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The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that the following eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year. Cullen announces 8 promotions for Fall 2022

The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that the following eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year. All promotions take effect… Read More
Jinsook Roh will be using a Harmony exoskeleton for research in her REIGN lab. UH Purchases Harmony Upper Body Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehab Research

AUSTIN, TX –– Harmonic Bionics, the robotics company for augmenting human movement, announced on July 12 that the University of Houston has purchased and received a Harmony SHR™… Read More
Inez Hutchinson [right], communications manager for the Communications Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, accepts one of the two gold Excalibur awards the department won from Felicia Perez, Houston chapter president of the Public Relations Society of America. Communications wins two gold Excalibur awards

A pair of items from the Communications Team at the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized with gold from the Houston chapter of the Public Relations Society of… Read More
Pietro Milillo, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received a $675,000 grant from NASA to work on flood risk assessment with the University of California, Irvine. NASA grant supports UH, UCI project to assess flood risks using radar technologies

With a $675,000 grant from NASA, researchers at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and the University of California, Irvine are launching a new flood risk… Read More
The inventor of a brain-controlled robotic arm, Cullen College of Engineering professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal congratulates Oswald Reedus, a 66-year-old stroke patient, on a job well done. Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Developed by BME in Clinical Trials

When 66-year-old Oswald Reedus had a stroke in 2014, he became one of 795,000 people in the United States who annually suffer the same fate. This year he also became the first… Read More
A research group led by Mohammad Reza Abidian – Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering – has published a paper in Advanced Materials about the potential production of micro-scale organic electronics for use in bioelectronics via multiphoton 3-D printers. UH research allows for 3-D printing of 'organic electronics'

When looking at the future of production of micro-scale organic electronics, Mohammad Reza Abidian – Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Cullen College of… Read More
Andres Villarroel, a May 2022 graduate with a Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering, earned a first-place finish for his presentation at the Society of Petroleum Engineers GCNA/SWNA (Gulf Coast and Southwest North America) Regional Student Paper Contest. Petroleum graduate Villarroel takes 1st in regional student paper contest

A Petroleum Engineering graduate from the Cullen College of Engineering has earned a first-place finish for his presentation at the Society of Petroleum Engineers GCNA/SWNA (Gulf… Read More
Tianfu Wu, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed a new probe for in-vivo detection of the protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Research From BME's Wu Shows Progress on Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Inside the body, some seemingly harmless proteins have sinister potential. In the case of Alzheimer’s disease, the amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein, which is vital for brain growth, can… Read More
UH System Chancellor Renu Khator and JSC Director Vanessa Wyche sign an extension of a longtime partnership. UH System Partners with NASA to Help 'Advance Human Spaceflight'

The University of Houston System and NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are expanding a longtime partnership to work collaboratively on joint research, technology development,… Read More
Gino Lim, the R. Larry and Gerlene (Gerri) R. Snider Endowed Chairman of Industrial Engineering, is attempting to apply mathematical models for supply chain management, and oil and gas line production, to hurricane evacuation. IE's Lim Modeling Safer Hurricane Evacuations

Houston knows how deadly hurricanes can be, but evacuating large amounts of people from the city can also be extremely dangerous. A Cullen College of Engineering professor is… Read More