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Isis Mejias has been busy lately. She received a scholarship from the Rotary Club of Humble Intercontinental, secured a $50,000 grant for Engineers Without Borders – Central Houston Professional Chapter, and became a US citizen…
Ph.D. Candidate Honored for Academic and Philanthropic Achievements
For the second time in three years, a Cullen College graduate student has won the O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Rachel Howser, a graduate student in the college's Department of…
Civil Engineering Grad Student Wins Fellowship
Taraka Ravi Shankar Mullapudi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Cullen College’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, won the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s 2011 Student Paper Competition. The award was…
Civil Engineering Graduate Student Wins Paper Competition
A UH Cullen College of Engineering graduate student has won a fellowship to research an underused method of distributing the load of a structure in soil. Taraka Ravi Shankar Mullapudi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil…
Grad Student Wins Fellowship to Study Soil’s Resistance to Bending
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s concrete canoe team finished among the top 15 teams at the national competition in California over the weekend. It was the sixth appearance by a team from the university…
Concrete Canoe Team Competes, Places in Nationals
Taraka Ravi Shankar Mullapudi, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and structural engineering, placed third at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) USA Graduate and Student Paper Competition recently. Mullapudi was among three chosen…
Graduate Student Takes Home Honor at ICE Competition
For months, a team of University of Houston civil engineering students has been concocting the perfect recipe. A dash of fly ash, some silica fume, foam, shredded tires, PVA fibers, water, ceramic beads, glass bubbles and most…
Concrete Canoe Team Captures First, Qualifies for Nationals
A team of University of Houston engineering students paddled their way to a second consecutive first place win April 28 at the Texas/Mexico Regional Concrete Canoe Competition. The students beat out 11 teams competing at…
UH Students Win Regional Concrete Canoe Competition for Second Year
Five UH Cullen College of Engineering students were recently each awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the National Association of Energy Engineers Foundation to be used for courses directly related to energy engineering or energy…
Students Receive Energy Engineering Scholarships
A team of undergraduate students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering took first place in the Texas/Mexico regional Concrete Canoe Competition, giving them the right to represent the area at the national…
UH Concrete Canoe Team Headed to Nationals
Archana Venkataramanan, an environmental engineering graduate student with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, received a $5,000 fellowship from the Ivanhoe Foundation for her research on drinking water…
Graduate Student Receives Fellowship for Work in Water Purification
The results of research conducted in the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering were recently recognized in April 2005 by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), which presented them with the Vinnakota…
UH Civil Engineering Research Recognized with SSRC Vinnakota Award
Joseph Joubert said, “To teach is to learn twice,” and civil engineering senior Kimani Augustine has lived by that principle. From his teaching career in the Caribbean to the various tutorial programs he participates in at the UH…
UH Engineering Student Gives Back to Community, Teaches to Reinforce Knowledge
Four University of Houston civil engineering students recently participated in a Paint-a-Thon Community Service Project during the National Student Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). On June 22, UH…
UH Civil Engineering Students Paint for Community Service