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UH IE Department Hosts Annual INFORMS and IISE Cintas Hackathon Event at the Cintas Services Facility in Northwest Houston on Saturday, Jan. 25. UH IE Department Hosts Annual INFORMS & IISE Cintas Hackathon Event

Thirty-two students from the University of Houston industrial engineering department attended the annual Informs & IISE Hackathon event held at the Cintas services facility in… Read More
Hanadi Rifai, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of environmental engineering, is leading a $4 million project to study low-cost, low-emission electric power. Can New Kind of Power Plant Improve Air Quality, Resilience?

UH Engineers Join Project to Study Options for Deployment Researchers from the University of Houston, backed by $4 million in funding from the Texas Commission on Environmental… Read More
The UH/HCC Engineering Academy at Katy is a unique educational partnership between UH and HCC. New UH/HCC Engineering Academy Steps Into The Spotlight

Over 100 individuals joined representatives from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Houston Community College last Thursday, Feb. 20, for the first… Read More
New senior members of the National Academy of Inventors are (top row, l-r) Jason Eriksen, associate professor of pharmacology and Hung “Harry” Le, instructional assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering (bottom row, l-r) Yuhua Chen and Yan Yao, both associate professors of electrical and computer engineering Four UH Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Research Ranges From Better Batteries to Better Ways of Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 32 academic inventors to the February 2020… Read More
Mehmet Orman, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is examining the self-digestion mechanism in persister cells to eliminate these dangerous cell types. Targeting Chronic Infections and Deadly Bacteria

A University of Houston engineering professor is examining the life cycle of stubborn, drug-resistant persister cells in recurrent infections to find a way to destroy them.… Read More
The spring 2020 Distinguished Rockwell Lecture Series on Friday, January 24 featuring a lecture by Dr. Orlin Velev. Photos: Spring 2020 Rockwell Lecture Series Presents “Liquid Nanofabrication of Functional Multiphasic Soft Matter by Capillary Binding and Interfacial Templating”

UH Engineering kicked off the spring 2020 Distinguished Rockwell Lecture Series on Friday, January 24 featuring a lecture by Dr. Orlin Velev. Orlin Velev is a S. Frank and Doris… Read More
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has granted UH approval to offer three new undergraduate engineering degrees at UH at Katy. UH at Katy to Offer Three New Engineering Degrees

In a significant move to expand higher educational offerings across the Houston region, the University of Houston has received approval from the Texas Higher Education… Read More
An improved brain chip, created in the Akay Biomedical Engineering Lab, provides large-scale assessments on the response of brain tumor cells to various concentrations and combinations of drugs. UH Biomedical Engineering Lab Creates Improved Brain Chip for Precision Medicine

Device Chooses Right Combo of Cancer Drugs in Record Time The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the University of Houston is reporting an improvement on a microfluidic brain… Read More
Chemical engineers Jeffrey Rimer, left, Wenchuan Ma and Peter Vekilov have for the first time demonstrated what happens at the molecular level when two compounds known to inhibit crystal growth were combined Molecular Understanding of Drug Interactions Suggests Pathway to Better Malaria Treatments

The Work Also Has Implications for Speeding Drug Development The process of crystallization is central to drug development, petrochemical processing and other industrial actions,… Read More
Hadi Ghasemi, Cullen College Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UH, said the new understanding eliminates the “bottleneck” that has complicated predictions and simulations of processes involving evaporation. UH Researchers Solve a Scientific Mystery about Evaporation

Work Has Implications for Power Generation, Desalination, Electronics Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a full swimming pool, but it also plays an important role in… Read More