Jiming Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study the optical properties of graphene.
One of the most prestigious grants offered by the NSF, CAREER…
A team of Cullen College engineering students presented their senior design project this month, unveiling the next-generation RoboShasta, a UH mascot "bot." The semester-long project culminated in an advanced version of an…
The Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has welcomed Jose Luis 'Pepe' Contreras-Vidal as its newest faculty member.
Contreras-Vidal, who joins the college as a full professor, was…
The days of worrying whether it’s safe to pay a bill online may soon be over. Such encrypted transmissions could end up immune to hackers thanks in part to the efforts to Yuhua Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer…
A cross-disciplinary collaboration between faculty at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and Duke University has opened up new avenues for cancer research and other clinical investigations.
This collaboration is centered on the…
Leang Shieh has had a busy 40 years. Just look at the numbers. A professor in the Cullen College’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, over that period he has advised more than 100 graduate students and published…
The University of Houston welcomed former president of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to its campus this week. Kalam, who served as president from 2002 to 2007, met with officials and toured many of the university’s top research…
Ji Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been honored with a 2011 Technical Achievement Award from the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society of the…
Wei-Chuan Shih, assistant professor in the Cullen College’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized for his efforts to develop a new method of imaging groups of living cells.
Shih received the best…
For engineers to have successful careers as researchers, either in academia or industry, they need more than just skills in the laboratory. Almost as important is the ability to effectively, even compellingly, explain their work…
Zhu Han has an idea that could remake a multi-billion dollar industry.
Wireless communication, with its spotty signal strength and slow download speeds, can be incredibly frustrating.
According to Han, a big part of the problem…
University of Houston researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of the material graphene, an advance that opens the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance computers and…
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…
