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A pair of master’s degree students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering took home first place for their presentation at the Texas Water 2025 conference in March. Jessica…
CEE Graduate Students Vines, Alanis take 1st at Texas Water Conference
When you’re on a sandy beach or the banks of a river, transformed by rolling waves or slightly still waters, it’s likely you’re not thinking about what happens just beneath the surface, where dirt and pollution are swirling and…
CEE’s Rifai Unveils New Model to Evaluate Impact of Extreme Events, Natural Hazards
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
Pietro Milillo, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been elevated to the esteemed status of Senior…
CEE’s Milillo Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
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
A review article authored by civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Pietro Milillo and postdoctoral fellow Yismaw Wassie, "Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Multitemporal Deformation Monitoring: A review…
CEE’s Milillo, Yismaw Publish Comprehensive Remote Sensing Review in IEEE Xplore
A total of 25 students from different organizations received more than $13,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2025 Industry Awards Night, hosted by the University of Houston’s Engineering Alumni Association at the Athletic/…
EAA hosts 2025 Industry Award Night
The University of Houston’s inaugural “Coogs for Energy” Hackathon has crowned its champions, with the top two teams heavily featuring students from the Cullen College of Engineering. The event, hosted by UH’s Division of Energy…
Cullen Teams Take Top 2 Spots in UH’s Coogs for Energy Hackathon Event
When you drink a nice refreshing glass of water, do you ever think, “Gee, I’m glad that polymeric desalination membrane did its job!” Probably not, but maybe you should. Those thin polyamide, or plastic-like, membranes work as…
CEE’s Shaffer Making Clean Water More Accessible
The Cullen College of Engineering expresses its condolences to the family, friends and former colleagues of Sheng-taur “S.T.” Mau, a former civil engineering professor and department chairman. Mau passed away in December 2024 in…
College extends sympathies to family, friends of S.T. Mau
On the barrier islands of Miami, 35 skyscrapers — including Trump Tower III — have sunk as much as eight centimeters, or three inches, into the ground since 2016, and researchers from the University of Houston have played a…
Sinking Truths: Cullen Professor Confirms Miami’s Coastal Subsidence Challenges
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
An assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering has been recognized as a rising star in environmental engineering and science, thanks to his research on…
CEE’s Rahimi named to 40 Under 40 class by AAEES
In the global push to address the negative impacts of climate change, carbon dioxide removal has emerged as a key economic and environmental strategy. Methods such as direct air capture, direct ocean capture, bioenergy and soil…
CEE's Rahimi offers perspective on fighting climate change
A doctoral candidate from the University of Houston's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has co-authored a transformative study that redefines approaches to assessing earthquake damage using cutting-edge remote…
From Space to Ground – Ph.D. student Voelker leads team transforming remote sensing-based earthquake assessment procedures
A paper recently co-authored by Md Murad Hossain Khondaker, a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston, may hold key insights that allow for better predictions of catastrophic flooding…
CEE Ph.D. Candidate Khondaker Identifies New Approach to Improve Hurricane Forecast Accuracy
Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) announces Mackrena Ramos, P.E., vice president and business group director at LAN, has been named the 2024 Engineer of the Year by Houston Hispanic Architect and Engineers (HHAE). Ramos…
Cullen alum Ramos Named HHAE Engineer of the Year
The Cullen College of Engineering extends its condolences to the family and friends of Ganesh L. Ghurye, Ph.D., a distinguished graduate of the college and the University of Houston. Ganesh passed away after a three-year battle…
College mourns passing of Ganesh L. Ghurye
University of Houston researchers make significant strides in automating Antarctic glacier monitoring using advanced satellite radar techniques. University of Houston researchers have validated a method that uses deep learning to…
New Deep Learning Method Automates Antarctic Glacier Grounding Line Mapping