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Reed: “Discover your passions.” Serrae Reed, a mechanical engineering senior at the Cullen College of Engineering, is at a bittersweet point in life. On one hand, she’ll be graduating this year and leaving behind her family and…
UH Senior Wins Prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship
In the United States, more than 6.5 million people live with varying stages of heart failure. About 4,000 of those suffer with hearts so compromised that a transplant is the only treatment current medicine can offer. Yet only…
Thinking Big, Working Small: Collaboration of UH, Texas Heart Institute Could Make Heart Transplants Obsolete
Sana Krichen thinks often like a bat – and a shark, and a sea turtle, and several types of birds. For Krichen, who is a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, understanding how certain animals can detect magnetic fields is…
Talk to the Animals: Mechanical Engineering Grad Student Studies Animal Kingdom’s Master Navigators
Two Cullen College mechanical engineering doctoral students have found a way to determine and understand the often-elusive Gaussian curvature modulus, a critically important property of two-dimensional materials like graphene and…
Cullen College Grad Students Track Down the Elusive Gaussian Modulus
Doctoral candidate Sara Pouladi won the Best Poster Award for her work on thin film solar cells at the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in Washington D.C. Titled “Flexible GaAs single-junction solar cells based on…
Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. Student Brings Home Poster Prize
For the second year in a row, a Cullen College graduate student has won a prestigious award in the field of superconductivity. Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student, received a 2017 graduate…
Doctoral Student Wins IEEE Superconductivity Award Second Year in a Row
The University of Houston-Materials Research Society Chapter (UH-MRS) hosted its first student symposium in the main lobby of engineering building 1. At the symposium students presented their work to an esteemed crowd of…
UH Materials Research Society Student Chapter Hosts Campus Symposium
Grant Mottershaw, a senior in mechanical engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, received the 2016 Rumbaugh Outstanding Student Leader Award in Detroit at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International World…
Accelerating Success: Cullen College Senior Wins Automotive Leadership Award
This article was originally published in the Daily Cougar. Please click here to read the article on the Daily Cougar website. Wearing a bulky version of La Forge’s visor from “Star Trek,” a man pinches and pulls the air in front…
Senior’s Hologram Software Could be Used to Augment Reality
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
More than 200 UH undergraduate students presented their research at the 2016 Undergraduate Research Day held at the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion on October 13. A total of 40 UH engineering students participated in the campus-…
Engineering Undergrads Showcase Cutting-Edge Research at 2016 Undergraduate Research Day
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
Most of us are quite comfortable to report that over summer vacation we participated in the typical leisure activities that recharge our scholastic batteries. Maybe we hung out at the beach, hung ten on a surfboard or hung ten…
A Stellar Summer: Two Cullen College Students Space Out in Moscow
At the University of Houston, graduate students aren’t the only ones diving into research this summer. Undergraduate students are gaining hands on research experience through the UH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF…
Undergrads Engineer the Future of Research at the Cullen College
Two students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering received scholarships from the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH). Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student, received the Houston…
Two UH Engineering Students Receive Texas Center for Superconductivity Scholarships
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…
UH Engineers Shed New Light on Behavior of Nanomaterials
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…
UH Female Engineers Help NASA’s Small Satellites Complete Bigger Missions
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…
Undergrad Student Earns Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention
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