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When Santiago El Awad was first awarded membership in the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program in the fall of 2019, as he was pursuing his master's degree in Civil Engineering at the Cullen College of…
CEE doctoral student El Awad earns Eisenhower fellowship
The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) hosted another successful event on Feb. 22, as the 2022 Engineers Week Awards program recognized 50 students for their accomplishments. Since 2004, the EAA and industry donors have come…
EAA recognizes 50 students for academic achievements, leadership
Reflecting the organization's commitment to the community, the Dow Promise Program has awarded a $10,000 grant to the University of Houston branch of the National Society of Black Engineers, to partner with the Blodgett Urban…
UH NSBE receives $10k grant for community garden revamp
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded three scholarships for 2021 to students attending the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. Each student received a monetary award,…
Three Cullen students awarded ASIE scholarships
Cynthia V. Castro, Ph.D., can describe firsthand the importance of networking and being thoroughly prepared. For the Cullen College of Engineering graduate, both aligned for her when it came to meeting a respected figure in her…
Doctoral Grad Castro Earns NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
Although the locations and challenges have changed, there has always been one constant for Omar Khalid – learning as much as he can, in a variety of fields and disciplines. Khalid, a native of Iraq, earned his B.S. in Computer…
CEE award-winner Khalid continues to pursue knowledge
For Cullen College of Engineering doctoral student Cynthia V. Castro, growing up on the Gulf Coast and seeing how devastating the storms can be has fueled her educational pursuits, and also led her to being earning a scholarship…
CEE doctoral student receives American Water Works Association scholarship
A graduate student at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has been honored by being selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers for the 2020 O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship. Livia Mello, a UH…
ASCE tabs UH student Mello for research fellowship
Two researchers from the University of Houston have received a grant to study the potential water conservation savings for different types of land uses in the City of Houston. Dr. Devin Shaffer, an assistant professor in the…
Shaffer, Reed awarded grant to study Houston water conservation
Klotz views engineering as a 'license to change the world.' Houston civil engineer and UH Cullen College of Engineering alumnus D. Wayne Klotz (MSCE ’76) was named the keynote speaker for the college’s fall 2019 commencement on…
Distinguished Alumnus Wayne Klotz To Speak At Fall 2019 UH Cullen College Commencement
Sensytec Wins Houston MassChallenge, HAN Investment Prize Money and Recognition from Rice Alliance Sensytec, a UH startup, is busy cementing its reputation with multiple wins this month. On Sept. 5, it was chosen as one of three…
UH Startup Sensytec Builds a Foundation of Wins
Ali Ansari’s Research Focuses on Improving Clean Water Output from RO Desalination Ali Ansari, a doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was recently awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers’ John B.…
UH Engineering Student Wins ASCE Hawley Memorial Fellowship
Chong Dai, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was awarded a 2019 Chinese Government Award for Self-financed Students Abroad. Given by the China Scholarship Council, this…
Cullen College Alumna Scores Prestigious Chinese Government Award
Bo Cao, a doctoral candidate in environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, won a 2019 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS makes up to 20 such…
UH Graduate Student Wins ACS Award for Environmental Chemistry
Research Soaring to New Heights on the Tails of NASA Satellites Andrea Albright, a graduate student in the Cullen College of Engineering’s geosensing systems engineering and sciences program, won a 2018 National Defense Science…
UH Student Earns Top National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
Inspired by nature, Ph.D. candidate proposes computational framework to solve life problems Real life problems are often complex and hard to resolve. So Mohammad Sarraf Joshaghani, a third year Ph.D. student at the Cullen College…
UH Engineering Student Wins First Place at 2018 EMI Conference
Klotz views engineering as a 'license to change the world.' Houston civil engineer D. Wayne Klotz (1976 MSCE) has added another feather in his cap. The University of Houston alumnus recently became the fourth recipient of an…
UH Alumnus Wins Prestigious National Engineering Award
It’s a common human experience: Sitting on a beach, watching as the waves lap against the sand. You feel your worries start to melt away as your mind focuses on the breaking waves, one after another. You notice the differences…
Making Waves: Grad Student's Wave Research Earns AGU Award
In April, representatives of the University of Houston’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) traveled to Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, to write and sign a memorandum…
Cullen College of Engineering Joins Forces With Maritime University
Environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate Aparna Balasubramani has found that carbon nanotubes may be the one of the best ways to stop poisonous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from entering waterways. Officials at the Texas…
Aparna Balasubramani: Cleaning the Environment and Sweeping Awards