In a recent paper published in the journal Nano Letters, mechanical engineers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering describe a novel method for characterizing and understanding the behavior of nanomaterials.

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, created in honor of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding research achievements. This year Tam Nguyen, a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at the Cullen College, received honorable mention for the scholarship.

The 2016 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Hilton Americas Houston on Thursday, June 9, 2016. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, celebrates the professional achievements and contributions of college alumni and faculty.

The UH Cullen College of Engineering is well on its way to becoming a Top 50 engineering college in the nation, earning a coveted spot on the list of the Best Engineering Schools of 2017 by U.S. News and World Report.

For the third year in a row, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded the UH ASME student section a Diversity Action Grant (DAG) for the student-run “Intro to Cougar Engineering” STEM outreach initiative.

With plans to capture the power of Houston’s sun and reuse its abundant rainfall, a group of University of Houston students has completed the first phase of an ambitious project to rethink affordable housing and energy efficiency.

Three interdisciplinary teams have been named winners of the Energy Efficiency Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Direct Energy and UH Energy. Ultimately, organizers plan to build the winning designs in Houston’s Third Ward, near the UH campus.

Cunjiang Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, earned a $500,000, five-year CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of his novel manufacturing process for three-dimensional (3D) curvilinear

Two doctoral students in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received the college’s Best Dissertation Awards for fall 2015.

The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its second year, GRaSP Day celebrates the research, scholarship and creative endeavors of UH graduate and professional students across all disciplines.