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The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024-25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards. - The winners were announced at the…
28 Honored With 2024-25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards
Friends, family and peers gathered on April 10 to celebrate honorees at the 2025 Industrial and Systems Engineering Awards Banquet, held in the O’Quinn Great Hall at the University of Houston Athletics/Alumni Center. Following…
ISE honors alumni, faculty, staff, students at 2025 awards banquet
Industrial and Systems Engineering’s Sofia Bustamante is soon to graduate and has done quite a bit in three years at the University of Houston. So much, in fact, that she doubts that her past self would believe it without seeing…
International Student, ISE Grad Bustamante’s Persistence Pays Off
Faiyaz Ahmad, who is soon to graduate with his bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), paints a remarkably well-rounded picture…
ISE Grad Ahmad Checks All the Boxes
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8. Cullen is ranked…
Cullen Remains Top 50 Public Engineering College, Per U.S. News & World Reports
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
Cullen Professors Honored at UH President’s Circle Awards
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
Nivine Zakhari has used her unique blend of skills and degree in multiple disciplines to thrive at Microsoft for the past 14 years, but that journey started with her studying Industrial Engineering at the Cullen College of…
Zakhari’s IE degree start of long pursuit of knowledge
To reflect the expanded nature of the programs offered at the Cullen College of Engineering, the Industrial Engineering Department is now the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department. The name change was approved by the…
Industrial Engineering now Industrial & Systems Engineering at Cullen
For Ian Wahl, a sophomore studying systems engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, few events are more relaxing than a crawfish boil on a spring afternoon. “The event brings out the best in people, setting up the best…
ISE student Wahl details crawfish to internship path
Eleven different University of Houston students were honored with scholarships at the annual American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects holiday dinner, including nine from the Cullen College of Engineering. ASIE is a…
9 Cullen students honored at ASIE holiday dinner
With support from the University of Houston’s Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing, two universities in India — MGM Institute of Health Sciences in Mumbai and Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences — have introduced the…
Agrawals instrumental in bringing 2 Doctor of Nursing programs to India universities
Recent graduate Sharon Moonsammy collected quite a few accomplishments over the course of earning her Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, including being named an outstanding senior in spring 2024, serving as an…
IE Alum Moonsammy Leverages Cullen Background for Success
As industrial engineering undergraduate student Abdulrahman Aljahmi prepares to graduate this December, he took a moment with us to reflect on his time in the Cullen College of Engineering – his personal and professional…
IE's Aljahmi cites challenges, connections among meaningful Cullen experiences
Assistant professor of industrial engineering Na Zou, Ph.D., has received $169,982 of a collaborative research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority Serving…
IE’s Zou Aims to Improve Healthcare Wearables via Deep Learning with NSF Award
The work of assistant professor of industrial engineering Dr. Na Zou was recently recognized with the Best Paper Award in a competition associated with the 2024 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (…
"CODA: Temporal Domain Generalization via Concept Drift Simulator" by IE's Zou wins Best Paper Competition
The Cullen College of Engineering welcomes associate professor George Tan to its faculty ranks for the 2024-25 academic year as part of his joint appointment in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. Tan joins UH from…
IE Department Welcomes Third NSF CAREER Award Winner to Faculty Ranks
Nancy Currie-Gregg (Ph.D. ‘97) has joined the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University as a professor of practice for the 2024-25 academic year. Currie-Gregg earned her doctorate in industrial…
UH IE Alum Joins ISE Department at TAMU
Wesley Bennett, currently pursuing his master's degree in engineering management, has refused to allow setbacks to keep him from finding success in the Cullen College of Engineering – even if it took a bit longer than he expected…
IE Student Spotlight: Master's in Engineering Management Student Bennett Comes Full Circle
Continuing their proud tradition for the third year in a row, the University of Houston's Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers student chapter has been recognized with the Gold Chapter Award for the 2023-24 academic year…
IISE Student Chapter Wins Third Consecutive Gold Award

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