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Undergraduate mechanical engineering students Tam Nguyen, a senior, and Serrae Reed, a junior, focus on their studies with the precision of the engineers they are becoming. Upon graduation, Nguyen has an engineering job nailed…
Cullen College of Engineering’s 2016-2017 Outstanding Students Named
In his continued spirit of generosity, UH Engineering alumnus William A. Brookshire has donated $1 million to the Cullen College of Engineering to create the William A. Brookshire Teaching Excellence Award Endowment. According to…
Generous Engineering Alumnus William A. Brookshire Funds $1M Scholarship for Teachers
Every year, as a marketing activity, the leadership board of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UH, recently named outstanding large chapter of the year by the national organization, brainstorms to create the next…
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UH is Number One in the U.S.A.
The Cullen College of Engineering proudly welcomes some of the most brilliant minds in the engineering field to its faculty during the 2016 - 2017 year. Biomedical Engineering Member of the National Academy of Engineering Jerome…
20 New Faces and Brilliant Minds Join the UH Cullen College of Engineering Faculty, Including Four National Academy of Engineering Members
Computer simulation software allows engineers to predict how certain materials will perform under specific – and often extreme – conditions. For instance, major advances in aerospace and flight were made possible due to…
PHOTOS: H. David Hibbitt Rockwell Lecture
Friends of the UH Cullen College of Engineering gathered for barbeque, drinks and games to celebrate the college’s 75th anniversary and gear up for the 2016 UH Football Homecoming game on Saturday, Nov. 12th outside of…
PHOTOS: UH Engineering Celebrates 75th Anniversary and Homecoming
A recent article published by Forbes.com lauds the University of Houston as an epicenter of energy and engineering education and research, calling the school “increasingly a rival to places like MIT in advancing not just cleaner…
Forbes.com Lauds University of Houston as Leader in Engineering Research and Education
There are a lot of decision-making trade-offs on the path to a sustainable future. Michael Kavanaugh, senior principal at Geosyntec Consultants Inc. and member of the National Academy of Engineering, visited the UH Cullen College…
PHOTOS: Michael Kavanaugh Engineering Rockwell Lecture
Houston’s leaders in industry, academia and government who make up the UH Cullen College’s Engineering Leadership Board (ELB) gathered for the annual ELB Dinner at The Houston Club on Nov. 11. Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D.…
PHOTOS: Engineering Leadership Board Dinner and Meeting
Once upon a time you got your best action and science fiction fix from the movies. “2001: A Space Odyssey” showed us how pedestrian structures on the moon might seem; Walt Disney brought us tiny robots called microbots in “Big…
VIDEO: Engineers and Engineering in the Movies
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when women in manufacturing jobs were hard to come by. It wasn’t until World War II when, faced with a depleted workforce, American women rolled up their sleeves and went to work in…
Photos: Women in Manufacturing Events Hosted at UH Engineering
Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, received a 2016 Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity from the Institute of Electrical and…
Doctoral Student Wins Fellowship to Investigate Applied Superconductivity
Cunjiang Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been selected to receive an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) award…
UH Professor Receives ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award
The March 2016 cover of ACS Photonics features a theoretical study authored by Cullen College engineers Jae-Hyun Ryou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Shahab Shervin, a materials science and engineering…
UH Engineers Make Journal Cover with Flexible LED Theoretical Study
This month, the Materials Research Society (MRS) Board of Directors approved the establishment of an MRS chapter at the University of Houston. The UH MRS chapter will focus on diverse aspects of materials science and engineering…
Materials Research Society Establishes UH Chapter
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is well on its way to becoming a Top 50 engineering college in the nation, earning a coveted spot on the list of the Best Engineering Schools of 2017 by U.S. News and World Report. The Cullen…
UH Engineering Climbs U.S. News Rankings, Earns Spot on List of Nation's Best Schools
A whopping 13 percent of Texas teens who took the 2015 SAT test indicated that they intended to study engineering in college. Engineering was listed as the second-most popular career choice for Texas teens — 22 percent of…
More Texas Teens Want to be Engineers When They Grow Up
Md Masud Parvez Arnob and Hoang Nguyen, both doctoral students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won 2nd place for their poster abstract at the 5th Annual Neuroengineering Symposium sponsored by the Gulf Coast Consortia on…
Engineering Doctoral Students, Professor Honored at GCC Neuroengineering Symposium
A combination of nine university professors and industry professionals is joining the Cullen College of Engineering faculty at the University of Houston this semester. The majority are biomedical engineers with expertise ranging…
Cullen College Welcomes Nine Engineering Professors
The 2015 Research & Innovation magazine exemplifies the University of Houston’s revolutionary scientific discoveries, scholarship and ingenuity. In this issue you will read about UH researchers’ cutting-edge approaches to…
UH Research & Innovation Magazine Now Available