“Our goal at the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) was to create an environment where students can learn technical and leadership skills at an elite, Rice-like, online engineering camp, one with a low student-teacher ratio,” said C. Fred Higgs III, RCEL faculty director, vice provost for academic affairs and John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
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From the Student Director: RCEL shows you how to develop the leader in YOU.
There isn’t just one type of leader, and RCEL teaches you that from the beginning. In RCEL classes, you’ll learn a lot about your personal attributes, and you’ll use that information as you develop into the kind of engineering leader that works best for you. Furthermore, whether your goal is to enter industry, academia, entrepreneurship, or research, RCEL can support you and will give you the tools to succeed in those pathways.
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RCEL’s online camp offers high school students technical, leadership skills
“Our goal at the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) was to create an environment where students can learn technical and leadership skills at an elite, Rice-like, online engineering camp, one with a low student-teacher ratio,” said C. Fred Higgs III, RCEL faculty director, vice provost for academic affairs and John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
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RCEL Tip Tuesday: What’s Next? Exploring your next job, Part 2
In Part I of this article, we discussed two core principles of networking and two specific tools you can use to connect directly to specific people, even while traditional networking events are on hold. Today we review a few online tools that will help you broaden and deepen your network while building your personal brand.
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RCEL Tip Tuesday: What’s Next? Exploring your next job, Part 1
In Part I of this article, we discussed two core principles of networking and two specific tools you can use to connect directly to specific people, even while traditional networking events are on hold. Today we review a few online tools that will help you broaden and deepen your network while building your personal brand.
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“A dream worth giving oxygen to…”
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was pinned down by two Minneapolis, Minnesota police officers, as a third one kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until he was dead. The victim was African American, handcuffed and unarmed, and the police officers were White. A fourth police officer stood guard to prevent interference from pleading civilian onlookers. Although safely tucked away for days in my home due to COVID-19, one can imagine that it still did not take long for me to feel the existential threat here because when they called in Mr. Floyd’s description – Black, 6-4, around 220 pounds – they were calling in my same description.
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RCEL Tip Tuesday: Leadership in the Movies
In Part I of this article, we discussed two core principles of networking and two specific tools you can use to connect directly to specific people, even while traditional networking events are on hold. Today we review a few online tools that will help you broaden and deepen your network while building your personal brand.
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RCEL Tip Tuesday: Networking in the Time of COVID-19: Part II
In Part I of this article, we discussed two core principles of networking and two specific tools you can use to connect directly to specific people, even while traditional networking events are on hold. Today we review a few online tools that will help you broaden and deepen your network while building your personal brand.
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RCEL Tip Tuesday: Networking in the Time of COVID-19: Part I
Professional networking has not stopped at all; it has simply shifted gears. While business lunches and happy hours are no longer on the calendar, opportunities for networking are as available as ever.
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Rice reacts to critical shortage of COVID-19 protective gear
What began as a 3D printing effort initiated by Fred Higgs, faculty director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), has gathered tremendous momentum and is scaling up with the goal of producing up to 600,000 face shields.
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