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About Engineering Research at Rice

Research Facts, Distinctions and News

Annual Research Expenditures 2008
$36 million

National Academy of Engineering Members
Michael Carroll, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
George Hirasaki, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bioengineering
Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Richard Tapia, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science

Recent NSF CAREER Award Recipients
2007: Michael Diehl, Bioengineering; Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Farinaz Koushanfar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2008: Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Kartik Mohanram, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Walid Taha, Computer Science; Wotao Yin, Computational and Applied Mathematics
2009: Daniel Cohan, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Oleg Igoshin, Bioengineering; Luay Nakhleh, Computer Science

U.S. News and World Report Rankings 2009
Graduate School Programs in Top 10:
Computer programming language specialty in computer science #9
Biomedical/bioengineering #9

Highly Cited Researchers
Behnaam Aazhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Daniel Sorensen, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science

Research Centers and Institutes

Engineering-related research centers and institutes