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The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce that the following students have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for their respective departments for the 2024–25 academic year. Students are nominated by…
Cullen names Outstanding Students for 2024–25 Academic Year
A total of 25 students from different organizations received more than $13,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2025 Industry Awards Night, hosted by the University of Houston’s Engineering Alumni Association at the Athletic/…
EAA hosts 2025 Industry Award Night
Jonathan Gaucin, currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, has been selected as the 2024–25 Outstanding Junior for the Cullen College of Engineering. He is a first-generation student who hopes to…
2024–25 Outstanding Junior Gaucin Excels as First Gen Scholar
The University of Houston’s inaugural “Coogs for Energy” Hackathon has crowned its champions, with the top two teams heavily featuring students from the Cullen College of Engineering. The event, hosted by UH’s Division of Energy…
Cullen Teams Take Top 2 Spots in UH’s Coogs for Energy Hackathon Event
When the Cullen College of Engineering holds its commencement ceremony this weekend, among those Cougars crossing the finish line is Summer Dalgamouni, who is earning her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from UH’s…
ECE’s Dalgamouni earns doctorate with and for her family
Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries,” was not only published in the highly-respected…
ECE Ph.D. student Chen makes battery breakthrough, authors cover article in Advanced Energy Materials
A doctoral student at the Cullen College of Engineering is now back at the University of Houston, after having successfully presented her research in Hawaii thanks to a travel grant from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Nafiseh…
Ph.D. candidate Amiri earns travel grant from ECS
Learning more about the properties of extreme matter — created through high-energy particle collisions approaching the speed of light and analyzed with the help of sophisticated advanced computing — might seem the stuff of…
ECE grad Broodo Analyzing High-Energy Particle Collisions at Brookhaven National Lab
Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Ph.D. candidate Akash Awasthi is making a name for himself. With a paper nominated for the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering’s Best Poster Award, a second paper…
Akash Awasthi, ECE Ph.D. Student, Conducting Critical Research in AI and Image Analysis
Why it matters: A University of Houston engineer is redesigning sleep studies, no more wires all over your body. This new procedure requires only two wires, unlike the traditional method. It can be performed at home, so you don’…
ECE's Sheth, student Jones' new approach to sleep study expands potential of sleep medicine
When young Eddy Goldfarb was 6 years old, a man who would change his life visited the family house for dinner. This man had an unusual occupation, and the more he shared, the more he fascinated the precocious youngster from…
Eddy Goldfarb’s Toy Story
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! Replay available shortly after as well. Hello there to all friends and family of the Cullen College of Engineering's Spring 2024 graduation class! In honor of…
 2024 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog - Ceremony 2
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! Replay available shortly after as well. Hello there to all friends and family of the Cullen College of Engineering's Spring 2024 graduation class! In honor of…
 2024 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog - Ceremony 1
Presentations, posters and the pride of University of Houston students will be on view during Undergraduate Research Day (URD) on April 11. During this anticipated event, more than 360 students will display their academic…
Cullen Students in the Spotlight During Undergraduate Research Day
An engineering student completing his doctorate at the University of Houston was honored by being selected for a Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) Professional summer research internship in Germany. Yuan Zi…
Ph.D. student Zi thrives during RISE internship
In music, perfect pitch is the innate ability to identify and recreate any note without hearing it first. It’s what musicians strive for, a rare level of excellence only a gifted few can achieve. Baseball pitchers also dream of…
Cullen Student Among Innovators at UH Tech Bridge
After successfully defending his dissertation in July, Alexander Steele will receive his doctorate at the Cullen College of Engineering Commencement this month. Steele, a disabled Marine, started at the University of Houston in…
Steele describes journey from disabled Marine to UH doctorate
The world is full of good ideas, but only some of them become viable and real. “You don’t see the full impact of a good idea until someone figures out a way to convert it to a usable product or service that has value, brings it…
Cullen teams place in UH Energy's Innovation Commercialization Competition
After natural disasters, many people are understandably worried about the potential for structural damage to their homes. The research work of a Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student and his advising professor aims to…
Cullen student Varghese recognized for AI-focused structure research
GreenHouston, a team of University of Houston students mentored by Assistant Professor Jian Shi from the UH Cullen College of Engineering, created a winning proposal for an optimized carbon dioxide transportation pipeline…
Students Shine in DOE’s American-Made Carbon Management Competition