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Senior mechanical engineering student Okechukwu Ofili was named Homecoming King at halftime of the UH-East Carolina football game at Robertson Stadium. Ofili is the second consecutive king from the Cullen College of Engineering.…
Consecutive 'Homecoming King' Titles Awarded to Engineering Students
While the student body was settling into the rhythm of the semester, UH engineering doctoral candidate and alumna Sandra Geffert (2003 MSME, 2001 BSME) was competing for international titles at the World Kickboxing Championships…
UH Engineering Doctoral Candidate Brings Home Four Medals from World Kickboxing Championships
Ning Ma, mechanical Ph.D. student who works in Prof. Gangbing Song's Smart Materials and Structures Lab, displays one of his research project at UH Research Day April 5.
Engineering Student Showcases Work at UH Research Day
Mechanical Engineering graduate student Ryan Link makes playful use of a laser pointer to illustrate the laser vibrometer research he is involved with under the tutelage of mechanical engineering professor David Zimmerman. The…
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Uses Laser Vibrometer for Increased Precision in Measurement
In late October, the martial arts world gathered in Limerick, Ireland for the 2003 World Championships, and Sandra Geffert took home multiple wins for the third consecutive year. Geffert, a second year graduate student at the UH…
International Karate Champion Merges Biomechanical Engineering with Martial Arts to Realize Goals
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
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'
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
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