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Hadi Ghasemi New Mechanical Engineering Professor Gains Steam with Heat Transfer Technology Research

About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, and just less than 97 percent of this water is held in the world’s oceans. As a resource in its own right, water is…
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal (right) demonstrates his non-invasive brain-machine interface exoskeleton in 2013. ECE Brain-Machine Interface Expert Teams Up with Artist at Menil Collection

Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, is widely known in the medical community for his work on thought-…
VIDEO: Woodlands High Student Helps With NIH Study in ECE Professor's Lab

The U.S. is facing a critical shortage of highly-trained STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers. According to a 2012 report from the President’s Council…
Wei-Chuan Shih Professor Developing New Technologies for Detecting Subsea Oil Spills With DOI Award

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has awarded electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Wei-Chuan Shih with…
UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields

The University of Houston was awarded a $3.29 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE to increase the number and success of women faculty…
Birla delivering his lecture at CYSF (Image courtesy of NIHERST) BME Professor Takes Outreach to Trinidad

Outreach is an important part of the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s mission, and many professors, staff members and students work in and around the Houston area promoting STEM…
VIDEO: Introducing Christine Ehlig-Economides

This fall, the Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome Christine Ehlig-Economides to its faculty as the first-ever William C. Miller Endowed Chair Professor of…
Cuttlefish Researchers Draw Inspiration for Camouflage System From Marine Life

It could be a fun party trick – put your cell phone down on a table and watch it fade into the woodwork – or part of a lifesaving technology used by industry or the military.…
Craig Glennie Craig Glennie Appointed Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Surveying

The American Society of Civil Engineer's Journal of Surveying's newest associate editor is Craig Glennie, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Cullen…
Bonnie Dunbar Bonnie Dunbar Invited to Deliver Keynote Address at 2015 'Expanding Your Horizons' Conference

Bonnie Dunbar, M.D. Anderson Professor and director of the aerospace engineering program at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been invited to deliver the keynote address…