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Dr. Maria Z. A. Pour joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as Assistant Professor

Dr. Maria Z. A. Pour joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as Assistant Professor

Mar 22, 2016

Dr. Maria Z. A. Pour joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as Assistant Professor. Dr. Pour received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from The University of Manitoba in 2012 and 2006, respectively, and her B.Sc. degree fro...


NSF grant expands undergraduate research opportunities at UAH

NSF grant expands undergraduate research opportunities at UAH

Aug 05, 2015

One of the best things about attending a Tier One research university like UAH is that it offers unparalleled research opportunities to undergraduates who would otherwise have to wait until graduate school or the workplace to get the same level of ...


Founding director of new UAH  cybersecurity center has big plans

Founding director of new UAH cybersecurity center has big plans

Aug 04, 2015

Dr. Tommy Morris has joined UAH as the founding director of the new UAH Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education. ...


UAH developing architecture to build design-phase cybersecurity into systems

UAH developing architecture to build design-phase cybersecurity into systems

Aug 06, 2015

A lightweight virtualization architecture that can be used to build cybersecurity into systems used in the so-called Internet of Things, such as automobiles and industrial control systems, and into large cloud-based systems is being developed by a ...


UAH AEE Student Chapter installs solar panels to golf cart

UAH AEE Student Chapter installs solar panels to golf cart

Jul 13, 2015

Last week, UAH Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) student chapter outfitted a golf cart with solar panels, making the vehicle virtually maintenance free. The event served as a kickoff for the AEE student chapter to raise awareness among the UAH ...


UAH-backed smart water bottle firm in Alabama Launchpad finals

UAH-backed smart water bottle firm in Alabama Launchpad finals

Jun 26, 2015

A Huntsville-based company set up by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) electrical and computer engineering associate professor to support a smart water bottle invention has advanced to the final round in Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Com...


Dr. Richard Fork

UAH professor’s laser-based space energy system generates a patent

Jun 08, 2015

A space-based system that relies on lasers to generate and deliver energy to spacecraft has won a UAH professor a U.S. patent and could become a first-line defense against asteroids on a collision course with Earth. ...


UAH Scholarship for Service Cyber Corps awardees, from left: Back –Josh Jones, Joseph Drummond, Isaac Daniel and Nick Christensen. Front – Jimmy Robertson, Hope M. Walker, Todd Hastings and Andrew Hendrix.

10 UAH students get NSF cybersecurity scholarships in second year of program

May 22, 2015

Ten students at UAH are getting full cybersecurity scholarships from a five-year, $4.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) funded scholarship program that's in its second year at the university. ...


Nine faculty receive $365,324 in UAH internal research funds

Nine faculty receive $365,324 in UAH internal research funds

May 19, 2015

Research by nine faculty members at UAH has been awarded a total of $365,324 in UAH Individual Investigator Distinguished Research (IIDR) program funds by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. ...


UAH PhD student uses CAD images for early detection of breast cancer

UAH PhD student uses CAD images for early detection of breast cancer

Apr 27, 2015

To Huda Al-Ghaib ('11MS, EE, '15 Ph.D., ECE) the often-fatal disease, cancer, is the only true "enemy of the world." For nearly three years Al-Ghaib, a doctoral student at UAH, has been conducting research in the area of pattern recognition with me...


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