| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1975 |
Parent institution | Rice University |
| Dean | Luay Nakhleh |
Academic staff | 136 |
| Undergraduates | 1,466 |
| Postgraduates | 1,032 |
| Location | , , United States |
| Campus | Urban, 285 acres (1.15 km2)[1] |
| Website | engineering |
The George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing is an academic school at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It contains the departments of Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Statistics. Engineering has been part of Rice's curriculum since the university's founding in 1912, but the school was not established as its own unit until 1975.