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More than 1,300 middle school and high school students from Houston and across Southeast Texas will be on the University of Houston campus later this month for one of the nation’s largest competitive science and engineering fairs…
Science Engineering Fair Attracts Top Young Scientists and Engineers
Ashutosh Agrawal is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, and he approaches teaching with a winning combination of traditional whiteboard lessons and novel, hands-on techniques.…
VIDEO: Teacher Feature Highlights Ashutosh Agrawal
The University of Houston will lead a national research center for subsea engineering and other offshore energy development issues, including research and technology to improve the sustainable and safe development of energy…
UH Selected to Lead Offshore Energy Research Center
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. (www.bgeinc.com), an engineering consulting firm based in Houston, established an endowed scholarship in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s civil and environmental engineering department. The…
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. Supports Cullen College With Scholarship Endowment
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
The concept of power generation is conversion of heat to electricity, which is the prime form of energy. Until recently, the only methods available to harvest low-grade heat (<160 Fahrenheit) were thermoelectrics and organic…
Engineering Professor Publishes Three Papers Related to Harvesting Low-grade Heat Energy
Expensive and weighty metals play crucial roles in heat transfer applications because of their high thermal conductivity. For example, cases for cellular phones and some other electronics are made of metal rather than inexpensive…
Professor Publishes Paper on Polymers with High Thermal Conductivity
Silicon, despite inefficiencies, has been an effective electrical energy conversion and control material for hybrid-electric vehicles and numerous other power electronics. However, the semiconductor is reaching its physical…
Engineering Professor Earns Grant to Pursue Energy-Saving Semiconductors
A University of Houston researcher is trying a novel approach to create high efficiency, low cost solar cells in an effort to bring the cost down to that of traditional electricity sources. Venkat Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson…
UH Researcher Wins $1.5 Million Federal Solar Energy Award
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Award Marks Site of 1987 Discovery of High Temperature Superconductivity On November 17, the University of Houston will receive an IEEE (…
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing
Shell Oil Company is contributing $3.5 million to the University of Houston in support of the new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building and other educational initiatives. The collaboration between Shell and the…
Shell Oil Company Commits $3.5 Million to UH
The Mehta family has provided support to establish the Mehta Family Engineering Research Center on the ground floor of the University of Houston’s new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building. The Mehta Family…
UH Creates Mehta Family Engineering Research Center
This year's Undergraduate Research Day will take place Thursday, October 9th at 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion at the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston main campus. Out of the 150 undergraduate researchers…
Undergraduate Research Day 2014!
Ashutosh Agrawal, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, said he likes to tell his students at the Cullen College that many lessons on mechanics and structures can be gleaned from nature. “There is so much diversity and…
Professor Examines Underlying Mechanics of Nucleus Membranes in Biological Cells
About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, and just less than 97 percent of this water is held in the world’s oceans. As a resource in its own right, water is hugely abundant, but harnessing it in efficient ways…
New Mechanical Engineering Professor Gains Steam with Heat Transfer Technology Research
The University of Houston was awarded a $3.29 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE to increase the number and success of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering and…
UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields
It could be a fun party trick – put your cell phone down on a table and watch it fade into the woodwork – or part of a lifesaving technology used by industry or the military. Researchers have developed a technology that allows a…
Researchers Draw Inspiration for Camouflage System From Marine Life
Bonnie Dunbar, M.D. Anderson Professor and director of the aerospace engineering program at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been invited to deliver the keynote address at the 2015 Expanding Your Horizons conference,…
Bonnie Dunbar Invited to Deliver Keynote Address at 2015 'Expanding Your Horizons' Conference
Hadi Ghasemi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is relatively new to the Cullen College of Engineering, but his postdoctoral work performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is making headlines even…
Mechanical Engineering Professor Makes Headlines with MIT Postdoctoral Research
Venkat “Selva” Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of mechanical engineering, has been named one of the first recipients of the inaugural 2014 IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Dr. James Wong…
Mechanical Engineering Professor Wins IEEE Award for Superconducting Materials Research