通过基础机械工程课程开发出机械工程基础知识的扎实背景后，学生便可以学习生物力学。力学的本质是力与运动之间的相互作用。在生物学中，力学在宏观，细胞和亚细胞水平上都很重要。在宏观尺度上，软组织和硬组织的生物力学在计算机集成的手术系统和技术（例如医疗机器人）中都起着重要作用。在细胞水平上，诸如细胞运动性和趋化性的问题可以建模为机械现象。在亚细胞水平上，可以使用分子动力学模拟对生物大分子中的构象转变进行建模，无非就是计算牛顿力学，统计力学或依赖于材料力学原理的粗粒度技术。
As a mechanical engineering major, youll build competence in the analysis, design, and modeling of fluid and solid systems while developing social and economic context and the communication skills necessary to excel. Our graduates are a select group of science-oriented engineers who become leaders among their peers in the best graduate programs in engineering, science, medical schools, law schools, and in industry, government laboratories, and other organizations.<br>As one of this nation's premier universities, Johns Hopkins provides outstanding students with an exceptional education through instruction by world-class faculty and access to cutting-edge research. Personal one-on-one advising allows our students to develop close relationships with our faculty. Our students join other outstanding, motivated, and professionally oriented colleagues with whom they study and work.<br>A student may specialize in Biomechanics once a solid background in the fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering has been developed through the basic Mechanical Engineering courses. The essence of mechanics is the interplay between forces and motion. In biology, mechanics is important at the macroscopic, cellular, and subcellular levels.<br>At the macroscopic length scale biomechanics of both soft and hard tissues plays an important role in computer-integrated surgical systems and technologies, e.g., medical robotics. At the cellular level, issues such as cell motility and chemotaxis can be modeled as mechanical phenomena. At the subcellular level, conformational transitions in biological macromolecules can be modeled using molecular dynamics simulation, which is nothing more than computational Newtonian mechanics, statistical mechanics, or using coarse-grained techniques that rely on principles from the mechanics of materials.