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Research conducted by faculty members with the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering and the Baylor College of Medicine may end up saving a lot of people from a very bad vacation. Paul Ruchhoeft, assistant…
UH Researchers Working On “Cruise Ship Virus” Diagnostic Tool
Phuc Huynh, a junior at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, was named a recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious awards available to undergraduate students. The scholarship provides…
Electrical Engineering Undergrad Wins National Goldwater Scholarship
The University of Houston Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student chapter held its 27th Annual Chili Cook-Off on Thursday, March 9. More than 250 Cullen College of Engineering faculty, staff, students,…
IEEE Hosts 27th Annual Chili Cook-off, Provides Activities for Faculty and Students
Doctoral candidate takes second place at symposium with research A graduate student with the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering took second place at the 30th Semiannual Texas Center for Superconductivity at the…
UH Grad Student Pushing the Boundaries of Nanotech Fabrication
This year’s Outstanding Senior and Junior awards at the Cullen College of Engineering have been given to Ying Hu and Julian Vargas of electrical and mechanical engineering, respectively. Hu and Vargas along with students…
College Names Outstanding Senior, Junior Student
Researchers with the University of Houston’s Well Logging Laboratory presented a new technology at the group’s fall Industrial Consortium meeting that could result in consumers paying lower prices at the gas pump. The Well…
UH Researchers Present New, More Cost Efficient Well Logging Technology
College of Engineering Graduate Students to Research Nanomagnetics in Naval Research and Development Centers Projects including the detection of biological agents, development of new techniques used to uncover land mines and the…
NSF-Navy Civilian Service Fellowship Program Established
Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering professors claimed top research innovation awards from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the state agency has announced. Civil and environmental engineering…
UH Engineering Research Claims Two TxDOT Awards for Innovation
Strides in vision research employing neuro-engineering and computational neuroscience earned one UH engineering professor a coveted spot in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) peer review group. Haluk Ogmen, department chair…
Neuro-Engineering, Vision Research Earn UH Professor NIH Appointment
Approximately 40 graduate students in the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering's electrical and computer engineering department (ECE) presented their work at the department’s first Graduate Research Conference held…
First Graduate Research Conference Deemed a Success for ECE
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) received high honors at the IEEE Region Five Conference. The organization won all four…
UH Sweeps IEEE Region V Conference For Second Consecutive Year
In the working world of an engineer—a world of technical terminology and complexity —UH engineering alumnus Kevin Self (1991 BSEE) works diligently to keep things simple. Self, who works with 8 and 16-bit microprocessors at…
UH Alumnus Merges Engineering, Communication to Aid in Product Development
In engineering, many discoveries that improve the quality of life do so in unseen ways, but alumnus Fred Gentile’s (1961 BSEE) development is in everyday use across the world. It’s even easy to spell—ATM, Automated Teller Machine…
UH Engineering Alumnus Networked First ATMs, Developed Automated Fuel Dispensing System
Imagine storing the entire Library of Congress on a Palm Pilot, or storing 1,000 movies on a 2-inch disk. These are the kinds of the futuristic goals that could become feasible if UH engineers are successful in their bid to…
UH Technology Holds Promise for Multibillion Dollar Data Storage Industry
An engineering professor by day and jazz saxophonist by night, Len Trombetta sounds as if he leads a double life. Trombetta, a UH electrical engineering professor, will simply admit to enjoying the best of two entirely different…
Sax Appeal Key to UH Engineering Professor's Classroom Performance
World experts in nanotechnology will gather in Houston next April to attend the Second Conference on Nanoscale Devices & System Integration (NDSI’05) sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council and the University of Houston…
Nanotech Experts To Gather in Houston in April 2005
Liang C. Shen, professor of electrical engineering and director of the UH Well Logging Laboratory, was honored at a luncheon Tuesday by the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), faculty, former graduate students and…
UH Electrical Engineering Professor Liang Shen Honored at Luncheon
Charles Dalton — Enron Teaching Excellence Award It was 1960 when Charles Dalton, professor of mechanical engineering, stood in front of a classroom to teach for the first time. Forty-three years later, Dalton continues to…
Engineering Professor & Graduate Student Receive UH Teaching Awards
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s student branch of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) received top billing at the recent IEEE Region Five Conference, garnering seven awards,…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Sweeps IEEE Conference, Takes Home Seven Awards
Dmitri Litvinov, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is one of many University of Houston engineering faculty and students who will benefit from the recent donation of a state-of-the-art LakeShore…
Seagate Technology Donates Magnetometer System to Center for Nanomagnetic Systems