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 increases in the number of students pursuing and graduating from these programs. 

This summer marks the beginning of a new chapter for Priyanka Cholleti, a graduate student in the University of Houston aerospace engineering program. She will soon receive a master of science in aerospace engineering, but before that happens, she must complete her internship at NASA Johnson Space Center.

This month, Dean Joseph Tedesco announced the 2013 winners of the UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty awards, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research and service.

New engineering graduates are at the top of the latest salary survey produced by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

The survey, released late last month, shows engineers leading the “broad categories” of recent graduates, with an average starting salary of $62,535, an increase of 4% vs. a year ago.

The University of Houston Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a seminar last week, led by Ravi Prakash, a systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) – Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Systems group at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.

The University of Houston Student Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers recently worked to better connect a group of high school students with some of technologies that surround them by sharing the engineering and science concepts behind each one.

NSF grant will fund more than 30 students over the next five years

The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships for students in the college’s accelerated B.S. to graduate degree program.