Q: Neuroengineering / Instrumentation / Classes
Does Neuroengineering have many than two years for classes? If you want to do instrumentation and more engineering, is the Neuro track the best way to go? Is Hopkins most known for Neuro, there seems to be a lot of professors.
Neuroengineering at Hopkins is more like a concentration. You're officially accepted into one department; in our case, it's Biomedical Engineering. Therefore, you need to fulfill the academic requirements for that particular department. I suggest looking at the PhD handbook on the JHU BME website; you have to take a certain number of biology-based and engineering-based classes, but once you fulfill your credits, you don't have to take any more classes. You can and should be doing rotations/research throughout the year.
Neuroengineering still covers a pretty broad spectrum. At Hopkins, it's more of an application. If you're focusing on instrumentation, and you'd like to specifically work on an instrument that focuses on a neurologically-based problem, then neuroengineering is a great venue. I suggest that you find a PI or lab that you like, and go from there.
Hopkins is one of the few neuroengineering centers in the country; as biomedical engineers, we've got a tremendous advantage b/c of the excellent research at the medical campus, and the possible connections in a very clinically applicable setting.
Take a few classes, talk to a few professors, come to the NETI meetings, and see what interests you. You're still a first-year, so shop around and ask lots of questions.
Good luck!
Neuroengineering at Hopkins is more like a concentration. You're officially accepted into one department; in our case, it's Biomedical Engineering. Therefore, you need to fulfill the academic requirements for that particular department. I suggest looking at the PhD handbook on the JHU BME website; you have to take a certain number of biology-based and engineering-based classes, but once you fulfill your credits, you don't have to take any more classes. You can and should be doing rotations/research throughout the year.
Neuroengineering still covers a pretty broad spectrum. At Hopkins, it's more of an application. If you're focusing on instrumentation, and you'd like to specifically work on an instrument that focuses on a neurologically-based problem, then neuroengineering is a great venue. I suggest that you find a PI or lab that you like, and go from there.
Hopkins is one of the few neuroengineering centers in the country; as biomedical engineers, we've got a tremendous advantage b/c of the excellent research at the medical campus, and the possible connections in a very clinically applicable setting.
Take a few classes, talk to a few professors, come to the NETI meetings, and see what interests you. You're still a first-year, so shop around and ask lots of questions.
Good luck!
posted by NeuroEngineering Training Initiative at 6:50 PM
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