UH Cullen College of Engineering

Homecoming Activities for Engineering Alumni Nov. 6
The UH Cullen College of Engineering will honor the Classes of 1954 and 1979 at a special Homecoming Brunch at 11:30am on Saturday, Nov. 6 in the Commons area of Engineering Building 1. The reception is free, but requires an RSVP. Following the reception, the Engineering Alumni Association will host its annual tailgate party for engineering alumni, faculty, staff and students.

UH System, Methodist Working on Affiliation Agreement
The UH System and The Methodist Hospital have taken the first step in forming a long-term affiliation, expanding health science and medical education programs as well as enhancing health care for the community. The collaboration also will enhance research under way by the Cullen College of Engineering and psychology, vision science and biology/biochemistry departments at UH, which have extensive programs to study the neurosciences.

UH Technology Holds Promise for Multibillion Dollar Data Storage Industry
Storing the entire Library of Congress on a Palm Pilot or putting 1,000 movies on a two-inch disk may sound like incredibly futuristic goals, but UH engineers are working swiftly toward making them a reality. These remarkable achievements could become feasible if researchers in UH's Cullen College of Engineering are successful in their bid to create the first nanopatterned medium recording (N-PMR) at the scale of one terabyte per square inch and explore the physical limits of magnetic data storage in units only four nanometers in size. Dmitri Litvinov, associate professor of electrical engineering at UH, is the principal investigator of a new research project that recently received funding of $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation. He is working closely with co-principal investigator Jack Wolfe, professor of electrical engineering.

UH Engineering Doctoral Candidate and Alumnus Brings Home Four Medals from World Kickboxing Championships
While the student body was settling into the rhythm of the semester, UH mechanical engineering doctoral candidate and alumnus Sandra Geffert (2003 MSME, 2001 BSME) was competing for international titles at the World Kickboxing Championships in Basle, Switzerland. During the six-day trip, Geffert competed in seven events. In Chinese soft style kata and open forms, Geffert took the gold, and she won silver in tae kwon do forms and a bronze in team forms.

UH Engineering Alumnus Develops Technology for New Offshore Structure
Residents across the nation will feel the effects of Jose Vazquez's (1989 BSCE, 1990 MSCE, 1995 PhD CE) latest project, a deep water liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal using the Soft Berth™ system, developed by Bennett and Associates and Freeport McMoRan Energy LLC, that has been in development for the last year and a half. The system has the potential of affecting heating and cooling systems by stabilizing the supply of natural gas.

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