Teaching and Research Labs at WSE | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health

Learning outside the classroom

Undergraduate Teaching Labs

Students on the Whiting School of Engineering campus have access to EHE’s two undergraduate teaching labs, more than 16 individual laboratories for environmental engineering research, and computers for scientific modeling. Each lab is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and equipment for its function. We are committed to adding and upgrading our labs.

Female student in blue lab coat watches closely a another student fills a beaker with red liquid

Major Instruments

Hands in black gloves placing something on a scale — Undergraduates in the Whiting School's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering use precision instruments to learn real-world lab practices.

Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer
Gas chromatography/mass spectrometer
Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
Ultracentrifuge
Capillary electrophoresis
Liquid-water isotope analyzer
Total organic carbon
Ion chromatography
UV-Vis spectrophotometer

Microbial Research Labs

The department has a biological safety level 2 (BSL-2) lab in Ames Hall with DNA research equipment. The lab also has a biological safety cabinet, a laminar flow hood, two ultra-centrifuges, and two -80 ºC freezers.

Limnology and Hydrology Labs

Our labs have a liquid-water isotope analyzer, artificial EMriver, fluid mechanic equipment, microscopes, and field equipment.