The Donation Will Allow Graduate Students to Work with NOV Engineers

Representatives of the University of Houston and Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in China signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further mutual goals of academic and research opportunities for students and faculty.

The mission of the UH Cullen College of Engineering is to serve the Greater Houston community by establishing innovative and industry-relevant engineering programs that help to drive the economy forward in the state of Texas. The Cullen College has succeeded at this mission in no small part due to the support of individual donors and corporate sponsors.

The University of Houston made the Houston Chronicle’s front page last Sunday with an article headlined “UH at ‘tipping point’ as dramatic improvements come with rising costs.’ Many of these “dramatic improvements” centered around the Cullen College of Engineering.

Classes may be over for the summer at UH, but that didn’t stop a group of burgeoning young scientists from getting their hands dirty around the Cullen College last week.

Though its master’s degree track is barely a year old, the Cullen College’s Subsea Engineering Program boasts one of the most popular graduate courses at the University of Houston.

The University of Houston’s Subsea Engineering program is the first of its kind in the U.S. The program—founded by mechanical engineering professor and director of UH Subsea, Matthew Franchek—is in its inaugural year operating with a 10-course Master of Science curriculum since receiving approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 2012.

Leaders with the world’s top subsea engineering programs gathered at the University of Houston last week for the first meeting of the Global Subsea University Alliance, a group dedicated to establishing worldwide standards for subsea engineering education.

Soldiers wounded in battle may one day owe their lives to research being conducted at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering.