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Zhengwei Li, an assistant professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department with a joint appointment in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, has received $629,000 in funding for his proposal, “Wireless, Closed-Loop System to Restore Urological Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury.” BME’s Li earns NIH Trailblazer Award for spinal cord injury rehab

An assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has received $629,000 in funding to conduct research into helping patients recover after spinal cord injuries. Zhengwei… Read More
Nirathi Keerthi Govindu, a woman with long, dark hair and olive skin, smiles at the camera in front of a gold and black background. ISE’s Govindu Awarded $10,000 TIP Grant for Innovative Lab Space at Katy

Instructional Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Nirathi Keerthi Govindu has received a $10,000 Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) grant to fund her… Read More
Matt McDonald with a portion of the net after the Houston Cougars took the championship game of the Big 12 men's basketball conference tournament. IE alumnus McDonald engineering Ws for Coogs’ basketball

As the Houston Cougars men’s basketball team made their run to the national championship game in 2025, a Cullen College of Engineering graduate was on the sidelines and in the… Read More
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