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Two professors with the UH Cullen College of Engineering were awarded nearly $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the resilience and reliability of the U.S. electricity grid in response to hurricanes and…
Researchers Improve Power Grid Reliability During Hurricanes With NSF Award
The University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering is mourning the passing of Liang C. Shen, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Shen died Sunday, September 21 at his home in Houston. Shen began his…
College in Mourning After Passing of ECE Professor Emeritus
Signals from smart phones are routed through base transceiver stations when they communicate, regardless of their proximity to their destinations. Signals from phones belonging to friends calling or texting in the same room must…
Engineering Professor Earns Grants to Develop Device-to-Device Communication
Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, is widely known in the medical community for his work on thought-controlled robotic exoskeletons. Now he is taking his work…
ECE Brain-Machine Interface Expert Teams Up with Artist at Menil Collection
The U.S. is facing a critical shortage of highly-trained STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers. According to a 2012 report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the…
VIDEO: Woodlands High Student Helps With NIH Study in ECE Professor's Lab
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has awarded electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Wei-Chuan Shih with nearly $900,000 over two years to investigate new…
Professor Developing New Technologies for Detecting Subsea Oil Spills With DOI Award
The University of Houston was awarded a $3.29 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE to increase the number and success of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering and…
UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields
Last June, Texas Gov. Rick Perry drove an electric car made by Tesla Motors in front of the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin – a symbolic gesture meant to signify his intention of convincing Tesla executives to build their…
ECE Professor Developing Sodium-Ion Batteries With NSF Award
Extreme Environment Workshop: Design for Survival -- Where and When it Matters Most Take part in an interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate level course which explores urgent habitation challenges which are both common and…
Extreme Environment Workshop for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
A new article published in the IEEE “Spectrum” points to engineering fields – specifically electrical engineering – as being one of the top hiring industries in 2014. According to the article, “Where the Jobs Are: 2014,” the job…
IEEE Spectrum Points to Electrical Engineering Field as Top Hirer
When a material known as graphene was first produced inside of a lab in 2004, the science and technology community buzzed with predictions that it would become the “next big thing” for the semiconductor industry. Graphene is…
ECE Professor and Ph.D. Student Publish Article in Nanotechnology
Doctoral degrees are awarded every semester in the Cullen College of Engineering, but few to students as accomplished as Ji Qi. Qi recently defended her doctoral thesis for her electrical engineering Ph.D. and will graduate this…
Accomplished Ph.D. Student Defends Dissertation on Raman Spectroscopy
In collaboration with Dr. Wajiha Shireen, Engineering Technology Professor from the University of Houston College of Technology, electrical engineering graduate student, Radhakrishna Kotti, presented award-winning research, which…
Wind Energy Innovation Presentation wins IEEE Recognition for Best Paper
Rocco De Grazia graduated in 2004 with a B.S.in electrical engineering from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Now, 10 years later,he’s still making waves in the tech community. Earlier this year, he earned…
Cullen College Alum Takes Hackathon Win with Life-Saving Invention
In recent years, the Gulf Coast region has been tremendously affected by the landfall of large hurricanes. In 2005, Category 3 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the coastal regions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and in…
6th Annual Hurricane and Disasters Conference to be Held on August 1
The University of Houston’s colleges of business and engineering have gained new support from one of the city’s energy leaders, which has donated money to a variety of programs and student support services. Phillips 66, a Houston…
Phillips 66 Donation Strengthens Ties to University of Houston
Ridwan Ajala, a beloved undergraduate student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, passed away on Tuesday, June 24th. Ridwan touched many members of the Cullen College community with his incredible work ethic, infectious…
College Grieves Passing of Undergraduate Student Ridwan Ajala
Saurabh Prasad, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has won NASA’s New Investigator Award in Earth Science. Out of over 130 proposals submitted to the New…
Electrical & Computer Engineering Researcher Wins NASA's New Investigator Award
If you think computer engineering, Rhesus monkeys and optometry have nothing in common, think again: they have Mehmet Agaoglu. Agaoglu is a Ph.D. student in the electrical and computer engineering department at the UH Cullen…
ECE Ph.D. Student Expands Research to Cover Cross-Eyed Monkeys
Cullen College alumnus as well as Compaq co-founder and CEO Rod Canion recently spoke about the future of technology at an MIT Enterprise Forum on June 5 at the University of Houston. The event, co-hosted by the Bauer College of…
Cullen College Alumnus and Compaq CEO and Co-Founder Speaks at MIT Enterprise Forum