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CenterPoint, Direct Energy Join ECE Professor’s Electricity Research Consortium
March 2014

CenterPoint, Direct Energy Join ECE Professor's Electricity Research Consortium

CenterPoint Energy and Direct Energy have joined the University of Houston to form the Electric Power Analytics Consortium with hopes of enhancing current models used to predict the number of electric outages due to storms and better serve customers. The consortium is led by Zhu Han, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College. Read More

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Diagnosing Diseases with Smart Phones

Diagnosing Diseases with Smart Phones
Smart phones are capable of giving us directions when we're lost, sending photos and videos to our friends in mere seconds, and even helping us find the best burger joint in a three-mile radius. But thanks to UH Cullen College of Engineering researchers, smart phones may soon be boasting another very important function: diagnosing diseases in real time. Read More

Kardar

Ph.D. Works to Optimize Radiation Treatment
As lung cancer patients breathe, the tumor in their lung moves along with the surrounding tissue, sometimes causing radiation treatment beams to miss the tumor entirely and instead blast healthy cells with toxic rays. For many physicians, this problem can determine whether or not a patient even receives radiation therapy — but not if Laleh Kardar has anything to do with it. Read More

excavator

Researchers Win $700K Grant to Develop Pipeline Safety System
Two researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering are developing a low-cost GPS-based system that can provide real-time alerts to the pipeline owner and the person operating the excavator when digging is taking place near a pipeline. The research is supported by a $700,000 grant from the U.S Department of Transportation and the Gas Technology Institute. Read More

The Joules of Science

"The Joules of Science" Representing UH in BP Contest
A team of University of Houston undergraduates — made up of two students from the Cullen College of Engineering and one from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics — will represent UH next month in BP's "Ultimate Field Trip" contest. Read More

Dawood

International Team Uses Shape Memory Alloys to Rehab Concrete Structures
A team of researchers from University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Qatar University has won a $779,000 grant to develop a new way to rehabilitate deteriorating reinforced concrete structures. Read More

PHOTOS: Rockwell Lecture Series Presents "America’s Energy Future"
The Cullen College of Engineering and the Rockwell Distinguished Lecture Series presented "America's Energy Future" on March 21, a talk by BP's Felipe Bayon focusing on the future of the energy industry. Bayon, who serves as Senior Vice President of BP America and heads the company's Global Deepwater Response Group, spoke about his own personal energy industry experience spanning from Colombia to the United States as well as BP's high-level view of the future global energy picture. He also spoke on the "Great Crew Change," the shift in industry from retiring baby boomers to a new generation of STEM-savvy professionals. Check out the pictures here.

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