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Archana Sharma Alumni Honored During National Engineers Week

Four University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering alumni were among those honored recently by area professional organizations as their 2010 Young Engineers of the Year. The… Read More
Fritz Claydon College Receives Grant to Recruit, Retain Engineering Students

A grant from the Texas Workforce Commission aims not only to help underrepresented students at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering better navigate demanding… Read More
SWE member Juan Romero, a junior civil engineering major, helps area high school sophomores, Kelly Diaz, Edna Barrera and Rebeca Beltron construct a trebuchet during a recent outreach activity coordinated by the organization. Photo by Thomas Shea. SWE Outreach Project Connects Girls to Engineering

The University of Houston Student Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers recently worked to better connect a group of high school students with some of technologies that… Read More
One group of students in this semester's Engineering Leadership and Entrepreneurship course turned a recent class project into a fundraiser for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Photo by Thomas Shea. Assignment Inspires Students to Raise Awareness on Campus, Funds For Haiti

It may not quite compare to the millions already pouring in from across the country, but a group of University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering students are hopeful the $… Read More
Venkat Selvamanickam Governor Presents UH With Grant to Advance Superconductivity in Texas

New applied research hub to push commercialization of superconductor technology The University of Houston has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the state’s Emerging… Read More
Surendra Shah College Adds National Academy Member

Surendra P. Shah, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, this spring joined faculty at the University of Houston Cullen… Read More
Metin Akay New Biomedical Chair Earns Esteemed Engineering Honors

Just weeks into his post as John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor and founding chair of the University of Houston Department of Biomedical Engineering, Metin Akay is already being… Read More
Mechanical engineering graduate student Christiana Chang holds a sheet of carbon nanofiber paper she is embedding in concrete in an effort to create self-heating roads. Photo by Thomas Shea. Technology Being Developed in UH Lab Could Put an End to Icy Commutes

Christiana Chang lives where temperatures rarely dip low enough to produce snow let alone ice. Yet in a lab at the University of Houston she is in the midst of perfecting… Read More
Pradeep Sharma Engineering Professor Part of International Center

Funding awarded to one University of Houston professor by the National Science Foundation is expected to advance energy research as part of a new International Institute for… Read More
Rhys Forgie (back) and Eric Bustamante, both engineering students with the University of Houston Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, pose in front of a water well in San Antonio, Nicaragua. Photo courtesy of EWB. Building Good Will

UH group to put problem-solving skills to test with project abroad About an hour drive from the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, down a dusty path winding through miles of… Read More