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Students at the University of Houston are eligible to participate in the Moscow Summer Intern Program as part of a student initiative of the Baker Institute Space Policy Program. The program is a wonderful opportunity for all UH…
Space-Savvy UH Students May Apply for Moscow Summer Intern Program
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
Just yesterday it seemed to be an empty office space you probably ignored as you walked off the elevator on the third floor of the Cullen College of Engineering Building Two. What a difference a day – and the Engineering Career…
Ribbon Cut on New Fluor-Sponsored Cullen College Career Closet
A group of girls cheer ecstatically as they drop their carefully-engineered egg crate from a balcony of the UH Engineering building. It hits the ground with a thud and another cheer explodes as the girls discover their egg…
Chevron Inspires Houston-area Girls to Engineer the Future at Annual UH Event
As one of the pioneering instructors in the subsea engineering program, Phaneendra Kondapi is a familiar name at the UH Cullen College of Engineering. Now Kondapi is forging new paths at the college once again, this time as the…
Subsea Engineering Leader Joins Cullen College as Founding Director of Engineering Programs in Katy
The Cullen College played host to the 3rd Women in Engineering spring event on March 8. The free event was funded by alumna Cynthia Oliver Coleman, P.E. (BSChE ’71). The event took place at the UH Hilton and included female…
Women in Engineering Become Women in Red at Spring Event
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
UH engineer Hadi Ghasemi, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering, is set to change history with his invention of a new material that provides efficient heat dissipation at high temperatures and eliminates a…
Hadi Ghasemi Creates New Material, Breaks Limits of Leidenfrost Phenomenon
Imagine an electronic “tattoo” on your skin that could continuously monitor your health, or tiny, biocompatible sensors that could treat a traumatic brain injury at the site. It may seem like science fiction, or at least a dream…
PHOTOS: John Rogers Shares the Future of Soft Electronics for the Human Body at Engineering Rockwell Lecture
Significant Figures: A reflection on the film ‘Hidden Figures’ by an engineering student who hides her figure I had high expectations as I walked into the theater with twenty of my fellow UH Society of Women Engineers (SWE)…
Engineering Student Op-Ed: Significant Figures
From his office in west Houston, UH Cullen College of Engineering alumnus Giancarlo Mitterhofer (BSME ’03) looks down at his smartphone and realizes two things: he’s not making as much money as he could and his environmental…
Making smart buildings smarter: mechanical engineering alumnus invents smart building technology
Approximately 120 Houston high school students blasted onto the UH campus to launch into engineering! The 5th annual “Launch into Engineering” is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) outreach event to attract…
UH Society of Women Engineers Hosts High Schoolers
If you drive in the U.S., the chances are pretty high that you’ve driven over a structurally deficient bridge at some point or another. In fact, over two hundred million trips are taken each day across deficient bridges in…
PHOTOS: Sharon Wood Shares Plans for Monitoring Deteriorating Concrete Bridges at Engineering Rockwell Lecture
In the high-energy world of Ashutosh Agrawal, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, two things turn the head of the man who always seems to be spinning with excitement about science: Discovering how nature works and…
UH Engineer Explains Cellular Transport, Journal Publishes His Findings
When Jameel Jordan became a petroleum engineering student at the Cullen College he never dreamed he'd also become a mentor to third graders. “It never crossed my mind,” said Jordan. But the opportunity found him when he learned…
Cullen College in the Community – Partnership with iEducate Teaches Success
Representatives of the University of Houston and Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in China signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further mutual goals of academic and research opportunities for students and faculty. The…
UH Engineering Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese University
Last year the lives of 85 UH Engineering undergraduate students changed drastically when they received scholarships donated by the incredibly generous alumnus Dr. William A. Brookshire. On Feb. 9, these students had the…
Scholarship Recipients Thank Donor Who Changed Their Lives at Brookshire Luncheon
Aside from attaining knowledge itself, most students attend college to find a path forward in their lives, searching for a career that suits them. At the Engineering Career Fair, that job is made easier as company representatives…
Spring Engineering Career Fair a Success
Engineering may not be elementary, but elementary-aged students can still enjoy engineering. And they did, en masse, during two Passport to UH events hosted by the Cullen College’s subsea engineering program. On Jan. 20, baby…
Subsea Engineering’s “Passport to UH” is a Passport to Fun for Young Students
The University of Houston is one of the best universities in the world to earn an engineering degree from, according to 2017 rankings released by CEOWorld Magazine. The UH Cullen College of Engineering was ranked No. 73 in the…
UH Ranks Among Best Universities for Engineering and Technology by CEOWorld Magazine