About 30 researchers gathered at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering earlier this month to discuss the latest in nuclear well logging—science of gathering and interpreting data from petroleum wells, often during drilling, through gamma radiation signals.

This month, Dean Joseph Tedesco announced the 2013 winners of the UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research and service.

“I can’t imagine how anyone’s life wouldn’t be more fulfilling with a dog,” explained Stuart Long, a professor in the Cullen College’s department of electrical and computer engineering.

Robert Provence, a NASA aerospace engineer, had a problem.

For over 12 years, Provence has been designing and developing small satellites called “CubeSats” for NASA. In this time, Provence has seen the design of CubeSats improve drastically – with one exception: the antennas for CubeSats have remained more or less the same since the beginning, and these antennas are, as Provence says, a problem.

The UH department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the Capstone Design and Graduate Research Conference last week at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and undergraduate student research and projects were presented.

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ECE associate professor Len Trombetta has been musical since childhood. He started playing the saxophone in 8th grade, and the clarinet four years before that. He was part of a big band group in high school, and in college studying physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During graduate work at Lehigh University, he directed a student-run band for a couple of years. In New Jersey he briefly played with a rehearsal band. Then he arrived in Houston.

Students and fellow professors at the Cullen College of Engineering know Dave Shattuck as one of the best teachers around. Now he’s been recognized as exactly that by the University of Houston.

Karen Studd is a professional dancer, devoting much of her waking hours to practicing and perfecting her discipline. And today is no different – she is moving slowly, methodically, gracefully across the room with such softness it’s as if she’s a ghost, weightless and transparent. In a room full of silent spectators, all eyes are on Studd as she dances her way across the room.

A team of four engineering students represented the University of Houston at the 2013 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition in Denver on April 9, winning third place out of 26 teams.

Jacob Green, Timothy Hoang, Daniel Resendez, and Jeffrey Allen logged many hours, including weekends, in building and preparing their robot to meet the course specifications set forth by the competition.

The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society has named University of Houston Cullen College Professor Emeritus Donald Wilton the recipient of its inaugural Computational Electromagnetics Award.