Rice doctoral student among 'rising stars' in mechanical engineering Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:37

Te Faye Yap, who works in the Preston Innovation Laboratory, was one of 32 students, postdocs to attend Stanford workshop.

MECH postdoc Rambod Mojgani named a Future Faculty Fellow Fri, 09/16/2022 - 10:00

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

Wehmeyer team receives $1.5m PIRE grant from NSF Wed, 09/14/2022 - 13:22

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

Heat and Mass Transfer symposium dedicated to Bayazıtoğlu Wed, 07/20/2022 - 15:27

International event hosted in Rice professor's native Turkey.

These three Rice grads are MIT-bound Wed, 06/15/2022 - 13:39

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.

PhD students Porter, Yap awarded for outstanding research Mon, 06/06/2022 - 08:54

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

Matthew Brake earns promotion to associate professor Wed, 05/18/2022 - 08:41

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

Rice Mechanical Engineering refurbishes lab space amid growth Tue, 05/17/2022 - 10:28

Infrastructure problems leads to equipment upgrades.

Rice senior wins best poster presentation at IEEE robotics symposium Mon, 05/09/2022 - 11:14

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

Preston wins NSF Career Award Thu, 05/05/2022 - 16:08

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