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When asked to imagine a “typical” engineer, many people may find themselves conjuring images of sleep-deprived, math-obsessed or highly-analytical individuals. In reality, there is no one-size-fits-all stereotype for engineering…
Secret Lives of Engineers: Meet Michael Pincus, Electrical Engineer and Professional Cyclist
Two UH Cullen College of Engineering students have been awarded travel grants by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 to attend the annual IEEE Future Leaders Forum. The Future Leaders Forum…
UH Engineering Students Earn IEEE Travel Grants to Attend Future Leaders Forum
In April, two Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) undergraduate robotics teams from the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department competed in the IEEE Region Five…
Cullen College Robotics Teams Place at IEEE Regional Robotics Competition
The UH department of electrical and computer engineering hosted the Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference (GRC/CDC) on April 29th at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and…
PHOTOS: 12th Annual Graduate Research and Capstone Design Conference
Electrical and computer engineering professor Aaron Becker and students in his “Intro to Robotics” class have been invited to “join the swarm” as selected participants in the first annual Swarmathon taking place from April 18-22…
Students Steer Robotic Swarms in NASA Competition
A year’s worth of hard work paid off for a team of electrical and computer engineering students in the UH Cullen College of Engineering when their small satellite technology was launched into space this month. Small satellites,…
Student-Designed Satellites Launch into Orbit
Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, authored a research paper that was chosen as the cover of the January 2016 edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry…
ECE Energy Research Makes Cover of Research Journal
The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its…
Engineering Students Selected as GRaSP Day Finalists
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s 11th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 22nd in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library and the Honors College. At the event, over 175 undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 2015 Undergraduate Research Day
Yanliang (Leonard) Liang, electrical and computer engineering research associate at UH Cullen College, won the Silver Nano Research Poster Award at the 10th Sino-U.S. Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology in June.Liang’s…
Engineering Student Earns Silver Nano Research Poster Award
The city of Houston, home of the largest medical center in the world, is known for being at the forefront of cutting-edge medical research. By partnering with Houston Methodist, a hospital at the heart of the medical center, the…
Doctoral Student Awarded Fellowship to Explore Neuroengineering
The UH department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the Capstone Design and Graduate Research Conference on May 1 at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and undergraduate…
VIDEO: Capstone Design Conference Poster Session
The UH department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the Capstone Design and Graduate Research Conference on May 1 at the UH Hilton. The day-long event included technical sessions in which graduate and undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 11th Annual GRC/CDC Conference
A team of electrical and computer engineering students from the University of Houston recently took the top trophy at a robotics competition at Oklahoma State University (OSU) for their creation of a remote bot that performed a…
Student Team Sweeps Robotics Competition in Oklahoma
As robotic technology takes over many industries, so does the need for skilled robotic technicians. Luckily for UH students, electrical & computer engineering sophomore Rakshak Talwar is spreading his love for and knowledge…
ECE Undergrad Hosts Robotics Workshop
Watson, a computer program named for IBM’s founder, defeated the two best human players on “Jeopardy!” one of the most challenging game shows of all time, in 2011, marking a significant milestone in the advancement of big data…
IBM Fellow and Engineering Alumnus to Give Talk on Big Data Analytics
When a material known as graphene was first produced inside of a lab in 2004, the science and technology community buzzed with predictions that it would become the “next big thing” for the semiconductor industry. Graphene is…
ECE Professor and Ph.D. Student Publish Article in Nanotechnology
In collaboration with Dr. Wajiha Shireen, Engineering Technology Professor from the University of Houston College of Technology, electrical engineering graduate student, Radhakrishna Kotti, presented award-winning research, which…
Wind Energy Innovation Presentation wins IEEE Recognition for Best Paper
Rocco De Grazia graduated in 2004 with a B.S.in electrical engineering from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Now, 10 years later,he’s still making waves in the tech community. Earlier this year, he earned…
Cullen College Alum Takes Hackathon Win with Life-Saving Invention
Doctoral degrees are awarded every semester in the Cullen College of Engineering, but few to students as accomplished as Ji Qi. Qi recently defended her doctoral thesis for her electrical engineering Ph.D. and will graduate this…
Accomplished Ph.D. Student Defends Dissertation on Raman Spectroscopy