Three UH Engineering undergraduate students are improving NASA’s CubeSat missions by programming the small satellites to orient and stabilize themselves based on the position of the sun.
The code developed by mechanical…
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, created in honor of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding research achievements. This year Tam Nguyen, a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at…
The March 2016 cover of ACS Photonics features a theoretical study authored by Cullen College engineers Jae-Hyun Ryou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Shahab Shervin, a materials science and engineering…
This month, the Materials Research Society (MRS) Board of Directors approved the establishment of an MRS chapter at the University of Houston.
The UH MRS chapter will focus on diverse aspects of materials science and engineering…
For the third year in a row, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded the UH ASME student section a Diversity Action Grant (DAG) for the student-run “Intro to Cougar Engineering” STEM outreach initiative.
The…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize its outstanding students of the 2015-2016 year.
With an enrollment of more than 3,000 hard-working and dedicated undergraduate students, finding ways to shine among a sea of…
Two doctoral students in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received the college’s Best Dissertation Awards for fall 2015.
Mechanical engineering student Nikhil Walani and civil and environmental engineering student Maruti…
The University of Houston’s Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day offers students the opportunity to network and introduce their research to a wide audience through oral and poster presentations. Now in its…
This summer, five students from the University of Houston’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter traveled to the rural Nicaraguan village of Telpochapa to construct a schoolhouse from the ground up.
The trip took place…
Haripriya Sundararaju, 25, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at UH Cullen College, died Sept. 21, 2015 in Houston.
“It was completely unexpected, and a terrible shock to her parents and family, to me, and to all the UH…
Though the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) once boasted an active University of Houston student chapter, the organization has been dormant on the UH campus for several years. Now, a group of dedicated Cullen College of…
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Christopher Ortega has been awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Graduate Teaching Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The fellowship, awarded by the ASME Board…
Two Ph.D. students in the Cullen College’s department of mechanical engineering received highly coveted NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships. The fellowships will cover the cost of their education from August 2015 to August…
The scholarship committee for the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston is pleased to announce the TcSUH scholarship recipients for the 2015-2016 academic year, each of whom will receive a $2,500 award.…
Last month, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (AMSE) hosted the first ASME South Texas Section “University Technical Competition” (UTC) for local student engineers to exhibit their research and compete for awards. The…
The need for female professionals in STEM industries is overwhelming according to this National Science Foundation (NSF) report, and the data is similarly dismal for minorities. Himani Agrawal, a Ph.D. student studying mechanical…
In the end, it’s all about the cars. But for students from the University of Houston and Elsik High School, the path to the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas 2015 has offered much more – learning, mentoring and the opportunity to put…
This fall, the American Society of Indian Engineers (ASIE) took notice of several Cullen College of Engineering students and awarded their academic excellence with scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.
Mechanical…
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, less than one of every four workers in a STEM field in the United States is a woman. The science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are unequivocally male-dominated, and…
There are a handful of naturally occurring materials, known as piezoelectric materials, which generate electricity if you bend, stretch, or apply another mechanical force to them, and vice versa – if you apply a voltage across…
