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Roberto Ballarini Roberto Ballarini Uses Online Platform to Inspire Next Generation of Civil Engineers

For Roberto Ballarini, chair of the Cullen College’s civil and environmental engineering department, the decision to become a professor was as much about inspiring the next… Read More
S.M. Farouq Ali National Academy of Engineering Member S. M. Farouq Ali Joins UH Engineering Faculty

Petroleum engineering legend and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member S. M. Farouq Ali joins the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering this fall as a… Read More
Ned Mohan PHOTOS: Ned Mohan Engineering Rockwell Lecture

For most people the word “energy” conjures images of oil and gas operations, but the science of electric power and energy systems is gaining momentum as advances in hybrid-… Read More
Navin Varadarajan Department of Defense Awards UH Engineer for Career in Advancing Immunotherapy

For UH chemical engineer Navin Varadarajan, it isn’t enough to conduct laboratory research, publish papers, earn grants and win awards for his work in immunotherapy, which… Read More
Saurabh Prasad UH Engineer Changes How We Interpret Geospatial Images

Saurabh Prasad, Cullen College assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is reporting a breakthrough in image interpretation that could overcome hurdles that… Read More
Zheng Chen is putting more muscle into artificial muscles Zheng Chen Wins NSF CAREER Award to Make Artificial Muscles More Lifelike

An engineer with the University of Houston has received a $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop artificial muscle and tendons for dexterous,… Read More
Fatemeh Ahmadpoor Cullen College Grad Students Track Down the Elusive Gaussian Modulus

Two Cullen College mechanical engineering doctoral students have found a way to determine and understand the often-elusive Gaussian curvature modulus, a critically important… Read More
UH Chemical Engineering Grads Earn Highest Starting Salaries in the U.S. UH Chemical Engineering Grads Earn Highest Starting Salaries in the U.S.

In addition to being among the top-ranked chemical engineering programs in the country, alumni of the UH Cullen College’s department of chemical and biomolecular engineering have… Read More
Yanan Wang, a post-doctoral researcher at UH, is co-first author on a paper describing the discovery of a new principle of optofluidics Unexpected Discovery Leads to New Theory of Liquid Streaming

UH Researchers Generate a Liquid Stream with a Pulsed Laser Researchers at the University of Houston were studying the nonlinear transmission of light through an aqueous… Read More
Stanko Brankovic Engineering Professors Discover Fundamental Effect in Monolayer Catalysts

Two professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering have discovered that size is critical to the performance of the monolayers of catalysts, the fundamental substance that… Read More