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Last week, the UH Cullen College of Engineering welcomed a group of high school students who spent a week exploring engineering at the STEP Forward Camp. The weeklong program, led by the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies…
High School Seniors Explore Engineering at UH
We asked a few of our undergrads here at the UH Cullen College of Engineering to film their lives for two weeks so we can show the world an honest, first-hand account of what it is like to be an engineering student at the…
Video: Undergrad Life at the Cullen College of Engineering
Girls in grades eight through twelve enter the UH Cullen College of Engineering on Monday morning, new to the world of algorithms, motors and microscopes. By Friday, they’ve built and programmed a robot. Girls Reaching and…
Engineering, Camp-Style
Indranil Mitra, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected for the Fifteenth National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. This two-week program is held in August at Argonne National Laboratory…
ChBE Graduate Students Selected for National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
Two graduate students in the UH department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering won awards at the annual meeting of the southwest regional chapter of the North American Catalysis Society, held at Rice University on April 26.…
ChBE Graduate Students Win Presentation Awards
Katy Olafson, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering and co-advised by Drs. Peter Vekilov and Jeffrey Rimer, has been awarded a one-year predoctoral fellowship in the Gulf Coast Consortia/W.M. Keck Center for…
PhD Candidate Olafson Selected for Keck Predoctoral Fellowship
Matthew Oleksiak, a graduate student in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was awarded the 2013 Richard J. Kokes Travel Award from the North American Catalysis Society (NACS) to attend the upcoming NACS…
ChBE Graduate Student Matthew Oleksiak Awarded Kokes Travel Award
Alexandra Lupulescu, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected as the winner of the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Poster Competition held during…
ChBE PhD Candidate Wins Three AIChE Awards
The University of Houston Chem-E Car team competed at the 2012 AIChE National Competition recently, taking fifth place, the highest that UH has achieved at the national level. Students representing UH were An Dinh (team lead),…
UH Chem-E Car Team Places Fifth at National Competition
Engineering students and professionals connected at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2012 Southwest Regional Conference last month, hosted by the UH AIChE student chapter. The event, held at UH, comprised…
AIChE Student Chapter Hosts Regional Conference
Two students at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have been chosen as Outstanding Senior and Junior for the 2011-2012 academic year. Senior Brian Clark and Junior Preston Broom were selected from a group of…
Cullen College Announces 2011-2012 Outstanding Students
Pranit Metkar, a graduate research assistant in the UH Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected as a winner at the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Poster Session held during the 2011 AIChE Annual…
UH ChBE Researcher Wins Award at Annual Meeting
Students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering spent their summer conducting research as part of the 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The fellowship provides funding for…
Engineering Students Perform Interdisciplinary Research
A team of undergraduates from the UH Cullen College of Engineering took second place at the regional Chem-E Car Competition held last month at Texas A&M University. The competition, which took place during the American…
Cullen College Places Second in Chem-E Car Competition
It may not have been as sleek as other entries, but the Cougalac stole the show at the Chem-E Car Competition held at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Southwest Regional Conference March 27. Named after its…
Win at Regional Chem-E Car Competition Sends UH Team to Nationals
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
College names Carmona and Huynh most outstanding students for 2006–2007 The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has named its Outstanding Junior and Senior students for the 2006-2007 academic year. Both students…
Cullen College Honors its Best and Brightest
A postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering took first place in the poster presentation competition at the Southwest Catalysis Society’s Spring Symposium, held this spring at Rice…
Winning Poster Showcases NOx Emissions Research
Liang Xu, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, took first place in the poster presentation competition at a recent materials-research symposium. The symposium,…
Engineering Graduate Student Takes First Place in Poster Competition
Luigi Saputelli's doctoral dissertation on a proposed self-learning reservoir management system recently claimed second place in the Society of Petroleum Engineers 2003 Gulf Coast Regional Paper Contest. Many variables come into…
Chemical Engineering Graduate Claims Regional SPE Dissertation Prize