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Rambod Mojgani

MECH postdoc Rambod Mojgani named a Future Faculty Fellow Friday, Sep. 16, 2022

Rice Engineering program supports Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers who are applying for tenure-track faculty positions this year.


Geoff Wehmeyer headshot

Wehmeyer team receives $1.5m PIRE grant from NSF Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022

Project’s goal is to build partnerships between Japan, U.S. researchers investigating large-scale materials made from oriented carbon nanotubes.


Yıldız Bayazıtoğlu

Heat and Mass Transfer symposium dedicated to Bayazıtoğlu Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022

International event hosted in Rice professor's native Turkey.


Eunice Aissi, Ozioma Ozor-Ilo and Alisa Webb in graduation gowns

These three Rice grads are MIT-bound Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2022

Each with a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rice, Eunice Aissi, Ozioma Ozor-Ilo and Alisa Webb are headed to Cambridge for graduate school.


Headshots of Justin Porter and Te Faye Yap

PhD students Porter, Yap awarded for outstanding research Monday, Jun. 6, 2022

Department's Emmett T. and Geraldyne Smith Roberts Award comes with $4,000 prize.


Headshot of Matthew Brake

Matthew Brake earns promotion to associate professor Wednesday, May. 18, 2022

Mechanical engineering professor is among six Rice Engineering faculty members to be promoted in 2022.


Detail of equipment in mechanical engineering lab

Rice Mechanical Engineering refurbishes lab space amid growth Tuesday, May. 17, 2022

Infrastructure problems leads to equipment upgrades.


Doris Xu

Rice senior wins best poster presentation at IEEE robotics symposium Monday, May. 9, 2022

Doris Xu presented “A Textile-Based Approach to Wearable Haptic Devices” at the International Symposium on Medical Robotics.


Daniel Preston in lab

Preston wins NSF Career Award Thursday, May. 5, 2022

Assistant professor is the latest of eight young researchers in Rice Engineering to receive prestigious honor.