Diesel Center Researchers Earn EPA Grant to Retrofit School Buses Using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center at UH will retrofit school buses with a system that diminishes the negative impact their diesel emissions can have on the environment. Read More
Two More National Academy Members Join the College The UH Cullen College of Engineering added two more National Academy of Engineering members to its faculty this fall. Professor Kaspar Willam and Adjunct Professor Anestis Veletsos joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering alongside Professor and NAE member Surendra Shah, who joined last January. Read more
New Chair Named for Electrical and Computer Engineering The UH Cullen College of Engineering has named Badrinath "Badri" Roysam from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the new chair of its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective Oct. 1. He will also serve as Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor. Read more
Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program Approved The UH Health Initiative received a major boost from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which recently approved the establishment of a doctoral program in biomedical engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering. Read more
UH, Partners Awarded $4.2 Million DOE Grant for Magnet Energy Storage Research The University of Houston and three other institutions have received a $4.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a superconducting magnet energy storage system device that could revolutionize the nation's electrical power grid. Read more
UH Visiting Professor Inducted into Chinese Academy of Engineering Surendra P. Shah, visiting professor at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, was recently inducted into the Chinese Academy of Engineering as a foreign member. Read more
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