Engineering Students Learn as They Travel
While many people dream of seeing the world one day, a group of UH Cullen College of Engineering students recently returned from Brazil as part of the first engineering faculty-led study…
A team of UH Cullen College Engineering students are basking in the sweet smell of success in NASA’s 2019 Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge, a college competition to design and build a machine to…
Research brings self-powered wearable electronics closer to reality
Wearable electronics – from smartwatches to fitness trackers – are not just trendy and fashionable accessories, but an integral part of many people’s lives.…
Eight University of Houston students – all from the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College – won 2019 DAAD RISE research scholarships and an opportunity to work at top German universities and research institutions…
Kyoseung Sim, who finished his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering under the guidance of mechanical engineering professor Cunjiang Yu this summer, won the Cullen College of Engineering’s Best Dissertation Award for his…
UH Engineering Undergrad Headed for Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Danny Guevara, a first-generation college student at the University of Houston, was recently selected for the prestigious Science Undergraduate Laboratory…
Starting a car is as easy as turning a key, but have you ever wondered what really happens under the hood?
In the video series “How it Works,” Cullen College mechanical engineering student Adrian Venegas explains the basics of…
Soaring ambition led 15 Cullen College mechanical engineering seniors to band together on a Capstone project that would be the crowning glory of their undergraduate studies. Their goal was to not only design and build a working…
Julie RogersSenior, Mechanical EngineeringCounselor, G.R.A.D.E. Camp
“I’m one of the counselors/mentors helping with robotics. I have [worked] G.R.A.D.E. Camp for two summers now and I really want to help young girls learn about…
Reed: “Discover your passions.”
Serrae Reed, a mechanical engineering senior at the Cullen College of Engineering, is at a bittersweet point in life.
On one hand, she’ll be graduating this year and leaving behind her family and…
In the United States, more than 6.5 million people live with varying stages of heart failure. About 4,000 of those suffer with hearts so compromised that a transplant is the only treatment current medicine can offer. Yet only…
Sana Krichen thinks often like a bat – and a shark, and a sea turtle, and several types of birds. For Krichen, who is a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, understanding how certain animals can detect magnetic fields is…
Two Cullen College mechanical engineering doctoral students have found a way to determine and understand the often-elusive Gaussian curvature modulus, a critically important property of two-dimensional materials like graphene and…
Doctoral candidate Sara Pouladi won the Best Poster Award for her work on thin film solar cells at the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in Washington D.C.
Titled “Flexible GaAs single-junction solar cells based on…
For the second year in a row, a Cullen College graduate student has won a prestigious award in the field of superconductivity. Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, a materials engineering doctoral student, received a 2017 graduate…
The University of Houston-Materials Research Society Chapter (UH-MRS) hosted its first student symposium in the main lobby of engineering building 1. At the symposium students presented their work to an esteemed crowd of…
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…
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Wearing a bulky version of La Forge’s visor from “Star Trek,” a man pinches and pulls the air in front…
Undergraduate mechanical engineering students Tam Nguyen, a senior, and Serrae Reed, a junior, focus on their studies with the precision of the engineers they are becoming. Upon graduation, Nguyen has an engineering job nailed…
