The Association for Women in Science has given one of its 2010 Educational Awards to Cullen College graduate student Mona Meisami-Azad.
AWIS presents approximately 25 Educational Awards each year. Meisami-Azad is one of only…
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has officially launched a Subsea Engineering Certificate Program, the first and only formal subsea curriculum in the United States.
The program was established in response…
The University of Houston and three other institutions have received a $4.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a superconducting magnet energy storage system device that could revolutionize the nation's…
Venkat Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH), was named as one of the…
Researchers to develop, test large wind turbine blades for offshore use
Efforts by the University of Houston to become a national leader in offshore wind technology received a huge boost from the U.S. Department of Energy, which…
Yashashree Kulkarni, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a 2010 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The award is given annually to junior faculty by DARPA,…
ME graduate walks in commencement six decades after earning degree
When John Berry Rogers (1950 BSME) attended the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering things were a lot different. The roads were not paved,…
Bewildered faces no longer surprise Tom Wertz and Erik Pesek. It’s come to be a common reaction when these two University of Houston baseball players tell people they are pursuing engineering degrees.
“It’s typical,” said Wertz,…
Although the U.S. electric power industry is one of the greatest engineering marvels of the 20th century, aging technology and an increase in demand create problems for the electricity infrastructure that need to be fixed.
Venkat…
The University of Houston executed two license agreements with SuperPower, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics.
One agreement covers the intellectual property on second-generation (2G) high temperature…
Mohammad Wasy Akhtar, a University of Houston mechanical engineering graduate student, was selected as this year’s recipient of the South Texas Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering’s Hugh Scott Cameron Award…
Two University of Houston professors are helping to keep your heart beating stronger, longer simply by monitoring the temperature of your fingertip.
VENDYS, a device mechanical engineering professors Stanley Kleis and Ralph…
For more than two decades John Lienhard has told the stories of how human creativity forms our culture through the KUHF Radio program, “The Engines of Our Ingenuity.”
A professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at…
New applied research hub to push commercialization of superconductor technology
The University of Houston has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the state’s Emerging Technology Fund to aid in the development and…
Christiana Chang lives where temperatures rarely dip low enough to produce snow let alone ice.
Yet in a lab at the University of Houston she is in the midst of perfecting something that just may garner a smile from those in…
Funding awarded to one University of Houston professor by the National Science Foundation is expected to advance energy research as part of a new International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC…
Selvamanickam honored by Wire & Cable Technology International
For contributions to the development and commercialization of second-generation high temperature superconducting wire, Venkat Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson…
A country north of Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf, Qatar ranks among the top 20 producers of oil worldwide.
Though the natural resource is the cornerstone of their economy, Qatar wants more. Recently, they dedicated 2.8 percent…
Wide array of profitable, rare programs offered at UH
In recent weeks Kaytie Curttright (2009 BSChE) has been settling into work as an engineer with Samsung Austin Semiconductors.
The position, which has her responsible for…
As a child, John “Danny” Olivas (1993 MSME) used to wonder what lay beyond the stars he peered at through a telescope on the roof of his El Paso, Texas home.
These nights he spent with his father looking through the lens of the…
