Rice Engineering empowers the next generation of leaders with strong technical and data science skills, creative problem solving and the ability to integrate across disciplines to solve problems.
Research Focus Areas
For more than half a century, since researchers at Rice University helped design the world’s first artificial heart, Rice engineers have worked in the vanguard of human health and medicine. Learn more about Engineering & Medicine.
Materials science at Rice has a history of discovery and innovation, going back to the discovery of buckyballs in 1985. Learn more about Molecular Nanotechnology and Materials.
At the epicenter of the world’s oil and gas industry, Rice engineers are designing and implementing solutions to the world’s growing energy needs. Learn more about Energy & the Environment.
Artificial intelligence (AI) at Rice University draws on computer science, mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and other disciplines. Learn more about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
By 2050, according to the United Nations, 68 percent of the human race will live in urban areas, representing an additional 2.5 billion people. Learn more about Cities of the Future.