Whiting School of Engineering

The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, commonly the Whiting School or WSE, is the engineering school of Johns Hopkins University, a privateresearch university in Baltimore, Maryland. The school traces its origin to a 1912 act of the Maryland General Assembly and accepted its first undergraduate class in 1913. It existed as the School of Engineering from 1919 until 1966, was absorbed into the School of Arts and Sciences for thirteen years, and was re-established in 1979 under its current name. It is based on the university's Homewood Campus and is organized into nine academic departments and an Engineering for Professionals division for part-time and online graduate study.