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Rice MECH alumnus elected president-elect of Canadian Academy of Engineering Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021
Soheil Asgarpour '81 serves as president of the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada.
Shimokusu receives NASA Space Technologies Graduate research fellowship Friday, Jan. 29, 2021
Second-year graduate student's proposal is titled 'Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes for Spacecraft Thermal Control.'
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.