Joseph Urso, senior in chemical engineering, has won the 2023 Robert H. Parks Prize for Engineering Leadership. Derin Okunubi, senior in civil and environmental engineering, has won the 2023 RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership. Read on to learn more about these amazing student leaders!
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Virtual Rice ELITE Tech Camp 2021 sees increased enrollment, introduces scholarship opportunity to tech-minded high schoolers
In its second year, Rice ELITE Tech Summer camp increased enrollment to 360 students, with students joining from 27 states and three countries. The camp, which ran four consecutive weeks in June, also introduced scholarship opportunities to Houston-area students, with 60 students joining camp through this program.
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RCEL announces winners of the 2021 Parks Prize and the RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership
The virtual event was sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) and the Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease law firm, which has offices in seven cities in the United States, including Houston. Three patent attorneys and two patent agents — both Rice graduates — from the firm served as instructors.
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Lindsey Witte awarded RCEL’s Parks Prize
April 17, 2015 –Patrick Kurp, Engineering Communications Lindsey Witte, a senior in chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE), has been awarded the Robert H. Parks Jr. Prize for Excellence in Engineering Leadership by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL). The prize of $3,500 is awarded annually to a graduating senior who displays exceptional leadership as […]
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Adrian Bizzaro honored by RCEL
April 17, 2015 –Patrick Kurp, Engineering Communications Adrian Bizzaro, a senior graduating in mechanical engineering, has received the 2015 Engineering Leadership Award from the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership. Among those recommending Bizzaro for the RCEL award was Pedro J. Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Engineering and chair of civil and environmental engineering […]
Continue readingTolulope Akinwumi honored by RCEL
April 21, 2014 –Patrick Kurp, Engineering Communications Tolulope “Tolu” Akinwumi, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Rice University, has received the 2014 Rice Center for Engineering Leadership Achievement Award. In December, Akinwumi earned bachelor’s degrees in environmental engineering and managerial studies from Rice, and he expects to get his master’s in […]
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