Rice MECH alumnus elected president-elect of Canadian Academy of Engineering Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:11

Soheil Asgarpour '81 serves as president of the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada.

Shimokusu receives NASA Space Technologies Graduate research fellowship Fri, 01/29/2021 - 09:36

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 Tue, 01/12/2021 - 13:14

Of the five recipients, four come from Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Jumet receives AATCC grant for soft wearable device fabrication Tue, 12/08/2020 - 13:17

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 Fri, 12/04/2020 - 12:23

The mechanical engineering alumnus's company WET Engineering deals in waterparks and water treatment.

How Rice Eclipse built a competition rocket during a pandemic Wed, 12/02/2020 - 08:05

Kimberly Rodriguez '22 on preparing for the largest intercollegiate rocketry competition in the world.

OwlSat CubeSat earns Technical Project of the Year from SEDS Fri, 11/20/2020 - 09:16

Rice SEDS chapter developed small research satellite to serve as payloads in future launches.

Preston to study how temperatures affect the COVID-19 pandemic Thu, 11/12/2020 - 00:00

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 Tue, 11/10/2020 - 12:28

For second year in a row, Ryan Udell honored for leadership in aerospace engineering and space science.

Kenji ​​​​​​​Takizawa elected as ASME fellow Mon, 10/26/2020 - 12:29

Adjunct professor works with the research group of Tayfun Tezduyar.