Four proposals by six members of the George R. Brown School of Engineering faculty are recipients of the 2017 Hamill Innovation Awards from the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) at Rice University.
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M. Cynthia Hipwell B.S. '92, is among the recipients of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s 2017-18 Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI), a program aimed at attracting exceptional researchers to the state.
Tayfun Tezduyar, the James F. Barbour Professor of Mechanical Engineering (MECH) at Rice University, will receive the 2018 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award from the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Jing Gu, a junior in mechanical engineering, spent her summer working as a research intern at two universities in Japan. Now she has "a deeper understanding of computational fluid dynamics, and a clearer direction for the future.â€
From undergrads to postdocs, students spent their summer on the Rice University campus in a mechanical engineering program in Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Structures and Interfaces.
U.S., Italian researchers test 'proprioceptive' feedback with skin-stretch device.
He has received $5 million grant by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to research personalized computer models to predict surgical outcomes for bone-cancer patients.
“We wanted to create an artistic exhibit that shows the real-time position of the sun and moon, connecting their locations to the location of the user. We wanted to bring people closer to the sun and moon.â€
Drew Petty and Kelly Kidder are the 2017 recipients of the RCEL Leadership Award and the Parks Prize, respectively.
Rigging standard dumbbells to keep a user from getting hurt during a solo workout is pretty smart. So the Rice University students who invented the system call themselves “Smart Bells.â€