A team of Rice University engineering students has won this year’s national Ethics in Engineering Case Competition hosted by Lockheed Martin Corporation at their headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. The competition saw 75 teams from 67 universities across the country competing in a rigorous tournament-style challenge that tested the students’ technical knowledge as well as their communication and ethics acumen.
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RCEL announces winners of the 2023 Parks Prize and the RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership
Joseph Urso, senior in chemical engineering, has won the 2023 Robert H. Parks Prize for Engineering Leadership. Derin Okunubi, senior in civil and environmental engineering, has won the 2023 RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership. Read on to learn more about these amazing student leaders!
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Virtual Rice ELITE Tech Camp 2021 sees increased enrollment, introduces scholarship opportunity to tech-minded high schoolers
In its second year, Rice ELITE Tech Summer camp increased enrollment to 360 students, with students joining from 27 states and three countries. The camp, which ran four consecutive weeks in June, also introduced scholarship opportunities to Houston-area students, with 60 students joining camp through this program.
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Senior Spotlight 2017
Congratulations to RCEL Class of 2017! Thank you for your dedication and contributions to RCEL during your time in the program! Manuel Arenas Ruenes ’17Chemical EngineeringDallas, Texas Aida Castillo ’17Material Science and NanoEngineering Andrew Elsey ’17Mechanical EngineeringHP, Inc.Houston, Texas
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RCEL sends student to Hatton W. Sumners Student Leadership Conference in Austin, Texas
In February, RCEL sponsored Eduard Danalache, a sophomore studying computer science, to attend the Hatton W. Sumners Student Leadership Conference in Austin, Texas. The Sumners Leadership Conference is coordinated by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on developing the leadership potential of current students […]
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RCEL students experience new perspectives of leadership at US Naval Academy and West Point conferences
Above: (R-L) Rachel Nguyen, Saurabh Harohalli, and David Van Kleeck at the USNA Leadership Conference Every year, RCEL sponsors students to attend national leadership conferences to expose them to new and different perspectives of leadership. This year, students attended the United States Naval Academy (USNA) Leadership Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as National Conference on […]
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RCEL students host Boba & Board Game Study Break
On Monday evening, the RCEL Student Engagement Committee hosted a Boba & Board Game Study Break for all current RCEL certificate program students. Over 40 students came together to play board games like Banana Gram and Settlers of Catan, sip boba tea, and get to know each other. “Our goal was to show people that RCEL […]
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REA Trivia Night tests Rice student/alumni smarts!
“Baker College was established as one of the four original residential colleges at Rice University in the fall of 1957. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street – name the first Sherlock Holmes novel published in 1887.”Though the evening was a bit chilly, over 45 Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) members and Rice engineering students […]
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RCEL wins Rice Global E&C Forum 2016 Award for Excellence
Press release from the Rice Global Forum Rice Center for Engineering Leadership recognized for enriching engineering education HOUSTON—A program at Rice University that provides engineering students with leadership, team-participation, communication, and entrepreneurial skills not covered in traditional engineering curricula was named recipient of the 2016 Award for Excellence by the Rice Global Engineering & Construction […]
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Karwowski a keynote speaker at IEEC 2016
RCEL Executive Director Kaz Karwowski was a keynote speaker at the IEEC 2016 Conference at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, England on Thursday, September 8. IEEC is the leading global three day forum for enterprise and entrepreneurship educators and practitioners. According to the IEEC website, the conference “is highly regarded for its participatory style […]
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