May 10, 2005

EAA Announces 2005 Distinguished Engineering Awards Recipients
Benton Baugh (1967 BSME) and Steven Simmons (1981 BSCE) will receive the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award at the 2005 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday, June 3 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown Houston. Eray Aydil (1991 PhD ChE) will receive the Distinguished Young Engineering Alumna Award and Cheryl Thompson-Draper will receive the Roger Eichhorn Leadership Service Award. Electrical and computer engineering professor Betty Barr will receive the Abraham E. Dukler Distinguished Engineering Faculty Award.

Informational Workshop on New Executive Engineering Development Program: May 12
The UH Cullen College of Engineering announces the launch this Fall of an elite program designed to give experienced technical professionals (engineers, scientists) the tools and techniques they need to deliver globally competitive innovation to small, mid & large cap technical enterprises. Attend an Informational Workshop this Thursday, May 12 at 4pm in 102 Engineering Building 1 and interact with industry executive faculty. Also learn more about the objectives, philosophy, components and design of the program, and first module offering scheduled for Fall 2005. This executive program is delivered in independent Masters Track Certificate-bearing modules of three graduate level courses each. Participants earn Masters of Enterprise Engineering with the successful completion of four modules.

UH Industrial Engineering Alumna Develops Hand Mimetic Device For Premature Babies, Mothers
When Yamile Cendales Jackson (2000 PhD IE) gave birth to her son Zachary, he was 12 weeks premature and weighed only one pound, 15 ounces. Now Zachary is a thriving four year old, and Jackson used her experience to develop a hand mimetic device, the Zaky, which is named after her son, to help premature babies and their mothers feel closer to each other.

UH Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Develops Protein-Based Technology for Constructing Biosensors
The government’s task of safeguarding the nation hinges in part on its ability to quickly and accurately detect toxic biological agents. Graduate student Mrinal Shah’s recent breakthrough in liquid-liquid phase separation may be the first integral step along the road to developing a protein-based biosensor that would do just that. Mrinal Shah, who is pursuing a doctorate degree in chemical engineering at UH, presented his research recently at the Keck Annual Research Conference and received the second place award.

ME Professor Receives ONR’s Young Investigator Program Award for Study of Quantum Dots
Pradeep Sharma, UH assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program Award for his proposal on the Novel Size-Effects in the Coupled Mechanical Deformation and Opto-Electronic Behavior of Quantum Dots and Wires. The total award of $262, 471 for three years is intended to further propel Sharma’s research.

Michael O'Neill Dedication Ceremony
A bust of former professor Michael W. O'Neill was unveiled at a special dedication ceremony hosted by the UH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Richard Short, the sculptor, was also present. O'Neill, who died in August 2003 at the age of 63, was a Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at UH.

Engineering Professor Receives UH Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, associate professor of chemical engineering, recently received the Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award from UH for his research on polymers.

 

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