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Jingjing Fan, a graduate student in the Cullen College's civil and environmental engineering department, delivered an award-winning elevator pitch at the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization's (SNO) first ever Nano Pitch…
Civil Engineering Student Delivers Award-Winning Elevator Pitch
Two professors in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston earned Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year. Each received a five-year, $…
Two Engineering Professors Earn NSF CAREER Awards
Students at the University of Houston are eligible to participate in the Moscow Summer Intern Program as part of a student initiative of the Baker Institute Space Policy Program. The program is a wonderful opportunity for all UH…
Moscow Summer Intern Program for UH Engineering Students
More than 1,300 middle school and high school students from Houston and across Southeast Texas will be on the University of Houston campus later this month for one of the nation’s largest competitive science and engineering fairs…
Science Engineering Fair Attracts Top Young Scientists and Engineers
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. (www.bgeinc.com), an engineering consulting firm based in Houston, established an endowed scholarship in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s civil and environmental engineering department. The…
Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. Supports Cullen College With Scholarship Endowment
The University of Houston will lead a national research center for subsea engineering and other offshore energy development issues, including research and technology to improve the sustainable and safe development of energy…
UH Selected to Lead Offshore Energy Research Center
The new year has only just begun, but one civil engineering Ph.D. student is already planning to pack his bags and hit the road. Saeid Karimi has received a travel award from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (…
Civil Engineering Ph.D. to Attend SIAM Conference in Computational Science and Engineering
Metal buildings comprise almost 50 percent of all non-residential, low-rise construction in the United States. The most common configuration is the gabled frame with sets of exterior columns supporting rafters that form house-…
Engineers Earn Grant to Expand Base Plate Connection Research in Low-rise Metal Buildings
Debora Rodrigues, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston, has received the Emerging Investigator award from the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO). Rodrigues has worked…
Cullen College Professor Honored for Work in Nanomaterials
Hundreds of civil and environmental engineers gathered for lunch in Houston this month to celebrate one thing they all have in common: a civil engineering degree from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. The…
PHOTOS: 12th Annual Civil Engineering Luncheon
Few Houstonians wake each morning concerned that the clean water that pours from their faucets could run dry, but this is a reality that could affect future generations. In fact, the United States Bureau of Reclamation, USBR, is…
Filtration Research Ramps Up as Sources for Quality Water Worsen
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and ComputingAward Marks Site of 1987 Discovery of High Temperature Superconductivity On November 17, the University of Houston will receive an IEEE (…
University of Houston Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing
The Mehta family has provided support to establish the Mehta Family Engineering Research Center on the ground floor of the University of Houston’s new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building. The Mehta Family…
UH Creates Mehta Family Engineering Research Center
Shell Oil Company is contributing $3.5 million to the University of Houston in support of the new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building and other educational initiatives. The collaboration between Shell and the…
Shell Oil Company Commits $3.5 Million to UH
This year's Undergraduate Research Day will take place Thursday, October 9th at 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion at the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston main campus. Out of the 150 undergraduate researchers…
Undergraduate Research Day 2014!
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is proud to welcome Roberto Ballarini as the new Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Ballarini comes to UH from the University of Minnesota, where he served as the…
Cullen College Welcomes Roberto Ballarini as Civil Engineering Department Chair
The University of Houston was awarded a $3.29 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE to increase the number and success of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering and…
UH Receives $3.3 Million Grant to Promote Women in STEM Fields
The American Society of Civil Engineer's Journal of Surveying's newest associate editor is Craig Glennie, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Cullen College. Glennie was appointed to the associate…
Craig Glennie Appointed Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Surveying
Extreme Environment Workshop: Design for Survival -- Where and When it Matters Most Take part in an interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate level course which explores urgent habitation challenges which are both common and…
Extreme Environment Workshop for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Every year, the Texas Public Works Association honors a select few public works employees with the prestigious Top Public Works Leader of the Year Award. This year, Cullen College alumnus Doug Haude (BSCE ’02) received the award…
Texas Public Works Association Honors Cullen College Alumnus