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Ryan Poling-Skutvik, a 2018 graduate of the Chemical Engineering doctoral program, has been tabbed for a tenure-track position at the University of Rhode Island. Alum Poling-Skutvik tapped for tenure-track position at URI

When Ryan Poling-Skutvik enrolled at the University of Houston in 2013 to pursue a doctorate in Chemical Engineering, he did so because of the school's proximity to industry, not… Read More
UH assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Rose Faghih, is developing algorithms to enhance smartwatches to deliver information about emotional and cognitive states. For her project, Faghih won the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Adapting Smartwatches to Improve Distance Learning and Health

Rose Faghih Wins NSF CAREER Award for MINDWATCH Proposal As schools and universities around the globe pivot to online teaching, and millions of students stare at screens during… Read More
Pradeep Sharma, a mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, has been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship, this year’s only recipient in the engineering category. UH Engineer Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Pradeep Sharma is Studying Link Between the Physics of Hearing and the Ability to Interpret Music Pradeep Sharma, a mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, has been… Read More
Odo earns first place with 'rare event' paper

Chiwetalu Peter Odo, a senior Industrial Engineering undergraduate student, was the first-place winner in the IISE South Central Undergraduate Student Technical Paper Competition… Read More
Harish Krishnamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, is creating a roadmap to boost the development of 5G networks. New $1M Hardware Project Would Boost 5G Networks

There are big advantages to 5G networks. In addition to faster speeds, 5G offers greater bandwidth and network capacity, paving the way for a future of driverless cars, connected… Read More
Instructional Associate Professor Randal Sitton (’85, M.S.I.E. ’88, Ph.D. ’92) Students prove mettle via challenging capstone class

It happens in the spring of every academic year. Teams of Cullen College industrial engineering students, most of them seniors about to graduate, are working to polish final… Read More
FlexSim CEO Bill Nordgren presents an award to University of Houston graduate students Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Hussain and Moaz Ahmed for their third place finish at the annual Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference. UH IE grad students honored for operation room efficiency

A pair of University of Houston graduate students earned a third place finish for their model to handle operation room cases at the annual Healthcare Systems Process Improvement… Read More
Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UH, said this work on energy fluctuations within fluids could lead to a better understanding of the behavior of bacteria and other organisms. Researchers Report New Understanding of Energy Fluctuations in Fluids

The Casimir Force is a well-known effect originating from the quantum fluctuation of electromagnetic fields in a vacuum. Now an international group of researchers have reported a… Read More
Faheem Ershad Rubbery circuits lead to first place for biomed's Ershad

When Faheem Ershad first came to the University of Houston as a biomedical engineering undergraduate student in 2014, he had some interest in teaching in the future, but that… Read More
Dr. Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico Mónico's work pulls order from chaos

For Dr. Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering since Fall 2017, much of his work the past decade on turbulence has centered around a big question… Read More