It's fair to characterize Tony Kim (BSEE '09) as the quintessential star student. During his academic career at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Kim built quite a list of accomplishments. Among his…
The newest faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has joined UH with a prestigious endowed professorship.
Assistant Professor Yan Yao has…
Space stations and offshore oil rigs don’t have a lot in common, other than Wei-Chuan Shih.
Shih, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has won…
It sounds like the setup to a bad joke: How many engineers does it take to boil water? Actually, to do so as efficiently as possible, it takes two (plus their research teams).
The two in question are Dong Liu and Paul Ruchhoeft,…
The UH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering gathered to honor Professor Donald Wilton at a retirement reception this month.
Wilton joined the Cullen College of Engineering as a professor of electrical engineering in…
Researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have developed a new neural probe that will give scientists new capabilities when studying small clusters of brain cells.
The device, dubbed the optitrode,…
Friends, colleagues and students of Professor Ovidiu Crisan celebrated his career achievements at a retirement luncheon this month.
Crisan came to the Cullen College of Engineering as a visiting professor in the Department of…
Zhu Han, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, received not one, but two best paper awards as a recent international conference of the…
From cognitive neuroscience to theoretical physics, this year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows from the University of Houston (UH) have their sights set on careers in fields ranging from medicine to…
Two more junior faculty members at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards.
The NSF CAREER grants to Jacinta…
Researchers have put in decades of hard work developing an interface that would allow the human brain to control prosthetic limbs. It’s ironic, then, that the end result may be surprisingly simple.
Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-…
It started as a conversation among friends, about a common issue of college life: the price of textbooks. Ade Adesanya (BSEE '11) recalls the discussion with Eric Imasogie (BSIE '10). "We decided there is no reason why anyone…
Cullen College of Engineering alumnus Cary Gallaway (BSEE 2006) has been named the 2012 Young Engineer of the Year by the Houston Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Gallaway is currently a…
Assistant Professor Wei-Chuan Shih has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, making him the fourth professor with the Cullen College of Engineering to do so this year. This is also the first CAREER Award from the NSF’s…
Saurabh Prasad, an expert in signal and image processing and analysis, has joined the faculty of the Cullen College’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Prasad earned his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University in…
Two students at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have been chosen as Outstanding Senior and Junior for the 2011-2012 academic year. Senior Brian Clark and Junior Preston Broom were selected from a group of…
Jiming Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study the optical properties of graphene.
One of the most prestigious grants offered by the NSF, CAREER…
A team of Cullen College engineering students presented their senior design project this month, unveiling the next-generation RoboShasta, a UH mascot "bot." The semester-long project culminated in an advanced version of an…
The Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has welcomed Jose Luis 'Pepe' Contreras-Vidal as its newest faculty member.
Contreras-Vidal, who joins the college as a full professor, was…
The days of worrying whether it’s safe to pay a bill online may soon be over. Such encrypted transmissions could end up immune to hackers thanks in part to the efforts to Yuhua Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer…
