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The summer semester offers a perfect opportunity for undergraduates to conduct engineering research under the mentorship of a faculty member. Cullen College of Engineering undergraduates selected for the Summer Undergraduate…
Experiential Learning: Undergrad Research in Energy Storage
This summer marks the beginning of a new chapter for Priyanka Cholleti, a graduate student in the University of Houston aerospace engineering program. She will soon receive a master of science in aerospace engineering, but before…
Aerodynamic: Aerospace Engineering Grad Student Researches at NASA
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has chosen two mechanical engineering students as Outstanding Senior and Junior for the 2012-2013 academic year. Senior John Alred and junior Ryan Hannemann were selected…
Cullen College Names 2012-2013 Outstanding Students
For undergraduates seeking an enriched academic experience, spending a summer conducting research opens a world of opportunities. Students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering who are on the track to…
Engineering Research Gives Undergrads an Academic Boost
A team of four undergraduates in the UH Cullen College of Engineering have been named semi-finalists for the MIT Clean Energy Prize, an energy innovation competition. This is the first time that UH has been represented in the…
Engineering Undergrads Represent UH in Energy Innovation Challenge
Students with the University of Houston’s Honors Engineering Program (HEP) recently participated in a Habitat for Humanity build project earlier this month in northeast Houston. In the joint event with KBR, HEP students helped…
Honors Engineering Students Build Habitat for Humanity Home
Students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering spent their summer conducting research as part of the 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The fellowship provides funding for…
Engineering Students Perform Interdisciplinary Research
The Association for Women in Science has given one of its 2010 Educational Awards to Cullen College graduate student Mona Meisami-Azad. AWIS presents approximately 25 Educational Awards each year. Meisami-Azad is one of only…
Grad Student Wins AWIS Educational Award
ME graduate walks in commencement six decades after earning degree When John Berry Rogers (1950 BSME) attended the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering things were a lot different. The roads were not paved,…
Realizing a Dream
Bewildered faces no longer surprise Tom Wertz and Erik Pesek. It’s come to be a common reaction when these two University of Houston baseball players tell people they are pursuing engineering degrees. “It’s typical,” said Wertz,…
The Whiz Kids of UH Baseball
Mohammad Wasy Akhtar, a University of Houston mechanical engineering graduate student, was selected as this year’s recipient of the South Texas Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering’s Hugh Scott Cameron Award…
Graduate Student Nabs ASME Scholarship
Christiana Chang lives where temperatures rarely dip low enough to produce snow let alone ice. Yet in a lab at the University of Houston she is in the midst of perfecting something that just may garner a smile from those in…
Technology Being Developed in UH Lab Could Put an End to Icy Commutes
Students from two University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering departments were among those recognized at a luncheon on campus today honoring area engineering students’ high academic achievement. Hosted by the Texas…
College Names Outstanding Engineering Students
Five UH Cullen College of Engineering students were recently each awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the National Association of Energy Engineers Foundation to be used for courses directly related to energy engineering or energy…
Students Receive Energy Engineering Scholarships
The Cullen College of Engineering student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosted its first-annual “Pumpkin Chunkin” contest on Oct. 27. The Halloween-inspired event featured devices built by teams of…
Mechanical Engineering Students Build Pumpkin-Launching Machines
Sandra Geffert, a mechanical engineering graduate student with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, attended the July 4th launch of the space shuttle Discovery as an invited guest of NASA Assistant…
Engineering Graduate Student Attends Discovery Shuttle Launch
Oumama Hallal is a true example of a student athlete. Hallal, who maintains a GPA of about 3.6., is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering and a member of The Honors College. She is also a scholarship athlete on the…
Engineering Student Athlete Sets the Pace
This year’s Outstanding Senior and Junior awards at the Cullen College of Engineering have been given to Ying Hu and Julian Vargas of electrical and mechanical engineering, respectively. Hu and Vargas along with students…
College Names Outstanding Senior, Junior Student
University of Houston mechanical engineering seniors Deena Abou-Trabi , Jared Collins and Sean Hale recently received one of the Gas Processors Association annual scholarships at the Houston Regional Meeting held earlier this…
UH Engineering Students Receive Gas Processors Association Scholarships
University of Houston engineering student Sandy Geffert has been named one of 20 national recipients of the Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program from NASA. Geffert is a doctoral student in the mechanical…
UH Mechanical Engineering Student Claims National NASA Fellowship