Mechanical Engineering at Rice University
6 faculty and 24 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.
6faculty listed
24courses
34.5avg h-index (enriched)
Faculty
- B.J. Fregly, Trustee Professor; CPRIT Scholar h-index 51
- Raudel Avila, Assistant Professor h-index 36
- Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Harry S. Cameron Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering h-index 26
- Fathi H. Ghorbel, Professor; Ken Kennedy Institute Member h-index 25
- John E. Akin, Professor Emeritus
- Keya Ghonasgi, Assistant Professor; Ken Kennedy Institute Member
Courses
- Classical Thermodynamics MECH 200
- Mechanics/Statics MECH 202
- Mechanical Engineering Design Tools MECH 203
- Introduction to Numerical Methods MECH 210
- Engineering Mechanics MECH 211
- Rigid Body Dynamics MECH 310
- Mechanics of Solids and Structures MECH 311
- Stress Analysis MECH 315
- Modeling of Dynamic Systems - Lecture MECH 341
- Mechanical Elements MECH 350
- Fluid Mechanics I MECH 371
- Acoustics MECH 373
- Advanced Mechanics of Materials MECH 400
- Mechanical Design Applications MECH 401
- Computer Aided Design MECH 403
- Capstone Design Project I MECH 407
- Capstone Design Project II MECH 408
- Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems MECH 411
- Vibrations MECH 412
- Finite Element Analysis MECH 417
- Fundamentals of Control Systems MECH 420
- Physics Guided Machine Learning & Data Driven Modeling FEM MECH 427
- Tribomechadynamics MECH 430
- Algorithmic and AI-Driven Robotics MECH 450
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.