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Lucrative Lessons: Engineering Pegged as Degree With Highest Starting Salary
Based on recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 12 of the top 15 degrees garnering high starting salaries for college graduates are in engineering. In fact, four of the five top spots are held by an engineering discipline and include petroleum, chemical, mining and computer engineering.

Founding Chair Named to Department of Biomedical Engineering
Metin Akay, professor and former interim chair at Arizona State University’s Harrington Department of Bioengineering, has been appointed to lead the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s new Department of Biomedical Engineering. He plans to develop new academic and research fields that include biomedical imaging, neural and cognitive engineering and genomics and proteomics science and engineering. Plans are also underway to enhance the program’s offerings with a Ph.D. option in addition to existing bachelor’s and master’s degree tracks.

College Unveils New Undergraduate Lab
The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has opened a laboratory devoted to enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on instruction in bioanalytics. The Biomedical Engineering Bioanalytics Undergraduate Laboratory, which officially opened in the fall, allows students to learn biophysical laws governing cell behavior to better understand how RNA, DNA and protein are regulated.

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