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Chris Slaton [right], a Mechanical Engineering student at the Cullen College of Engineering, completed the Mickey Leland Energy Program fellowship this summer with the U.S. Department of Energy and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. ME student Slaton completes Mickey Leland fellowship

In 2021, the United States and 18 other global nations made the pledge to pursue a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 via launching the Net Zero Government Initiative. It's… Read More
Through a HEALTH-RCMI Pilot Program Award, University of Houston’s Zhengwei Li will develop a wearable biosensor that promises to detect colorectal cancer and provide real-time health monitoring through your smartphone. BME's Li Explores Wearable Sensors to Detect Colorectal Cancer

Imagine owning a wearable sensor that can monitor your health at every moment in real-time and potentially detect certain cancers in your body before they start affecting you.… Read More
A ceremonial groundbreaking for Sugar Land Academic Building 2, featuring [left to right] Jay Neal, Associate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for University of Houston at Sugar Land and University of Houston at Katy; Renu Khator, chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship University of Houston campus; and Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the Cullen College of Engineering. Officials Break Ground on New Technology Building at UH at Sugar Land Instructional Site

The University of Houston celebrated the groundbreaking of a new $65 million academic building in ceremonies at the UH at Sugar Land instructional site. Before faculty, staff,… Read More
A video spotlighting the research of Tian “Tim” Chen – the Kamel Salama Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering – has accumulated nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube in less than a week. He was interviewed by Steve Mould for his popular YouTube channel. Video featuring research of ME's Chen surpasses 1M views

A video spotlighting the research of Tian “Tim” Chen – the Kamel Salama Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering – has accumulated nearly… Read More
Ying Lin [left] and Qianmei (May) Feng from the Industrial Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering have received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) to use machine learning techniques to understand and improve the manufacturing process for superconductors. Lin, Feng earn AMI grant for superconductor manufacturing refinement

A pair of professors from the Industrial Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering have received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing… Read More
Yisha Xiang, associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced Manufacturing Institute to apply machine learning methods to control the manufacturing process of high temperature superconductors (HTS). IE's Xiang earns AMI grant for superconductor research

Yisha Xiang, associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a grant from the University of Houston's Advanced… Read More
Environmental Engineering graduate student in the Shaffer Lab Marcela Strane and UH Petroleum graduate Thales Souza [pictured] spent two months as ABIP interns this summer in Argentina. Pair of Cullen students complete summer internship in Argentina

Stop us if you've heard this one before: a petroleum engineer and an environmental engineer fly to Argentina to participate in the interscholastic Argentina Business Internship… Read More
Several teams of students and professors from the Cullen College of Engineering earned distinction at this year's UH Energy Innovation Commercialization Competition. Cullen teams place in UH Energy's Innovation Commercialization Competition

The world is full of good ideas, but only some of them become viable and real. “You don’t see the full impact of a good idea until someone figures out a way to convert it to a… Read More
Craig Glennie, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of engineering defense research initiatives at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, is leading the project team on the $63.5 million contract to help modernize U.S. Army decision-making. Glennie leading effort for $63.5M DoD Contract to Revolutionize Army Decision-Making

The University of Houston has been awarded a $63.5 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army make effective and timely decisions with a strong analytical… Read More
Wenhua, a graduate of the Industrial Engineering doctoral program, is now an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Physics, a Division of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He joined MD Anderson as an assistant professor in 2016. IE alum Cao excelling as associate professor at MD Anderson

When Wenhua Cao first arrived at the University of Houston to start his doctoral work in the Industrial Engineering Department, he wasn't new to just the school – It was his first… Read More