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Watch the video: Fall 2013 Engineering Career Fair Besides having one of the best engineering programs in the nation, there's one huge thing that sets the UH Cullen College of Engineering apart from other engineering colleges…
Video: Engineering Career Fairs Set the Cullen College Apart
One of the ironies of automobile research: as diesel engines become more fuel efficient, reducing their emissions becomes more challenging. Better efficiency means that more of the energy in diesel fuel is being used to move the…
NSF, DOE Partner to Support UH Diesel Emissions Research
Headquartered just 20 miles southwest of downtown Houston, Texas, Yokogawa Corporation of America has sales offices across the United States. Commitment to their customers is the number one priority, and they back it up with a…
Yokogawa Corp. Donates $5k for Undergraduate Scholarship Support
Members of two UH organizations brought engineering to Brazilian high school students last month as part of their global outreach efforts. “One Day in Engineering” (“Um Dia na Engenharia”) was planned by Gabriela Bernardes,…
Engineering Students Travel to Brazil for Outreach
Dr. Phaneendra Kondapi is well-known at the UH Cullen College of Engineering as one of the pioneering instructors of subsea engineering. Now, he is being recognized outside of the college for his fantastic contributions as a…
Subsea Professor Wins SPE Teaching Excellence Award
Did you know that students who are active members of organizations tend to have more positive college experiences than those who aren’t? “Educational researchers tell us that students tend to do much better in college when they…
Why You Should Join a Student Organization
Manjesh Kumar, a Ph.D. candidate in the UH Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected by the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Travel Awards Committee to receive a travel award to attend the…
ChBE Grad Student Wins AIChE Travel Award
Professor Bonnie Dunbar, retired astronaut, National Academy of Engineering member and alumna of the Cullen College of Engineering, has written a guest blog post on The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas web…
Dunbar Pens Blog Post on Changing the STEM Education Conversation
For new engineering students, balancing the many aspects of college life can be a challenging experience. That’s why the University of Houston offers a number of resources to help students succeed, both in and out of the…
Top Ten Resources for Engineering Students
It is no secret that an engineering degree is worth quite a bit of money these days. According to data from the 2013 report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, seven of the top 10 highest-paid college degrees…
"Engineering futures are always bright:" The Houston Chronicle Reports on the Cullen College
Making molecules is no easy task. An increasingly attractive approach: have bacteria do the work for us. Such efforts are part of the growing discipline of synthetic biology, where biological processes are altered to achieve…
JACS Article Outlines Development of New Biosensor
Wind turbines, aircraft, and automobiles could become more tough and durable thanks to research being conducted at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. All of these use composites, materials that contain two…
Professors’ NSF Grant To Develop Advanced Adhesives for Composites
The Cullen College of Engineering is part of a new University of Houston center that focuses on best practices in the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to address the state’s need for…
New UH Center Provides Training and Support for STEM Educators
Tracy Ngu graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the UH Cullen College of Engineering in May 2012. She now works as a process engineer at Technip USA here in Houston. While at the Cullen College, Tracy was an active…
Meet Cullen College Alumna Tracy Ngu, Process Engineer at Technip USA
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Media Contact: ahopp [at] uh.edu (Angela Hopp) 713-743-8153 HOUSTON, July 18, 2013 – Engineers who intend to take the Fundamentals of Engineering state exam in the fall to obtain professional licensure…
Review Course for State Board Exam in Engineering Offered at UH This Fall
Last week, the UH Cullen College of Engineering welcomed a group of high school students who spent a week exploring engineering at the STEP Forward Camp. The weeklong program, led by the Program for Mastery in Engineering…
High School Seniors Explore Engineering at UH
The 2013 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association, recognizes the professional…
PHOTOS: Engineering Alumni Awards Gala 2013
We asked a few of our undergrads here at the UH Cullen College of Engineering to film their lives for two weeks so we can show the world an honest, first-hand account of what it is like to be an engineering student at the…
Video: Undergrad Life at the Cullen College of Engineering
Girls in grades eight through twelve enter the UH Cullen College of Engineering on Monday morning, new to the world of algorithms, motors and microscopes. By Friday, they’ve built and programmed a robot. Girls Reaching and…
Engineering, Camp-Style
Vita Como, director of the UH Cullen College of Engineering's career center, has devoted much of her career to passing on words of wisdom to soon-to-be college graduates on how they can land their dream jobs straight out of…
Director of Engineering Career Center Featured in Houston Chronicle: Job-Landing Advice for College Students

 


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