RCEL students, faculty, staff, and alumni came together on April 18 to celebrate another great year at RCEL and enjoy gourmet tacos and sides at Brockman Hall Portico at Rice University. RCEL Faculty Director Fred Higgs, III, PhD, welcomed the group to the event. He and Executive Director Kaz Karwowski then recognized the outgoing senior class, […]
Continue readingTag Archives: Fred Higgs
Rice’s Higgs to testify before Congress Wednesday
MEDIA ADVISORY David Ruth 713-348-6327 david@rice.edu Rice’s Higgs to testify before Congress Wednesday HOUSTON – (June 23, 2017) – Rice University’s Fred Higgs, the John and Ann Doerr Professor in Mechanical Engineering, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, will testify before the U.S. House Committee on […]
Continue readingRice’s Fred Higgs makes leaders
Originally posted on HoustonChronicle.com Teaching engineers to see the big picture By Kyrie O’Connor December 13, 2016 C. Fred Higgs III remembers the day, in third grade, that he got an A+ in math. “It drove me, the way adults reacted,” he says now. Education was paramount in the Higgs household in Tallahassee, Fla., and both of […]
Continue readingC. Fred Higgs III joins MECH and RCEL
Patrick Kurp, Rice Engineering Communications C. Fred Higgs III leaves a trail of acronyms wherever he goes. There’s PFTL, his Particle Flow and Tribology Lab at Carnegie Mellon. There’s his philosophy of mentoring student researchers – the RTFS Engine, short for Research, Teaching, Funding, Service. And there’s RCEL, the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, where […]
Continue reading