Researchers in mechanical engineering (MECH) at Rice University have won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Energy Sustainability of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), held July 10-12 in Washington,Continue reading

Kashif Liaqat, a second-year PhD. student in mechanical engineering (MECH) at Rice University, won first place in the student poster contest at the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2023). The conference theme wasContinue reading

Marcelo Rodrigues Fernandes successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on April 19, 2021. Congratulations, Marcelo! Rodrigues Fernandes, M. Hybrid Solar Energy Conversion Enabled by Nanoparticle Filtering. Diss. Rice University, 2021.

Kenechi Agbim successfully defended her PhD on April 15, 2020, becoming the first PhD graduate from Rice University in the Energy Systems Lab! Agbim, Kenechi A. Simulation of Property Variation in Thermoresponsive Hydrogels. Diss. Rice University,Continue reading

Kenechi taught a Duke TIP course on Engineering Disasters-Fatal Flaws to help middle school students understand the physics behind engineering design and how to perform root cause analyses in engineering failures. Featured photo and additionalContinue reading

On April 23, 2019, Kenechi became the president of the MECH GSA for AY19-20.

Mohamed Nemer successfully defended his Masters on April 19, 2018!   Nemer, Mohamed Nazim. An Investigation into the Stability Limits and Accuracy of the SRT, TRT, and MRT Collision Models in the Lattice Boltzmann Method. MSContinue reading

Marcelo Rodrigues Fernandes successfully defended his Masters on April 18, 2018!   Rodrigues Fernandes, Marcelo. Long-term analysis of a small-scale concentrated photovoltaic-thermal system with a nanoparticle-based optical filter. MS Thesis. Rice University, 2018.