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Clara Palencia presenting her paper at the international SPWLA conference in Oklahoma City Engineering Student Establishing a Model for Shale Oil Reservoirs Brings Home Prize

Cullen College doctoral student Clara Palencia’s knowledge about shale earned her second place in the Ph.D. category in the International Student Society of Petrophysicists and… Read More
Mohamed Soliman Chair of Petroleum Engineering Offers Advice in Online Industry Magazine

Professor Mohamed Soliman, chair of the Cullen College department of petroleum engineering, is featured in Rigzone.com, a leading resource for news about the oil and gas industry… Read More
Rohith Reddy Cullen College Recruits Leading Researcher In Gynecological Cancers

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded UH $2 million to recruit cancer researcher Rohith Reddy, who focuses on next-generation technologies for… Read More
Peter Vekilov, center, with Jeffrey Rimer, left, and Jeremy Palmer, right, in front of the big guns - the atomic force microscopes, NSF Asks UH Engineer to Grow Better Crystals

The National Science Foundation has awarded $510,000 to Peter Vekilov, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry, to conduct the… Read More
Daniel Araya, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, demonstrates how his wind tunnel can generate electricity. Photo courtesy of Michael Ciaglo, Houston Chronicle Staff Is Houston Missing the Next Energy Wave? Houston Chronicle Features the UH Engineers Who Are On the Case

Clean energy research in the UH Cullen College of Engineering was the subject of a front page story in last Sunday's Houston Chronicle, which explores why the city of Houston is… Read More
Eric Ayanegui proudly shows off his UH class ring at the Cintas facility in Houston. IE Alumnus Eric Ayanegui Engineers Safety, Reliability and Lifelong Relationships

It was 1995 and Eric Ayanegui (BSIE ’95) was an industrial engineering undergraduate student at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. He found himself in… Read More
The crystal clear award winner Jeffrey Rimer Expert in Crystallization and Advancing Cures for Kidney Stones, UH Engineer Wins Awards

The scientist who made the first advancement in the treatment of kidney stones in three decades, Jeffrey Rimer, Ernest J. and Barbara M. Henley Associate Professor of chemical and… Read More
Earthquake Harvesting Earthquake Fault Slip From Laser Images of Napa's Vineyards

UH civil and environmental engineering Professor Craig Glennie assisted in a new U.S. Geological Survey-led study that finds deformation below the Earth’s surface caused by… Read More
UH Power program in the hands of the electrifying Kaushik Rajashekara The Man Who Helped Plug in Commercial Electric Cars is Plugging Away at the UH Power Program

There are many ways to describe electrical and computer engineering Professor Kaushik Rajashekara, who heads the Cullen College power and energy systems program and is director of… Read More
More than just playing with rocks: Egor Dontsov with some shale Egor Dontsov: Tips for the Fracking Industry

In the world of hydraulic fracturing, where subterranean fractures are forced open to extract oil or gas, much is done before the drill meets the earth. Research to pinpoint the… Read More