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RCEL takes leadership role-playing online Monday, Mar. 30, 2020
'Self-Awareness and the Engineering Leader' is first course many students take to earn RCEL certificate.

How Caleb Kemere is providing students a remote 'hands-on' experience Thursday, Mar. 26, 2020
For his ELEC 327 lesson, he returned to an artifact of his own childhood — Simon, the electronic memory game introduced in 1978.

Bioengineering's Tabor named AIMBE Fellow Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2020
Rice professor recognized for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.'

Rob Griffin to serve as Rice Engineering interim dean Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2020
On July 1, the current dean, Reginald DesRoches, will take office as the provost of Rice University.

Pearson named to ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission Friday, Mar. 20, 2020
Rice associate dean has been a program evaluator for the EAC since 2013.

How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online Thursday, Mar. 19, 2020
ELEC 220 is a required course for all ECE and computer science majors at Rice University.

In response to COVID-19, OpenStax sees surge in new users Thursday, Mar. 19, 2020
Since March 11, more than 27,000 accounts have been created on the Rice University-based publisher of free online texts

Engineering faculty Biswal, Sabharwal named to endowed chairs Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2020
Biswal leads Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory, and Sabharwal is founder of Wireless Open-Access Research Platform.

Rice Engineering graduate programs rank in U.S. News top 30 for 2021 Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020
The George R. Brown School of Engineering ties for 33rd among the nation’s top 160 engineering graduate schools.