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A professor in the Cullen College of Engineering hosted the first in what is expected to be a continuing series of workshops on specialized topics in computer vision at an international conference earlier this year. ECE professor…
ECE’s Prasad Leads Critical Workshop at Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
A researcher from the Cullen College of Engineering is contributing to a project that has received $391,588 in funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to apply artificial intelligence…
ECE’s Nguyen part of effort to use AI for improving drug delivery systems
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8. Cullen is ranked…
Cullen Remains Top 50 Public Engineering College, Per U.S. News & World Reports
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
Cullen Professors Honored at UH President’s Circle Awards
Associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and IEEE senior member Xingpeng Li, Ph.D., has received a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research by the…
ECE’s Li Receives Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce that the following students have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for their respective departments for the 2024–25 academic year. Students are nominated by…
Cullen names Outstanding Students for 2024–25 Academic Year
Each year, billions of tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, certain industrial processes, construction and other human activities. This has contributed…
Cullen, Rice Scientists Redefine Chemical Manufacturing
The Cullen College of Engineering came together on March 5 for the 11th Women in Engineering Celebration, hosted in the Shamrock Ballroom of the UH Hilton. The event, underwritten by Cynthia Oliver Coleman, P.E. (’71), fosters a…
Women in Engineering Celebrate ‘Unstoppable’ Peers
A total of 25 students from different organizations received more than $13,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2025 Industry Awards Night, hosted by the University of Houston’s Engineering Alumni Association at the Athletic/…
EAA hosts 2025 Industry Award Night
The past few years have made one thing clear: The Texas power grid needs to get stronger and smarter if it’s going to keep up with the state’s needs. The Texas grid presently is capable of producing and delivering about 9…
Cullen Energy Experts Are Reimagining the Grid
Jonathan Gaucin, currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, has been selected as the 2024–25 Outstanding Junior for the Cullen College of Engineering. He is a first-generation student who hopes to…
2024–25 Outstanding Junior Gaucin Excels as First Gen Scholar
Aaron Becker has always been interested in robots. It’s just that, up until he decided to pursue postgraduate studies, he could never quite get his hands on one. He asked Santa Claus for a robot when he was 6, but it never came.…
ECE’s Becker Using Robotics to Solve Some of Energy Industry’s Trickiest Problems
The University of Houston’s inaugural “Coogs for Energy” Hackathon has crowned its champions, with the top two teams heavily featuring students from the Cullen College of Engineering. The event, hosted by UH’s Division of Energy…
Cullen Teams Take Top 2 Spots in UH’s Coogs for Energy Hackathon Event
In honor of Engineer’s Week 2025, the UH Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) will host their Industry Awards Night program on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. The E-Week reception celebrates National Engineer’s Week by recognizing…
Industry Leader, ECE Alum Kelvin King to Speak at Upcoming EAA Reception
While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult to…
ECE’s Canepa Part of International Team Working to Make Sodium Batteries Better
When the Cullen College of Engineering holds its commencement ceremony this weekend, among those Cougars crossing the finish line is Summer Dalgamouni, who is earning her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from UH’s…
ECE’s Dalgamouni earns doctorate with and for her family
Forward-thinking materials scientist Yan Yao, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is the recipient of the…
ECE’s Yao wins 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST
Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy launched an ARPA-E Program called GOPHURRS, which stands for Grid Overhaul with Proactive, High-speed Undergrounding for Reliability, Resilience, and Security, and it has allocated $34…
Cullen researchers part of $3.3M Project to Improve Undergrounding Electric Power Lines
Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries,” was not only published in the highly-respected…
ECE Ph.D. student Chen makes battery breakthrough, authors cover article in Advanced Energy Materials
A doctoral student at the Cullen College of Engineering is now back at the University of Houston, after having successfully presented her research in Hawaii thanks to a travel grant from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Nafiseh…
Ph.D. candidate Amiri earns travel grant from ECS