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 Blood testing is the standard option for checking glucose levels, but a new technology could allow non-invasive testing via a contact lens that samples glucose levels in tears. |
UH Engineers Invent Glucose-Sensing Contact Lens |
 It actually does take a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist. Case in point: Professor of physics and electrical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering Edgar Bering, whose business card really does say he’s a rocket scientist – and for good reason. He’s been working with NASA on sending things airborne for decades. |
A BARREL of Fun and Science for Cullen College Students Launching Payloads |
 More than 100 engineers, scientists, artists, industry and media representatives came together for the 2016 International Conference of Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity (“Your Brain on Art” conference) in Cancun, Mexico to better understand what happens inside of the brain when art is created or contemplated, and potential applications in medicine, science, engineering, education an |
PHOTOS/ VIDEO: Engineers, Scientists and Artists Converge in Cancun for First “Your Brain on Art” Conference |
 Just as the University of Houston kicks off another fall semester with expectations of record enrollment (more than 43,700 as of Friday), the Princeton Review is highlighting why more students are choosing Houston. |
UH Rated Among Best Colleges for Undergraduate Education by Princeton Review |
 Research underway in a UH Cullen College of Engineering laboratory to make “heavy water” less expensively could soon make nuclear energy safer, eliminating real-life disasters like those that have occurred at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power plants. |
UH Professors May Create Safe, Affordable Nuclear Energy, Changing National Conversation |
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ECE Department Welcomes First NAE Faculty Member
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UH Professors Working to Create Safe, Affordable Nuclear Energy
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ECE Professor Introduces Local Middle Schools Students to Engineering Principles
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UH Researchers Discover Key Mechanism for Producing Solar Cells
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UH Engineer Earns NSF Grant to Improve Cell Phone User Experience
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Female Undergrads Help NASA’s Small Satellites Complete Bigger Missions
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New issue of Parameters Magazine now available!
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Electrical Engineering Online Master's Program
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Named Best Engineering School of 2017 by U.S. News & World Report
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New issue of ECE Connections Magazine now available!
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Meet the members of ECE Industry Advisory Board!
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The Invent, Design, and Make Initiative
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Nano Engineering Minor
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Nanofabrication Facility
Faculty Openings
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Faculty Accolades
 The United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI) has named David Jackson, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College, as its chair for 2015-2017. |
National Radio Science Organization Names ECE Professor as Chair |
 Badri Roysam, chair of the Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department, was recently elected as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) editorial committee. As such, Roysam hosted the annual ECEDHA Southwest conference at the University of Houston on October 4th and 5th. |
PHOTOS: 2015 Southwest ECEDHA Conference |
Industrial Advisory Board
Faculty Accolades
 Researchers from the University of Houston have reported the first explanation for how a class of materials changes during production to more efficiently absorb light, a critical step toward the large-scale manufacture of better and less-expensive solar panels. |
UH Researchers Discover Key Mechanism for Producing Solar Cells |
 A professor and three graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering published the most downloaded paper of 2015 in a major scientific journal. |
UH Engineers Author Most-Downloaded Paper on Inkjet-printed Lens for Smartphone Microscopy |
Student Success
 Electrical and computer engineering professor Aaron Becker and students in his “Intro to Robotics” class have been invited to “join the swarm” as selected participants in the first annual Swarmathon taking place from April 18-22, 2016 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. |
Students Steer Robotic Swarms in NASA Competition |
 Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, authored a research paper that was chosen as the cover of the January 2016 edition of the Journal of |
ECE Energy Research Makes Cover of Research Journal |
Student Success
 Yanliang (Leonard) Liang, electrical and computer engineering research associate at UH Cullen College, won the Silver Nano Research Poster Award at the 10th Sino-U.S. Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology in June. |
Engineering Student Earns Silver Nano Research Poster Award |
 The UH department of electrical and computer engineering hosted the Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference (GRC/CDC) on April 29th at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and undergraduate student research and projects were presented. The following Cullen College students were awarded for their outstanding presentations: |
PHOTOS: 12th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference |
Faculty Openings
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Industrial Advisory Board
Upcoming Events
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ECE Alumni Mixer 10/20/2016 - 6:00pm |
Speaker Series
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Opportunities and Challenges in Global Network Cameras —Dr. Yung-Hsian Lu 10/03/2016 - 10:00am |
UH ECE students will be using this solar panel for educational and research purposes. (The Solar Array at UH was donated by the Green Mountain Energy Company.) View the current status of UH's solar panel array!
