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Professor Stanko Brankovic, first to understand speed of forming catalysts For Stanko Brankovic, Life is Speeding Up

That exciting feeling you get when you've made a breakthrough discovery and you know that something that seemed impossible yesterday is now completely clear – that's the feeling… Read More
Aparna Balasubramani, right, with her award Cullen College Ph.D. Student Takes Home Award at International Conference

A scant few months before she defends her dissertation for a Ph.D. in environmental engineering, Aparna Balasubramani found herself on a podium in New Orleans in January receiving… Read More
UH engineering professors Mina Dawood, far left, and Roberto Ballarini, Thomas Hsu, last two on far right, with Shyh-Jiann Hwang, NCREE deputy director and Kuo-Chun Chang, NCREE director general, at the signing ceremony.. Designing Safety: Cullen College and Taipei Center Renew Agreement to Improve Seismic Performance of Infrastructures

Continuing a successful 15-year-long partnership, the UH Cullen College’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) has renewed its collaborative agreement with the… Read More
Photo courtesy of Optime Subsea Services UH Engineering to Offer Data Analytics Certificate for Energy Industry

Stabilizing oil prices have prompted producers to return to both shale and offshore projects, but the industry still needs to cut costs. A new workforce program offered by the… Read More
sculpture installation artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer VIDEO: UH Engineering Study Opens Doors to Understanding the Creative Brain ‘in Action and in Context’

In an innovative collaboration between scientists and artists, “Your Brain on Art” is a series of studies that seek to understand what happens in the brain as people create and… Read More
Great teachers are in line for great things, thanks to generous alumnus Generous Engineering Alumnus William A. Brookshire Funds $1M Scholarship for Teachers

In his continued spirit of generosity, UH Engineering alumnus William A. Brookshire has donated $1 million to the Cullen College of Engineering to create the William A. Brookshire… Read More
Siemen Competition Winners Adhya and Shriya Beesam ECE Chair Judges Top STEM Competition for K-12 Students

Badri Roysam, professor and chair at the Cullen College of Engineering’s Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston served as a judge the 2016… Read More
A proud SHPE UH executive board: (L-R) Katherine Velasco, historian; Belinda Herrera, new member rep.; Luis Espinoza, VP for external affairs; Daniel Cariel, VP for internal affairs; Maria Violeta Paez, president; Diana Enriquez, regional rep.; Samantha Bryant, secretary; Oscar Rodriguez, treasurer Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UH is Number One in the U.S.A.

Every year, as a marketing activity, the leadership board of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UH, recently named outstanding large chapter of the year by the… Read More
Biomedical engineering grad student Ilknur Telkes is targeting areas of the brain impacted by Parkinson's disease Cullen College Graduate Student Targets Areas for Brain Surgery, Wins Junior Scientist Award

Ilknur Telkes, a fourth-year biomedical Ph.D. student in the Cullen College of Engineering, spends a good bit of her time in the operating room at Baylor College of Medicine.… Read More
Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Taha Salim studies the synergistic relationship between two proteins that are key drivers of immune responses following an infection. Biomedical Engineers Publish Paper on Key Drivers of Immune Response Following Infection

A biomedical engineering professor and doctoral student published a paper in the journal PLOS One that reveals new insights into the synergistic relationship of two proteins that… Read More