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The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) hosted another successful event on Feb. 22, as the 2022 Engineers Week Awards program recognized 50 students for their accomplishments. Since 2004, the EAA and industry donors have come…
EAA recognizes 50 students for academic achievements, leadership
When Faouzi Tahtouh reflects upon being recognized as the Cullen College of Engineering Outstanding Junior for the 2021-22 academic year, he can't help but feel a bit surprised and a bit humbled. “I'm just grateful for it,” he…
Work ethic, faculty key to Outstanding Junior flourishing
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded three scholarships for 2021 to students attending the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. Each student received a monetary award,…
Three Cullen students awarded ASIE scholarships
A graduate student at the University of Houston is one of two lead co-authors for a paper by the Ryou group about combining the best qualities of semiconductors, to make them cheaper and higher quality. “Flexible single-…
Moradnia co-authors paper on semiconductor improvement
A doctoral graduate of the Cullen College of Engineering's Mechanical Engineering program has taken home another award for a poster presentation, her second while affiliated with the college. Sara Pouladi, a postdoctoral…
Postdoc Pouladi takes home another award
“Giant Flexoelectricity” Breakthrough in Soft Elastomers Paves Way for Improved Robots and Self-Powered Pacemakers What do the following have in common: a self-powered implanted medical device, a soft human-like robot and how we…
The Powerhouse Future Is Flexoelectric
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
Three graduate students from the Cullen College of Engineering have received scholarships from the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH), as recognition for their work inside and outside of the…
Three graduate students receive TcSUH scholarships
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
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce that 21 undergraduate students have been selected for the University of Houston's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), according to the Honors College. The…
21 Cullen College students receive SURF opportunities
Winning an award can always be an emotional moment for a student, but for University of Houston senior Jose “Javi” Solano, being picked as a 2021 Goldwater Scholar especially resonated. “The Goldwater Scholarship is the most…
 Undergraduate Named 2021 Goldwater Scholar
When Pemu Utienyin examines the world she inhabits every day, the University of Houston junior says that she can’t just ignore the ways in which she could help. “As I walk, I see things, changes that need to be made,” she said. “…
ME student earns Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Six students from the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston have been honored by the Great Minds in STEM organization as 2020 scholars, and been rewarded with scholarships. For more than 30 years, GMiS has…
6 Cullen College students selected for Great Minds in STEM scholarships
Building on his already robust academic achievements from previous years at the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering student Benjamin Estefano Diaz Villa has been recognized for his accomplishments and chosen as…
Diaz Villa honored as this year’s Outstanding Senior
When Wesley Combs was attending Houston Community College in his 10th grade year, he was primarily interested in the liberal arts. Even before graduating, he had written novels, and he thought that would be his career. However,…
Combs earns BEYA STEM award for Student Leadership
Since January of this year, undergraduate Yonatan Mascorro of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering program has started a new morning regime – push-ups. “Well, I started this 25 push-up routine back in…
Cullen College student honored with Hispanic Heritage Youth Activist Award
Since its publication in late July, a research paper about drawn-on-skin electronics from a group overseen by Dr. Cunjiang Yu, the Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has been…
Original research for Drawn-on-Skin electronics from Ershad, Yu attracting attention
Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the UH Cullen College of Engineering, announced that 17 students and faculty members had been selected as recipients in the 2019-2020 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards,…
College honors 17 with yearly Faculty and Student Excellence Awards
Failure Could Be the Answer to Lower Costs and Higher Efficiency While most people consider cracking, peeling, stress and other similar factors to be negatives, a group of researchers see them as opportunities to improve the…
New Thinking In Materials Development Could Affect Future Design And Fabrication
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) awarded seven of their 22 engineering scholarships this year to students attending the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The selected undergraduate and graduate…
Seven UH Engineering Students Win 2019 ASIE Scholarships