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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RCEL sends team to represent Rice University at Lockheed Martin’s Sixth Annual Ethics in Engineering Competition
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.
Continue readingCongratulations 2022 Graduates!
Eighteen Rice undergrads complete RCEL Certificate in Engineering Leadership! Check out where our seniors are heading after graduation!
Continue readingFrom the Student Director: Start your own leadership journey here at Rice with RCEL!
Being a leader is not about being perfect from the day you step foot on Rice campus. It requires learning and growing from your mistakes, and RCEL provides the opportunity to do so. The leadership labs and role-play scenarios in the classroom allow you to take risks with creative problem solving, practice project management, and see what skills work for you.
Continue readingVirtual 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.
Continue readingCongratulations 2021 Graduates!
Twelve Rice undergrads complete RCEL Certificate in Engineering Leadership! Check out where our seniors are heading after graduation!
Continue readingRice approves new Master of Engineering Management and Leadership degree
The Rice University Faculty Senate has approved the creation of a new professional master’s degree program in the George R. Brown School of Engineering, the Master of Engineering Management and Leadership (MEML), to become available to students beginning in the fall.
Continue readingRCEL 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.
Continue readingRCEL 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.
Continue readingHow 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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