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The George R. Brown School of Engineering delivers world-class research, unsurpassed education and global impact.

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Student presenting their Senior Design Projects at the 2017 Engineering Design Showcase   |   Credit: Doni Soward, Rice University

Quick Facts

More than 60% of engineering undergrads have significant research experience by the time they graduate
Fall 2016 Enrollments: 1507 Undergrads, 934 Graduate Students
Among faculty are 10 members of the National Academies
U.S. News best colleges ranks Rice Engineering #18.
10 design teams won 12 international or national awards in 2015-16

News

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CPRIT grant brings epigenetics researcher to Rice


Bioengineer Isaac Hilton will join Rice University as an assistant professor with the support of a $2 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).

 
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Fregly to join MECH faculty

B.J. Fregly will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering with funding from Texas' CPRIT program. Fregly's research is on building computer models of individual patients that can simulate post-treatment patient function for a wide range of treatment options.

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Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award

Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Athena Lecturer Award.

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Reginald DesRoches named Dean of Engineering

Reginald DesRoches, chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will become dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering July 1.

First place team Ictal Inhibitors

ECE team Ictal Inhibitors wins Design Showcase

Ictal Inhibitors won the top prize in the George R. Brown Engineering Design Showcase held April 13 at Rice University’s Tudor Fieldhouse. The Excellence in Engineering Award brought with it a prize of $5,000. Team members are, left to right, Sarah Hooper, Erik Biegert, Justin Pensock, Marissa...

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Two young women work on a project together at the Tapia Camp for Physics
Tapia Camp helps students focus on science, communication
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Moshe Vardi
Vardi receives second ACM Presidential Award
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This scaled-up test bed of NEWT’s direct solar desalination technology uses carbon black nanoparticles that convert as much as 80 percent of sunlight energy into heat. Results from an earlier prototype showed the technology could produce as much as six liters of freshwater per hour per square meter of solar membrane.
Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
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Members of an OwlSpark team gather to discuss a project.
OwlSpark finds a new nest in downtown Houston
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Making blood vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
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Events

Title: On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Boolean SAT Solvers
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Wed, Jun 21 4:00 pm
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3076 Duncan Hall
Title: Advances in Tissue Engineering 2017
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Wed, Aug 9 8:00 am
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Auditorium BioScience Research Collaborative
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Title: Enhancing Programmability in Extreme-Scale Runtime Systems
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Fri, Jun 30 10:00 am
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Nick Vrvilo
Doctoral Candidate

Title: Exploring Tradeoffs in Parallel Implementations of C++ using Futures
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Fri, Jun 30 2:00 pm
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Jonathan Sharman
Masters Candidate

Title: Independence Day (Observed Holiday - No Classes)
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Mon, Jul 3 12:00 am
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Title: Independence Day (Holiday - No Classes)
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