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The Houston Chronicle recently tapped into the engineering expertise at the Cullen College, asking Engineering Career Center director Vita Como, "What are the latest trends with demand for skilled engineers?" After two years of…
Houston Chronicle: What are latest trends with demand for skilled engineers?
The 2015 Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 11, 2015. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
EAA Announces 2015 Gala Award Winners
A familiar face on the lunar surface, commonly called the “man in the Moon,” has inspired superstition and myth for generations on Earth, but scientists have concerned themselves more with theories about the geological origins of…
Professor Theorizes About Formation of Lava Beds on the Moon
A Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student has earned travel funds to explain his studies on female stress urinary incontinence this spring in Chicago. Yun Peng, who is studying biomedical engineering, received a travel award…
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Earns Travel Grant for Chicago Conference
With over 3,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, standing out from the crowd is no small feat. Each year, college faculty are charged with the difficult task of combing through throngs of…
Cullen College Names 2015 Outstanding Students
Students at the University of Houston are eligible to participate in the Moscow Summer Intern Program as part of a student initiative of the Baker Institute Space Policy Program. The program is a wonderful opportunity for all UH…
Moscow Summer Intern Program for UH Engineering Students
More than 1,300 middle school and high school students from Houston and across Southeast Texas will be on the University of Houston campus later this month for one of the nation’s largest competitive science and engineering fairs…
Science Engineering Fair Attracts Top Young Scientists and Engineers
Researchers at the Cullen College’s biomedical engineering Artificial Heart Laboratory (AHL) have recently accomplished a feat valued to researchers across the world: their research was not only chosen for publication in a…
Journal Features Professor and Ph.D.’s Heart Muscle Research on Cover
The University of Houston will lead a national research center for subsea engineering and other offshore energy development issues, including research and technology to improve the sustainable and safe development of energy…
UH Selected to Lead Offshore Energy Research Center
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. (www.bgeinc.com), an engineering consulting firm based in Houston, established an endowed scholarship in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s civil and environmental engineering department. The…
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. Supports Cullen College With Scholarship Endowment
The department of biomedical engineering at the Cullen College regularly produces students who travel all over the world in the name of academia. Komal Rasaputra, post-doctoral fellow in biomedical engineering, works in the May…
BME Fellow Attends Synthetic Biology Course
On Oct. 10, 2014, the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering's biomedical engineering department was visited by P.B. Sharma, vice chancellor of Amity University, and Durga Agrawal, member of the UH System Board of…
BME Department Welcomes Distinguished Visitors
Tuberculosis granulomas, which are collections of immune cells and bacteria, can aggregate in the human lung when people inhale Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the harmful bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Immune responders, such as…
Conference selects post-doc’s paper on tuberculosis granulomas
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Award Marks Site of 1987 Discovery of High Temperature Superconductivity On November 17, the University of Houston will receive an IEEE (…
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing
Shell Oil Company is contributing $3.5 million to the University of Houston in support of the new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building and other educational initiatives. The collaboration between Shell and the…
Shell Oil Company Commits $3.5 Million to UH
The Mehta family has provided support to establish the Mehta Family Engineering Research Center on the ground floor of the University of Houston’s new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building. The Mehta Family…
UH Creates Mehta Family Engineering Research Center
This year's Undergraduate Research Day will take place Thursday, October 9th at 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion at the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston main campus. Out of the 150 undergraduate researchers…
Undergraduate Research Day 2014!
The University of Houston was awarded a $3.29 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE to increase the number and success of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering and…
UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields
Outreach is an important part of the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s mission, and many professors, staff members and students work in and around the Houston area promoting STEM education, involvement and research. Ravi Birla,…
BME Professor Takes Outreach to Trinidad
Extreme Environment Workshop: Design for Survival -- Where and When it Matters Most Take part in an interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate level course which explores urgent habitation challenges which are both common and…
Extreme Environment Workshop for Undergraduate and Graduate Students