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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…
UH ASME Student Section Earns Grant for STEM Outreach
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…
Cullen College Names 2016 Outstanding Students
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…
Doctoral Students Honored with Cullen College’s Best Dissertation Awards
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…
Engineering Students Selected as GRaSP Day Finalists
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…
Engineers Without Borders Team Builds Schoolhouse in Nicaraguan Village
Haripriya Sundararaju, 25, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at UH Cullen College, died Sept. 21, 2015 in Houston. “It was completely unexpected, and a terrible shock to her parents and family, to me, and to all the UH…
UH Engineering Community Mourns Loss of Doctoral Student
Though the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) once boasted an active University of Houston student chapter, the organization has been dormant on the UH campus for several years. Now, a group of dedicated Cullen College of…
UH Students Building Formula One-Style Race Car
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Christopher Ortega has been awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Graduate Teaching Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The fellowship, awarded by the ASME Board…
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student Wins Prestigious Teaching Fellowship
Two Ph.D. students in the Cullen College’s department of mechanical engineering received highly coveted NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships. The fellowships will cover the cost of their education from August 2015 to August…
Two Mechanical Engineering Doctoral Students Earn Coveted NASA Fellowships
The scholarship committee for the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston is pleased to announce the TcSUH scholarship recipients for the 2015-2016 academic year, each of whom will receive a $2,500 award.…
Texas Center for Superconductivity Announces 2015-2016 Scholarship Recipients
Last month, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (AMSE) hosted the first ASME South Texas Section “University Technical Competition” (UTC) for local student engineers to exhibit their research and compete for awards. The…
Cullen College Students Sweep First University Technical Competition
The need for female professionals in STEM industries is overwhelming according to this National Science Foundation (NSF) report, and the data is similarly dismal for minorities. Himani Agrawal, a Ph.D. student studying mechanical…
Schlumberger Foundation Honors Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. with Fellowship
In the end, it’s all about the cars. But for students from the University of Houston and Elsik High School, the path to the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas 2015 has offered much more – learning, mentoring and the opportunity to put…
UH Students Revving Up for Shell Eco-Marathon
This fall, the American Society of Indian Engineers (ASIE) took notice of several Cullen College of Engineering students and awarded their academic excellence with scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Mechanical…
American Society of Indian Engineers Recognizes Cullen College Students with Scholarships
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, less than one of every four workers in a STEM field in the United States is a woman. The science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are unequivocally male-dominated, and…
Grace Hopper Celebration Chooses UH Ph.D. Student for Conference Scholarship
There are a handful of naturally occurring materials, known as piezoelectric materials, which generate electricity if you bend, stretch, or apply another mechanical force to them, and vice versa – if you apply a voltage across…
ME Chairman and Student Publish Paper on World's Thinnest Piezoelectric Material in Nature Communications
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was created by the U.S. Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science and its applications in national functions like healthcare and defense. In the 64 years since its inception, NSF…
Ph.D. Student Earns Honorable Mention from NSF
The Cullen College of Engineering faculty members have made their final decisions on this year’s overall Outstanding Junior and Senior Award recipients, and the winners are Connor Fernandez, chemical engineering junior, and Ryan…
Cullen College Names Outstanding Student Award Winners
Subsea engineers are responsible for multi-billion dollar investments in offshore petroleum exploration and retrieval, so it’s surprising that there’s been no association or organization dedicated to serving these engineers –…
Students Start First Subsea Engineering Organization
Members of two UH organizations brought engineering to Brazilian high school students last month as part of their global outreach efforts. “One Day in Engineering” (“Um Dia na Engenharia”) was planned by Gabriela Bernardes,…
Engineering Students Travel to Brazil for Outreach