Jun Mao, a former Postdoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. graduate at the Texas Center for Superconductivity, was selected by an international panel for the MIT Technology Review's 35 Under 35 (China) award.
The prestigious designation in…
The University of Houston's Engineering Alumni Association honored 42 different students with more than $21,000 in scholarships at the 2023 Engineer's Week Program, hosted in February
Daniel Herrera, an Electrical Engineering…
Yashashree Kulkarni, Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has earned the prestigious BRITE award for about $410,000 from the National Science Foundation, as well as another $266,000 grant for collaborative research.…
Juggling assignments and managing responsibilities isn't anything new for Jakob Lee, the Outstanding Junior at the Cullen College of Engineering for 2022-23. After all, you learn a thing or two about schedule and personality…
Haleh Ardebili, the Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Cullen College of Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science (…
Nearly 60 UH Professors and Instructors Recognized During Pinning Ceremony
Each day, University of Houston faculty prepare students for the road ahead. That journey may lead to careers or graduate school. No matter the…
From the moment he saw his first rocket up close, Akihiko “Aki” Hoshide knew he wanted to be an astronaut. But his journey to outer space was far from typical, and it might not have happened at all without an unexpected, three-…
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has earned another significant, six-figure award to expand his research into cooling the high-temperature and hot-burning machines that now power modern life.…
Picture a tall stately grandfather clock, its long pendulum swinging back and forth, over and again, keeping rhythm with the time. Scientists can describe that motion with an equation, or dynamical model, and though there are…
Thomas Edison once said, “So long as the sun shines, man will be able to develop power in abundance.”
His wasn’t the first great mind to marvel at the notion of harnessing the power of the sun; for centuries inventors have been…
The American Society of Mechanics Engineers (ASME) announced that Professor Pradeep Sharma has taken over as the 8th editor-in-chief of one of its flagship journals, Journal of Applied Mechanics. The journal, as part of its…
The University of Houston's wing of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has earned a National Chapter of the Year for 2021-22 from the national leadership of the group.
According to award criteria, National Chapter…
A University of Houston Mechanical Engineering professor has developed a sprayable ice-shedding material that is 100 times stronger than any others. The new durable coating material has been tested by Boeing under erosive rain…
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce 12 hirings in a variety of departments and roles for the 2022-23 academic year.
Unless otherwise noted, all start dates are Sept. 1. Personnel is sorted alphabetically by…
A group of Cullen College of Engineering students has taken home a third place finish in the Third Annual Battle of the Classes, an entrepreneurship contest held by the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the…
Two professors from the Cullen College of Engineering have been honored with election to the Fellow grade of membership for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
The professors chosen for the 2022 class are…
A paper from the research group of Jae-Hyun Ryou, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was chosen for the cover of Crystal Growth & Design earlier this year.
“Thermodynamic Analysis of Hybrid Chemical Vapor…
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that the following eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year.
All promotions take effect as of Sept. 1, 2022. This listing is alphabetical…
The University of Houston System and NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are expanding a longtime partnership to work collaboratively on joint research, technology development, technology transfer, training and educational and…
The following student experience was written by Juan Ramirez, a Mechanical Engineering senior – and now graduate! – of the Cullen College of Engineering. If you have an account you'd like to share about your educational journey,…
