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Nearly 450 Students Graduated at The Fall 2017 Engineering Convocation PHOTOS: Cullen College Celebrates Nearly 450 Graduating Students at Fall 2017 Convocation Ceremony

The UH Cullen College of Engineering held its fall convocation ceremony on Thursday, December 14, recognizing nearly 450 graduating students at the Bayou City Events Center. The… Read More
Yan Yao Charges Up Battery Research With DOE Award Tomorrow’s Batteries Today: Yan Yao Charges Up Battery Research With DOE Award

Batteries capable of powering the electric vehicles of tomorrow may be available sooner than we think, thanks to more than $5.7 million in seed funding provided through the… Read More
Hanadi Rifai, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of civil and environmental engineering at UH, will serve as director of the Hurricane Resilience Research Institute Gulf Coast Universities Team Up to Address Hurricane Resilience

New Multi-State Institute Focuses on Reducing Damage from Severe Storms A new multi-institution research center will focus on helping the Gulf coast do better at preparing for and… Read More
Researchers Study Deepwater Gas Formation to Prevent Accidents Researchers Study Deepwater Gas Formation to Prevent Accidents

Work at UH Has Implications for Subsea Design and Operations A team of researchers from the University of Houston is working with the oil industry to develop new ways to predict… Read More
Ph.D. student Alex Smith (left) and mechanical engineering professor Ralph Metcalfe are collaborating with researchers at the Texas Heart Institute to radically improve blood-pumping devices for patients with heart failure Thinking Big, Working Small: Collaboration of UH, Texas Heart Institute Could Make Heart Transplants Obsolete

In the United States, more than 6.5 million people live with varying stages of heart failure. About 4,000 of those suffer with hearts so compromised that a transplant is the only… Read More
International Student Experience Coping with Culture Shock: Director of Graduate Admissions Pens Article on International Student Experience

Life as a college student is fraught with challenges: keeping up with classes, making new friends, learning new fields of study and working jobs and internships. But imagine also… Read More
Researchers Map Brain Activity to Improve Prosthetic Design Researchers Map Brain Activity to Improve Prosthetic Design

UH Engineers Report New Insights into the Brain’s Role in Walking High-tech prosthetics allow amputees to engage more fully in everyday life, even to compete in sporting events.… Read More
DIY: Scientists Release a How-To for Building a Smartphone Microscope DIY: Scientists Release a How-To for Building a Smartphone Microscope

People with a Smartphone and 3-D Printer Could Perform Sophisticated Lab Work Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. University of Houston… Read More
'I almost feel I have given birth to two babies,' says grad student Sana Krichen. Her son Youssef Khadimallah, now 10 months old, holds his mother’s just-published article about the role electromagnetism plays in some animal species’ navigation skills. The article was first submitted to the journal Physical Review E at the time Krichen learned she was pregnant and – after much back-and-forth with reviewers – was released October 4. Talk to the Animals: Mechanical Engineering Grad Student Studies Animal Kingdom’s Master Navigators

Sana Krichen thinks often like a bat – and a shark, and a sea turtle, and several types of birds. For Krichen, who is a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, understanding… Read More
Joseph W. Tedesco, left, presents plaque to Engineering Rockwell lecturer Ronald Larson PHOTOS: Ronald Larson Engineering Rockwell Lecture

How do you describe materials that aren’t quite liquids, gases or solids? More importantly, how do you model these materials? That’s a big question for scientists and engineers… Read More