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Surendra Shah College Adds National Academy Member

Surendra P. Shah, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, this spring joined faculty at the University of Houston Cullen…
Metin Akay New Biomedical Chair Earns Esteemed Engineering Honors

Just weeks into his post as John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor and founding chair of the University of Houston Department of Biomedical Engineering, Metin Akay is already being…
Mechanical engineering graduate student Christiana Chang holds a sheet of carbon nanofiber paper she is embedding in concrete in an effort to create self-heating roads. Photo by Thomas Shea. Technology Being Developed in UH Lab Could Put an End to Icy Commutes

Christiana Chang lives where temperatures rarely dip low enough to produce snow let alone ice. Yet in a lab at the University of Houston she is in the midst of perfecting…
Pradeep Sharma Engineering Professor Part of International Center

Funding awarded to one University of Houston professor by the National Science Foundation is expected to advance energy research as part of a new International Institute for…
Rhys Forgie (back) and Eric Bustamante, both engineering students with the University of Houston Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, pose in front of a water well in San Antonio, Nicaragua. Photo courtesy of EWB. Building Good Will

UH group to put problem-solving skills to test with project abroad About an hour drive from the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, down a dusty path winding through miles of…