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Ramon Montano’s parents moved his family from Mexico to the United States in the early 1990’s because “they wanted us to have a good education,” he says. Fast forward to May 2014, and Montano, now an alumnus of the UH Cullen…
ECE Senior Wins Outstanding Honors Thesis Award
Cancer imaging expert David Mayerich will join the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering this fall. Mayerich, who has been a Beckman Fellow at the University of…
New ECE Professor Wins $2M Recruitment Award From CPRIT
Two faculty members from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have won prestigious awards from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). This marks the…
Two ECE Professors Win IEEE-APS Awards
The electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has been growing in size, raising its standards, and climbing national rankings for its world-class academic…
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Named Top 50 Great Affordable Program
Last year, a researcher from the UH Cullen College of Engineering made an amazing discovery. Jiming Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, found that cobalt monoxide nanoparticles can be used to split…
UH Seed Funding Boosts Research on Water Splitting Nanoparticles
The annual ECE Graduate Research and Senior Capstone Design Conference was held April 25 at the UH Hilton for the 10th year in a row. The event provides a platform for undergraduate seniors and graduate students to present their…
PHOTOS: 10th Annual GRC/CDC
Each spring, the University of Houston recognizes exceptional faculty member across the university at the annual UH Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. This year, nine Cullen College of Engineering faculty members were honored…
Cullen College Faculty Awarded by University
You have a lot to thank Dmitri Litvinov for, though you might not know it yet. Litvinov is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department, a professor of chemical and…
Cullen College Professor Receives Top University Honor
Dr. Richard Liu has been a Cullen College mainstay for his 26-year tenure at UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his countless accomplishments during his time with the college were celebrated at his retirement party last week.…
PHOTOS: ECE Mainstay Richard Liu's Retirement party
When Monse Lozano was a teenager growing up in the Houston Heights neighborhood, he dropped out of public high school, got his GED and found work at a local phone company. Now, a little more than a decade later, he’s a UH Cullen…
Engineering Alum Brings STEM to Houston Kids
Agilent Technologies has played a quiet role in the Cullen College of Engineering ECE labs for several years now, but with the 2014 Graduate Research and Capstone Design conferences around the corner, they’re stepping up their…
Agilent Technologies Donates $500 to GRC/CDC
The sun broke through the morning clouds just in time for over 120 golfers to tee off at the 25th annual Cullen College of Engineering golf tournament on Monday, April 7. The golf tournament, sponsored this year by LJA…
PHOTOS: 25th Annual Golf Tournament Tees Off
As the Electric Power Analytics Consortium picks up steam, the collaboration between the Cullen College of Engineering, Direct Energy and CenterPoint Energy is gaining popularity in local media. Houston Public Media ran two…
Electric Power Analytics Consortium Gains Popularity in Houston Media
In a continuing trend of collaboration between University of Houston colleges, the Cullen College of Engineering and C.T. Bauer College of Business joined forces to create an award-winning team which competed at the University of…
Business Students Win Big With Yao's Technology
CenterPoint Energy and Direct Energy have joined the University of Houston to form the Electric Power Analytics Consortium with hopes of enhancing current models used to predict the number of electric outages due to storms and…
Zhu Han Leads Electric Power Analytics Consortium
Smart phones are capable of giving us directions when we’re lost, sending photos and videos to our friends in mere seconds, and even helping us find the best burger joint in a three-mile radius. But thanks to UH Cullen College of…
Diagnosing Diseases With Smart Phones
As part of its ongoing effort to support entrepreneurship among its faculty and students, the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is hosting an Intellectual Property Training Series for the second year in a row.…
Cullen College Hosts Second "Intellectual Property Training Series"
All too often, a stroke can mean total loss of mobility for the patient. For years, this has been accepted as a reality for stoke victims, but for Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering…
VIDEO: Brain-Machine Interface System in Action
The Cullen College of Engineering faculty members have made their final decisions on this year’s overall Outstanding Junior and Senior Award recipients, and the winners are Connor Fernandez, chemical engineering junior, and Ryan…
Cullen College Names Outstanding Student Award Winners
Last November, we told you about a team of UH Cullen College of Engineering students who were chosen to take a coveted ride in NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft, known as the “Vomit Comet.” The UH “Cougarnauts” team members were…
VIDEO: UH Engineering Students Take Ride on NASA's "Vomit Comet"