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Through a HEALTH-RCMI Pilot Program Award, University of Houston’s Zhengwei Li will develop a wearable biosensor that promises to detect colorectal cancer and provide real-time health monitoring through your smartphone. BME's Li Explores Wearable Sensors to Detect Colorectal Cancer

Imagine owning a wearable sensor that can monitor your health at every moment in real-time and potentially detect certain cancers in your body before they start affecting you.…
A ceremonial groundbreaking for Sugar Land Academic Building 2, featuring [left to right] Jay Neal, Associate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for University of Houston at Sugar Land and University of Houston at Katy; Renu Khator, chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship University of Houston campus; and Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the Cullen College of Engineering. Officials Break Ground on New Technology Building at UH at Sugar Land Instructional Site

The University of Houston celebrated the groundbreaking of a new $65 million academic building in ceremonies at the UH at Sugar Land instructional site. Before faculty, staff,…
A video spotlighting the research of Tian “Tim” Chen – the Kamel Salama Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering – has accumulated nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube in less than a week. He was interviewed by Steve Mould for his popular YouTube channel. Video featuring research of ME's Chen surpasses 1M views

A video spotlighting the research of Tian “Tim” Chen – the Kamel Salama Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering – has accumulated nearly…
Ying Lin [left] and Qianmei (May) Feng from the Industrial Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering have received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) to use machine learning techniques to understand and improve the manufacturing process for superconductors. Lin, Feng earn AMI grant for superconductor manufacturing refinement

A pair of professors from the Industrial Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering have received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing…
Yisha Xiang, associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing Institute to apply machine learning methods to control the manufacturing process of high temperature superconductors (HTS). IE's Xiang earns AMI grant for superconductor research

Yisha Xiang, associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced…
Environmental Engineering graduate student in the Shaffer Lab Marcela Strane and UH Petroleum graduate Thales Souza [pictured] spent two months as ABIP interns this summer in Argentina. Pair of Cullen students complete summer internship in Argentina

Stop us if you've heard this one before: a petroleum engineer and an environmental engineer fly to Argentina to participate in the interscholastic Argentina Business Internship…