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 Modern batteries power everything from cars to cell phones, but they are far from perfect – they catch fire, they perform poorly in cold weather and they have relatively short lifecycles, among other issues. Now researchers from the University of Houston have described a new class of material that addresses many of those concerns in Nature Materials. |
Inexpensive Organic Material Gives Safe Batteries a Longer Life |
 The Gulf Coast has been spared a major hurricane in the past few years, but as most Houstonians know all-too-well, the wrath of Mother Nature is never far away. |
UH Engineer to Host Conference on Hurricane and Disaster Preparation and Recovery |
 It’s hard to imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about charging your cell phone or changing the batteries in your smoke detector. According to electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, Fahira Sangare, that world may be closer than we think. |
Ph.D. Student Presents Energy Harvesting Research at NASA |
 Last April a team of four undergraduate students from the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department competed in the 2017 NASA Swarmathon at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The team placed second out of 19 teams. |
ECE Students Place Second at NASA Swarmathon Competition |
 In the early days of personal computing, Cullen College alumnus Rod Canion (bachelor’s in electrical engineering 1966, and master’s in electrical engineering 1968) left the security of his job at Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer. |
Success In and On the Air: UH Alumni and Compaq Founder Featured on NPR |
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Yan Yao Has the Power: A New Way to Create Safer Batteries That Last Longer
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Photos: Graduate Research in the Spotlight at Design Conference
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UH Engineers to Speed Up the Internet of Things
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We’re Number One! IEEE-UH Receives Outstanding Large Branch Award
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Giving Credit: NSF Credits Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal for Engineering That Benefits U.S. Troops
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Mini-Robots Marching Through Your Veins Could Offer Targeted Treatment
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Photos: Robots Take Over UH Charter School
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Stanko Brankovic: Ushering in a New Age of Catalysts
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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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Modern batteries power everything from cars to cell phones, but they are far from perfect – they catch fire, they perform poorly in cold weather and they have relatively short lifecycles, among other issues. Now researchers from the University of Houston have described a new class of material that addresses many of those concerns in Nature Materials. |
Inexpensive Organic Material Gives Safe Batteries a Longer Life |
 If there’s one thing Yan Yao gets a charge out of, it’s the idea of creating a better battery. The Cullen College assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering is known for being the most current in the battery industry. A Google search yields more than 16,000 citations of papers by Yao. |
Yan Yao Amps Up His Game: Becomes a Scialog Fellow |
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 The same technology that powers MRI scanners to see inside your body may soon be used to deliver targeted treatments for a variety of diseases and conditions. |
Targeted Treatment Possible with UH Engineer’s Discovery |
 In 2010 graphene took center stage when the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists in the UK "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." At the UH Cullen College of Engineering, that same passion over pencil lead is shared by Jiming Bao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, but he’s taken it to a whole new dimension, |
Rotating and Aligning Graphene Flakes – A UH Engineer's Discovery Opens Doors to Progress |
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 Yifei Li, a former doctoral student in the Cullen College’s department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), was garnering international attention for his battery research before he’d even earned his degree. |
Journal Features ECE Doctoral Student’s Battery Research on Cover |
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It’s hard to imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about charging your cell phone or changing the batteries in your smoke detector. According to electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, Fahira Sangare, that world may be closer than we think. |
Ph.D. Student Presents Energy Harvesting Research at NASA |
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