In a recent paper published in the journal Nano Letters, mechanical engineers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering describe a novel method for characterizing and understanding the behavior of nanomaterials.
The invention of…
Three UH Engineering undergraduate students are improving NASA’s CubeSat missions by programming the small satellites to orient and stabilize themselves based on the position of the sun.
The code developed by mechanical…
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, created in honor of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding research achievements. This year Tam Nguyen, a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at…
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…
The 2016 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Hilton Americas Houston on Thursday, June 9, 2016. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, celebrates the professional…
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…
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…
Earlier this month, the University of Houston’s Society of Women Engineers hosted its 4th annual “Launch Into Engineering” event, inviting hundreds of local high school students to learn about engineering disciplines in a dynamic…
For the third year in a row, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded the UH ASME student section a Diversity Action Grant (DAG) for the student-run “Intro to Cougar Engineering” STEM outreach initiative.
The…
Hadi Ghasemi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR). He is…
With plans to capture the power of Houston’s sun and reuse its abundant rainfall, a group of University of Houston students has completed the first phase of an ambitious project to rethink affordable housing and energy efficiency…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize its outstanding students of the 2015-2016 year.
With an enrollment of more than 3,000 hard-working and dedicated undergraduate students, finding ways to shine among a sea of…
Cunjiang Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned a $500,000, five-year CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of his novel…
A grant from the Office of Naval Research will help researchers from across the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering more efficiently test advanced materials being developed with funding from the Department of…
Two doctoral students in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received the college’s Best Dissertation Awards for fall 2015.
Mechanical engineering student Nikhil Walani and civil and environmental engineering student Maruti…
The November inside cover of the journal Soft Matter features research conducted by Pradeep Sharma, professor and chair of the mechanical engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, his doctoral student…
The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its…
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…
Research on ferrofluids conducted by Hadi Ghasemi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his NanoTherm Research Group published today on the cover of Applied Physics Letters.
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This summer, five students from the University of Houston’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter traveled to the rural Nicaraguan village of Telpochapa to construct a schoolhouse from the ground up.
The trip took place…
