Student Success
September 29, 2023 The world is full of good ideas, but only some of them become viable and real.
“You don’t see the full impact of a good idea until someone figures out a way to convert it to a usable product or service that has value, brings it… |
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August 21, 2023 After natural disasters, many people are understandably worried about the potential for structural damage to their homes. The research work of a Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student and his advising professor aims to… |
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June 8, 2023 GreenHouston, a team of University of Houston students mentored by Assistant Professor Jian Shi from the UH Cullen College of Engineering, created a winning proposal for an optimized carbon dioxide transportation pipeline… |
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June 1, 2023 Fellowship to Support Studies in Computational and Applied Mathematics
Damon Spencer, a University of Houston May graduate receiving dual degrees in mathematics and computer engineering, has earned a National Science Foundation… |
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April 13, 2023 The Cullen College of Engineering offers its congratulations to the 16 students who have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for the 2022-23 academic year.
Students are nominated by professors, with one junior and one… |
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April 7, 2023 The University of Houston's Engineering Alumni Association honored 42 different students with more than $21,000 in scholarships at the 2023 Engineer's Week Program, hosted in February
Daniel Herrera, an Electrical Engineering… |
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February 9, 2023 Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everyday lives – almost everyone has a smartphone, more electric vehicles can be spotted on the roads, and they keep power generators going during emergencies. As more portable electronic… |
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August 19, 2022 In another first for the University of Houston, doctoral student Hussain Sayed became the institution’s inaugural recipient of the Joseph John Suozzi INTELEC® Fellowship Award in Power Electronics for 2022.
Sayed, a Ph.D.… |
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April 20, 2022 A doctoral candidate at the Cullen College of Engineering took home an outstanding paper presentation award at the 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference in March.
Hussain Sayed, a doctoral candidate in the Electrical and… |
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April 19, 2022 According to the CDC, obesity prevalence in the United States was 42.4 percent in 2017–2018, and obesity prevalence in the United States climbed from 30.5 percent to 42.4 percent between 1999 and 2018. Obesity has been linked to… |
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March 16, 2022 Four students and a faculty member affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering had their research papers spotlighted at the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics… |
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February 25, 2022 The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) hosted another successful event on Feb. 22, as the 2022 Engineers Week Awards program recognized 50 students for their accomplishments.
Since 2004, the EAA and industry donors have come… |
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January 31, 2022 Reflecting the organization's commitment to the community, the Dow Promise Program has awarded a $10,000 grant to the University of Houston branch of the National Society of Black Engineers, to partner with the Blodgett Urban… |
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December 15, 2021 The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded three scholarships for 2021 to students attending the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. Each student received a monetary award,… |
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December 7, 2021 A recently published paper from a team of researchers and students from multiple departments at the Cullen College of Engineering and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth proposes a way to provide real-time, continuous… |
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September 7, 2021 Researchers from the Cullen College of Engineering are exploring ways to automate the administration of medicine for patients suffering from Cushing's syndrome, with a proposal establishing architecture for that recently… |
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June 17, 2021 Only 2 percent of vehicles are electrified to date, but that is projected to reach 30 percent by 2030. A key toward improving the commercialization of electric vehicles (EVs) is to heighten their gravimetric energy density –… |
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June 11, 2021 A pair of Cullen College of Engineering students are among 21 nationwide that gave live presentations at the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Principal Investigators' meetings from June 2 through June 4… |
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May 28, 2021 A four-person team of students at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has won a pair of awards for their project – a soft robotics exoskeleton – after presenting at the Excellence in Senior Design… |
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May 13, 2021 A new paper from Rose Faghih, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Computational Medicine Laboratory, and her doctoral student Rafiul Amin describes how they have developed a… |
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