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The Cullen College of Engineering shined at last night’s University of Houston Faculty Awards Banquet, with college professors taking home five research and scholarship awards, the career teaching award and the university’s…
Engineering Takes Top Honors At Faculty Awards Ceremony
Students and fellow professors at the Cullen College of Engineering know Dave Shattuck as one of the best teachers around. Now he’s been recognized as exactly that by the University of Houston. Shattuck, an associate professor of…
“Dr. Dave” Wins Career Teaching Award
On any other given day, you would probably find ECE professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal — or “Pepe,” for short — inside of his UH Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems. Typically, Pepe would be surrounded by…
Fundraising for MS: ECE Professor Pedals From Houston to Austin in MS 150
Karen Studd is a professional dancer, devoting much of her waking hours to practicing and perfecting her discipline. And today is no different – she is moving slowly, methodically, gracefully across the room with such softness it…
Your Brain on Dance: A Research Collaboration Between Engineers and Dancers
As the end of the spring semester approaches, members of the class of 2013 are preparing to transition into the full-time workforce. Engineering graduates will apply the technical skills learned in the lectures and labs of the…
The Engineering Career Search
A team of four engineering students represented the University of Houston at the 2013 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition in Denver on April 9, winning third place out of 26 teams. Jacob Green, Timothy Hoang, Daniel Resendez, and…
UH Robotics Team Places Third at Regional Competition
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), along with all the engineering organizations and our sponsoring companies, held the 34th Annual Chili Cook-off on March 7, 2013 at the University of Houston. To access…
Photos: IEEE Chili Cook-off
First graders from the Garden Villas Elementary School took a field trip to the University of Houston on Friday, April 5th to get a taste of what their college experience might look like if they decide to pursue careers in the…
Photos: Garden Villas Elementary School Field Trip
The University of Houston — and particularly the Cullen College of Engineering — have taken bold and progressive steps in partnering with local industry and taking advantage of the university's location in the "Energy Capital of…
UH Creates New Energy & Sustainability Minor
The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society has named University of Houston Cullen College Professor Emeritus Donald Wilton the recipient of its inaugural Computational Electromagnetics Award. This lifetime award honors “…
ECE’s Wilton Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The University of Houston and the Methodist Hospital Research Institute hosted the 2013 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Neural Machine Interface Systems from Feb. 24-27, 2013 at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute…
Video: Brain Machine Interface Conference 2013
Since 2009, CenterPoint Energy has installed more than 2.2 million smart meters at homes and businesses throughout the Houston area. Every 15 minutes, these smart meters automatically record customer energy usage and send this…
Industry Consortium Seeks to Leverage Smart Grid Data
Everything from environmental monitoring to medical diagnostics could benefit from recent research conducted by a professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. The research involves an advance to a…
Molecular Sensing Gets Boost from ECE Researcher
Three University of Houston electrical engineering students were recognized as the top design team at the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge Showcase this month. Seniors Lazaro “Danny” Rodriguez, Dhruval Bhatt and…
UH Team Wins Best Overall in Design Challenge
The University of Houston Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a seminar last week, led by Ravi Prakash, a systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) — Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL)…
Let’s See Where Curiosity Will Take Us
An article authored by a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering faculty member has won the Best Paper Award for an upcoming international conference hosted by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (…
Paper on Electricity Purchasing Wins Award for ECE’s Han
A graduate student at one of Switzerland's top universities was honored by that institution for research he conducted while visiting the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Michel Akselrod won the award for the…
Research Conducted at UH Wins Honors for Swiss Grad Student
The world’s leading figures in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) will gather in Houston next February to map the quickest route for bringing brain-controlled prosthetics to clinical patients. The International Workshop…
UH-Led Workshop to Develop "Roadmap" for Brain-Controlled Prosthetics
A semiconductor industry group has awarded an $80,000 grant to a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering professor to develop a new way to connect transistors in integrated circuits (ICs), which are at the heart of…
Industry Group Funding Professor’s Integrated Circuit Research
A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant worth approximately $2.1 million to study the best ways to modify human immune cells to fight against cancer. Navin Varadarajan, assistant…
Professor Wins $2.1M R01 Award for Cancer Research