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In recent years, the Gulf Coast region has been tremendously affected by the landfall of large hurricanes. In 2005, Category 3 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the coastal regions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and in…
6th Annual Hurricane and Disasters Conference to be Held on August 1
The University of Houston’s colleges of business and engineering have gained new support from one of the city’s energy leaders, which has donated money to a variety of programs and student support services. Phillips 66, a Houston…
Phillips 66 Donation Strengthens Ties to University of Houston
Ridwan Ajala, a beloved undergraduate student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, passed away on Tuesday, June 24th. Ridwan touched many members of the Cullen College community with his incredible work ethic, infectious…
College Grieves Passing of Undergraduate Student Ridwan Ajala
Saurabh Prasad, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has won NASA’s New Investigator Award in Earth Science. Out of over 130 proposals submitted to the New…
Electrical & Computer Engineering Researcher Wins NASA's New Investigator Award
If you think computer engineering, Rhesus monkeys and optometry have nothing in common, think again: they have Mehmet Agaoglu. Agaoglu is a Ph.D. student in the electrical and computer engineering department at the UH Cullen…
ECE Ph.D. Student Expands Research to Cover Cross-Eyed Monkeys
Cullen College alumnus as well as Compaq co-founder and CEO Rod Canion recently spoke about the future of technology at an MIT Enterprise Forum on June 5 at the University of Houston. The event, co-hosted by the Bauer College of…
Cullen College Alumnus and Compaq CEO and Co-Founder Speaks at MIT Enterprise Forum
Ramon Montano’s parents moved his family from Mexico to the United States in the early 1990’s because “they wanted us to have a good education,” he says. Fast forward to May 2014, and Montano, now an alumnus of the UH Cullen…
ECE Senior Wins Outstanding Honors Thesis Award
Cancer imaging expert David Mayerich will join the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering this fall. Mayerich, who has been a Beckman Fellow at the University of…
New ECE Professor Wins $2M Recruitment Award From CPRIT
The electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has been growing in size, raising its standards, and climbing national rankings for its world-class academic…
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Named Top 50 Great Affordable Program
Two faculty members from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have won prestigious awards from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). This marks the…
Two ECE Professors Win IEEE-APS Awards
Last year, a researcher from the UH Cullen College of Engineering made an amazing discovery. Jiming Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, found that cobalt monoxide nanoparticles can be used to split…
UH Seed Funding Boosts Research on Water Splitting Nanoparticles
The annual ECE Graduate Research and Senior Capstone Design Conference was held April 25 at the UH Hilton for the 10th year in a row. The event provides a platform for undergraduate seniors and graduate students to present their…
PHOTOS: 10th Annual GRC/CDC
Each spring, the University of Houston recognizes exceptional faculty member across the university at the annual UH Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. This year, nine Cullen College of Engineering faculty members were honored…
Cullen College Faculty Awarded by University
You have a lot to thank Dmitri Litvinov for, though you might not know it yet. Litvinov is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Cullen College’s electrical and computer engineering department, a professor of chemical…
Cullen College Professor Receives Top University Honor
Dr. Richard Liu has been a Cullen College mainstay for his 26-year tenure at UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his countless accomplishments during his time with the college were celebrated at his retirement party last week.…
PHOTOS: ECE Mainstay Richard Liu's Retirement party
When Monse Lozano was a teenager growing up in the Houston Heights neighborhood, he dropped out of public high school, got his GED and found work at a local phone company. Now, a little more than a decade later, he’s a UH Cullen…
Engineering Alum Brings STEM to Houston Kids
Agilent Technologies has played a quiet role in the Cullen College of Engineering ECE labs for several years now, but with the 2014 Graduate Research and Capstone Design conferences around the corner, they’re stepping up their…
Agilent Technologies Donates $500 to GRC/CDC
The sun broke through the morning clouds just in time for over 120 golfers to tee off at the 25th annual Cullen College of Engineering golf tournament on Monday, April 7. The golf tournament, sponsored this year by LJA…
PHOTOS: 25th Annual Golf Tournament Tees Off
As the Electric Power Analytics Consortium picks up steam, the collaboration between the Cullen College of Engineering, Direct Energy and CenterPoint Energy is gaining popularity in local media. Houston Public Media ran two…
Electric Power Analytics Consortium Gains Popularity in Houston Media
In a continuing trend of collaboration between University of Houston colleges, the Cullen College of Engineering and C.T. Bauer College of Business joined forces to create an award-winning team which competed at the University of…
Business Students Win Big With Yao's Technology