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Britney Shum Industrial Engineering Student's Disney Dreams Come True at Disneyland Internship

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” -- Walt Disney When industrial engineering undergrad Britney Shum was a child, nothing cheered her up quite… Read More
The NSBE crew (l-r) Jameel Jordan, Nnamdi Emebo, Amira Spikes and Kayla Nash NSBE UH Is Number One Outstanding Chapter in the U.S.A.

Sometimes you’re just born knowing what you want to do. “In fourth grade I wrote a paper on being an architectural engineer, and I wasn’t quite sure if that really existed,” said… Read More
Inspired by wood frogs, Hadi Ghasemi creates award-worthy surface North American Wood Frog Inspires Hadi Ghasemi to Invent New Adaptive Surface

Of the almost 5,000 species of frogs around the world, one of them hops immediately to Hadi Ghasemi’s attention. You might wonder why the Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of… Read More
Yashashree Kulkarni is all about twins Yashashree Kulkarni receives ASME 2017 Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award

When Yashashree Kulkarni isn’t singing opera (her latest pursuit), the associate professor of mechanical engineering is singing the praises of twinning, the process by which… Read More
First-Year Students Shine at UH Cullen College of Engineering First Year Experience Summit Photos: First-Year Students Shine at First Year Experience Summit

When it comes to success in engineering studies, the data is clear: the better students do in their first-year core classes, the higher the chances that they will complete their… Read More
UH Cullen College of Engineering Subsea Students Visit Tenaris Subsea Students Visit Tenaris

As part of the “Subsea Materials and Corrosion” course, students joined Yolanda De-Abreu, Cullen College lecturer in materials and corrosion, on a field trip and tour of Tenaris,… Read More
UH Electrochemical Society Student Chapter off to a Successful Start UH Electrochemical Society Student Chapter off to a Successful Start

Assistant Professor Yan Yao and several electrical and computer engineering and material science students have founded the first Electrochemical Society student chapter (UH ECS)… Read More
Student Research Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference PHOTOS: Student Research Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference

The UH department of electrical and computer engineering hosted the Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference (GRC/CDC) on April 28th at the UH Hilton. The day-long event… Read More
Aparna Balasubramani in a familiar environment, near the water Aparna Balasubramani: Cleaning the Environment and Sweeping Awards

Environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate Aparna Balasubramani has found that carbon nanotubes may be the one of the best ways to stop poisonous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs… Read More
The winners of Team Bottomliners are (l-r) Srivignesh Somasundaram, Anand Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh Babu Sivasamy, Dhinesh Thiru Narayanan Muralitharan Thinking Like Executives, UH Industrial Engineering Students Bring Home Prize

A team of four Cullen College master’s candidates in industrial engineering is quick to tell you that industrial engineers make the best CEOs. “Sundar Pichai,” throws out Dhinesh… Read More