A team from the civil and environmental engineering department created low-cost flood sensors that were tested on Rice’s campus in spring 2019. The team created relatively low-price sensors and pitched the system to several entities interested in having real-time street-level flooding information.
What are the biggest problems facing Houston? What tools do we have to solve them? Rice University and the City of Houston have joined forces to create Houston Solutions Lab, building on other recent efforts to bring together research and policy to help answer those questions.