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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
Plus: Other Faculty Award Announcements Zhu Han, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, is having a good year. He’s been awarded a 2018 Moores…
UH Engineering Professor Wins Prestigious Moores Professorship
Robots Could be Used in Medicine, Rescue and Defense If Star Wars’ R2-D2 is your idea of a robot, think again. Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin…
Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own
Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018 commencement on Friday, May 11. Alderman - who currently serves as senior vice president…
BASF Executive Heidi Alderman to be UH Cullen College 2018 Commencement Speaker
New Monitoring Tool Would Be Able To Detect Imperfections Almost Instantaneously Researchers from the University of Houston are developing a new quality control tool for continuous nanomanufacturing, a key step in moving…
Researchers Seek to Improve Quality Control for Nanomanufacturing
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of smoke, robots performed amazing feats, and propeller-powered cars raced down…
UH Engineers, Chevron Introduce Houston-area Girls to STEM Fun
The 8th Wonder Brewery was buzzing with activity last Thursday as UH mechanical engineering alumni, faculty and students gathered to mingle, catch up and hear the latest updates on the Cullen College at the inaugural Mechanical…
Inaugural 2018 Mechanical Engineering Alumni Mixer
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America. The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place the Cullen College on the list of the Best…
UH Engineering Rises in U.S. News Rankings
Cunjiang Yu wins 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award Imagine U.S. Navy divers wearing camouflage ‘skin’ suits and gathering intelligence. They could swim undetected in enemy waters as their suit changed color…
UH Researcher Developing Smart Artificial Skin Inspired by Underwater Masters of Camouflage
Have you ever wondered how wind energy is used to generate electricity or how wind turbines work? In a new video series titled “How It Works,” mechanical engineer Daniel Araya explains the basics of wind energy and how his…
How it Works: The Basics of Wind Energy
Students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering aren't just expected to do well in their labs and classes -- engineering students are expected to work in their respective fields of study while pursuing their degrees in order to…
Top Companies Recruit UH Engineers at Fall Career Fair
An engineer at the University of Houston known for his work in developing stretchable semiconductors and electronics has been named to MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” list of researchers with Chinese citizenship…
UH Engineer Chosen for MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35
The UH Cullen College of Engineering held its fall convocation ceremony on Thursday, December 14, recognizing nearly 450 graduating students at the Bayou City Events Center. The ceremony featured a keynote address from UH alumna…
PHOTOS: Cullen College Celebrates Nearly 450 Graduating Students at Fall 2017 Convocation Ceremony
Work at UH Has Implications for Subsea Design and Operations A team of researchers from the University of Houston is working with the oil industry to develop new ways to predict when an offshore drilling rig is at risk for a…
Researchers Study Deepwater Gas Formation to Prevent Accidents
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
Life as a college student is fraught with challenges: keeping up with classes, making new friends, learning new fields of study and working jobs and internships. But imagine also having to learn a new language and adjust to a…
Coping with Culture Shock: Director of Graduate Admissions Pens Article on International Student Experience
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
How do you describe materials that aren’t quite liquids, gases or solids? More importantly, how do you model these materials? That’s a big question for scientists and engineers who toil in the world of complex fluids, which…
PHOTOS: Ronald Larson Engineering Rockwell Lecture
Students, faculty, alumni and friends of the UH Cullen College of Engineering gathered for breakfast tacos, drinks and games to celebrate the 2017 Engineering Homecoming and gear up for the UH Football game against East Carolina…
PHOTOS: 2017 Engineering Homecoming Celebration
Faculty and Students Will Work to Develop Product Solutions ExxonMobil Chemical Company and the University of Houston have signed a multi-year research agreement that will focus on helping the industry develop energy-efficient…
UH, ExxonMobil Chemical Company Sign Research Agreement