The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) held its annual meeting on August 22nd at Saint Arnold’s Brewery. This annual event furthers the EAA’s mission of championing, supporting and uniting the Cullen College’s students, faculty and alumni.

NSF grant to Rice, UH, Texas Southern will help future science, engineering professors

HOUSTON – (Aug. 13, 2019) – Rice University, Texas Southern University (TSU) and the University of Houston (UH) have won a multimillion-dollar grant to help increase the number of underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers in engineering and science.

Device Also Can Serve as Robotic Skin, Relaying Information Back to the User

Wearable human-machine interfaces – devices that can collect and store important health information about the wearer, among other uses – have benefited from advances in electronics, materials and mechanical designs. But current models still can be bulky and uncomfortable, and they can’t always handle multiple functions at one time.

The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) honored the UH Cullen College of Engineering with an award recognizing its commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.

Kamel Salama, former professor of mechanical engineering with the UH Cullen College of Engineering, died Friday, July 12, 2019 at M.D. Anderson Hospital following an extended illness. He was 87.

Passionate about science and education, he nurtured many young scientists and made significant contributions in the area of materials science. He held 10 patents.

Pradeep Sharma, M.D. Anderson Professor and chair of the mechanical engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is having a good year. He received the 2019 James R. Rice Medal from the Society of Engineering Science (SES) earlier this year and was recently selected to receive the 2019 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

A team of UH Cullen College Engineering students are basking in the sweet smell of success in NASA’s 2019 Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge, a college competition to design and build a machine to extract water from Mars’ hidden underground ice.

The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering celebrated the graduation of more than 600 engineers on Thursday, May 9 at the Fertitta Center.

The proud graduates earned: 427 bachelor’s degrees, 141 master’s degrees and 45 doctorate degrees.

The keynote address was delivered by Chang Oh Turkmani, managing director at the Mega Company and a member of the Engineering Leadership Board (ELB).

Research brings self-powered wearable electronics closer to reality

Wearable electronics – from smartwatches to fitness trackers – are not just trendy and fashionable accessories, but an integral part of many people’s lives. People use these devices to log the number of steps taken, monitor heart rates and sleep patterns, count calories and more.