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Instructional Associate Professor and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Undergraduate Program Director Yaping Wang, Associate Professor of ISE George Tan, Associate Professor of Digital Media Tony Liao, Professor of…
Cullen Faculty Represent at 2025 “Mayor’s Back to School & Health Fair”
Instructional Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Nirathi Keerthi Govindu has received a $10,000 Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) grant to fund her undergraduate research lab proposal at the University of…
ISE’s Govindu Awarded $10,000 TIP Grant for Innovative Lab Space at Katy
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 locker room as part of the coaching staff. Matthew…
IE alumnus McDonald engineering Ws for Coogs’ basketball
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, has earned a major…
ISE’s Tan wins IISE M&D Outstanding Teaching Award
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 grant from the Federal Transit Administration’s…
ISE’s Wang and Team Awarded $400K TCRP Grant to Advance Cybersecurity in Public Transportation
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 of continuous service and involvement in the…
ISE’s Schulze Named ASSP Fellow
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! A replay will be available after the ceremonies as well. Hello to all friends, family and colleagues of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Spring 2025 graduation…
2025 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog
More than 150 people gathered on the second floor of Student Center South on April 28 to celebrate student success, as students participating in the Spring 2025 NAE Grand Challenges Summit and Create@UH Showcase presented their…
Main Campus NAE Grand Challenges Summit & Create@UH Showcase awards student project on carbon sequestration
Sana Aljandali, one of the first students to earn a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Houston, can’t think of a more perfect place to be a systems engineer than Houston. UH’s reputation for its…
ISE Graduate Aljandali Sees Opportunity Everywhere
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
The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) has funded a $25,000 grant to support undergraduate scholarship and research in the University of Houston’s supply chain and logistics technology program in 2025. This is UH’s…
SCLT’s 2025 IANA Fellows Named
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

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