When Betty Barr joined the college as an assistant professor 40 years ago, times were a little different. The women’s movement had just opened up new opportunities for women professionally, though the field of engineering would…
Dean Joseph Tedesco recognized UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty members for outstanding teaching and research during the 2010-2011 academic year at the college's Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting May 3.
Demetre Economou,…
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers student branch at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering received high honors this weekend at the 3rd Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference in Baton Rough…
National Semiconductor, the world’s largest maker of analog circuits, has given $160,000 to a Cullen College of Engineering professor to develop new metal alloys for possible use in devices that require top-notch reliability.
The…
Prosthetic limbs that can be controlled by the mind aren’t the stuff of science fiction any more. Such devices, which users operate through a neural implant that translates signals from the brain to the prosthetic, have been…
Stuart Long, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, effective January 1, 2011.
Life fellow…
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering made an impressive jump in the National Research Council’s latest ranking of Ph.D. programs.
The NRC, part of the…
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to the two scientists who first isolated graphene, one-atom-thick crystals of graphite. Now, an investigator with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is finding success in…
William P. Schneider, a longtime professor in the Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who retired in 2002, passed away on Friday, Sept. 24. He was 87.
Schneider’s ties to the…
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Roysam to boost neuroscience research at UH.
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has named Badrinath "Badri" Roysam from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the new chair of the…
Work highlighted in leading sleep journal
Perhaps just as pressing as discovering how the brain works or what drives evolution is why we spend a third of our lives asleep.
Among some of the greatest scientific mysteries, sleep…
Stuart Long, a veteran electrical and computer engineering professor in the Cullen College, has been named the University of Houston’s interim vice chancellor/vice president of research and technology transfer.
Long’s appointment…
An $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help fund the purchase of a cutting edge tool expected to boost nanofabrication research taking place on campus.
The 50 keV Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) System will…
UH was one of 24 institutions that received money from the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program in April.
A competitive, peer-reviewed grant program funding science and engineering research projects by faculty members at…
Each year, the university recognizes excellence in teaching, service, research and scholarship through a variety of awards given to faculty.
Presented during the 32nd Annual University of Houston Faculty Awards Ceremony April 27…
Long seventh in college history to receive Esther Farfel Award
Behind most great leaders there is a great mentor. In Stuart Long’s case, there were four.
Each of these educators encouraged Long to dream big, and ultimately…
A few sleepless nights and some creative thinking paid off big for one University of Houston robotics team at the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 Technical, Professional and Student…
Stanko Brankovic, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has received one of the most prestigious National Science Foundation honors given to junior faculty members.
The second…
A device being developed by a University of Houston professor could boost the cure rate for lung cancer by arming doctors with the ability to more effectively target these cancer cells as a person breathes.
With a $100,000 grant…
To better understand the fundamental laws of nature, researchers worldwide utilize particle accelerators to explore high-energy interactions at the atomic level. By propelling high-velocity beams of protons, neutrons or electrons…
