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Presentations, posters and the pride of University of Houston students will be on view during Undergraduate Research Day (URD) on April 11. During this anticipated event, more than 360 students will display their academic…
Cullen Students in the Spotlight During Undergraduate Research Day
The Cullen College of Engineering is now part of a research effort with faculty at Keio University, Japan's most prestigious and very first private institution of higher learning, that is also meant to encourage future…
ECE professors part of research with Japan's Keio University
A new, $3 million gift will help reinforce the University of Houston’s long-standing mission to provide students with a world-class education and ensure they are given every opportunity to succeed in and out of the classroom. The…
$3 Million Gift Funds New Scholarships for Working Students at UH
Three top researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have accepted joint appointments in various capacities at the University of Houston. These appointments are part of the memorandum of…
Three Renowned Argonne Scientists Accept Joint Appointments at the University of Houston
An engineering student completing his doctorate at the University of Houston was honored by being selected for a Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) Professional summer research internship in Germany. Yuan Zi…
Ph.D. student Zi thrives during RISE internship
In the race to achieve a net-zero future based on clean energy, renewable energy sources like solar and wind power have emerged as potential champions in the battle against climate change. However, as traditional synchronous…
ECE's Li Using CAREER Award to Ensure Continuous Quality Electricity for All
Jinghong Chen, an associate professor in the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The University of Houston now has 36 faculty members…
ECE's Jinghong Chen Named NAI Senior Member
Zhu Han, Moores Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, is part of the 2023 Fellow class for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Han…
ECE's Han earns ACM Fellow status
Jian Shi, an assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering with a dual appointment to the Engineering Technology and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments, won't soon forget his son's 10th birthday. It's…
ECE, Engineering Technology's Shi earns CAREER award
In music, perfect pitch is the innate ability to identify and recreate any note without hearing it first. It’s what musicians strive for, a rare level of excellence only a gifted few can achieve. Baseball pitchers also dream of…
Cullen Student Among Innovators at UH Tech Bridge
A professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has been honored by being elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the highest honors of distinction provided by the organization. Ji…
ECE's Ji Chen earns IEEE Fellow distinction
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $17.4 million funding for 19 early-stage research projects focused on expanding clean energy technologies at colleges and universities across America. These projects will…
Three Cullen Projects Rack Up $3M in Funding for Decarbonization, Emissions Research
To tackle the challenges of a shrinking wireless spectrum, the University of Houston has joined the Spectrum Management with Adaptive and Reconfigurable Technology (SMART) Hub – a Department of Defense Spectrum Innovation Center…
UH Joins SMART Hub, A $5M Department of Defense Consortium
At first glance it seems a typically beautiful dance performance featuring the fusion of original music, and immersive projection design. But unlike anything you might expect, it also blends cutting edge neuro-engineering as…
Watch Science in Motion as Dancers Don Brain Caps in Original Performance
After successfully defending his dissertation in July, Alexander Steele will receive his doctorate at the Cullen College of Engineering Commencement this month. Steele, a disabled Marine, started at the University of Houston in…
Steele describes journey from disabled Marine to UH doctorate
For the second straight year, the same dynamic quartet of University of Houston scientists has been honored as world-class, highly cited researchers, acknowledging the remarkable and widespread impact of their scientific…
Repeat! Four University of Houston Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
A celebration of the life of Anne Jaap Jacobson – a longtime professor at the University of Houston – will be held on Nov. 28 in the M.D. Anderson Library's Rockwell Pavilion from 10-11:30 a.m. Jacobson passed away in early…
Celebration of Life to be held for ECE, Philosophy professor Jacobson
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce 15 faculty promotions, effective starting the Fall 2023 semester. Promotions are listed by level, then alphabetically last name. All promotions are granted followed a…
Cullen promotes 15 faculty members for Fall 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…
Cullen teams place in UH Energy's Innovation Commercialization Competition
The Cullen College of Engineering offers its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Wanda Zagozdzon-Wosik, who passed in September after a battle with brain cancer. Zagozdzon-Wosik retired from her position as an…
College mourns the passing of Wanda Zagozdzon-Wosik