UH Cullen College of Engineering

ECC Opens 32 Station PC Lab Oct. 1
The Engineering Computation Center (ECC) is pleased to announce the opening of a new 32 station PC laboratory within the ECC complex effective Oct. 1. The computers in this laboratory can operate both in the Windows XP and LINUX environment as the user sees fit. The costs associated with this laboratory were funded in part with Undergraduate Equipment Access Fees and College of Engineering Technology Fees.

Inauguration of President Jay Gogue: Oct. 1
The UH System will be host a special inauguration of President Jay Gogue on Friday, Oct. 1 at 12 noon in Cullen Performance Hall. The assembly is to inaugurate Jay Gogue as the twelfth president of UH and the seventh chancellor of the UH System. The assembly is open to the entire university community and all engineering alumni are encouraged to attend. More information.

New Faculty and College-Wide Hires
The UH Cullen College of Engineering welcomes new faculty and college-wide hires.

Sax Appeal Key to UH Engineering Professor's Classroom Performance
An engineering professor by day and jazz saxophonist by night, Len Trombetta sounds as if he leads a double life. Trombetta, a UH electrical engineering professor, will simply admit to enjoying the best of two entirely different worlds.

Engineers Week 2005: Feb. 20-26, 2005
The UH Engineering Alumni Association plans to host an event to celebrate Engineers Week 2005. The general theme is "Engineers Make a World of Difference." UH engineering alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends are encouraged to participate. We need volunteers so please give your time, talent and/or treasures to help make this event a success. Consider serving on the planning committee, being a sponsor, and/or contributing your expertise. Contact Cynthia Oliver Coleman to indicate how you can help us show that "engineers make a world of difference."

Letter to All Engineering Alumni: Submitted by Benton Baugh
Hello: I am a 1967 Mechanical Engineering graduate of UH and have a personal request of all other engineering graduates. As a way of introduction other than that I have 12 ways in my office you can tell I am a Cougar: I have worked with the college since 1989 on the Crawfish Boil, EAA and Cullen Engineering Research Foundation. I am a Fellow in ASME and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. I have represented the college's interests on the board of the Offshore Technology Conference, the Executive Committee of the ASME Petroleum Division and the board of the Offshore Energy Center. I am probably more active that the average engineer, and I would like to set an activity goal for all of us.

Now, I do a lot of sales calls, and I have said for a long time that I could tell when I was visiting the office of a fellow Cougar. I could tell because you couldn't tell it. What I mean is that if you go into an Aggie's office, a Teasip's office, or any number of other brands of graduates, you would see an indication of it. You might see a degree, a coffee cup, a distinctive ring, a flag, a cap, or any other of a number of things. In the average Cougar's office you see nothing.

It is my understanding that there are more Cougar grads in the City of Houston than any other brand (including Aggies). For some reason, we are virtually invisible. I have come to expect that when you go into a store, you will see more A&M and Texas logo merchandise that Houston merchandise. What is really irritating to me now is that we see more Texas Tech merchandise than Houston merchandise.

I was in Dillard's last night and there was about an even amount of A&M and Texas merchandise and about half that much Texas Tech merchandise. There was not a single item of Houston merchandise. This is not to say anything bad about Dillards, they stock merchandise that someone is going to buy. If Cougars are going to buy nothing to identify with the school, Dillards should stock nothing.

It is time that someone starts to stand up for Houston and be counted. I am asking that it be the engineers. I want to personally ask each of you to go buy something once a quarter. A cup, a T-Shirt, a cap, a pen, a logo pencil, a bumper sticker, a Cougar license plate, a sweatshirt, a knit shirt - anything.

- Visit the Engineering Alumni Association online.