Professor Honored by Society of Petroleum Engineers
(October 25, 2007) Kishore Mohanty, professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will be honored as a Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member during the society's Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in November. As director of the college’s Institute for Improved Oil Recovery, Mohanty’s research focuses on efforts to retrieve hard-to-access petroleum through various methods, including the use of surfactants and carbon flooding.

Chemical Engineering Receives Graduate Fellowship from Bayer Foundation
(October 23, 2007) The University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) has received $90,000 grant from the Bayer Foundation to establish the Bayer Graduate Fellowship Program at the Cullen College of Engineering. A group from the Bayer Foundation, led by Willy Scherf, president and CEO of Bayer Corporate and Business Services (pictured right with Mike Harold, professor and chair of ChBE), visited the Cullen College of Engineering last week.

College Offering Scholarships for Accelerated B.S. to Graduate Program
(October 23, 2007) The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships for students in the college’s accelerated B.S. to graduate degree program. The program combines coursework for the bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and/or Ph.D., thereby reducing the number of credit hours needed to earn multiple degrees. Under the program, students can apply a total of six credit hours toward both a bachelor’s degree and a graduate degree.

UH Researcher Building Next-Generation Internet
(October 15, 2007) Yuhua Chen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology leading to the next-generation internet infrastructure, making telemedicine and telesurgery possible in the future. Algorithms will be used to operate optical burst switching networks to deliver real-time video streams without pauses or jitters, possibly eliminating the optical-electrical-optical conversion technology that is currently used to transfer large amounts of information over the internet.

Engineering Undergrads Showcase Research
(October 15, 2007) Eleven engineering undergraduate students showcased their research at the University of Houston's third-annual Undergraduate Research Day on October 4. Among them, senior civil and environmental engineering major William Botkins presented the ups and downs of his watershed modeling research with Ted Cleveland, associate professor of envirnomental engineering, and hopes to continue investigating such topics in graduate school. Download poster (136 kb | pdf)

Imaging Device to Benefit Patients of In Vitro Fertilization
(October 2, 2007) Kirill Larin, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering with the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is developing an imaging device that could increase the success of in vitro fertilization. The research is in partnership with Michael Allon, a Houston-based doctor specializing in fertility issues. Their work is supported by a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Wallace Coulter Foundation, which specializes in funding translational research, i.e. research designed to move a technology from the lab to its use in real-world situations.