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The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded five scholarships for 2020 to students attending the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering. Each student received a monetary award,…
5 Cullen College students honored by ASIE
Dr. Rose Faghih of the Cullen College of Engineering has been spotlighted as a featured author by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Xplore homepage for the month of August. The website highlights a…
Computational Medicine Lab’s Research Featured by IEEE Xplore
For the summer of 2020, the Cullen College of Engineering had seven Biomedical Engineering students selected for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program. The SURF program is open to sophomores, juniors and…
Seven BME Students Surge into SURF Program
A class of graduate students at the University of Houston has worked to create seven videos on YouTube about modeling the spread of COVID-19 among different populations, under the oversight of Dr. Rose T. Faghih, an assistant…
Students provide videos to public modeling spread of COVID-19
Dilranjan Wickramasuriya and Hamid Fekri Azgomi, doctoral students of Rose Faghih, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, made several presentations at two different IEEE (Institute…
UH Engineering State-Space Estimation Course Projects Presented At Two IEEE Conferences
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) awarded seven of their 22 engineering scholarships this year to students attending the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The selected undergraduate and graduate…
Seven UH Engineering Students Win 2019 ASIE Scholarships
Featured UH Research Marries Health Care and Engineering Rose Faghih, assistant professor, and several other UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty and students were an integral part of the 2019 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and…
Cullen College Researchers A Big Part of EMBC 2019
Eight University of Houston students – all from the Cullen College of Engineering and the Honors College – won 2019 DAAD RISE research scholarships and an opportunity to work at top German universities and research institutions…
Record Number of UH Engineering Students Headed to Germany for Research and Adventure
UH, Omron Automation Looking to the Future The UH Cullen College of Engineering and Omron Corp. recently celebrated the official unveiling of the Omron Senior Design and Robotics Laboratory with cookies, punch and a wide variety…
Omron Lab Helps UH Engineering Students Get Real-World Technology Experience
Recipients Include Three Cullen College Coogs Seven current and former University of Houston students – three of whom represent the Cullen College of Engineering – have earned highly coveted National Science Foundation (NSF)…
UH Students and Alumni Earn Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Cullen College Beneficiary of Hickman Estate in Colorado Herbert David Hickman (BSEE ’59) from Colorado gifted his home to the UH Cullen College of Engineering to establish an endowed scholarship, with preference for electrical…
Endowed Scholarship For UH Electrical and Computer Engineering Students
Joshua Frenchwood, an electrical engineering junior at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won a Student Leadership Award from the Career Communications Group Inc. and the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. He…
Cullen College Junior Wins Student Leadership Award for the 2019 BEYA STEM Conference
UH Cullen College’s REU Programs Focus on Materials Science, Neurotechnologies For 10 weeks over the summer, undergraduate students from across the U.S. became bonafide engineering researchers, working alongside some of UH Cullen…
Undergrads From Across the Country Work As UH Engineering Researchers Over Summer
Spending summer days engineering can be creative, empowering and fun. Imagine taking bits and pieces of circuitry, plastic and metal to build robots, then programming them to navigate mazes; venturing out into the warm sunshine…
UH G.R.A.D.E. Camp Celebrates 15 Years of Introducing Engineering to New Generations of Girls
National Science Foundation grant provides scholarships and support to academically-talented underserved students The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,029 grant to a team of University of Houston researchers for a new…
UH Researchers Win $1M Award to Boost Student Success
New and interesting things are being made at the UH Makerspace, which opened this spring in the M.D. Anderson Library. Two University of Houston electrical and computer engineering students — Kaushik Mandiga and Denny Luong —…
UH Students Exhibit Robots Created In Makerspace
Yan Yao Receives Scialog Award A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of one of the world’s most prestigious chemistry…
From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries:  UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication
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…
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…
ECE Students Place Second at NASA Swarmathon Competition
Assistant Professor Yan Yao and several electrical and computer engineering and material science students have founded the first Electrochemical Society student chapter (UH ECS) at UH. The Electrochemical Society is a national…
UH Electrochemical Society Student Chapter off to a Successful Start