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The University of Houston’s Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) student team. UH SPE Team Advances to International PetroBowl Competition

The University of Houston’s Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) student team has earned a coveted spot in the 2025 International PetroBowl Championship following a standout… Read More
[Left] Deepa Ramachandran, Instructional Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, receives the William A. Brookshire Teaching Excellence Award from Pradeep Sharma, Dean of the Cullen College of Engineering. 28 Honored With 2024-25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards

The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024–25 Faculty and Staff… Read More
Nathan Varghese, graduating this semester with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, founded UH's Chess Club as a freshman. Chess, Chemistry, Action: CBE Grad Varghese Sets the Stage for Next Steps

Nathan Varghese, graduating this semester with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, has packed as much as he could into four years at the University of Houston: learning a… Read More
Elham Morshedzadeh and Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal guide a demonstration of a pediatric “SoftExo” device. UH BRAIN, TIRR Memorial Hermann Develop First Wearable Pediatric Soft Exoskeleton Made of Smart Materials

Just one look at the next-generation lightweight, soft exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy reveals the powerful role technology can play in solving global challenges and… Read More
Mohamed Ammar chose UH to earn his doctorate's degree in petroleum engineering, and he is thriving in the research group of Birol Dindoruk. Fueling the Future: The path of Petroleum Engineering’s Ammar to Sustainable Energy

Growing up in Libya, a country with some of the largest oil reserves in Africa, Mohamed Ammar was naturally drawn to pursue a career in that industry. That path has brought him to… Read More
The Cullen College of Engineering offers its congratulations to four professors that have earned University of Houston Faculty Awards for the 2024-25 academic year. Cullen Professors Earn UH Faculty Awards for 2024-25 Academic Year

The Cullen College of Engineering offers its congratulations to four professors that have earned University of Houston Faculty Awards for the 2024–25 academic year. The Office of… Read More
Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor in the Willam A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ChBE’s Conrad elected as AAAS Fellow

Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor in the Willam A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a… Read More
Na Zou and Nancy J. Currie-Gregg. ISE honors alumni, faculty, staff, students at 2025 awards banquet

Friends, family and peers gathered on April 10 to celebrate honorees at the 2025 Industrial and Systems Engineering Awards Banquet, held in the O’Quinn Great Hall at the… Read More
Sofia Bustamante will graduate with her bachelor's degree in industrial engineering this spring. International Student, ISE Grad Bustamante’s Persistence Pays Off

Industrial and Systems Engineering’s Sofia Bustamante is soon to graduate and has done quite a bit in three years at the University of Houston. So much, in fact, that she doubts… Read More
Postdoc Shajedul Hoque Thakur holds the bendable ceramic origami material, developed with assistant professor Maksud Rahman as part of the team’s research into bio-inspired sustainable composites. MAE’s Rahman, Thakur Reinventing Ceramics with Origami-Inspired 3D Printing

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend… Read More