Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK)
This building once housed the university’s central kitchen. Now the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) provides undergraduate engineering students with a place to design, prototype and deploy solutions to real-world engineering challenges.
What’s there: Design tools, prototyping equipment, computational facilities, meeting rooms, and ample space for prototype design and development
Named for: M. Kenneth Oshman ’62, who, together with three other Rice alumni, founded ROLM, one of Silicon Valley’s early tech startup successes. After ROLM was purchased by IBM, Oshman became a vice president for that company, and also served on its corporate management board before leaving to become CEO of Echelon.
Built: 1965, as a kitchen by Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson; 2009, renovated and repurposed as the OEDK
Rice Campus Map No. 59