Julius Marpaung and Jung-Uk Lim, both instructional faculty members in the Cullen College's electrical and computer engineering department, have won awards through the University of Houston's New Faculty Research Program. Marpaung and Lim both received $6,000, the maximum amount a researcher can be awarded through the program.
The New Faculty Research Program is administered through UH's Division of Research. The purpose of the program is to assist faculty who wish to initiate research for the first time and who have not had previous internal or external support, exclusive of that as a student or postdoctoral fellow. The program represents part of the University of Houston’s effort to support research and scholarly activity that constitute an integral part of the University's instructional program.