Category: Engineering

Land & Sea Competition

On Monday morning, the engineering program held its Land & Sea Competition where students get to test their various designs of sea perches […]

NASA Weekend

Over the weekend, students in both the Medicine & Health Care and Engineering programs were able to see many of the ins and […]

Wind Turbines

Throughout Friday evening, engineering students discovered the challenges of budgeting, designing, and building wind turbines using a variety of basic materials. See more: […]

Engineering Students Experience Soldering, Water Filtration, and Computer Programming

Throughout this afternoon, engineering students were split into three groups and all had a chance to move around to different hands-on stations. Each […]

Challenge Course

Throughout their first two full days on campus, students in both the Engineering and Medicine & Health Care programs took turns visiting the inSPIRE Rock […]

Daily Program Update: HEAL Students Learn Surgical Techniques, ENGN Visits Natural Science Museum

With the help of Dr. Richard Marfuggi and the NSLC teaching assistants, students in the Medicine & Health Care program spent their evening […]

Daily Program Update: Session 1 Begins at Rice University

Today, the NSLC at Rice University welcomed more than 140 students to Rice University to begin the first session of the summer. Students […]

Engineering Students Visit NASA Johnson Space Center

#NSLCENGN students visited Space Center Houston and the NASA Johnson Space Center, where they were able to meet a real NASA engineer and […]

Engineering Students Compete in Sea Perch Challenge

#NSLCENGN students worked in teams to build Sea Perches, which are motor-powered robots. Each team built two – one to collect golf balls […]

Engineering Students Design and Test Water Filtration Devices

#NSLCENGN students worked in teams to create water filtration systems using household items, such as coffee filters, sugar, beans, rice, charcoal, and more. […]