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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
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
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
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
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
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
Rakshak Talwar may be a mere freshman by University of Houston standards, but he’s already well on his way to becoming a giant in the technology world. Talwar, an electrical and computer engineering major in the Cullen College of…
Engineering Freshman Makes Major Strides in Tech World
Timothy Kennedy and William Langston, doctoral students in electrical engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, were recognized at separate IEEE International Symposia this summer. Kennedy was one of 15 finalists invited…
Doctoral Students Recognized by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers