MEDIA ADVISORY

Mike Williams
713-348-6728
mikewilliams@rice.edu

Rice University students to showcase inventions

Engineering Design Showcase at Tudor Fieldhouse April 13 

HOUSTON – (April 11, 2017) – The public is invited to see inventions by Rice University students at the annual George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase April 13 at Tudor Fieldhouse on the Rice campus, 6100 Main St.

Nearly 80 teams will demonstrate devices and show designs for projects with biomedical, mechanical, computer, chemical and flight applications, among others.

The free event will be open to the public at 4:30 p.m.; awards will be announced at 6:30 p.m. Rice engineering alumni and representatives of local industry will judge the teams. The top prize for excellence in engineering will earn the winning team $5,000.

The complete list of showcase teams is posted at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen site, http://oedk.rice.edu/2017showcaseteams. To watch a video from the 2016 showcase, go to http://oedk.rice.edu/showcase.

Who: Rice University undergraduate engineering students.

What: The George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase.

When: Thursday, April 13, 4:30-7 p.m.

Where: Tudor Fieldhouse at Rice, 6100 Main St.

Members of the news media who want to attend should RSVP to Mike Williams in News and Media Relations at mikewilliams@rice.edu or 713-348-6728.

-30-

Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews.

Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,879 undergraduates and 2,861 graduate students, Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for happiest students and for lots of race/class interaction by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. To read “What they’re saying about Rice,” go to http://tinyurl.com/RiceUniversityoverview.