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New flexible biocompatible sensor targets cardiovascular diseases Wearable electronics – from smartwatches to fitness trackers – are experiencing rapid growth in recent years. New technological advances are prioritizing even more…
UH Wearable Electronics Research Featured in Advanced Functional Materials
Jerrod Henderson Recognized for Diversity and Student Success Efforts Jerrod Henderson, instructional associate professor at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, will receive the 2019 Outstanding Young Alumni Award from his alma…
Cullen College Professor Wins Outstanding Young Alumni Award
New Method Fills a Need in Emerging Applications for Electronic Devices Contact lenses that can monitor your health as well as correct your eyesight aren’t science fiction, but an efficient manufacturing method – finding a way to…
Researchers Report a New Way to Produce Curvy Electronics
The Inside Story of a Tech Startup SurfEllent, a UH startup which brings innovative and durable anti-icing coating technologies to the market, is hot, hot, hot! It has raised $470,000 in funding and the year is not over yet. The…
UH Startup SurfEllent Raises $470K in Funding
Three mechanical engineering professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering won grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $867,309. These funds enable professors to work on critical research on various topics that…
Cullen College Mechanical Engineering Professors Earn $867K in NSF Awards
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is kicking off the 2019-2020 academic year by welcoming seven new faculty members to its teaching and research rosters. They bring expertise in a wide variety of fields ranging from…
The UH Cullen College of Engineering Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) held its annual meeting on August 22nd at Saint Arnold’s Brewery. This annual event furthers the EAA’s mission of championing, supporting and uniting the Cullen College’s students, faculty…
Photos: Engineering Alumni Association Hosts 2019 Annual Meeting
This summer, UH Engineering hosted over 40 college students from the South China University of Technology for the first-ever, three-week resilient civil infrastructure summer workshop. The program (July 19- August 12, 2019) led…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Hosts Students from South China University of Technology for First-Ever Civil Summer Workshop
NSF grant to Rice, UH, Texas Southern will help future science, engineering professors HOUSTON – (Aug. 13, 2019) – Rice University, Texas Southern University (TSU) and the University of Houston (UH) have won a multimillion-dollar…
Houston universities team up to boost minorities in academia
Device Also Can Serve as Robotic Skin, Relaying Information Back to the User Wearable human-machine interfaces – devices that can collect and store important health information about the wearer, among other uses – have benefited…
A Wearable Device So Thin and Soft You Won’t Even Notice It
UH Cullen College partners with HCC to Better Serve Students, Industries The recently announced partnership between the new University of Houston at Katy – set to open this fall – and Houston Community College (HCC) to enable…
New Engineering Academy Puts UH at Katy in the Lime Light
Faculty, students recognized for innovation, creative entrepreneurial spirit Innovation is the engine that drives all of humanity’s greatest achievements – from the creation of the first wheel to electricity to heart transplants…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Presents Inaugural Innovator Awards
The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) honored the UH Cullen College of Engineering with an award recognizing its commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. The college is one of 74 engineering programs around the…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Recognized for Achievements in Diversity by ASEE
‘To the moon and beyond’ marks 50th anniversary of first lunar landing The Conversation, an independent and not-for-profit publisher of news, commentary and analysis, is marking the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing with a…
Retired NASA Astronaut and UH Engineering Alumna Bonnie Dunbar Interviewed for Global Podcast Series
Kamel Salama, former professor of mechanical engineering with the UH Cullen College of Engineering, died Friday, July 12, 2019 at M.D. Anderson Hospital following an extended illness. He was 87. Passionate about science and…
UH Engineering Community Mourns Professor Emeritus Kamel Salama
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…
UH PROMES Going Places, Tackling Global Challenges
Pradeep Sharma, M.D. Anderson Professor and chair of the mechanical engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is having a good year. He received the 2019 James R. Rice Medal from the Society of Engineering…
UH Mechanical Engineering Chairman Honored With ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award
SurfEllent, a startup which brings innovative durable anti-icing coating technologies to the market, competed in the Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC) for the first time this year and performed extremely well. It won…
UH Startup SurfEllent Wins Big at the 2019 Texas A&M New Ventures Competition
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…
UH Engineering Students Tasting Sweet Success with PIE in NASA Challenge
The 2019 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Bayou City Event Center on Thursday, June 6. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association (EAA), celebrates the professional…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Announces 2019 EAA Gala Honorees