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…
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…
As the 2024-25 Faculty Senate President at the University of Houston, Holley Love brings a wealth of experience and leadership to the role. A lifelong Houston Cougar, Love’s connection to UH runs as deep as her commitment to its…
NASA is awarding the University of Houston $1.2 million to grow diversity initiatives in STEM and aerospace-related engineering fields and address barriers to access and success for historically underserved and underrepresented…
New Eye Sensors Use Special Material That Generates Electricity When It Bends
A University of Houston engineering team has developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the brain. Many…
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…
Anurag, an Indian Institute of Technology Delhi chemical engineering undergraduate student affiliated with Marzia Cescon's lab and multidisciplinary research group, has been awarded the Diabetes Technology Society's Bronze…
Associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Ashutosh Agrawal, Ph.D., is putting a newly-awarded $334,569 grant from the National Science Foundation toward the study of "Mechanics of Optimal Biomimetic Torene…
Yashashree Kulkarni, the Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has received the 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)…
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…
David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Marzia Cescon, Ph.D., has been awarded $370,774 of a total $802,774 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in a joint project with Arizona State…
The Cullen College of Engineering will celebrate six distinguished award winners at the inaugural 2024 Cullen Gala.
This year’s event will be held on Thursday, October 10 at the Hilton Americas Hotel. For more information, and to…
Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair Karolos Grigoriadis has had quite the year.
After nearly three decades as a faculty member of Cullen College's Mechanical…
