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Texas is bracing for an energy strain and high prices as summer heats up. UH Experts Offer Advice to Deal with Texas Energy Challenges

The first official day of summer in Texas brought a stark reminder of the challenges ahead with temperatures in the triple digits and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (… Read More
Blake Mudd (left) and Olivia Johnson (right) are new officers of AAFCS-TX. Mudd is a lecturer of Retailing and Consumer Sciences, and Johnson is an assistant professor. Johnson, Mudd named as AAFCS-TX officers

Whether preferring to shop for new designer goods, visit the farmer's market or frequent the local “buy nothing” webpage, every individual in a community is, at some level, a… Read More
Harish Krishnamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston. ECE's Krishnamoorthy Using NSF CAREER Award for Game-Changing Research

Project to Build More Robust Electrical Systems and Grow the Next Generation of Innovators in Power Electronics In today's dynamic environment where electricity demand is… Read More
Margaret Kidd [center], professor and undergraduate program director of Supply Chain and Logistics Technology. Guests dock at UH for 4th annual Port of the Future Conference

The University of Houston's Port of the Future Conference – a yearly international event focusing on the operational, infrastructural and security challenges that seaports face on… Read More
The CougAR Lab is where students have the unique opportunity to research augmented, virtual, and mixed-reality technologies from a social science perspective. Liao, CougAR Lab exploring the good, the bad, the inevitable of AI

So many things we interact with daily are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but recent developments in general AI - where AI learns and then makes decisions on its own –… Read More
GreenHouston team members from L to R: University of Houston students Steven Chen, Fatemeh Kalantari (team leader), Massiagbe Diabate, Bethel Mbakaogu, and Simon Peter Nsah Abongmbo. Students Shine in DOE’s American-Made Carbon Management Competition

GreenHouston, a team of University of Houston students mentored by Assistant Professor Jian Shi from the UH Cullen College of Engineering, created a winning proposal for an… Read More
Aaron Becker, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is working to refine algorithms to devise coordinated control of drone swarms. Becker's research could unleash the Power of Intelligent Drone Swarms

Technology Will Allow Drones to Respond Fluidly to Changes in the Environment It’s a long-held notion, proven in fact, that robots are the perfect instrument to free humans from… Read More
Kripa Adhikari, a doctoral candidate at the Cullen College of Engineering, will be traveling to New Mexico in July to present her research on thermal cooling, after earning a travel award for the 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM). CEE's Adhikari earns USNCCM travel award, SEAoT scholarship

A doctoral candidate at the Cullen College of Engineering will be traveling to New Mexico in July to present her research on thermal cooling, after earning a travel award for the… Read More
Damon Spencer, who received dual bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer engineering, earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He plans to pursue a doctorate in computational and applied mathematics in the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at Rice University. Computer Engineering grad Earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Fellowship to Support Studies in Computational and Applied Mathematics Damon Spencer, a University of Houston May graduate receiving dual degrees in mathematics and computer… Read More
Ben Xu, an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and a Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow, received the award in March for his proposal, “Collaborative Research: Multiscale study of oscillating flow and multiphase heat transfer in porous media.” As the leading PI in this collaborative campaign, the $171,734 grant will cover research at UH through August 2025. ME's Xu earns NSF grant for heat transfer research

A new faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has received a six-figure grant from the National… Read More