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Pradeep Sharma NSF Grant to Fund Cross Country Collaborations for UH Researchers

Tunisia, on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and its close neighbor, Egypt, will each become regular stamps in the passports of two engineering faculty members during the…
Pradeep Sharma Grant to Help Further Study of Nanoscale Piezoelectric Effect

Funds from a nearly $400,000 grant received by two mechanical engineering professors could help researchers better understand the origins of the super-charged piezoelectric effect…
Selim Nurudeen, son of UH engineering lecturer Shola Nurudeen, will compete in the Olympic Games in the 110-meter hurdle event. He competed for the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate student. Photo courtesy of Notre Dame Sports Information. Son of UH Engineering Lecturer to Compete in Olympic Games

Shola Nurudeen may be a little more excited than most about Monday’s broadcast of the 2008 Olympic Games. That’s because her son, Selim Nurudeen, will be competing for her home…
Graduate student Greg Bugosh, undergraduate student Rhys Forgie and Peter Strasser, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering are pictured in their laboratory. Photo by Thomas Shea Engineering the Future of Transportation

Imagine owning a vehicle engineered to pack as much as three times the fuel efficiency of cars on the road to date. A car designed to gain its propulsion by way of an electric…