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Faculty Accolades

You have a lot to thank Dmitri Litvinov for, though you might not know it yet. Litvinov is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department, a professor of chemical and…
Cullen College Professor Receives Top University Honor
Each spring, the University of Houston recognizes exceptional faculty member across the university at the annual UH Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. This year, nine Cullen College of Engineering faculty members were honored…
Cullen College Faculty Awarded by University
CenterPoint Energy and Direct Energy have joined the University of Houston to form the Electric Power Analytics Consortium with hopes of enhancing current models used to predict the number of electric outages due to storms and…
Zhu Han Leads Electric Power Analytics Consortium
Everything from environmental monitoring to medical diagnostics could benefit from recent research conducted by a professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. The research involves an advance to a…
Molecular Sensing Gets Boost from ECE Researcher
Researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have developed a new neural probe that will give scientists new capabilities when studying small clusters of brain cells. The device, dubbed the optitrode,…
Researchers Develop Dual-Purpose Neural Probe
Researchers have put in decades of hard work developing an interface that would allow the human brain to control prosthetic limbs. It’s ironic, then, that the end result may be surprisingly simple. Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-…
Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton One Step Closer to Reality
When a construction crew pours concrete for an interstate highway, they're supposed to lay it on thick -- 15 inches thick, to be precise. It's the responsibility of the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDoT) to make sure…
Two Highway Research Projects Nominated as 'Most Innovative' in Texas
Electrical Engineering Professor Gerhard Paskusz, founder and director of the college's highly successful Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies, will be recognized as a new Fellow Member of the American Society for…
Director of PROMES Program Named Fellow by American Society for Engineering Education
Stuart Long, electrical & computer engineering professor and associate dean in the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, will be recognized with a 2002 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Houston Alumni…
UH Engineering Professor Long Recognized as Outstanding Faculty by Houston Alumni Organization
University of Houston engineering professor Donald R. Wilton received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Sept. 27 in…
UH Engineering Professor Wilton Honored for Achievements in Computational Electromagnetics
The audience at this year’s Faculty and Staff Meeting gave a much-deserved standing ovation for Professor William P. Schneider, who is retiring from the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering after 37…
Excellence in Teaching, Research on ‘Project Mohole’ Highlight Retiring Professor’s Career
Electrical Engineering Professor John R. Glover has won a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study epileptic seizures in newborn babies over the next four years. The research will take place in collaboration…
NIH Grant Will Fund UH Engineer's Study of Epileptic Seizures in Newborns
University of Houston engineering professor Guanrong "Ron" Chen and alumnus James N. Ortiz have been selected to receive the M. Barry Carlton Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society for their article, "…
IEEE/AES Honors UH Engineering Professor and Alumnus
Liang C. Shen, professor of electrical engineering and director of the UH Well Logging Laboratory, received the Gold Medal for Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) on June 19,…
Engineering Professor Liang Shen Receives Gold Medal for Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts
Liang C. Shen, professor of electrical engineering and director of the UH Well Logging Laboratory, will receive the Gold Medal for Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA). This award…
Engineering Professor Liang Shen Receives Gold Medal for Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts