Rice civil engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete. The material is cementless and environmentally friendly.
Rice civil engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete. The material is cementless and environmentally friendly.
Algorithms could simplify process of characterizing deposits underground.
The REA wants to raise $18k for a new 3-D printer at the Oshamn Engineering Design Kitchen.
Rice's PlinyCompute will be unveiled June 14 at the 2018 ACM SIGMOD conference. In a peer-reviewed conference paper, the team describes PlinyCompute as "a system purely for developing high-performance, big data codes."
In a paper appearing online this week and on the cover of July's issue of Nature Biotechnology, Rice's Caleb Bashor and colleagues from Boston University and MIT unveil eVOLVER, a system that combines the control of automated cell-culturing systems that can run continuously for months with the scale of high-throughput systems that grow dozens of cultures at once.
Carl Apple, whose work experience includes four years in the U.S. Army, 10 years as a television reporter and tenure as spokesman for a Roman Catholic diocese, will become the new director of communications for the George R. Brown School of Engineering, effective July 1.
