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Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018 commencement on Friday, May 11. Alderman - who currently serves as senior vice president…
BASF Executive Heidi Alderman to be UH Cullen College 2018 Commencement Speaker
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of smoke, robots performed amazing feats, and propeller-powered cars raced down…
UH Engineers, Chevron Introduce Houston-area Girls to STEM Fun
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America. The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place the Cullen College on the list of the Best…
UH Engineering Rises in U.S. News Rankings
Students at the UH Cullen College of Engineering aren't just expected to do well in their labs and classes -- engineering students are expected to work in their respective fields of study while pursuing their degrees in order to…
Top Companies Recruit UH Engineers at Fall Career Fair
The UH Cullen College of Engineering held its fall convocation ceremony on Thursday, December 14, recognizing nearly 450 graduating students at the Bayou City Events Center. The ceremony featured a keynote address from UH alumna…
PHOTOS: Cullen College Celebrates Nearly 450 Graduating Students at Fall 2017 Convocation Ceremony
Work at UH Has Implications for Subsea Design and Operations A team of researchers from the University of Houston is working with the oil industry to develop new ways to predict when an offshore drilling rig is at risk for a…
Researchers Study Deepwater Gas Formation to Prevent Accidents
Life as a college student is fraught with challenges: keeping up with classes, making new friends, learning new fields of study and working jobs and internships. But imagine also having to learn a new language and adjust to a…
Coping with Culture Shock: Director of Graduate Admissions Pens Article on International Student Experience
How do you describe materials that aren’t quite liquids, gases or solids? More importantly, how do you model these materials? That’s a big question for scientists and engineers who toil in the world of complex fluids, which…
PHOTOS: Ronald Larson Engineering Rockwell Lecture
Each year the University of Houston’s Graduate School and Office of the Provost invite all graduate students to showcase their groundbreaking research at the annual Graduate Research & Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day.…
Engineering Students Sweep Graduate Research & Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day
Since earning his master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the UH Cullen College in 1986 Stuart Filler has witnessed his alma mater undergo many positive transformations, eventually outgrowing its reputation as a “city…
Alumnus Donates First Library to Petroleum Engineering Department
Students, faculty, alumni and friends of the UH Cullen College of Engineering gathered for breakfast tacos, drinks and games to celebrate the 2017 Engineering Homecoming and gear up for the UH Football game against East Carolina…
PHOTOS: 2017 Engineering Homecoming Celebration
Faculty and Students Will Work to Develop Product Solutions ExxonMobil Chemical Company and the University of Houston have signed a multi-year research agreement that will focus on helping the industry develop energy-efficient…
UH, ExxonMobil Chemical Company Sign Research Agreement
Institute Will Draw Partnerships to Focus on Energy, Health Care, Cybersecurity, Smart Cities The University of Houston has launched a new Institute for Data Science, naming Andrea Prosperetti, Distinguished Professor of…
UH Launches Institute for Data Science
Proving that high-level research isn’t just for graduate students, roughly 250 UH undergrads presented their research findings at the 2017 Undergraduate Research Day. The event attracted nearly 800 guests to the Rockwell Pavilion…
Engineers Make a Showing at 2017 Undergraduate Research Day
Petroleum engineering legend and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member S. M. Farouq Ali joins the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering this fall as a distinguished professor of petroleum engineering. His…
National Academy of Engineering Member S. M. Farouq Ali Joins UH Engineering Faculty
For most people the word “energy” conjures images of oil and gas operations, but the science of electric power and energy systems is gaining momentum as advances in hybrid-electric cars and alternative energy systems have renewed…
PHOTOS: Ned Mohan Engineering Rockwell Lecture
Researchers from the University of Houston have begun a $1.4 million project to demonstrate using carbon dioxide captured from nearby petrochemical plants to boost oil recovery in a field in the Indian state of Assam, a project…
UH Researchers Begin Carbon Capture Project with Oil India
Throughout the Cullen College of Engineering new faces and brilliant minds are joining the faculty in the 2017-2018 school year. The Cullen College proudly welcomes them to its ranks of excellence in academia. Chemical &…
Brilliance Descending on UH as New Engineering Faculty Join the Cullen College
The University of Houston MD Anderson Library is providing a guide to help navigate through the resources available in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and its devastating aftermath. The guide includes the most trustworthy and…
Hurricane Harvey Resource Guide
Cullen College doctoral student Clara Palencia’s knowledge about shale earned her second place in the Ph.D. category in the International Student Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) Competition. Palencia…
Engineering Student Establishing a Model for Shale Oil Reservoirs Brings Home Prize