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Graduate students earn AMPT Center's first Resiliency Awards Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021
Of the five recipients, four come from Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Jumet receives AATCC grant for soft wearable device fabrication Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
First-year PhD student in Preston Innovation Lab will be funded for $1,100.

Thanks to Rice Engineering, Bill Smoot '83 likes to get his hands dirty Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
The mechanical engineering alumnus's company WET Engineering deals in waterparks and water treatment.

How Rice Eclipse built a competition rocket during a pandemic Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
Kimberly Rodriguez '22 on preparing for the largest intercollegiate rocketry competition in the world.

OwlSat CubeSat earns Technical Project of the Year from SEDS Friday, Nov. 20, 2020
Rice SEDS chapter developed small research satellite to serve as payloads in future launches.

Preston to study how temperatures affect the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020
Assistant professor has received a $159,000 National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant for project.

Senior receives honorable mention in USRA's Distinguished Undergraduate Awards Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020
For second year in a row, Ryan Udell honored for leadership in aerospace engineering and space science.

Kenji Takizawa elected as ASME fellow Monday, Oct. 26, 2020
Adjunct professor works with the research group of Tayfun Tezduyar.

O'Malley named ASME's Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Nyquist Lecturer for 2020 Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020
'Haptics: A Hot Topic with Controls at its Core' lecture delivered during Oct.5-7 conference.