PROPEL Program at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 3, 2026

Applications are open for the PROPEL Program at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering 2026. The Promoting Research Opportunities in Engineering Labs (PROPEL) at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering is a totally funded eight-week residential summer time program designed to extend publicity to analysis careers and graduate training for promising undergraduate college students.

The PROPEL program is an immersive analysis expertise, mentorship, graduate faculty preparation, skilled improvement and collaborative alternatives to ignite their ardour for leading edge engineering analysis. Students from below resourced backgrounds are strongly inspired to apply, as are these from educational establishments with restricted analysis alternatives in STEM.

Over eight weeks, individuals will conduct analysis with a college mentor and take part in actions that may put together them for fulfillment in graduate faculty, together with workshops on scientific writing, presentation expertise and networking. Highlights embrace:

• Interactive {and professional} improvement workshops
• Hands on analysis tasks
• Guided mentorship
• Weekly seminars and social actions
• Social actions and group constructing
• Baltimore and DC excursions

Benefits

• Participants in PROPEL obtain housing, a aggressive stipend, meal plan and spherical-journey journey to Baltimore.
• All college students will likely be housed on campus with easy accessibility to purchasing, meals and public transportation.

Eligibility

• Be at the moment enrolled full-time in an accredited public or personal faculty or college within the United States, or its territories as acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Education
• Good educational standing with a GPA of 3.0 or higher
• Have accomplished at least two semesters and have at least one semester remaining of their undergraduate training by the beginning of the summer time program (rising juniors and rising seniors will likely be given precedence) 
• Have a real curiosity in pursuing a PhD in engineering 
• U.S. Citizen or everlasting resident
• International college students with an F-1 Visa who’re already residing within the United States and learning at a U.S. college are additionally eligible to apply
• Applicants have to be at least 18 years previous

Application

Application ought to embrace:

• Complete application type
• Research Statement – One web page – embrace analysis pursuits, prior analysis expertise and the way this program aligns together with your future targets. Review departmental websites and establish 2-3 college whose analysis aligns together with your analysis pursuits.
• Leadership Statement – One web page to explain your educational, management or service engagement that advances inclusive excellence or helps to scale back social, instructional, or financial disparities.
• Resume or CV
• One Letter of Recommendation – The letter have to be from a person that may converse to the candidates educational and analysis expertise (college member, analysis mentor/supervisor, and so forth.)
• Unofficial Transcripts – Include all semesters up to now.

The applicant is accountable for making certain that your entire application package deal, together with one letter of suggestion and unofficial transcript(s), is acquired by Tuesday February third, 2026.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to PROPEL Program.