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The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) received high honors at the IEEE Region Five Conference. The organization won all four…
UH Sweeps IEEE Region V Conference For Second Consecutive Year
In the working world of an engineer—a world of technical terminology and complexity —UH engineering alumnus Kevin Self (1991 BSEE) works diligently to keep things simple. Self, who works with 8 and 16-bit microprocessors at…
UH Alumnus Merges Engineering, Communication to Aid in Product Development
In engineering, many discoveries that improve the quality of life do so in unseen ways, but alumnus Fred Gentile’s (1961 BSEE) development is in everyday use across the world. It’s even easy to spell—ATM, Automated Teller Machine…
UH Engineering Alumnus Networked First ATMs, Developed Automated Fuel Dispensing System
Imagine storing the entire Library of Congress on a Palm Pilot, or storing 1,000 movies on a 2-inch disk. These are the kinds of the futuristic goals that could become feasible if UH engineers are successful in their bid to…
UH Technology Holds Promise for Multibillion Dollar Data Storage Industry
An engineering professor by day and jazz saxophonist by night, Len Trombetta sounds as if he leads a double life. Trombetta, a UH electrical engineering professor, will simply admit to enjoying the best of two entirely different…
Sax Appeal Key to UH Engineering Professor's Classroom Performance
World experts in nanotechnology will gather in Houston next April to attend the Second Conference on Nanoscale Devices & System Integration (NDSI’05) sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council and the University of Houston…
Nanotech Experts To Gather in Houston in April 2005
Liang C. Shen, professor of electrical engineering and director of the UH Well Logging Laboratory, was honored at a luncheon Tuesday by the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), faculty, former graduate students and…
UH Electrical Engineering Professor Liang Shen Honored at Luncheon
Charles Dalton Enron Teaching Excellence Award It was 1960 when Charles Dalton, professor of mechanical engineering, stood in front of a classroom to teach for the first time. Forty-three years later, Dalton continues to…
Engineering Professor & Graduate Student Receive UH Teaching Awards
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s student branch of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) received top billing at the recent IEEE Region Five Conference, garnering seven awards,…
UH Cullen College of Engineering Sweeps IEEE Conference, Takes Home Seven Awards
Dmitri Litvinov, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is one of many University of Houston engineering faculty and students who will benefit from the recent donation of a state-of-the-art LakeShore…
Seagate Technology Donates Magnetometer System to Center for Nanomagnetic Systems
Results from UH Neuroscience Workshop to Be Published as Book by MIT Press Forum Organized by Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science When we look at something—when we see something—what exactly is happening in the…
Results from UH Neuroscience Workshop to Be Published as Book by MIT Press
University of Houston Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stuart Long has been named Director-Elect of Division IV of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, or IEEE, the world’s largest technical…
UH Engineering Professor Elected to IEEE Board of Directors
Jose L. Torres, research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and member of the Nanosystem Manufacturing Center (NMC), inspects molecular-scale nanostructures with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The…
Engineers Focus on the Manufacturing Issues of Nanoscale Systems
Forty-four high school girls encountered electrical engineering this summer in a day camp hosted by the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. GRADE Camp (Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence in…
'GRADE' Camp Impresses High School Girls with Images of Electrical Engineering
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
A new camp designed to draw high school girls into the world of engineering is being launched this summer at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. GRADE Camp (Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence in…
GRADE Camp Offers High School Girls A Peek Into The World Of Engineering
When a construction crew pours concrete for an interstate highway, they're supposed to lay it on thick -- 15 inches thick, to be precise. It's the responsibility of the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDoT) to make sure…
Two Highway Research Projects Nominated as 'Most Innovative' in Texas
Electrical Engineering Professor Gerhard Paskusz, founder and director of the college's highly successful Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies, will be recognized as a new Fellow Member of the American Society for…
Director of PROMES Program Named Fellow by American Society for Engineering Education
Dean Raymond Flumerfelt announced the winners of this year's faculty teaching and research awards at the UH Cullen College of Engineering's annual Faculty and Staff Meeting on April 22. Karolos Grigoriadis claimed the W. T.…
Dean Announces 2003 Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research
Four faculty members of the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering were honored last week at the university faculty awards presentation. Vemuri Balakotaiah, Karolos Grigoriadis, David Shattuck and Osman Ghazzaly were…
Four Cullen Faculty Members Honored at UH Faculty Awards Dinner