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The UH Cullen College of Engineering is well on its way to becoming a Top 50 engineering college in the nation, earning a coveted spot on the list of the Best Engineering Schools of 2017 by U.S. News and World Report. The Cullen…
UH Engineering Climbs U.S. News Rankings, Earns Spot on List of Nation's Best Schools
The Center for Innovative Grouting Materials & Technology (CIGMAT) will hold its annual conference this Friday, March 4 at the UH Hilton. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Infrastructures, Energy, Geotechnical,…
Center for Innovative Grouting Materials & Technology Hosts Annual Conference at UH Hilton
Using data collected from twin NASA satellites, a UH engineering professor is helping officials from the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) to manage the country’s groundwater resources from approximately 300…
UH Engineer Helps Pakistan Officials Manage Water Resources with NASA’s Satellite Data
As the United States struggles to pay for expanding and maintaining the nation’s transportation infrastructure, a University of Houston research team is proposing changes to the design for bridge construction that could…
UH Engineer Focuses on Improving Quality of Bridges
Two doctoral students in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received the college’s Best Dissertation Awards for fall 2015. Mechanical engineering student Nikhil Walani and civil and environmental engineering student Maruti…
Doctoral Students Honored with Cullen College’s Best Dissertation Awards
A whopping 13 percent of Texas teens who took the 2015 SAT test indicated that they intended to study engineering in college. Engineering was listed as the second-most popular career choice for Texas teens — 22 percent of…
More Texas Teens Want to be Engineers When They Grow Up
This summer, five students from the University of Houston’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter traveled to the rural Nicaraguan village of Telpochapa to construct a schoolhouse from the ground up. The trip took place…
Engineers Without Borders Team Builds Schoolhouse in Nicaraguan Village
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s 11th annual Undergraduate Research Day took place on Thursday, October 22nd in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library and the Honors College. At the event, over 175 undergraduate…
PHOTOS: 2015 Undergraduate Research Day
The Cullen College’s annual Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Luncheon took place on Tuesday, October 6th at The Hess Club. Attendees enjoyed a complimentary lunch, followed by a keynote presentation by Dale A. Rudrick,…
PHOTOS: 2015 Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Luncheon
When asked to imagine a “typical” engineer, many people may find themselves conjuring images of sleep-deprived, math-obsessed or highly-analytical individuals. In reality, there is no one-size-fits-all stereotype for engineering…
Secret Lives of Engineers: Civil Engineering Alumnus Alfred Castillo Jr., P.E.
This summer, three Cullen College of Engineering students and one alumnus boarded a plane bound for Brazil for the third annual Society of Women Engineers (SWE) “One Day in Engineering” outreach event. Held in the city of…
Engineering Students Lead STEM Outreach Event in Brazil
The Academy of Distinguished Civil and Environmental Engineers (Academy) held its annual Gala and Induction Ceremony on September 10th at the Hess Club. The Academy is dedicated to recognizing outstanding alumni who bring honor…
PHOTOS: 2015 Civil & Environmental Engineering Gala & Induction Ceremony
A combination of nine university professors and industry professionals is joining the Cullen College of Engineering faculty at the University of Houston this semester. The majority are biomedical engineers with expertise ranging…
Cullen College Welcomes Nine Engineering Professors
With the rattle and hum of a giant drilling bit churning through clay, a new frontier in oil and gas exploration began at the University of Houston this spring. A 40-foot well, designed to test “smart” cement developed by…
'Smart' Cement Could Talk to Engineers About Well Conditions
The UH Cullen College of Engineering will hold its annual hurricane conference Friday, Aug. 7, focused on helping coastal communities prepare for, and recover from, a major storm. The Texas Gulf Coast has been spared a major hit…
UH Engineer Hosts Conference on Hurricane Preparation and Recovery
The 2015 Research & Innovation magazine exemplifies the University of Houston’s revolutionary scientific discoveries, scholarship and ingenuity. In this issue you will read about UH researchers’ cutting-edge approaches to…
UH Research & Innovation Magazine Now Available
UH Cullen College of Engineering professors are known for offering undergraduate students unique opportunities to get involved in high-level research projects. One such opportunity is available through the National Science…
UH Engineering Professors Offer Unique Research Experiences to Undergrads
The National Public Radio’s Houston Matters recently interviewed the University of Houston’s Dr. Ramesh Shrestha, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering and the director of…
Houston Matters Interviews UH Engineer Using Lasers to Discover Ancient Civilization
Beginning this Fall, San Jacinto College students will be eligible for a seamless transfer into the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. San Jacinto College has signed an articulation agreement with the University…
Engineering Students Now Have Seamless Transfer Option With UH
Engineering and computer science professions attract fewer women than other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in the United States. For more than a decade, professors at the UH Cullen College of…
G.R.A.D.E. Camp Redefines STEM Field Roles