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KAUSHIK RAJASHEKARA NAMED GLOBAL ENERGY PRIZE LAUREATE

The most coveted prize in the field of international energy — the Global Energy Prize bestowed by the Global Energy Association — was awarded to Distinguished ECE professor Kaushik Rajashekara, who historically helped bring electric cars to the marketplace.

FACULTY EXCELLENCE

Faculty News

2022 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS FELLOWS

Yashashree Kulkarni and Roberto Ballarini have been elected to the Fellow grade of membership for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Only about 3,000 members of ASME are Fellows, out of a total membership of about 75,000.

Faculty News

FACULTY PROMOTIONS FOR 2022-23 ACADEMIC YEAR

The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year.

LATEST RESEARCH

Research

INVESTING IN BRAIN RESEARCH AND NEUROENGINEERING

The BRAIN Center ​is entering into Phase 2 of a funded grant by the NSF with an additional $758,331, plus another $2 million from industry partners. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has also bestowed a workforce development grant for $768,135 for the center.

MANIPULATION OF COACERVATE DROPLETS WITH AN ELECTRIC FIELD

New work led by Alamgir Karim and a team of researchers shows a simple pathway for stabilizing polyelectrolyte coacervate droplets that do not coalesce or deform under an electric field. The study was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Research
Research

MISSION: MICROCHIPS

Long Chang engraved thousands of names on tiny microchips that will soon launch into space on the Artemis I mission to honor the team behind NASA's return to the moon.

MAJOR ADVANCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS

Jiming Bao for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes, suggesting a major advance for next-generation electronics.

Research

STUDENT NEWS

Student News

CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Doctoral candidate Mina Moradnia is a lead author for a new research paper from the group of Jae-Hyun Ryou, and was chosen for the cover of Crystal Gowth & Design.

BATTLE OF THE CLASSES

A group of Cullen College of Engineering students has taken home a third-place finish in the Third Annual Battle of the Classes, an entrepreneurship contest held by the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the Bauer College of Business.

Student News

ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni News

LOCATION, OPPORTUNITY ALLOW IE GRAD TO THRIVE

David Luo, a 2019 industrial engineering graduate, is now thriving as a healthcare systems engineer at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Fall 2022 Engineering Resume Café

9-7-2022

9:00am-3:00pm

Cullen College of Engineering- Building 1 (The Pit)

 

Fall 2022 Engineering In-Person Networking Social

9-8-2022

6:00 pm-8:30pm

Cullen College of Engineering- Building 1 (The Pit)

 

Fall 2022 Engineering In-Person Career Fair

9-15-2022

10:00am–3:00pm

UH Hilton Hotel

 

Fall 2022 Engineering Virtual Career Fair

9-23-2022

10:00am-2:00pm

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COVID-19 UPDATES

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