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An interdisciplinary team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering placed third in the 2003 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Competition.…
UH Team Places Third in ASME Design Competition
University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard and petroleum engineering director Christine Ehlig-Economides have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most highly regarded professional…
UH Professors Lienhard, Ehlig-Economides Elected to National Academy of Engineering
University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard will be awarded one of four 2002 Freedoms Foundation Awards at a luncheon, Nov. 9, at the Junior League of Houston. Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and…
UH Engineer Lienhard To Receive Freedoms Foundation Award
Professor Charles Dalton was presented with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Service Award at the Fall Faculty and Staff Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 17. Dean Raymond Flumerfelt presented a plaque to Dalton,…
Dalton Honored for Service to UH Cullen College of Engineering
Thirteen interdisciplinary teams of University of Houston engineering students showed up in the Engineering Commons on a Friday morning this fall with no idea what they were going to be asked to do. At 8 a.m., each team was…
UH Engineering Students Test Creative Skills in 'Impromptu Design Competition'
UH Cullen College of Engineering Dean Raymond Flumerfelt has named Purdue Professor Matthew Franchek the new Chair for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Franchek will also serve as director of the new undergraduate…
Franchek Named New Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Wade Schoppa has been selected to receive the 2002 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society (APS). The award honors Schoppa's doctoral research with the UH Department of Mechanical…
Former Engineering Ph.D. Student Receives APS Dissertation Award
University of Houston mechanical engineering graduate student Sandy Geffert won gold and silver medals in the world's most highly regarded karate championship held Aug. 21-25 in Pisa, Italy. Geffert claimed the gold medal for…
UH Engineering Graduate Student Earns Gold In World Karate Championship
One of the fiercest fighting martial artists in the world sits in an office in the UH Cullen College of Engineering. Sandy Geffert (2001 BSME) is a UH honors graduate, a first-year graduate student and the undergraduate student…
Engineering Student is Gunning for Gold
Former Dean Roger Eichhorn is retiring from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering faculty in August, leaving behind a legacy of academic and administrative achievement--and many devoted friends and colleagues.…
Former Dean to Retire from Faculty
John H. Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering and History, Emeritus, is one of four individuals to receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters during UH's May 11 commencement ceremony. Lienhard has…
Engineer One of Four to be Awarded UH Honorary Degrees
Mechanical Engineering Professors Charles Dalton and Lewis Wheeler will be honored this week by the South Texas Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Dalton will receive the 2002 Dean W.R. Woolrich…
Professors Dalton, Wheeler to Be Honored by ASME South Texas Section
University of Houston engineer Fazle Hussain's recent acquisition of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid Dynamics Award for 2002 establishes him as the world's most highly decorated scholar within the…
Fluid Dynamics Award Establishes UH Engineer as World's Most Highly Decorated Scholar in Field
UH mechanical engineering professor John Lienhard's nation-wide radio show 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' recently explored the value of an engineering degree. "People who see the world with an engineer's eye are typically able to…
 Looking for the Engineers
Since 1988, mechanical engineering professor John Lienhard's nation-wide radio show 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' uses history to reveal the way art, technology and ideas shape us. Visit the website for streaming audio and…
Prof. John Lienhard's Radio Show 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' Close to Hitting its 14th Year
Devotion to students and excellent teaching evaluations are some of the reasons Keith Hollingsworth, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is receiving the El Paso Energy Teaching…
El Paso Energy Honors UH Faculty
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering paid tribute to its faculty and alumni who are members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) at a special dinner on May 2, 2001 at the UH Hilton. Fazle Hussain,…
Engineers honor Fazle Hussain and other UH members of the National Academy of Engineering
A team of students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering got a chance to make their mark on technology that could be used aboard the International Space Station or during a Mars mission as they conducted…
Students Face Challenge Of Recording Experiment In Zero-G Flights
More than three decades of research into understanding turbulence and developing methods for controlling and harnessing its potential earned Fazle Hussain, the UH Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, election…
Pursuit of order in disorder earns professor election to NAE