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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University combines high educational standards with research distinction and service to the community. Our faculty and students are at the forefront of making tomorrow’s technologies a reality, and the education that our students receive allows them to define and meet society’s grand challenges.

 

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Rice University, Texas Southern University and the University of Houston have won a National Science Foundation grant to help underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers in engineering and science.

Houston universities team up to boost minorities in academia

NSF grant to Rice, UH, Texas Southern will help future science, engineering professors.

Hannah Jackson and Will Yarinsky, senior engineering students at Rice University, make an adjustment to their device to help doctors secure rods that keep fractured bones in alignment as they heal.

Student-designed device would help fix fractured bones

Mechanical engineering, bioengineering seniors use magnets, tracking sensor to drill bone, insert screws in just the right spot.

3 from mechanical engineering win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Only 2,000 students of the more than 12,000 applicants across the country were offered fellowship award.

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Rice University, Texas Southern University and the University of Houston have won a National Science Foundation grant to help underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers in engineering and science.
Houston universities team up to boost minorities in academia
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President Kennedy and Rice President Kenneth Pitzer enter Rice Stadium on Sept. 12, 1962.
Lunar landscape at Rice continues to evolve
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Savannah Cofer
Savannah Cofer awarded AIAA scholarship
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Madison Nasteff
This senior is making every mile matter
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Rice University student Joshua Fleck gets ready to play a mechatronic-enhanced video game at the Moody Center for the Arts.
Art is what you mecha-make it
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Students blend engineering, space and medicine

Three students, two mechanical engineers and one bioengineer, spent the summer working in the Exploration Medicine Lab of the National Space Biomedical Resarech Institute.

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