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Weihang Zhu wears a blue and white collared shirt against a grey background in this headshot. He has short, dark hair, and is wearing glasses. MET’s Zhu Receives Third NSF RET Award

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Weihang Zhu has been awarded $599,999 to fund his Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site project, Industries of the Future…
Zheng Fan, wearing a light-colored polo shirt, stands with his arms crossed in front of a dark wall with rows of portraits. MET’s Fan Receives Half-Million Dollar CAREER Award

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Zheng Fan has been awarded $549,771 for his CAREER Award proposal, Understanding the Formation of Pore-Free Interlayers…
Pieremanuele Canepa, Robert A. Welch Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. ECE’s Canepa earns Scialog funding

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation have funded seven team proposals for…
Bo Zhao, smiling, wears a blue collared shirt and is standing in front of a grey background with his arms crossed. MAE’s Zhao Receives NSF CAREER Award

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering’s Assistant Professor Bo Zhao has been awarded $549,770 for his NSF CAREER proposal, “Understanding and Controlling Nonreciprocal Thermal…
The research team for Muayyad Al-Ubaidi [third from left] and Muna Naash [third from right]. Cullen, UH Receives $1.1M Gift for Biomedical Engineering Research

The University of Houston and the Cullen College of Engineering have received a generous $1.1 million gift from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to advance…
Lihong Zhao. ECE’s Yao, Zhao Recharge Battery Potential

Low-battery anxiety may soon be a little less stressful thanks to a recent discovery by researchers at the University of Houston. For decades, scientists have struggled to…
Joshua Genova. Genova, Cabrera, Hoskere Earn Runner-Up Best Paper Award at ASCE i3CE 2025 for Intelligent Repair-Robotics Breakthrough

An interdisciplinary team from the Cullen College of Engineering was awarded the Runner-Up Best Paper Award at the 2025 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil…
Abdullah H. Abdel-Khalek, dressed in graduation regalia, stands to the right of the bronze Shasta I statute outside of TDECU Stadium while holding up the UH cougar paw handsign. CEA’s Abdel-Khalek Among First Graduates from Growing Program

Abdullah H. Abdel-Khalek was part of this semester’s first graduating cohort of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Computer Engineering & Analytics (CEA) undergraduate…
Yashashree Kulkarni, Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UH and graduate student Anand Mathew. UH Research Challenges Conventional Theories of How Cells Detect Electrical Fields

The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential life functions, from taking in nutrients and converting…
Nathan Tran, a young Asian man dressed in graduation regalia, smiles and stands against a tree. He is wearing a black mortarboard cap with two tassels, a red and white stole, and a black gown over a charcoal suit and striped tie. CEA Grad Tran Sees Future in Cybersecurity

This spring, Nathan Tran was one of the first students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering & Analytics (CEA) from the Cullen College of Engineering.…