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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.

O'Malley named ASME's Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Nyquist Lecturer for 2020 Wed, 10/14/2020 - 09:21
'Haptics: A Hot Topic with Controls at its Core' lecture delivered during Oct.5-7 conference.

Three MECH students, alumni named 2020 Fellows of the National GEM Consortium Thu, 09/03/2020 - 09:33
GEM has supported more than 4,000 Fellows from underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science.

How this SVP at Caterpillar acquired engineering fundamentals at Rice Fri, 07/17/2020 - 08:35
Tom Pellette '86 is responsible for the company's Solar Turbines subsidiary and serves as a strategic adviser.

Kuraishi to receive Young Investigator Award from Japan Association for Computational Mechanics Mon, 06/08/2020 - 03:11
Research associate works in Tezduyar's Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling.

Meet Adam Gottlieb, new president of Rice Engineering Alumni Thu, 04/30/2020 - 03:16
Mechanical engineering alumnus looks toward helping Rice students.