As part of an ongoing partnership with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), a delegation of four Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) Certificate students traveled to Liverpool, England over spring break to get a new cultural perspective on leadership and university life. The trip was a follow-up to the visit to Rice previously made by […]
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Rice entrepreneurs meet successful and up-and-coming startups on Ignite 2017 Silicon Valley Trek
On the 2017 Ignite Silicon Valley Trek, 55 Rice graduate and undergraduate students met and learned from some of the most successful and up-and-coming entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Students visited over a dozen companies, including Square, Parsable, AirBNB, LendUp, Tesla, Maana, Benchmark Capital, BOX, Proteus, 23&Me, Five Prime, and 5am Ventures. The intense immersion experience included company visits […]
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RCEL sends student to Hatton W. Sumners Student Leadership Conference in Austin, Texas
In February, RCEL sponsored Eduard Danalache, a sophomore studying computer science, to attend the Hatton W. Sumners Student Leadership Conference in Austin, Texas. The Sumners Leadership Conference is coordinated by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on developing the leadership potential of current students […]
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RCEL students experience new perspectives of leadership at US Naval Academy and West Point conferences
Above: (R-L) Rachel Nguyen, Saurabh Harohalli, and David Van Kleeck at the USNA Leadership Conference Every year, RCEL sponsors students to attend national leadership conferences to expose them to new and different perspectives of leadership. This year, students attended the United States Naval Academy (USNA) Leadership Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as National Conference on […]
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RCEL students host Boba & Board Game Study Break
On Monday evening, the RCEL Student Engagement Committee hosted a Boba & Board Game Study Break for all current RCEL certificate program students. Over 40 students came together to play board games like Banana Gram and Settlers of Catan, sip boba tea, and get to know each other. “Our goal was to show people that RCEL […]
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Layton Scholarship winners combine engineering, arts
Originally posted on engineering.rice.edu Monday, February 6, 2017 Holly Beretto, Engineering Communications Donaldo Almazan and Isaac Phillips are the winners of this year’s Phil Layton Scholarships. Almazan is a junior chemical engineering major and Phillips is a senior mechanical engineer. The scholarship is awarded annually to engineering students who have made significant contributions not only […]
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RCEL leads leadership training at Fort Benning in Georgia
In January, RCEL Executive Director Kaz Karwowski and David Van Kleeck, Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership, traveled to the US Army’s Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia to conduct a leadership training for soldiers and staff at Martin Army Community Hospital. More than 50 participants attended the two-day workshop.While on the base, Karwowski and Van Kleeck visited the parachute training jump towers that are used […]
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Rice’s Fred Higgs makes leaders
Originally posted on HoustonChronicle.com Teaching engineers to see the big picture By Kyrie O’Connor December 13, 2016 C. Fred Higgs III remembers the day, in third grade, that he got an A+ in math. “It drove me, the way adults reacted,” he says now. Education was paramount in the Higgs household in Tallahassee, Fla., and both of […]
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REA Trivia Night tests Rice student/alumni smarts!
“Baker College was established as one of the four original residential colleges at Rice University in the fall of 1957. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street – name the first Sherlock Holmes novel published in 1887.”Though the evening was a bit chilly, over 45 Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) members and Rice engineering students […]
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ECE dominates Screech 2016
November 10, 2016 Patrick Kurp, Engineering Communications Originally posted by Rice Engineering Communications The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) almost swept the field at the fifth-annual Screech Competition, sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL). Seven of the 13 participants who pitched their research in 90-second bursts were graduate students from […]
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