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The first recipient of the joint University of Houston/The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) Graduate Fellowship in Clinical Translation has been selected. Kevin Nathan (MSEE), a researcher in the UH department of…
Inaugural UH-TMHRI Graduate Scholar Selected
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Media Contact: ahopp [at] uh.edu (Angela Hopp) 713-743-8153 HOUSTON, July 18, 2013 – Engineers who intend to take the Fundamentals of Engineering state exam in the fall to obtain professional licensure…
Review Course for State Board Exam in Engineering Offered at UH This Fall
Yan Yao, an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, may be one of the newest additions to the faculty at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, but that hasn't stopped him from making waves…
Photos: Inside ECE Professor Yan Yao's Laboratory
Last week, the UH Cullen College of Engineering welcomed a group of high school students who spent a week exploring engineering at the STEP Forward Camp. The weeklong program, led by the Program for Mastery in Engineering…
High School Seniors Explore Engineering at UH
The 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
PHOTOS: Engineering Alumni Awards Gala 2013
ECE professor Jose “Pepe” Luis Contreras-Vidal, director of the University of Houston’s Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been appointed associate editor of…
ECE Professor Jose "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal Named Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
We asked a few of our undergrads here at the UH Cullen College of Engineering to film their lives for two weeks so we can show the world an honest, first-hand account of what it is like to be an engineering student at the…
Video: Undergrad Life at the Cullen College of Engineering
Girls in grades eight through twelve enter the UH Cullen College of Engineering on Monday morning, new to the world of algorithms, motors and microscopes. By Friday, they’ve built and programmed a robot. Girls Reaching and…
Engineering, Camp-Style
Ji Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) with the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is a leading researcher in the field of electromagnetic compatibility. Today, we are taking a peek inside one of…
PHOTOS: Inside ECE Professor Ji Chen's Research Lab
Research from the Cullen College of Engineering that promises to drastically improve molecular sensing technology was featured on the cover of a recent issue of the scientific journal Nanoscale. The work was conducted by…
Molecular Sensing Research Featured on Journal Cover
Dr. David Jackson, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, recently gave a plenary presentation on the advances in leaky-wave antennas at the 2013 International Union of Radio Science (URSI)…
ECE Professor Gives Plenary Presentation at 2013 URSI Electromagnetic Theory Symposium
Vita Como, director of the UH Cullen College of Engineering's career center, has devoted much of her career to passing on words of wisdom to soon-to-be college graduates on how they can land their dream jobs straight out of…
Director of Engineering Career Center Featured in Houston Chronicle: Job-Landing Advice for College Students
Coursera, a leading massive open online course (MOOC) platform, today announced that it will be working with the University of Houston System and nine other state university systems and public university flagships to explore the…
Ten State University Systems and Public Flagships, including UH System, Join Coursera to Explore MOOC-based Learning and Collaboration on Campus
German news magazine Der Spiegel -- one of Europe's largest publications of its kind -- featured the incredible research of professor Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal, who has developed a thought-controlled robotic exoskeleton…
ECE Professor's Thought-Controlled Robot-Exoskeleton Featured in "Der Spiegel"
Efforts to learn how and when particular areas of the brain work and work together should get a huge boost thanks to a new device under development at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Ben Jansen a…
“Dynamic Coil” Should Boost Brain Research
Ask any professor: A good idea alone isn’t likely to receive serious research funding. Big awards almost always have some data that supports the project, that shows the researcher’s idea should work. In a classic catch-22, though…
UH Seed Funding Supports New Research in Catalysis, Nanofabrication
Dr. Yan Yao, an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and Robert A. Welch Professor at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH), was awarded the 2013 Ralph…
ECE Professor Wins Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Thanks to seed funding provided by the Cullen College of Engineering, electrical and computer engineering faculty members Ji Chen and David Jackson have launched a research program to develop antennas for small satellites. Small…
ECE Launches Small Satellite Research Program
About 30 researchers gathered at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering earlier this month to discuss the latest in nuclear well logging—science of gathering and interpreting data from petroleum wells, often…
ECE Hosts Well Logging Conference
This month, Dean Joseph Tedesco announced the 2013 winners of the UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research and service. Karolos Grigoriadis, Professor of…
Cullen College Honors Faculty for Excellence in Teaching and Research