pumps & pipes 11 12 07 by angela, pumpsandpipesmdhc
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*University of Houston Scholarship Report 2006-2007
University of Houston
University of Houston
Total Students ~ 35,000(5000 Graduate Students)
System Wide > 50,000
Total Faculty ~900
Academic Ranking of World Universities
in 2006: 259/500
Other schools in these rankings are:
the universities of Notre Dame, Oregon, Missouri, RPI, and George
Washington
Art Museum & Solo Shows
Art Commissions – 329
Design Awards – 27
Published Music – 46
International and National Music
Performances – 1,034
Theatre Performance & Dir. – 223
Published Books – 507
Refereed Articles – 4,918
Chapters in Edited Books – 946
Conference Presentations – 5,316
Invited Presentations – 5,258
Scholarly activity summary: 2001-2005*
Overview
Arts & Human Enrichment
Bio-Med Sciences & Engineering
Community Advancement& Education
Nano-Materials
Architecture – modified structure for community interface
Cluster strategic hire in Structural Biology & infectious disease offer
Positioning urban university to address its major issues
Counter-offer retained David Francis
to lead neurocognitive cluster
Energy & Natural Resources
Strategic Energy Alliance led by Lane Sloan;
Lone Star Wind Alliance
Cluster strategic hire: Shay Curran
the Light Institute
Complex Systems/ Space Exploration
Atomic and molecular synthesis
Structural biology
Biomedical/neurological
Computational biology and molecular design
Clean room, characterization, and drug and device development
■ Offering flexible terms on industrial research and intellectual property development (full corporate ownership, co-ownership, or UH sole ownership);
■ Focusing on early partnerships with industry for sponsored research and evolve UH into an extension of our commercial partners’ research environments;
■ Enhancing basic research with applied research; and
■ Establishing long-term R&D relationships with existing and new industrial partners.
Increase the Research Base at UH
ANEURYSM PREDICTION & STENT DESIGN
BIO-MED SCIENCES: Bioimaging – Medical Diagnostics & Application
Design
ANEURYSM PREDICTIONVASCULAR THROMBOSIS
IN THE PRESENCES OF STENOSIS
COMPUTATIONAL
HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS
Stent Design for Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm (AAA) Experimental nonsurgical procedure: - developed for high-risk patients - performed using catheterization Tissue engineered stents for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) angioplasty
We are working with The Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital on medical diagnostics such as aneurysm prediction as well as applications design for stents to be used in these situations.
COMPUTATIONAL BIOIMAGING:CARDIOLOGY
filtering& textureanalysis
MicroCT
slices
After 3-D DAF
before
slices throughcoronary
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Post-stress-
-Rest
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-Stress
QRS ST-Ta
stress
post
rest Group-mean spatio-temporal distribution of Bz for depolarization and repolarization stages measured by multichannel SQUID at rest, during physical exercise and post exercise in clinical patients without evidence of CAD
New screening method to diagnose coronary artery disease in adults – filtering with
wavelets: means to quantify anomalous character of tissue.
BIO-MED SCIENCES:Bioimaging - Cardiology
BIO-MED SCIENCES:Bioimaging – Ultrasound Imaging
ULTRASOUND IMAGING
via computational models
NOVEL BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS using nano-size magnetic biomarkers
Standard Ultrasound uses time stamps to calculate geometric properties of an artery.
This works using system-identification techniques to recover the mass-spring-damper models.
From these models, mechanical properties of the artery can be calculated.
ADVANCING CLEANFOSSIL FUELS
ADVANCING CLEANFOSSIL FUELS
DRIVING RENEWABLE
S & ALTERNATIV
ES
DRIVING RENEWABLE
S & ALTERNATIV
ES
PROMOTINGCONSERVATI
ON & ENVIRONME
NTAL SUSTAINABIL
ITY
PROMOTINGCONSERVATI
ON & ENVIRONME
NTAL SUSTAINABIL
ITY
LEADINGSYSTEMS
INTEGRATION
LEADINGSYSTEMS
INTEGRATION
Strategic Thrusts
Strategic Thrusts
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Opportunity -- global leadership, capital of renewables■ Now largest wind-energy producer in the nation
■ 2nd largest land wind resource potential in U.S. (after N.D.)
■ Opportunity for massive influx of wind industry infrastructure (major part of estimated $80 billion/year nationwide by 2020)
■ 50 to 100 times more potential energy than biomass, the only reasonable energy
■ And is economically feasible today = $.05/kwhr
■ New equipment installation $23 billion/year with windmill reaching 2-5 megawatts/tower and blades reaching 40-60 meters. Eventually, blades will reach 100 meters and perhaps 10mw/tower-offshore.
Collaboration & Organization■ GLO, SECO and UH collaborated to capture leadership opportunity & create economic development support system
■ Formed Lone Star Wind Alliance, led by UH
BY THE NUMBERS
45 percent/year growth in Texas from 1999 to 2007
30 percent/year growth in the U.S. on average
1,013 MW under construction in 2007
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
▬ THOMAS PAINE
Although they represent very different facets of science, both healthy cardiovascular and energy supply systems are important to our lives. It is vital that we focus, both together and separately, on these two systems and overcome the impediments to success in these realms.