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When it comes to cancer detection, size matters. Traditional diagnostic imaging cannot detect tumors smaller than a certain size, causing missed opportunities for early detection and treatment. Circulating tumor exosomes are…
UH Engineer Reports Advance in Rapid Cancer Detection and Monitoring
A Cullen College of Engineering professor has received just shy of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how to make the decision-making networks in devices like self-driving cars and medical imaging devices more…
Fu receives NSF grant to study neural network energy improvements
A professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has received a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research into improving the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless…
Han earns grant for wireless efficiency study
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that six professors have earned promotions, starting with the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year. All listed positions are tenured, or on a tenure track. Professors…
Cullen College of Engineering promotes six professors
A coveted technology, while attractive to established defense companies like Rockwell in Thousand Oaks, California, and others around the country, made its home in Sugar Land, putting millions into the greater Houston economy.…
 Boosting the Economy Through UH Engineering Technology
A professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering has been asked to serve on the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research (NABMRR) for the National Institutes…
Contreras-Vidal named to NIH advisory board on medical rehabilitation research
Researchers from the Cullen College of Engineering are exploring ways to automate the administration of medicine for patients suffering from Cushing’s syndrome, with a proposal establishing architecture for that recently…
Paper from CML outlines new Approach for Management of Cushing's disease
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome 13 new professors and lecturers for the 2021-22 academic year, as part of its continuing effort to grow the faculty and to provide high quality instruction for undergraduate…
Cullen College of Engineering welcomes 13 new hires
The old adage “never let them see you sweat” doesn’t apply in the electrical and computer engineering lab of Rose Faghih, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Houston Cullen College of…
New Smartwatch Technology Uses Sweat on Skin to Infer Brain Stress
Drilling can be a challenging and expensive operation and the industry is always looking for ways to innovate and make the operation more efficient and safer. Two assistant professors in the University of Houston College of…
UH Licenses Cutting Analysis Software to Optimize Drilling Operations
University of Houston engineering researcher Wei-Chuan Shih has been awarded $2.7 million from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to detect cancer biomarkers in blood by counting exosomes. Known as…
Shih Receives $2.7M to Develop Cancer Test with ‘Unprecedented Early Detection Power’
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston is saddened to announce the passing of Ovidiu Crisan, Ph.D., a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, on June 20 in Orange, California.…
College Mourns the Passage of Professor Emeritus Crisan
An aviation industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience at General Electric and 80 patents to his name will be joining the Cullen College of Engineering's Computer and Electrical Engineering Department as a…
Huang's industrial expertise joining Cullen College of Engineering
Stanko R. Brankovic, Ph.D., a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering departments of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow…
Brankovic named fellow of Electrochemical Society
Only 2 percent of vehicles are electrified to date, but that is projected to reach 30 percent by 2030. A key toward improving the commercialization of electric vehicles (EVs) is to heighten their gravimetric energy density –…
Altered Microstructure Improves Organic-Based, Solid State Lithium EV Battery
A pair of Cullen College of Engineering students are among 21 nationwide that gave live presentations at the National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Principal Investigators’ meetings from June 2 through June 4…
ECE students Fekri Azgomi, Amin among 21 students presenting at national meeting
A four-person team of students at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has won a pair of awards for their project – a soft robotics exoskeleton – after presenting at the Excellence in Senior Design…
Student project TrueStep takes 1st at design competition
A new paper from Rose Faghih, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Computational Medicine Laboratory, and her doctoral student Rafiul Amin describes how they have developed a…
New research method from Faghih, Amin allows more reliable brain information inference using electrodermal activity
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston and Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph.D., P.E., the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Endowed Chair and Dean, are pleased to share the 2020-21 Faculty and Student Excellence Award…
23 honored with 2020-21 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards
Cullen College of Engineering professor Stanko R. Brankovic, Ph.D., of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is the corresponding author for a new, multi-department perspective paper on potential advancements in…
Stanko leads multi-department research into synthesis via SLRR reaction