Eighteen Rice undergrads complete RCEL Certificate in Engineering Leadership! Check out where our seniors are heading after graduation!
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From the Student Director: Start your own leadership journey here at Rice with RCEL!
Being a leader is not about being perfect from the day you step foot on Rice campus. It requires learning and growing from your mistakes, and RCEL provides the opportunity to do so. The leadership labs and role-play scenarios in the classroom allow you to take risks with creative problem solving, practice project management, and see what skills work for you.
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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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Congratulations 2021 Graduates!
Twelve Rice undergrads complete RCEL Certificate in Engineering Leadership! Check out where our seniors are heading after graduation!
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Rice approves new Master of Engineering Management and Leadership degree
The Rice University Faculty Senate has approved the creation of a new professional master’s degree program in the George R. Brown School of Engineering, the Master of Engineering Management and Leadership (MEML), to become available to students beginning in the fall.
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RCEL announces winners of the 2021 Parks Prize and the RCEL Award for Engineering Leadership
The virtual event was sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) and the Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease law firm, which has offices in seven cities in the United States, including Houston. Three patent attorneys and two patent agents — both Rice graduates — from the firm served as instructors.
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RCEL event introduces engineering students to patent law
The virtual event was sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) and the Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease law firm, which has offices in seven cities in the United States, including Houston. Three patent attorneys and two patent agents — both Rice graduates — from the firm served as instructors.
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How computer science taught this Navy officer to solve problems at sea
Lieutenant Junior Grade Emma Gray had no interest in computer science when she arrived at Rice University in 2013 on a Naval ROTC scholarship.
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RCEL course allows students to explore career options with industry leaders
“Our goal at the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) was to create an environment where students can learn technical and leadership skills at an elite, Rice-like, online engineering camp, one with a low student-teacher ratio,” said C. Fred Higgs III, RCEL faculty director, vice provost for academic affairs and John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
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New technology TA positions empower students to partner with professors
Based on his experience transitioning to dual-delivery classes when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the spring, Tom Phalen — a Professor in the Practice in the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) — knew the juggling act that hybrid courses demand: delivering quality material in class while also managing the technical aspects of online learning tools like Canvas and Zoom.
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