Archived News — October 2022
Hyongki Lee, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, has received about $692,410 in additional funding for a three-year extension of his research work, “Strengthening Regional and National Capacity for Operational Flood andDrought Management Services for Lower Mekong Nations via Mekong River Commission and SERVIR-Mekong.” CEE's Lee receives funding to continue flood analysis work along Asia's Mekong River
October 25, 2022
A professor at the Cullen College of Engineering will continue serving as the lead PI for a NASA project that examines land subsidence, flood forecasting and groundwater…
Mingjian Wen. ChBE's Wen aims to address renewable energy challenges with computers
October 18, 2022
For Mingjian Wen, a new Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen…
Kirill Larin, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering. BME's Larin Pioneers Imaging Techniques of Fetal Brain and Cornea
October 17, 2022
Under the direction of Kirill Larin, high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) is having an extended moment. During the past 20 years, the University of Houston professor…
Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Marcela Strane went to El Salvador as part of the International Research Experience for Students (IRES) offered by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI). CEE's Strane learns from summer research in El Salvador
October 7, 2022
For Marcela Strane, a Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, the opportunity to work on a hydrology project in…
Aman Agrawal, a Ph.D. student in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, was among those presenting at this year's prestigious Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Bioinspired Materials in Switzerland, where he was elected to chair the next one, scheduled for 2024. ChBE's Agrawal elected to chair Gordon Research Seminar
October 5, 2022
Aman Agrawal, a Ph.D. student in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, was among those presenting at…
Bo Zhao, Kalsi Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering, and his doctoral student, Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh, have created new architecture that improves the efficiency of solar energy harvesting to the thermodynamic limit. ME Professor, Student's Solar Harvesting System has Potential to Generate Power 24/7
October 3, 2022
Thomas Edison once said, “So long as the sun shines, man will be able to develop power in abundance.”  His wasn’t the first great mind to marvel at the notion of harnessing the…