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Faculty Accolades

The Cullen College's own Jose Luis "Pepe" Contreras-Vidal was recently named one of the top 35 Houston Latinos you should know by La Voz, a Spanish-language weekly newspaper distributed by the Houston Chronicle. Contreras-Vidal…
ECE Professor Named to "Top 35 Houston Latinos You Should Know "
Julius Marpaung and Jung-Uk Lim, both instructional faculty members in the Cullen College's electrical and computer engineering department, have won awards through the University of Houston's New Faculty Research Program.…
Two Professors Win Grants From UH's New Faculty Research Program
Don Wilton, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Technical Field Award in Electromagnetics from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Only 35…
ECE Professor Emeritus Wins IEEE Technical Field Award
New technologies being developed by a University of Houston researcher to produce three-dimensional models of tissue and whole organ microstructures offer the promise of better diagnosis and treatment for a variety of diseases.…
Research Aims for Better Understanding of Microvascular Diseases
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has awarded electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Wei-Chuan Shih with nearly $900,000 over two years to investigate new…
Professor Developing New Technologies for Detecting Subsea Oil Spills With DOI Award
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
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
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
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
CenterPoint Energy and Direct Energy have joined the University of Houston to form the Electric Power Analytics Consortium with hopes of enhancing current models used to predict the number of electric outages due to storms and…
Zhu Han Leads Electric Power Analytics Consortium
Everything from environmental monitoring to medical diagnostics could benefit from recent research conducted by a professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. The research involves an advance to a…
Molecular Sensing Gets Boost from ECE Researcher
Researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have developed a new neural probe that will give scientists new capabilities when studying small clusters of brain cells. The device, dubbed the…
Researchers Develop Dual-Purpose Neural Probe
Researchers have put in decades of hard work developing an interface that would allow the human brain to control prosthetic limbs. It’s ironic, then, that the end result may be surprisingly simple. Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-…
Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton One Step Closer to Reality
When a construction crew pours concrete for an interstate highway, they're supposed to lay it on thick -- 15 inches thick, to be precise. It's the responsibility of the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDoT) to make sure…
Two Highway Research Projects Nominated as 'Most Innovative' in Texas
Electrical Engineering Professor Gerhard Paskusz, founder and director of the college's highly successful Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies, will be recognized as a new Fellow Member of the American Society for…
Director of PROMES Program Named Fellow by American Society for Engineering Education
Stuart Long, electrical & computer engineering professor and associate dean in the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, will be recognized with a 2002 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Houston Alumni…
UH Engineering Professor Long Recognized as Outstanding Faculty by Houston Alumni Organization
University of Houston engineering professor Donald R. Wilton received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Sept. 27 in…
UH Engineering Professor Wilton Honored for Achievements in Computational Electromagnetics
The audience at this year’s Faculty and Staff Meeting gave a much-deserved standing ovation for Professor William P. Schneider, who is retiring from the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering after 37…
Excellence in Teaching, Research on ‘Project Mohole’ Highlight Retiring Professor’s Career
Electrical Engineering Professor John R. Glover has won a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study epileptic seizures in newborn babies over the next four years. The research will take place in collaboration…
NIH Grant Will Fund UH Engineer's Study of Epileptic Seizures in Newborns