The Research Enterprise - Graduate Students

Graduate students are the lifeblood of university research labs. They work on problems that may have a direct effect on people's lives tomorrow or in twenty years. It is their inquisitiveness, inventiveness and energy that lead to the solution of some of sociey's thorniest problems. Graduate students delve deeply into narrow areas of research and demonstrate their expertise through their dissertations. Here are some examples of what Rice engineering graduate students are working on.