95%Employed or graduate school placement within six months of graduation
$19MIn annual research awards
100%Participation in year-long capstone design experience
1st in USTo offer a Ph.D. in ocean engineering
100%Of international Engineering Program students complete a six-month global internship
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News
- Manufacturing Pioneer and URI Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd Passes Away - Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd, internationally renowned for breakthrough research in design for manufacturing assembly (DFMA), passed away peacefully on January 3 at the age of 91. The British educator joined University of Rhode Island’s (URI) then mechanical and industrial manufacturing engineering department in 1985. He was brought on to head the Advanced Manufacturing Institute, coordinating the […]
- Engineering Professors, Business Receive $75,000 Grant from RI Commerce Corp. - KINGSTON, R.I. – URI Engineering professors Richard Vaccaro and Musa Jouneh received a $75,000 innovation grant from RI Commerce Corporation for engineering development work with a startup company, Kinesia. The grant, which runs from January to August 2024, will pay for the creation of a prototype for an aid to human rehabilitation from orthopedic and […]
- $500,000 Grant to Study Flood Risk Assessment - In March 2010, a massive record-breaking rainfall event caused unprecedented flooding across Southern New England states including RI. “In addition to average rainfall, both historical data and climate models show that frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events are increasing in Rhode Island, and the US northeast, in general,” said Associate Professor of Ocean Engineering […]
- Cross-Disciplinary URI Team Forms Neuro-Learning Center - A URI team featuring Engineering Professor Kunal Mankodiya will establish a Neuro-Learning Center that will include cutting-edge equipment to study the relationship between brain activity and behavior, brain mapping, and neuroplasticity.