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Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, authored a research paper that was chosen as the cover of the January 2016 edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry…
ECE Energy Research Makes Cover of Research Journal
The Cullen College continues to make headlines with research exploring the intersection of neuroscience, engineering and art conducted by Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of…
Houston Public Media Spotlights UH Research Exploring Creativity and the Brain
Aaron T. Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $550,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his robotic research…
Engineer Earns NSF CAREER Award to Steer Swarms of Micro-robots
The Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department recently welcomed five new members to its Industry Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB connects leaders in industry, government and academia with students and faculty…
ECE Industry Advisory Board Welcomes Five New Members
The Cullen College of Engineering’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department recently welcomed two new faculty members. Jiefu Chen served as a scientist for Weatherford International, an oil and gas company in Houston,…
Meet ECE’s New Faculty Members
Haluk Ogmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, his former doctoral student Hulusi Kafaligonul and his colleague Bruno Breitmeyer, UH professor of psychology, were invited to…
Journal Invites Professor to Edit Perception Science Special Issue
Lauren Talarico, a reporter for KHOU 11 News in Houston, interviewed Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH Cullen College of Engineering, for her report on exploding hoverboards this week. The…
KHOU 11 News Interviews Professor About Exploding Hoverboards
The editor of The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization invited Haluk Ogmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his colleague Michael Herzog, professor of psychophysics…
Cullen College Expert Composes Chapter in Respected Oxford Handbook
An engineer from the UH Cullen College of Engineering will lead development of a key component for a new, all solid-state sodium battery with the potential to revolutionize the nation’s electric grid. Yan Yao, assistant professor…
UH Engineer Joins Project to Transform Energy Storage
The Cullen College’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department held its annual alumni mixer last week at Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston’s oldest craft brewery. Dr. Fritz Claydon, Director of the Division of…
PHOTOS: 2015 ECE Alumni Mixer
The National Science Foundation (NSF) published an article and video online about research conducted by Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of electrical and computer…
NSF Website Features UH Professor’s Research on Neuroaesthetics
The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its…
Engineering Students Selected as GRaSP Day Finalists
A whopping 13 percent of Texas teens who took the 2015 SAT test indicated that they intended to study engineering in college. Engineering was listed as the second-most popular career choice for Texas teens — 22 percent of…
More Texas Teens Want to be Engineers When They Grow Up
Badri Roysam, professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was recently elected editor-in-chief of the ECE Source, a publication of the Electrical and Computer Engineering…
ECE Chair Publishes Op-Ed on the Future of the Field in National Association Publication
The October cover of the Journal of Biophotonics featured molecular sensing research conducted by Wei-Chuan Shih, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The study…
Journal Features Breast Cancer DNA Biomarker Sensor on Cover
Three prominent visual artists, Dario Robleto, Jo Ann Fleischhauer and Lily Cox-Richard, were recently appointed Cullen College of Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics. As part of a Brain Research through Advancing…
Three Appointed as Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics
Intentionality is the core of human cognition and movement, and Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal is intent on understanding, for all intents and purposes, the neural mechanisms of intention in the human brain. The UH Cullen…
A Renaissance in the Mind: Brain Research at the Crossroads of Art and Science
Floating in cerebral fluid inside 22 bones that form the face and skull, each of the seven billion brains belonging to Earth’s human inhabitants govern intelligence, creativity, memory, emotion, speech, movement, sensory systems…
Probing Deeper: Shining Light on the Mysteries of the Brain With Optogenetics
Prosthetic legs combine mind and muscle to travel advanced tech terrain The National Science Foundation has awarded Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal, electrical and computer engineering professor at UH Cullen College, with two…
Prostheses on Fast Track to Improved Movement for Amputees
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s 11th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 22nd in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library and the Honors College. At the event, over 175 undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 2015 Undergraduate Research Day