Student Success
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Record Number of UH Engineering Students Headed to Germany for Research and Adventure May 7, 2019Eight University of Houston students – all from the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College – won 2019 DAAD RISE research scholarships... |
 Eight University of Houston students – all from the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College – won 2019 DAAD RISE research scholarships and an opportunity to work at top German universities and research institutions this summer. |
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Omron Lab Helps UH Engineering Students Get Real-World Technology Experience May 2, 2019 UH, Omron Automation Looking to the Future The UH Cullen College of Engineering and Omron Corp. recently celebrated the official unveiling of the... |
 UH, Omron Automation Looking to the Future
The UH Cullen College of Engineering and Omron Corp. recently celebrated the official unveiling of the Omron Senior Design and Robotics Laboratory with cookies, punch and a wide variety of robots. Company representatives and faculty mingled with students and checked out different senior capstone projects – from a sorting robot to a mobile robotic billboard. |
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UH Students and Alumni Earn Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships April 30, 2019 Recipients Include Three Cullen College Coogs Seven current and former University of Houston students – three of whom represent the Cullen... |
 Recipients Include Three Cullen College Coogs
Seven current and former University of Houston students – three of whom represent the Cullen College of Engineering – have earned highly coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowships. |
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Endowed Scholarship For UH Electrical and Computer Engineering Students February 28, 2019 Cullen College Beneficiary of Hickman Estate in Colorado Herbert David Hickman (BSEE ’59) from Colorado gifted his home to the UH Cullen College... |
 Cullen College Beneficiary of Hickman Estate in Colorado
Herbert David Hickman (BSEE ’59) from Colorado gifted his home to the UH Cullen College of Engineering to establish an endowed scholarship, with preference for electrical and computer engineering students. |
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Cullen College Junior Wins Student Leadership Award for the 2019 BEYA STEM Conference January 30, 2019Joshua Frenchwood, an electrical engineering junior at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won a Student Leadership Award from the Career... |
 Joshua Frenchwood, an electrical engineering junior at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won a Student Leadership Award from the Career Communications Group Inc. and the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. He will be recognized at the Student Leadership Awards Dinner at the 2019 BEYA STEM Conference in Washington, D.C. in February. |
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Undergrads From Across the Country Work As UH Engineering Researchers Over Summer October 23, 2018 UH Cullen College’s REU Programs Focus on Materials Science, Neurotechnologies For 10 weeks over the summer, undergraduate students from across... |
 UH Cullen College’s REU Programs Focus on Materials Science, Neurotechnologies
For 10 weeks over the summer, undergraduate students from across the U.S. became bonafide engineering researchers, working alongside some of UH Cullen College’s brightest minds to solve some of the world’s most pressing technical challenges with science and ingenuity. |
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UH G.R.A.D.E. Camp Celebrates 15 Years of Introducing Engineering to New Generations of Girls September 6, 2018Spending summer days engineering can be creative, empowering and fun. Imagine taking bits and pieces of circuitry, plastic and metal to build robots... |
 Spending summer days engineering can be creative, empowering and fun. Imagine taking bits and pieces of circuitry, plastic and metal to build robots, then programming them to navigate mazes; venturing out into the warm sunshine with friends to collect water from the UH campus pond and testing it for invisible microbes; or creating Texas-shaped earrings using a 3-D printer. These are defining moments of doing, creating memories and building friendships. |
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UH Researchers Win $1M Award to Boost Student Success August 6, 2018 National Science Foundation grant provides scholarships and support to academically-talented students from low-income backgrounds The National... |
 National Science Foundation grant provides scholarships and support to academically-talented students from low-income backgrounds
The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,029 grant to a team of University of Houston researchers for a new program aimed at studying the impact of scholarships, engagement and other support on low-income students and their academic success. |
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UH Students Exhibit Robots Created In Makerspace March 23, 2018New and interesting things are being made at the UH Makerspace, which opened this spring in the M.D. Anderson Library. |
 New and interesting things are being made at the UH Makerspace, which opened this spring in the M.D. Anderson Library. |
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From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries: UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication March 12, 2018 A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover... |
 A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of one of the world’s most prestigious chemistry journals — Angewandte Chemie International Edition, published by German publisher Wiley-VCH. |
