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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…
Grelz Repeats as Big 12 Women’s Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year
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…
Cullen names Outstanding Students for 2024–25 Academic Year
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/…
EAA hosts 2025 Industry Award Night
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…
2024–25 Outstanding Senior Tari Rockets Toward Success
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…
Cullen Teams Take Top 2 Spots in UH’s Coogs for Energy Hackathon Event
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…
Innovate, Inspire, Impact: Black STEM Students Leading the Charge at UH, Cullen
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…
MAE’s Jozwiak Named 2025 Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellow
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…
Society of Automotive Engineers at UH Keeps Pace at Texas Autocross Weekend, Looks to the Future
A team of graduates and soon-to-graduate students in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering are being recognized for the work done on their capstone project on rupture disk devices. Johan John…
Four MAE students recognized for capstone project
Jian Chen and Thomas "Tico" Hannan of the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering were awarded the inaugural university-level Genspiration Prize at the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 13th Annual Conference in…
National Academy of Inventors Honors UH MAE Student Innovators with Inaugural Genspiration Prize
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the University of Houston has been awarded the ASME Student Section Achievement Award for 2023-2024. ASME-UH is "a professional student organization that aims to lead…
ASME-UH Wins Student Section Achievement Award
Four students from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering have earned prestigious internships from the Air Force Research Laboratory. With a staff of…
Four MAE students earn summer internships at AFRL
HOUSTON — Houston Swimming & Diving senior diver Hedda Grelz was named the Big 12 Women's Swimming & Diving Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the league announced Wednesday. Grelz, a Spring 2024 graduate with a degree in…
ME grad Grelz named Big 12 Women's Swimming & Diving Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year
The University of Houston was crowned national champions at the 2024 ITA National Wheelchair Tennis Championships, the premier competition in all of collegiate wheelchair tennis. In a remarkable display of skill, determination…
Cullen student, teammate win National Wheelchair Tennis Championship
Madam C. J. Walker’s journey from impoverished orphan to becoming the first female self-made millionaire in America, laid the foundation for her inspiring legacy as one of the twentieth century’s most resilient entrepreneurs. Her…
UH’s Future Black STEM Leaders Strive toward Representation in Energy while Inspiring Their Peers
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) recently held its Annual Holiday Party, where they awarded scholarships to seven undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Houston's Cullen College…
Seven Cullen students earn 2023 ASIE scholarships
Three Cullen College of Engineering doctoral student graduates – all now working in industry – have been recognized for stellar work on their dissertations for the 2022-23 academic year. To recognize the value of the outstanding…
Fang, Mallette, Mozaffari honored for dissertations
In 2021, the United States and 18 other global nations made the pledge to pursue a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 via launching the Net Zero Government Initiative. It's a lofty goal and that will require dedicated…
ME student Slaton completes Mickey Leland fellowship
The Cullen College of Engineering offers its congratulations to the 16 students who have been named Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for the 2022-23 academic year. Students are nominated by professors, with one junior and one…
Cullen recognizes 16 Outstanding Juniors and Seniors for 2022-23
The University of Houston's Engineering Alumni Association honored 42 different students with more than $21,000 in scholarships at the 2023 Engineer's Week Program, hosted in February Daniel Herrera, an Electrical Engineering…
More than 40 students honored at EAA celebration