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Vipulanandan, a man with medium-dark skin, stands before a wall of bookshelves holding matching dark red hardcover books with his hands clasped in front of him. He wears a dark suit and red tie. CEE’s Vipulanandan To Retire After Four Decades with Cullen College

August 31, 2025, will mark the retirement of Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Cumaraswamy “Vipu” Vipulanandan, placing the capstone on over forty years of… Read More
George Z. Tan, an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering and the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, is the First Prize Winner of the 2025 Manufacturing & Design Outstanding Teaching Award from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers. ISE’s Tan wins IISE M&D Outstanding Teaching Award

George Z. Tan, an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering and the Tilman J. Fertitta… Read More
[Right to left] Kailai Wang, Zia U Din and Yuhao Wang are collaborating on research to assess cybersecurity at public transportation agencies, thanks to a $400,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration's Transit Cooperative Research Program. ISE’s Wang and Team Awarded $400K TCRP Grant to Advance Cybersecurity in Public Transportation

Kailai Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been awarded a $400,000… Read More
Ralph Metcalfe, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston, passed away peacefully on June 19. College mourns passing of Metcalfe

Ralph Metcalfe, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston, passed away peacefully on June 19. Metcalfe was born on… Read More
Hundreds of students from the competition gather together in a panoramic group photo. They are somewhat far from the camera, showing dusty, light brown ground beneath their feet and a blue sky with fluffy, white clouds behind them. Space City Rocketry Places First in SDL Payload Challenge at IREC

The Space City Rocketry team of the UH chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA-UH) was recognized for best performance in the Space Dynamics… Read More
Led by Cullen College of Engineering Professor Haleh Ardebili, UH moved forward in the NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition with its “Biomanufacturing of Chemicals and Materials for Sustainability (BioMS)” proposal. UH Advances to Semifinals in National Science Foundation Competition

The University of Houston is one step closer to winning a $15 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. UH was recently named one of 29 institutions to advance to… Read More
Three middle-grade children in red t-shirts sit at a lunch table. Behind them stands UH mascot Shasta. Houston-Area Students Glimpse the Future at RCS’s Middle-Grade Coding Camp

DesignYOU!, a Texas Workforce Commission-sponsored academic day camp for Houston-area students entering grades six through eight, is designed to provide hands-on computer coding… Read More
Tianfu Wu, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is leading a team to find early markers for ovarian cancer. BME’s Wu Leads Team Advancing Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

With a $1.2M grant from the Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will lead a team of researchers, partnering with those from MD… Read More
A headshot of Lawrence Schulze, who looks directly at the camera, in a black suit jacket and a blue dress shirt and tie. Schulze also wears glasses and has a short, grey haircut. ISE’s Schulze Named ASSP Fellow

Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lawrence Schulze has been named a fellow of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) after over twenty years… Read More
A photo of plastic garbage intermingled with seaweed on a beach. University of Houston Engineer Creates a Possible Replacement for Plastic

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Maksud Rahman, has… Read More