After being cancelled in 2020, COVID restrictions and ever changing weather couldn’t keep teams of engineering undergrads from taking on the Splashdown challenge! Four teams worked through rain and shine to create cardboard crafts to cross the Rice Rec Center competition pool with varying success. RCEL Student Leadership worked hard to bring the spring recruiting event to life amid the ever changing COVID restrictions, and pulled off a successful event! Way to go team!
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RCEL event introduces engineering students to patent law
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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How computer science taught this Navy officer to solve problems at sea
Lieutenant Junior Grade Emma Gray had no interest in computer science when she arrived at Rice University in 2013 on a Naval ROTC scholarship.
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RCEL course allows students to explore career options with industry leaders
“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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Inside look at one university’s unique Covid approach – NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
Rice University in Houston has turned five open-air tents into classrooms. Each accommodates 25 to 30 students with space to social distance, and cameras record the classes for students learning at home. The school’s positivity rate has been 0.1% since August.
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New technology TA positions empower students to partner with professors
Based on his experience transitioning to dual-delivery classes when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the spring, Tom Phalen — a Professor in the Practice in the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) — knew the juggling act that hybrid courses demand: delivering quality material in class while also managing the technical aspects of online learning tools like Canvas and Zoom.
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Ethical Decisions: The Engineer’s Responsibility Panel Discussion
This year, the RCEL Ethics Panel is going virtual! Panelists from Houston and across the country will come together to discuss the role of of ethics and ethical decision making in their respective experiences and industries. JOIN THE CONVERSATION – Register and join here: https://rb.gy/udmx2f
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Rice University incorporates outdoor classrooms into in-person teaching amid COVID-19
When Rice University decided months ago students and professors would return to in-class instruction in the fall, the university built four outdoor classrooms to adhere to coronavirus-related health precautions. So far students and professors are giving the hi-tech fabric structures a passing grade.
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An inside look at Rice’s outdoor classrooms for in-person classes
“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’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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