Category: Engineering
Land & Sea Competition
June 18, 2018
On Monday morning, the engineering program held its Land & Sea Competition where students get to test their various designs of sea perches […]
NASA Weekend
June 18, 2018
Over the weekend, students in both the Medicine & Health Care and Engineering programs were able to see many of the ins and […]
Wind Turbines
June 16, 2018
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
June 14, 2018
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
June 13, 2018
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
June 13, 2018
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
June 12, 2018
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
July 13, 2017
#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
July 12, 2017
#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
July 10, 2017
#NSLCENGN students worked in teams to create water filtration systems using household items, such as coffee filters, sugar, beans, rice, charcoal, and more. […]