JHU Montgomery County Campus

Johns Hopkins University
Montgomery County Campus
9601-9605 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

This site is a commuting site only.  There are no residential facilities.

Maximum of 48 students will be enrolled.

Montgomery County EI 2016

General Information

• 2019 Dates/Times

  • Course Dates: June 24 – July 19
  • Time:  Monday – Friday; 9 AM – 3PM
  • No class on Thursday, July 4th

• 2019 Instructors

  Dr. Muhammad Kehnemouyi – Joined Engineering Innovation in 2006

  

  Dr. Kehnemouyi is the Dean of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD.

  Dr. Fred Kataraie – Joined Engineering Innovation in 2006

  

  Dr. Kataraie is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at University of Maryland, University College, College Park, MD.

• 2019 Teaching Fellow

  Mr. Sinuhe Gutierrez – Joined Engineering Innovation in 2011

  Mr. Gutierrez is a Physics teacher at Northwest High School, Germantown, MD.

Site Specific Information

EI STUDENT PICK-UP PROCESS 

Parents are not permitted to pick-up their students from the traffic circle in front of Gilchrist Hall.  Parents must wait for their students in the parking lot behind Gilchrist that my be accessed from Broschart Road.  The EI traffic flow link shows a map in which the parking lot is highlighted with a red rectangle.

• Room Location

  The course will be held in Gilchrist Hall on the JHU Montgomery County Campus.   More details will be sent to enrolled students in mid-June.
  

• Lunch Options

  Students do not leave the campus for lunch.  Students eat lunches brought from home or purchase their lunch from one of the restaurants on the campus.  Several restaurants are open along the parking garage facing Medical Center Drive including Subway and Oishii Blue Fin.  There is also a Farmers’ Market on campus on on Wednesdays from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm;  this includes a number of food trucks.

• Parking

  Free parking is available in the lots on Broschart Road.  All non-designated spaces are available for student and visitor use.
  

• Library Use

  All students will have access to computers to complete their online research.

• Public Transportation

  Getting to JHU from all over the region:
  From all parts of the Washington Metropolitan region, use Metro’s Red Line to get to the Shady Grove Metro Station. At the station, take the Ride On bus 66, which travels directly to the campus and will drop you at the campus’ Broschart Road entrance. Please make sure you get off the bus at the Broschart Road stop, not the Medical Center Drive stop. The 66 bus leaves the Shady Grove Metro Station every 30 minutes Monday through Friday. View the Ride On bus schedules. 

  From Silver Spring and Wheaton:
  Take the Q2 Metro bus to the Shady Grove Metro Station, then transfer to the Ride On bus 66. View Metro bus schedules.

  From Germantown, Lake Forest and Milestone:
  Take the Ride On bus service (listed just below) to the Shady Grove Metro Station. Transfer to the Ride On bus 66 to the campus.

  • Milestone Center – Ride on 55
  • Germantown Transit Center – Ride on 61
  • Lake Forest Transit Center – Ride on 57

Media

• 2018 Media Coverage and Photos

  Click here for a story in Bethesda Magazine/Bethesda Beat.

  WDVM. “Students Test Engineering Skills with Spaghetti Bridges” By Kylie Khanhttps://www.localdvm.com/news/i-270/students-test-engineering-skills-with-spaghetti-bridges/1313210388

  ROCKVILLE, Md. – Dozens of Montgomery County high school students culminated a four week engineering camp Friday with a test of strength.

  Friday, about 40 students tested out bridges they built from spaghetti. It was part of the Johns Hopkins University Engineering Imagination program. The winning bridge held about 22 pounds. Officials say they hope this inspires some teens to pursue a stem career, a field with many openings.

  “It helped me see more about electrical, mechanical, and other parts of engineering that I wouldn’t otherwise have known,” said Spencer Schenk, whose team won the competition.

  There are 12 other locations around the country that participate in the Engineering Innovation camp.

  Ch. 5. Fox
  http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp?StationID=300&DateTime=7/20/2018%205:46:07%20PM&playclip=true&pbc=search%3a%2b(hopkins)

  a summer program for kids is introducing high school students to engineering and physics in a unique way. since 2006 johns hopkins university has sponsored the program called car be loading. more than 500 participants. i willical membership ates in a competition about who can build the strongest bridge out of spa gety and a pocks pocksi glue. >> laying out all the joints and making sure that — and gluing them together properly so they don’t break. >> the winning bridge held 14 kill grams. that’s almost 31 pounds of weight before it collapsed. some of the students said they are actually looking into a career in engineering in the future.

  Ch. 7. ABC
  http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp?StationID=290&DateTime=7/20/2018%205:25:49%20PM&playclip=true&pbc=search%3a%2b(spaghetti)
  tonight’s spotlight on education involves spaghetti. a spaghetti bridge to be exact. students around the region to part in a competition. the goal is to see who is bridge made of dried spaghetti is the strongest. weight is added to the bridges until they shatter. >> into beginning, i feel like many students are afraid of science and technology because they are afraid of failure. what if i fail? what if it does not do well? what if i do not do well? right? i tried to teach them getting involved is the most important idea. when you are involved and engaged, miracles can happen. alison: what a fun way to get involved. the local competition is one of 12 around the country involving 500 students. the event is the culmination of a four-week engineering program sponsored by johns hopkins university.

   

   

• 2018 Photos

  Click the link below to download photos from the 2018 Bridge Breaking Ceremony at the JHU Montgomery County Campus.

  https://secure.smugmug.com/downloads/517bfc23e6d68db0d1cc/10776364

• 2017 Media Coverage and Photos

  Click here for a story on Fox 5 DC about EI.

  Click here for a story on LocalDVM about EI.

  Click here for a story on DCW50 about EI.

  Here are photos from the Spaghetti Bridge Competition.

• 2016 Media Coverage

  Engineering Innovation program highlighted in the Washington Business Journal!

  WBJ Engineering Innovation 8.12.16

• 2014 Photos

  Click the link below to find photos from Engineering Innovation 2014 at the JHU Montgomery County Campus.

  http://mcc.jhu.edu/media/photo-gallery/#

• 2014 Media Coverage

  Click this link to see an article written by Ellen Politlove about Engineering Innovation for the JHU Montgomery County Campus website

  http://mcc.jhu.edu/news/future-engineers-noodle-around

   

  Click this link to see an article by Montgomery Community Media

  http://www.mymcmedia.org/future-engineers-use-their-noodles-to-build-bridges-from-spaghetti/

   

  Click this link to see the Spaghetti Bridge discussed on NBC Channel 4

  http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp?StationID=280&DateTime=7/25/2014%204:41:38%20AM&playclip=true

• 2015 Photos

  

   

   

  
  

   
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

   

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

   

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• 2015 Media Coverage

  Germantown Pulse Article – Summer Program Encourages Engineering Students to Build, Wreck Bridges

  Montgomery County Media. “5 Things to Know Today, July 24^th, in Montgomery County”
  http://www.mymcmedia.org/five-things-to-know-july-24-in-montgomery-county/
  

  4. Engineering Crash Course: About 35 area high school students will compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation at Johns Hopkins University’s Rockville campus today. Kilo by kilo, students will add weight to the bridges until they shatter.

  Washington Post. “Engineers Use their Noodles at Engineering Summer Program” 
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-use-their-noodles-at-summer-engineering-program/2015/07/24/2027959e-3144-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html

  Johns Hopkins University — Montgomery County Website: Future Engineers Strain Spaghetti “One by one, students watched their final projects fall apart. That was by design.”

  Channel 9 – WUSA News Feature (Video): “STEM is cool: Pasta Engineers”