Rice undergraduate engineering design showcase and competition to be held April 11

Apr. 9, 2024

The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), Rice University's signature hub for undergraduate engineering innovation, will hold its annual Harrell and Carolyn Huff engineering design showcase and competition on April 11 at the Ion.

The event, which is open to the public, is an opportunity to experience the creativity and dedication of Rice undergraduate engineering students whose projects translate classroom knowledge into functional engineering designs with a real-world purpose. Visitors will be able to view and be inspired by over 70 innovative prototypes, including a 1997 Chevy P30 delivery van now turned fully electric and donning a wooden dashboard, a remotely operated underwater vehicle and sailboat, a novel cold spray additive manufacturing device, an automated scar tissue massager for low-resource settings, a reforestation system designed to drop tree samplings and seeds from an aircraft, and much more! Go here for a list of projects.

What: Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen showcase and competition

When: Thursday, April 11, 4:30-7 p.m.

Where: The Ion, 4201 Main St.

The OEDK is a space for Rice undergraduate students majoring in various engineering disciplines to design, prototype and deploy solutions to real-world engineering challenges. A hallmark of the Rice undergraduate engineering education, capstone design projects developed at the OEDK offer solutions to real problems faced by industry and partners in the Texas Medical Center and abroad.

Members of the news media who want to attend should RSVP to Silvia Cernea Clark, media relations specialist, at [email protected] or 713-348-6728.

Media should park in the Red Parking Lot across the street from the Ion. To access, enter 4203 Fannin St. into your GPS for directions directly to the lot. This lot is for guest and event parking. Parking is free for the first three hours. For further directions and parking information, see https://iondistrict.com/visit/getting-here.