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A signing ceremony, with [left to right] S.J. Hwang (former NCREE Director), K.C. Chang (former NCREE director), Roberto Ballarini (CEE Chair) and Thomas Hsu (CEE Emeritus Moores Professor). CEE works with Taiwan's National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering to mitigate quake damage

On September 21, 1999, the 7.3 magnitude “Chi-Chi earthquake” struck Taiwan, killing more than 2,400 people. Chi-Chi, subsequently referred to as the “Jiji earthquake,” was the… Read More
Karolos Grigoriadis, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program at UH, will lead the new center for aerospace engineering research. UH Opening Aerospace Engineering Research Center with $5M NASA Grant

With a multi-million-dollar grant from NASA, the University of Houston will open an aerospace engineering research center to support the space agency's strategic goal of extending… Read More
Richard Willson, Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Katerina Kourentzi, research associate professor. UH Project Selected to Join $10M Effort to Innovate Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

The University of Houston is part of a $10 million effort from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) to help address key opportunities… Read More
Lars Tebbe, an assistant professor of research in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has earned $90,000 in funding thanks to the Knights Templar Eye Foundation (KTEF) Career Starter Grant. Research professor nabs Knights Templar grant

Lars Tebbe, an assistant professor of research in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has earned $90,000 in funding thanks to the Knights… Read More
Roberto Ballarini, Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and department chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is leading the effort to predict the detrimental effects of geometric imperfections in thin-walled structures. New Model from CEE's Ballarini Can Guide Better Design to Avoid Catastrophe

Last summer when the Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion on its way to take passengers to see the Titanic shipwreck it was a dramatic example of the failure of a… Read More
Alamgir Karim, Dow Chair and Welch Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Houston, discusses the prototype in his lab. Cullen Researchers Explore Sustainable Future with Innovative High-Energy-Density Capacitors

In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from… Read More
Pradeep Sharma, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and interim dean of the Cullen College of Engineering, has won the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2023 Cozzarelli Prize. Sharma Wins PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for Paper on Musical Perception

When Pradeep Sharma, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and interim dean of the Cullen College of Engineering, won the… Read More
Miao Pan [left], associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is co-PI for a collaborative research project with Tomoaki Ohtsuki [right], professor of Information and Computer Science at Keio University, Japan's most prestigious and first private institution of higher learning. ECE professors part of research with Japan's Keio University

The Cullen College of Engineering is now part of a research effort with faculty at Keio University, Japan's most prestigious and very first private institution of higher learning… Read More
UH assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Pietro Milillo presents results of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, which measures infrastructure deformation from space with millimetric accuracy. Cullen Researcher Reveals Pre-Collapse Monitoring of Kakhovka Dam, Ukraine

On the morning of June 6, 2023, a substantial portion of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine — vital for water management and hydroelectric power generation — suffered a collapse while… Read More
Marzia Cescon, the David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received funding for her National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER proposal, “Data-Enabled Neural Multi-Step Predictive Control (DeMuSPc): a Learning-Based Predictive and Adaptive Control Approach for Complex Nonlinear Systems.” The award amount is $655,248. ME's Cescon earns CAREER award for automatic control work

For Marzia Cescon, the David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the news in January that she had earned funding for her National Science Foundation (NSF)… Read More

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