Students Katie Hart, junior, mechanical engineering, and Jackson Hughes, junior, materials science and nanoengineering, traveled to Lockheed Martin headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, to compete in the sixth annual Ethics in Engineering Competition that took place Feb. 28 to March 3, 2023. David Van Kleeck, Professor in the Practice, and Professor George Webb traveled with the team as mentors.
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RCEL announces winners of the 2022 Parks Prize and the RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership
Juan De La Garza, senior in chemical engineering, has won the 2022 Robert H. Parks Prize for Engineering Leadership. Jade McAdams, senior in mechanical engineering, has won the 2022 RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership. Read on to learn more about these amazing student leaders!
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C. Fred Higgs III joins MECH and RCEL
Patrick Kurp, Rice Engineering Communications C. Fred Higgs III leaves a trail of acronyms wherever he goes. There’s PFTL, his Particle Flow and Tribology Lab at Carnegie Mellon. There’s his philosophy of mentoring student researchers – the RTFS Engine, short for Research, Teaching, Funding, Service. And there’s RCEL, the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, where […]
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