as well as individual degree programs, are recognized in the top 10 of many U.S. News & World Report rankings. These include:
• Engineering for Professionals program ranked #9 overall
• Engineering for Professionals ranked #8 for veterans
• Engineering Management program ranked #2
• Electrical and Computer Engineering program ranked #4
• Industrial/Systems Engineering program ranked #4 (tied with Georgia Tech)
• Mechanical Engineering program ranked #6
• Civil Engineering program ranked #6 [4]

History

Engineering Programs for Professionals

The Engineering for Professionals (EP) program is a part-time program offering on-site and online educational options at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. EP offers master's degree programs and courses in 24 distinct disciplines.

Johns Hopkins University first offered courses to working engineers in 1916 by holding "Night Courses for Technical Workers" in response to the potential for United States involvement in World War I. The part-time undergraduate engineering program then experienced a period of high enrollment after World War II when returning servicemen and women received GI Bill benefits for a college education.

Until the late 1950s, part-time courses were primarily offered at the undergraduate level on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1958, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) began to offer advanced technical courses at the graduate level with credit toward Johns Hopkins academic degrees under the auspices of that institution's Evening College.

By 1963, APL—which was originally created after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to help the war effort—established a formal center for the Evening College to meet growing demand. Over the years, the number and variety of engineering and applied science courses and master's degree programs expanded, so that by 1983 five master's degrees were offered at the APL Education Center: Applied Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Numerical Science, and Technical Management.

In 1983, the APL-based programs came under the oversight of the re-established engineering school at Johns Hopkins, the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering. At that time, eight additional degree programs were added, including undergraduate programs in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering and five master's degree programs in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

In 2001, the part-time engineering program—now known as Engineering for Professionals—offered its first online course. This initial course set the stage for the current online offerings provided by Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals. [5]

Johns Hopkins engineering programs for professionals has changed its name several times to reflect added programs, advancing technology, and a changing workforce. Its name was the Part-Time Engineering Program from 1983 to 1987, Continuing Professional Programs from 1987 to 1992, Part-Time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science from 1992 to 2004, Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals from 2004 to 2008,[6] and Engineering for Professionals from 2008 to the present. Also, several degree programs have changed their names to reflect changes in focus, and in several cases, concentrations in existing programs have become new programs in their own right. More than 5,000 students around the world are enrolled in the Whiting School’s online and part-time programs with more than 22,000 alumni.

EP is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.[7]

References

[3] https://ep.jhu.edu/program-finder/ [4] https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/rankings [5] https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2005/09/90-years-engineering-johns-hopkins/3/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting_School_of_Engineering [7] https://www.msche.org/institution/0168/