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More than 500 guests honored the memory and legacy of dedicated UH alumnus and long-time supporter William A. Brookshire at a memorial service held in his honor this summer. The Brookshire Memorial Service was held at the UH…
College Holds Memorial for Dedicated Alumnus and Supporter William A. Brookshire
In a continued effort to promote international collaboration in engineering research and academics, the UH Cullen College of Engineering has entered into an articulation agreement with Delhi Technological University in New Delhi…
UH Engineering Signs Articulation Agreement With Delhi Technological University
David Mayerich, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College, is part of a national group receiving funds from the National Institutes of Health to study breast cancer. The group will…
NIH Grant to Study Breast Cancer
Xiaonan Shan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). The award will help fund Shan’s research into…
ECE Professor Receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
If there were Academy Awards in the field of electrochemical material science, Stanko Brankovic, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College and past chair of the materials science division of…
Stanko Brankovic Wins Top Award in Field of Chemical Engineering
Whether you’ve suffered through a major Houston hurricane, flood event or momentary glitch in the power grid, no doubt you understand the severity of a power blackout. And lest you think Houston has cornered the market on such…
Taking The Reins of Power (Over Power) Wins Best Paper Award for Cullen College Team
Modern batteries power everything from cars to cell phones, but they are far from perfect – they catch fire, they perform poorly in cold weather and they have relatively short lifecycles, among other issues. Now researchers from…
Inexpensive Organic Material Gives Safe Batteries a Longer Life
The Gulf Coast has been spared a major hurricane in the past few years, but as most Houstonians know all-too-well, the wrath of Mother Nature is never far away. That’s why Cumaraswamy “Vipu” Vipulanandan, director of the Texas…
UH Engineer to Host Conference on Hurricane and Disaster Preparation and Recovery
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…
Ph.D. Student Presents Energy Harvesting Research at NASA
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…
ECE Students Place Second at NASA Swarmathon Competition
In the early days of personal computing, Cullen College alumnus Rod Canion (bachelor’s in electrical engineering 1966, and master’s in electrical engineering 1968) left the security of his job at Texas Instruments and co-founded…
Success In and On the Air: UH Alumni and Compaq Founder Featured on NPR
When it comes to success in engineering studies, the data is clear: the better students do in their first-year core classes, the higher the chances that they will complete their engineering degrees. That’s why the First Year…
Photos: First-Year Students Shine at First Year Experience Summit
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. The Electrochemical Society is a national…
UH Electrochemical Society Student Chapter off to a Successful Start
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…
PHOTOS: Student Research Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference
.faculty-list td { border:none; } Excellence in engineering took center stage as Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the Cullen College, recognized the outstanding performances of faculty, staff and students in…
The Best of Our Brightest: Outstanding Service Awards Given in Cullen College
The similarities between engineering pioneers Elon Musk and Nikola Tesla, who Musk named his electric car after, are being debated on the national stage. U.S. News & World Report offers that Tesla went broke pushing his…
Tesla Vs. Musk: Cullen College’s Faghih Weighs In
UH alumnus William A. Brookshire, Ph.D. (BSChE '57), co-founder and chairman of the board of S&B Engineers and Constructors, died on April 21, 2017. Joseph Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the Cullen College of…
William A. Brookshire Leaves Legacy of Generosity and Dedication to the Cullen College
If there’s one thing Yan Yao gets a charge out of, it’s the idea of creating a better battery. The Cullen College assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering is known for being the most current in the battery…
Yan Yao Amps Up His Game: Becomes a Scialog Fellow
Each spring the University of Houston shines a spotlight on the faculty’s best and brightest, honoring them with teaching and research awards. Read more about the Cullen College of Engineering professors who earned the…
UH Honors Cullen College Professors for Excellence in Teaching and Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cullen College’s Miao Pan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and Zhu Han, professor of electrical and computer engineering, $300,000 to speed up the way your…
UH Engineers Receive NSF Grant to Improve the ‘Internet of Things’