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RICE University
Prof. Master's Program
6100 Main Street, MS-103
Houston, TX 77005
713.348.3188 (phone)
713.348.3121 (fax)
profms@rice.edu

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Initial Funding by the
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Unlike traditional master's degrees, these degrees combine an interdisciplinary curriculum with business training and hands-on experience, enabling graduates to acquire a new "tool-set" for success in a business environment.

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PMP Image the Professional Master’s Program would  collaborate with business and industry and helping to integrate the university with the surrounding community?


What's New

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Happy New Year 2010!

A new and promising year has started! On January 11th, students start spring classes and first year students are looking for summer/fall internships; second year students are working on finishing their course work and their internship reports to be presented in April.

The line-up for our spring seminar speaker series is complete and we will welcome:  Russ Krauss, RES Mitigation;  Dick Williams, Shell Wind Energy, Dan Georgi, Baker Hughes;  June Ferrill, Rice/PSM Communication;  Wiliam Arnold, Jones School of Business; Kyle Kissell, Nanoridge; Jim Lemaux, BP

Fall Internship Student Presentations had an outstanding attendance by corporate representatives from Noble Energy, GIS Environmental, Schlumberger, Emtuk, Inc.,  DmiGeo, Teledrill, Inc., Rice faculty and students. The presentations were followed by a semester-end social in Keck Hall. For photos, click on left:  About the Program/ What's New!

RICE MAGAZINE features the Rice Professional Science Master's program: "The Business of Science" This latest edition has just been published and the electronic version is available here! 

New PSM Student Club is official now! Students Alex Wagner and Shibu Mathukutty have volunteered to head the coming semester's activities with the goal to bring PSM students together for social activities on and off campus! Events will be announced on our web site and by list serve to the students.  

Program Director attends CGS/PSM Biennial Meeting in Washington, DC
"Advancing the Nation's Competitiveness and Innovation Agenda"

Much of the U.S. economic growth over the last half century has been the result of technological innovation. Looking ahead, America’s prosperity and security in the 21st century depend upon innovation, scientific discovery, and the creation of knowledge. In order to be competitive in the 21st century global economy, the U.S. needs to produce a cadre of well-rounded science professionals with deep knowledge of their subjects but also with the business skills needed to communicate effectively, manage projects, and solve problems. Professional Science Master's (PSM) graduates contribute to a highly skilled, nimble, and entrepreneurial workforce that can enhance our capacity to innovate, discover new products and solutions, and take those products to commercial reality.

Many PSM programs have been or are being developed in response to the forces affecting higher education institutions including U.S. competitiveness, globalization, increased accountability to the state for public institutions, increased competition for students, and demographic changes in the composition of graduate students. This Biennial Meeting addressed the PSM initiative’s response to these forces and the means for sustaining programs for future growth.

New PSM/MBA Joint Degree Program

To address the demand for a science education that includes a full MBA degree,  Rice University is adding a new option to their existing Professional Science Master’s degrees. With cooperation of the highly ranked Jesse H. Jones  Graduate School of Management and the Wiess School of Natural Science, a joint program was developed allowing a small group of highly proficient students to earn a joint PSM/MBA degree. The program will be become available for Fall 2010. 

BP Scholarship awarded to Subsurface Geoscience student Chris Ochterbeck! Congratulations to Chris for paving the way for graduating PSM students to gain the respect and acceptance from large oil- and gas companies willing to sponsor our students. BP is joining an ever increasing number of corporations realizing our students' potential and versatility. We appreciate BP's involvement at Rice and are looking forward to a mutual beneficial and on-going relationship!  Thank you, BP!

2nd Quarterly NPSMA Workshop in Springfield, MA in September 2009 

This workshop focused on evaluation of the employment survey outcome, the NSF Stimulus solicitation for science master's programs, an update on statewide implemention of PSM programs, key program practices, peer review process, NPSMA Best Practices Seal of Approval initiative, and concluding with a dialogue with area employers and regional PSM Alumni and students. 

Thank you to all our Fall Seminar Speakers for committing their time to speak to our students:

Kirstin Matthews, Baker Institute; June Ferrill, PSM Communications; Liz Hendler, Environmental Activist; Charles NuNu, Element Markets; Rod Larson, Baker Hughes; Mary Purugganan, Rice NSCI; Najib Abusalbi, Schlumberger; Pooja Talreja, CGGS Veritas; Kristine Gentry, CSPD; Martha Barnes, Marathon Oil

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2010 Corporate PSM Reception!

