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Tunisia, on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and its close neighbor, Egypt, will each become regular stamps in the passports of two engineering faculty members during the next three years. A nearly $60,000 grant received…
NSF Grant to Fund Cross Country Collaborations for UH Researchers
Imagine owning a vehicle engineered to pack as much as three times the fuel efficiency of cars on the road to date. A car designed to gain its propulsion by way of an electric motor, running on electricity generated by a fuel…
Engineering the Future of Transportation
Seven faculty members from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in May received grants totaling more than $500,000 from the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program. ARP is a competitive, peer-reviewed grant…
Engineering Professors Among Select Few to Receive State ARP Funding
More than two decades of studying how gas-discharge plasmas work has earned a Cullen College of Engineering professor the honor of the University of Houston’s 2008 Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award. Demetre J. Economou…
Engineering Professor Receives Top University Research Award
Vincent M. Donnelly, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a recipient of the John and Rebecca Moores Professorship. The Moores professorship is a five-year renewable award given to full-time, tenured…
Engineering Faculty Member Named Moores Professor
Prof. Michael Nikolaou and Kishore Mohanty's proposals selected by RPSEA for funding Two University of Houston chemical engineering professors will receive grant funding from the Department of Energy-funded Research Partnership…
UH Researchers to Receive Significant Awards for Tight Gas Research
A team of University of Houston chemical engineering students captured first place at the annual Chem-E Car Competition during the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Regional Meeting at Texas A&M University-Kingsville…
UH Students Win Regional Chem-E Car Competition
Two University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering graduate students were recognized for their plastics research at the 2008 Polyolenfins National Meeting the week of Feb. 25. Mai Ha, chemical engineering graduate student,…
UH Students Recognized at National Plastics Meeting
Kishore Mohanty, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, will receive one of four 2008 IOR (Improved Oil Recovery) Pioneer Awards at the 15th Annual SPE/DOE Improved Oil…
Professor Recognized for Lifetime Work on Enhanced Oil Recovery
The University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will be hosting the annual Neal R. Amundson Lectures on Friday, February 1 from 1:30-5 p.m. in L2-D2, the engineering lecture hall. Drs. Haren S.…
Ford's Gandhi, UH's Economides to Speak at 2008 Amundson Lecture
Five UH Cullen College of Engineering students were recently each awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the National Association of Energy Engineers Foundation to be used for courses directly related to energy engineering or energy…
Students Receive Energy Engineering Scholarships
BP Foundation Inc. recently gifted $29,500 in support of UH Cullen College of Engineering programs, student organizations and event sponsorships. Engineering alums Gabriel Cuadra (2006 BSChE), business unit leader for the Latin…
BP Gifts Nearly $30k in Support of College Programs, Students
Kishore Mohanty, a professor in the Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, will be honored during the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ upcoming Annual Technical Conference &…
Professor Honored by Society of Petroleum Engineers
NSF grant will fund more than 30 students over the next five years The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships for students in the…
College Offering Scholarships for Accelerated B.S. to Graduate Program
The University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) has received $90,000 grant from the Bayer Foundation to establish the Bayer Graduate Fellowship Program at the Cullen College of Engineering.…
Chemical Engineering Receives Graduate Fellowship from Bayer Foundation
New nano-fabrication technique enables the creation of squares and other features that hold promise for the future of computing. A team of professors with the Center for Nanomagnetic Systems at the University of Houston Cullen…
In Nanotech, It's Hip to be Square
Research could cut thousands off the cost of fuel cell-powered vehicles The days of gasoline and diesel fuel are one step closer to ending thanks to new findings from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. A…
Engineering Researchers Make Fuel Cell Breakthrough
Interdisciplinary team from three universities will seek to create “piezoelectrics on steroids.” Artificial limbs that can perform a variety of complex tasks by more closely mimicking natural movement and levels of strength and…
$1M Grant To Support Meta-Materials Research
University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering faculty, staff, alumni and friends, along with several university administrators, gathered at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Tuesday evening, July 31, to celebrate the…
Cullen College of Engineering Bids Farewell to Dean Raymond Flumerfelt
The efforts of Mike Nikolaou and Vincent Tam could cut years of the time needed to make new antibiotics available. The recent case of the Atlanta man who traveled overseas while infected with a form of drug-resistant tuberculosis…
UH Researchers Speeding Development of New Medications

 


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