Undergraduate student work at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering ended up winning the overall Best Paper Award at the recent IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments,…
Zhu Han's trophy case is getting crowded.
Since 2009 he’s won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Excellence in Research and Scholarship award from the University of Houston, at least seven best paper honors at…
Trinidad and Tobago honored Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and native son Ravi Birla this past weekend as one of its top medical researchers.
Birla received the silver Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso Award for Medical…
No one disputes that offshore energy development carries environmental risks. Through its involvement in the new Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering will play a key role…
Electromagnetics experts from around the country will gather at the University of Houston tomorrow to discuss the latest issues and advances in the field of electromagnetic compatibility.
The gathering is hosted by the Center for…
Cullen College alumnus and adjunct professor of mechanical engineering Benton Baugh is featured in the 2013-2014 National Academy of Inventors brochure for inventing a current-secured drilling device called the “Drilling Riser…
A new blog post from the University of Houston Division of Research highlights the work of Dr. Badri Roysam, professor and chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College.
The article focuses…
Most people just aren’t willing to pay $30 for a light bulb.
That’s the going rate for many LEDs, or light emitting diodes, which now sit on store shelves next to the compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and traditional incandescent…
How’s this for precision? Researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering are developing technology to knock single atoms off a silicon wafer without disturbing atoms of other materials nearby.
Chemical…
It’s not unusual for scientists to take their cues from nature. In fact, Jeff Rimer is building much of his career on such cues.
Rimer, Ernest J. and Barbara M. Henley Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering…
A civil infrastructure that provides essentials like clean running water and passable roads is essential to a healthy and prosperous society. While concrete and steel remain the backbones of modern infrastructure, civil engineers…
The 9th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 10th. It showcased the achievements of 130 undergraduate researchers from the University of Houston through poster presentations. Student presenters…
When Dhivya Ketharnath was in high school, she knew she wanted to be an engineer, but she never would have predicted she would be conducting nanoparticle research for cancer therapy applications inside some of the finest…
Tools, sensors and materials are vital for efficient petroleum retrieval. Also needed are systems that help the well run smoothly from one second to the next. While the average human vastly outperforms the most powerful computers…
The 55th birthday of our long-time friend, collaborator and supporter, NASA, was a bit sadder than we would have wished for it to be. For all the space enthusiasts out there who rely on the NASA website as a bookmarked…
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant to develop new treatments for the most deadly form of pediatric brain cancer.
Navin Varadarajan, assistant professor of chemical and…
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant to make brain surgery for patients with severe cases of Parkinson’s disease safer and more effective.
The grant goes to Nuri Ince, an…
Two University of Houston faculty members – Steve Pennings, professor of biology and biochemistry, and Kyle Strom, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering – are collaborating with other faculty around the…
A researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is a co-investigator on grants covering surviving a submarine escape and understanding the basic mechanisms of embryonic heart development.
While the two…
One of the ironies of automobile research: as diesel engines become more fuel efficient, reducing their emissions becomes more challenging.
Better efficiency means that more of the energy in diesel fuel is being used to move the…