It is hard to believe a year has almost gone by since our last event! But it is happening, we are gearing up for our Annual Reception, scheduled for February 17th at Farnsworth Pavilion on Rice campus.  Invitations are being sent out by our students to corporate representatives in the oil- and gas and energy industry, to the environmental sector and to companies involved with emerging technologies. If you have not received an invitation yet, and you are interested in attending our event, please contact: dkbeck@rice.edu

COMPANY HIGHLIGHT:  GSI Environmental 

GSI is an environmental engineering firm which specializes in the assessment and management of environmental risk. Since 1986, from their headquarters in Houston, Texas, they have worked worldwide, providing industry with innovative solutions to soil, groundwater, surface water, and air pollution problems and associated regulatory issues. GSI emphasize careful data collection and analysis and technical ingenuity in all of our work in order to provide solutions that are both efficient and effective.

GSI Environmental has hired two of our EADM graduate students as intern, respectively employee, showing their continued interest and support of our program. Dr. Newell, co-founder of GSI, has been a long-time supporter of the Professional Science Master's program at Rice, and also serves on our Board of Affiliates. Thank you for your support!

TELEDRILL, INC

Teledrill provides the drilling industry with a Rate of Penetration (ROP) enhancement tool/service that both triples the drilling rate and also provides Measurement While Drilling (MWD) with Gamma Ray information in real time. Teledrill also has the only retrievable downhole generator and can use rechargeable batteries in its 10 foot tool. For more info, visit their web site! 

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR INTERNSHIP PROVIDERS FOR 2009!

All our students are busy working as interns with a variety of companies and academic departments:

Gisselle Cornejo – Nobel Energy, Joe Mils – Schlumberger, Liang Ge – Baker Hughes, Ting Hong – Teledrill, Inc., Alex Wagner – City of Houston, Scott Rauschhuber – UH, Carol Liu – GIS Environmental, Vishwa Nellore – Rice Nano-Physics, Bret Halbe – Nanoridge, Sona Joseph – Rice MEMS,  Dana Akilbekova – Kazakhstan government office, Jeff Rudnik -  Chevron.

The Program Director, Dagmar Beck, has been visiting with interns and their internship providers to establish an on-going dialogue between the university and the corporation, and to inform the corporation about the PSM program and the internship requirements. So far, luncheons were held with Nobel Energy, Teledrill, Inc., Nanoridge, and Chevron. (See more info and photos under "What's New"!)

NANORIDGE

NanoRidge is an advanced nanomaterials manufacturer utilizing leading-edge technology to commercialize the production of intermediate nanomaterials based carbon nanotubes and polymer matrices.

Founded on commercial agreements with Rice University and the University of Houston, NanoRidge has exclusive licenses for the use of technologies focused on applications of carbon nanotubes and other nanoparticles for production and sales of advanced nanomaterials. These materials are characterized by increased performance in specific properties including a variety of mechanical values and electrical & thermal conductivities.

The Company has significant manufacturing process knowledge and experience allowing it to rapidly develop and deliver commercially viable nano-enhanced materials that, when used with traditional manufacturing processes, expand the horizon of opportunity beyond imagination.

Nanoridge has been a supporter of our Nanoscale Physics program and our students since inception of the program. We are proud to receive their continued interest and support.

Join our list of companies actively supporting our program:

  • Anadarko
  • Argent Consulting
  • Baker Hughes
  • BHP Billiton
  • BP
  • Bright Star Energy, Inc.
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc
  • Element Markets
  • ENVIRON
  • EOG Resources
  • ERM Group, Inc
  • Exxon Mobil
  • Golder Associate
  • GSI Environmental, Inc
  • Houston Wilderness Organization
  • Lynn Inc.
  • Marathon Oil
  • Nanoridge
  • NASA
  • Occidential Oil and Gas Corp
  • Quantum Logic Devices
  • Shell
  • Schlumberger
  • Teledrill, Inc
  • Total E&P USA, Inc
  • Trinity Consulting
  • URS
  • and more ....