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Hello to all friends, family and colleagues of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Spring 2025 graduation…
More than 150 people gathered on the second floor of Student Center South on April 28 to celebrate student success, as students participating in the Spring 2025 NAE Grand Challenges Summit and Create@UH Showcase presented their…
For their capstone project, a group of students in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering is designing, fabricating and testing a dynamic adapter that…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024–25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards.
The winners were announced at the…
In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure — without breaking.
Potential…
Rami El-Haibe, a graduate student pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering, is eager to graduate this spring. El-Haibe first earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston, and he cited his experiences…
For the second consecutive season, Houston fifth-year diver Hedda Grelz was selected as the Big 12 Conference Women’s Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the league announced as part of its end-of-year awards on…
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8.
Cullen is ranked…
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
This story kicks off our series of graduating student profiles for the Spring 2025 Commencement season. Check back regularly throughout the next few weeks to learn more about some of our distinguished graduates as they embark on…
Two papers recently co-authored by Kamel Salama Endowed Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Tian “Tim” Chen, Ph.D., represent a new technological and engineering-focused foray into one of humanity’s…
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce that the following students have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for their respective departments for the 2024–25 academic year.
Students are nominated by…
A total of 25 students from different organizations received more than $13,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2025 Industry Awards Night, hosted by the University of Houston’s Engineering Alumni Association at the Athletic/…
Parsa Tari, graduating with his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering this spring, has been selected to receive the 2024–25 Outstanding Senior award from the Cullen College of Engineering.
Having developed an early…
The University of Houston’s inaugural “Coogs for Energy” Hackathon has crowned its champions, with the top two teams heavily featuring students from the Cullen College of Engineering.
The event, hosted by UH’s Division of Energy…
The journey of Lewis Latimer began with growing up impoverished with no access to formal education. Eventually, Latimer became a prominent black figure in the energy sector as a chief draftsman, patent expert, and inventor. He…
Cullen graduate student Amber Jozwiak, who is currently pursuing dual master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and space architecture, has been selected as a NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Fellow for the 2025 academic…
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Ben Xu has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for $598,991 for his research to understand bubble dynamics in hydrogels.
His project, “Multiscale…
The Cullen College of Engineering’s Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and its space architecture degree program might be the University of Houston’s unintentionally-best-kept secret.
“Houston is…
Mechanical engineering junior Rasheed Korayem, director of communications, and mechanical engineering technology senior Rohit Amaravadi, vice president, know that first place isn’t won in a day. Texas Autocross Weekend 2024…
