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A medical robotic hand could allow doctors to more accurately diagnose and treat people from halfway around the world, but currently available technologies aren’t good enough to match the in-person experience. Researchers report…
Medical Robotic Hand? Rubbery Semiconductor Makes It Possible
Vijay Ramesh, a 2020 Cullen College of Engineering graduate in mechanical engineering, recently added another thing to his impressive list of accomplishments – serving as a mentor for the interns involved in the Army Educational…
Cullen College grad serves as mentor for Army Educational Outreach Program
Despite growing scientific and commercial interest in fusion as an on-demand energy source – producing emissions-free energy through the fusion of hydrogen atoms – significant obstacles remain. A researcher from the University of…
UH Bringing Fusion Energy to Commercial Reality
Projects Focus on Ways to Speed Transition to Low-Carbon Future The Center for Carbon Management in Energy at the University of Houston has awarded $275,000 in research funding for projects focused on carbon management and the…
UH Announces Funding for Carbon Management Projects
Since its publication in late July, a research paper about drawn-on-skin electronics from a group overseen by Dr. Cunjiang Yu, the Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has been…
Original research for Drawn-on-Skin electronics from Ershad, Yu attracting attention
A team of researchers led by Dr. Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new form of electronics known as “drawn-on-skin electronics,” allowing…
‘Drawn-on-Skin’ Electronics Offer Breakthrough in Wearable Monitors
The movement of fluids through small capillaries and channels is crucial for processes ranging from blood flow through the brain to power generation and electronic cooling systems, but that movement often stops when the channel…
New Method of Fluid Gating Has Implications for Drug Delivery, Power Generation and Other Uses
Gwen Salama, the wife of the late Dr. Kamel Salama – a professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and the director of the Materials Engineering program – said his charm and social nature were evident…
Endowment established in memory of Dr. Kamel Salama
Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the UH Cullen College of Engineering, announced that 17 students and faculty members had been selected as recipients in the 2019-2020 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards,…
College honors 17 with yearly Faculty and Student Excellence Awards
The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, drones and other technologies have driven demand for new lightweight materials that can provide the power to operate them. Researchers from the University of Houston…
New Material, Modeling Methods Promise Advances in Energy Storage
The Cullen College of Engineering has set a new record for its six-year graduation rate, hitting a mark of 71.2 percent for students that began in Fall 2014, according to new information released by the department's Division of…
Cullen College of Engineering posts new 6-Year graduation high mark
The fortitude of the Cullen College of Engineering's Class of 2020 was proudly celebrated by the university community on May 7, with a 90-minute virtual graduation celebration, featuring remarks from University of Houston…
Class of 2020 honored with virtual graduation celebration
Several members of the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized via the Office of the Provost's 2020 Faculty and Staff Awards, headlined by Dr. Richard Willson of Biochemical & Biophysical Sciences earning the…
Willson earns Esther Farfel Award; four others tabbed for faculty, staff honors
Pradeep Sharma is Studying Link Between the Physics of Hearing and the Ability to Interpret Music   Pradeep Sharma, a mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, has been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship, this year’s…
UH Engineer Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
The Casimir Force is a well-known effect originating from the quantum fluctuation of electromagnetic fields in a vacuum. Now an international group of researchers have reported a counterpoint to that theory, adding to the…
Researchers Report New Understanding of Energy Fluctuations in Fluids
For Dr. Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering since Fall 2017, much of his work the past decade on turbulence has centered around a big question – can we find order in the chaos? “It's an idea I…
Mónico's work pulls order from chaos
On Tuesday, March 17, U.S. News & World Report released its updated 2021 rankings of best graduate engineering programs in the country. The UH Cullen College of Engineering has increased once again and is now rated No. 67. …
Cullen College Listed Among Best Engineering Graduate Schools of 2021
Over 100 individuals joined representatives from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Houston Community College last Thursday, Feb. 20, for the first official UH/HCC Engineering Academy Information Session…
New UH/HCC Engineering Academy Steps Into The Spotlight
Work Has Implications for Power Generation, Desalination, Electronics Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a full swimming pool, but it also plays an important role in industrial processes ranging from cooling…
UH Researchers Solve a Scientific Mystery about Evaporation
Engineering students address needs in the UH and Houston communities It’s the season of giving, and students who are enrolled in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES) are…
UH PROMES Scholars Give Back This Holiday Season