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…
Funding awarded to one University of Houston professor by the National Science Foundation is expected to advance energy research as part of a new International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC…
Selvamanickam honored by Wire & Cable Technology International
For contributions to the development and commercialization of second-generation high temperature superconducting wire, Venkat Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson…
A country north of Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf, Qatar ranks among the top 20 producers of oil worldwide.
Though the natural resource is the cornerstone of their economy, Qatar wants more. Recently, they dedicated 2.8 percent…
Wide array of profitable, rare programs offered at UH
In recent weeks Kaytie Curttright (2009 BSChE) has been settling into work as an engineer with Samsung Austin Semiconductors.
The position, which has her responsible for…
As a child, John “Danny” Olivas (1993 MSME) used to wonder what lay beyond the stars he peered at through a telescope on the roof of his El Paso, Texas home.
These nights he spent with his father looking through the lens of the…
Logan Craft’s summer has started off like any other grade school students’. He visited the beach in Galveston, attended camp and spent several long days getting into mischief with friends.
There is, of course, one exception. This…
A device being developed by a team of researchers from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering could make it unnecessary for more than 23 million diabetics to submit to daily finger pricks to test glucose levels…
Larry Witte has just about enough hats to cover every day of the month tucked away in his closet.
These baseball-style caps are not about fashion for this professor of mechanical engineering. Each represent a year he’s organized…
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…
The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) announced Dec. 19 Fazle Hussain, Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is among three elected to the academy’s…
A treatment being developed by two University of Houston researchers could allow athletes playing in the National Football League a faster return to the field after injury.
With the support of $118,693 in grant funding from…
A longtime Cullen College of Engineering professor was recently named a Moore Distinguished Scholar by the California Institute of Technology.
Fazle Hussain, Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of…
Days before residents on the Gulf coast were evacuated for Hurricane Ike, aircrafts were ferrying crews in the area from the offshore rigs and platforms responsible for a quarter of U.S. oil and 15 percent of natural gas…
Tunisia, on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and its close neighbor, Egypt, will each become regular stamps in the passports of two engineering faculty members during the next three years.
A nearly $60,000 grant received…
Funds from a nearly $400,000 grant received by two mechanical engineering professors could help researchers better understand the origins of the super-charged piezoelectric effect at the nanoscale.
Building on research he’s…
Shola Nurudeen may be a little more excited than most about Monday’s broadcast of the 2008 Olympic Games.
That’s because her son, Selim Nurudeen, will be competing for her home country of Nigeria in the preliminary heats of the…
Two mechanical engineering professors will have a hand in creating technology that could give those on the long waiting list for a heart transplant a second chance.
Matthew A. Franchek, biomedical engineering program director and…
Seven faculty members from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in May received grants totaling more than $500,000 from the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program.
ARP is a competitive, peer-reviewed grant…
Ralph W. Metcalfe, professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and mathematics, was recently appointed chair of the National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Devices Study Section.
The study section’s scientific review…