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Ph.D. Student Presents Energy Harvesting Research at NASA June 8, 2017It’s hard to imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about charging your cell phone or changing the batteries in your smoke detector. According... |
 It’s hard to imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about charging your cell phone or changing the batteries in your smoke detector. According to electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, Fahira Sangare, that world may be closer than we think. |
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ECE Students Place Second at NASA Swarmathon Competition June 7, 2017Last April a team of four undergraduate students from the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department... |
 Last April a team of four undergraduate students from the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department competed in the 2017 NASA Swarmathon at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The team placed second out of 19 teams. |
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UH Electrochemical Society Student Chapter off to a Successful Start May 8, 2017Assistant Professor Yan Yao and several electrical and computer engineering and material science students have founded the first Electrochemical... |
 Assistant Professor Yan Yao and several electrical and computer engineering and material science students have founded the first Electrochemical Society student chapter (UH ECS) at UH. |
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PHOTOS: Student Research Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference May 5, 2017The UH department of electrical and computer engineering hosted the Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference (GRC/CDC) on April 28th at the... |
 The UH department of electrical and computer engineering hosted the Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference (GRC/CDC) on April 28th at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and undergraduate student research and projects were presented. The following Cullen College students were awarded for their outstanding research projects: |
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UH Materials Research Society Student Chapter Hosts Campus Symposium April 20, 2017The University of Houston-Materials Research Society Chapter (UH-MRS) hosted its first student symposium in the main lobby of engineering building 1... |
 The University of Houston-Materials Research Society Chapter (UH-MRS) hosted its first student symposium in the main lobby of engineering building 1. At the symposium students presented their work to an esteemed crowd of professional members across various engineering and science disciplines at UH. The 40 presenters came from different departments including chemistry, physics; and chemical, mechanical, materials and electrical engineering. UH-MRS winners are: |
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Ph.D. Student Studies Solid-State Batteries With Prestigious NASA Fellowship April 20, 2017Karun Kumar Rao, a first-year chemical engineering doctoral student in the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been offered a place in the esteemed... |
 Karun Kumar Rao, a first-year chemical engineering doctoral student in the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been offered a place in the esteemed NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) program for his research on solid-state batteries. |
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UH IEEE Student Chapter Named Best in the Region by IEEE National April 10, 2017The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student chapter at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering (IEEE-UH)... |
 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student chapter at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering (IEEE-UH) received high honors at the 2017 IEEE Region 5 Annual Conference and Student Competitions held in Denver, Colorado this April. |
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UH Society of Women Engineers Hosts High Schoolers March 2, 2017Approximately 120 Houston high school students blasted onto the UH campus to launch into engineering! The 5th annual “Launch into Engineering” is a... |
 Approximately 120 Houston high school students blasted onto the UH campus to launch into engineering! The 5th annual “Launch into Engineering” is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) outreach event to attract college-bound students to the STEM fields. |
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Cullen College in the Community – Partnership with iEducate Teaches Success February 24, 2017When Jameel Jordan became a petroleum engineering student at the Cullen College he never dreamed he'd also become a mentor to third graders. “It... |
 When Jameel Jordan became a petroleum engineering student at the Cullen College he never dreamed he'd also become a mentor to third graders. “It never crossed my mind,” said Jordan. But the opportunity found him when he learned of iEducate, a group that pays you to share your knowledge of STEM courses (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with students in Houston’s underserved communities. It seemed a good fit. Turns out it was perfect. |
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Becker’s Robots and Students Visit Charter School February 21, 2017When Aaron Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, took seven engineering students to the UH... |
 When Aaron Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, took seven engineering students to the UH Charter elementary school to play with robots, he wasn’t just opening young minds – he was upholding the charter school’s vision to help students fulfill their potential through wonder and discovery. |