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Shell will bring some of the excitement of a real race car competition to the University of Houston when the “Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge” visits campus from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, outside of the Y building.…
Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge to Visit UH Next Thursday
Stanley Kleis, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, received one of NASA’s highest honors, the Public Service Medal, at the NASA Honor Awards Ceremony Tuesday…
UH Engineering Professor Stanley Kleis Receives Public Service Award from NASA
Gangbing Song, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his colleagues are working on new applications for smart materials and intelligent systems—projects that will take us deep into the future of technological…
UH Engineering Professor Develops Intelligent Systems that Presage Tomorrow's Technology
UH engineers became one of the first few in the world to fabricate wires and coils from magnesium diboride (MgB2), the most recent superconductor yet to be discovered, and their success may ultimately lead to better and less…
UH Engineers Use Newest Superconductor to Fabricate Wires and Coils
Charles Dalton Enron Teaching Excellence Award It was 1960 when Charles Dalton, professor of mechanical engineering, stood in front of a classroom to teach for the first time. Forty-three years later, Dalton continues to…
Engineering Professor & Graduate Student Receive UH Teaching Awards
Ning Ma, mechanical Ph.D. student who works in Prof. Gangbing Song's Smart Materials and Structures Lab, displays one of his research project at UH Research Day April 5.
Engineering Student Showcases Work at UH Research Day
“Even when I was a kid, I always knew I was going to be an engineer,” says Houston entrepreneur Jeff Beauchamp, who received both his bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering from UH. Beauchamp’s startup software…
UH Engineering Alumnus and Entrepreneur Prepares to Launch New Software Product for Medical Industry
Mechanical Engineering graduate student Ryan Link makes playful use of a laser pointer to illustrate the laser vibrometer research he is involved with under the tutelage of mechanical engineering professor David Zimmerman. The…
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Uses Laser Vibrometer for Increased Precision in Measurement
In late October, the martial arts world gathered in Limerick, Ireland for the 2003 World Championships, and Sandra Geffert took home multiple wins for the third consecutive year. Geffert, a second year graduate student at the UH…
International Karate Champion Merges Biomechanical Engineering with Martial Arts to Realize Goals
“Inventing Modern” Book Signing Sept. 6 at Barnes & Noble Town & Country Village John Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston, has just published his…
Lienhard’s New Book Earns Him September Author of the Month
Dean Raymond Flumerfelt announced the winners of this year's faculty teaching and research awards at the UH Cullen College of Engineering's annual Faculty and Staff Meeting on April 22. Karolos Grigoriadis claimed the W. T.…
Dean Announces 2003 Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research
Four faculty members of the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering were honored last week at the university faculty awards presentation. Vemuri Balakotaiah, Karolos Grigoriadis, David Shattuck and Osman Ghazzaly were…
Four Cullen Faculty Members Honored at UH Faculty Awards Dinner
An interdisciplinary team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering placed third in the 2003 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Competition.…
UH Team Places Third in ASME Design Competition
University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard and petroleum engineering director Christine Ehlig-Economides have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most highly regarded professional…
UH Professors Lienhard, Ehlig-Economides Elected to National Academy of Engineering
University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard will be awarded one of four 2002 Freedoms Foundation Awards at a luncheon, Nov. 9, at the Junior League of Houston. Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and…
UH Engineer Lienhard To Receive Freedoms Foundation Award
Professor Charles Dalton was presented with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Service Award at the Fall Faculty and Staff Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 17. Dean Raymond Flumerfelt presented a plaque to Dalton,…
Dalton Honored for Service to UH Cullen College of Engineering
Thirteen interdisciplinary teams of University of Houston engineering students showed up in the Engineering Commons on a Friday morning this fall with no idea what they were going to be asked to do. At 8 a.m., each team was…
UH Engineering Students Test Creative Skills in 'Impromptu Design Competition'
UH Cullen College of Engineering Dean Raymond Flumerfelt has named Purdue Professor Matthew Franchek the new Chair for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Franchek will also serve as director of the new undergraduate…
Franchek Named New Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Wade Schoppa has been selected to receive the 2002 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society (APS). The award honors Schoppa's doctoral research with the UH Department of Mechanical…
Former Engineering Ph.D. Student Receives APS Dissertation Award
University of Houston mechanical engineering graduate student Sandy Geffert won gold and silver medals in the world's most highly regarded karate championship held Aug. 21-25 in Pisa, Italy. Geffert claimed the gold medal for…
UH Engineering Graduate Student Earns Gold In World Karate Championship