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Pieremanuele Canepa, Robert A. Welch Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. ECE’s Canepa earns Scialog funding

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation  have funded seven team proposals for… Read More
Bo Zhao, smiling, wears a blue collared shirt and is standing in front of a grey background with his arms crossed. MAE’s Zhao Receives NSF CAREER Award

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering’s Assistant Professor Bo Zhao has been awarded $549,770 for his NSF CAREER proposal, “Understanding and Controlling Nonreciprocal Thermal… Read More
The research team for Muayyad Al-Ubaidi [third from left] and Muna Naash [third from right]. Cullen, UH Receives $1.1M Gift for Biomedical Engineering Research

The University of Houston and the Cullen College of Engineering have received a generous $1.1 million gift from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to advance… Read More
Lihong Zhao. ECE’s Yao, Zhao Recharge Battery Potential

Low-battery anxiety may soon be a little less stressful thanks to a recent discovery by researchers at the University of Houston. For decades, scientists have struggled to… Read More
Joshua Genova. Genova, Cabrera, Hoskere Earn Runner-Up Best Paper Award at ASCE i3CE 2025 for Intelligent Repair-Robotics Breakthrough

An interdisciplinary team from the Cullen College of Engineering was awarded the Runner-Up Best Paper Award at the 2025 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil… Read More
Abdullah H. Abdel-Khalek, dressed in graduation regalia, stands to the right of the bronze Shasta I statute outside of TDECU Stadium while holding up the UH cougar paw handsign. CEA’s Abdel-Khalek Among First Graduates from Growing Program

Abdullah H. Abdel-Khalek was part of this semester’s first graduating cohort of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Computer Engineering & Analytics (CEA) undergraduate… Read More
Yashashree Kulkarni, Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UH and graduate student Anand Mathew. UH Research Challenges Conventional Theories of How Cells Detect Electrical Fields

The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential life functions, from taking in nutrients and converting… Read More
Nathan Tran, a young Asian man dressed in graduation regalia, smiles and stands against a tree. He is wearing a black mortarboard cap with two tassels, a red and white stole, and a black gown over a charcoal suit and striped tie. CEA Grad Tran Sees Future in Cybersecurity

This spring, Nathan Tran was one of the first students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering & Analytics (CEA) from the Cullen College of Engineering.… Read More
Luces "Luke" Maurice Faulkenberry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Engineering Technology. Cullen Mourns Passing of Faulkenberry

The Cullen College of Engineering expresses its condolences to the family of Luces Maurice Faulkenberry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Engineering Technology. Faulkenberry passed… Read More
Two young Black women, dressed in black clothing, stand in front of a light purple backdrop, with a cascade of balloons in shades of purple framing them on the top and left. Temi Ilori, standing on the right, holds a certificate at waist height. CIS Undergrad Ilori Receives Cynthia Oliver Coleman P.E. Engineering Scholarship

Temiloluwa “Temi” Ilori, a Computer Information Systems junior and first-generation college student, considers it a “huge honor” to have been recognized with the Cynthia Oliver… Read More