Partnerships


Key Partnership Benefits

As part of our commitment to advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven research and workforce development, the ADAM NRT program actively cultivates partnerships with industry to co-create solutions to real-world challenges. These collaborations empower our partners to leverage the program’s access to a diverse talent pool of doctoral trainees and world-class faculty whose research spans artificial intelligence, data science, and domain-specific modeling. By engaging with ADAM NRT, industry collaborators can explore research topics of mutual interest, benefit from our cutting-edge computational facilities and laboratories, and accelerate innovation through joint problem-solving. Sponsoring research projects not only fuels technological advancement but also helps shape the future of data-driven leadership across sectors.
  • Harness the exceptional expertise of Hopkins faculty

  • Evaluate the feasibility of innovative methods and new technologies

  • Remain at the forefront of technology with access to groundbreaking approaches

  • Work with talented Master’s, PhD or postdoc candidates, who may become future employees

Public-Private Partnerships

We actively seek participation in public-private partnerships to bolster regional and national innovation, infrastructure, workforce training, and economic development. Johns Hopkins offers state-of-the-art research programs and facilities and a diverse, talented student body to support the symbiotic activities of a public-private partnership. We invite you to tap into Hopkins’ intellectual capital to develop and form impactful collaborations that advance your company’s needs and influence global change.
  • Leverage the expertise and resources of Hopkins and public partners

  • De-risk technology development and evaluate the feasibility of innovative methods

  • Strengthen brand awareness and connections across national and global networks

  • Collaborate with talented students and help develop the next-generation workforce

Internships

Provides students with career training while they are employed, where they gain industry experience, build a professional network, and gain technical and non-technical skills that are in high demand. The experience includes exposure to real-world industrial challenges such as operations, pilot plants, safety and environmental management, and regulatory affairs. Participating organizations gain access to student talent and can build relationships with students for future employment opportunities.
  • Access to Advanced Knowledge and Skills

  • Pipeline for Talent

  • Support for R&D Projects

  • Early exposure to emerging technologies

  • Diversity of Thought

Capstone

Capstone projects are integral to the student learning experience and are required for many degree programs. These projects involve the intersection of theory and practice as students work to address real-world challenges. We invite you to propose a project and supervise students. Overall, the experience is much like an apprenticeship—students learn to work in teams, meet deadlines, manage projects, and apply critical thinking to problems that offer actual solutions.
  • Explore innovative ideas that go beyond the immediate scope or resource allocation of the organization

  • Establish a campus presence and showcase your unique company culture

  • Tap into a pool of skilled students who could become future employees

  • Engage with the next generation of leadersAccess to Advanced Knowledge and Skills

Lifelong Learning

Johns Hopkins Engineering Lifelong Learning offers flexible education for the working professional. Learners can choose from one- to four-day courses offered in both synchronous online and in-person formats as well as asynchronous online courses lasting four to 16 weeks. Programs are led by renowned JHU faculty members and experts in their fields. Our highly contextualized learning experience allows participants to apply what they learn in the course today to their workplace tomorrow.

Custom and Executive Education: Our customizable executive education programs provide an intensive, strategic, and technical overview of an engineering topic over the span of one to four days. JHU instructional designers can customize the learning experience and outcomes to meet an organization’s specific needs. These programs are designed for executive leaders and managers across industries including C-suite executives, division directors, and project team leads. Because these custom courses are built for your organization, we can deliver them in the preferred modality, including synchronous online, hybrid, and in person at JHU’s conferencing facilities, and onsite at the partner location. Executive education topics include leading AI-enabled organizations, cybersecurity for decision-makers, and systems thinking and engineering. Attendees earn 0.1 continuing education units (CEUs) per hour of instruction.

Professional Education: Our professional education courses allow learners to reskill and upskill in critical topics. Our courses meet learners where they are by offering foundational, intermediate, advanced, and for-credit equivalent courses. These courses are delivered in multiple modalities—asynchronous online, synchronous online, hybrid, and fully in person. Professional education topics can be developed in conjunction with your organization.