John Lienhard, M. D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Technology and Culture with the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is no stranger to mass media.

For more than two decades John Lienhard has told the stories of how human creativity forms our culture through the KUHF Radio program, “The Engines of Our Ingenuity.”

A professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Lienhard is the writer and host of the weekday radio show heard nationally on public radio.

Four University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering alumni will be recognized next month at the 2009 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards Dinner.

Established in 1987, the awards dinner recognizes alumni, faculty and friends of the college and the Engineering Alumni Association. At this year’s event, four alumni will be honored not only for their contributions within the community, but also to the engineering profession.

“Inventing Modern” Book Signing Sept. 6 at Barnes & Noble Town & Country Village

John Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston, has just published his latest book by Oxford University Press that celebrates the inventive energy that made early 20th-century America modern.

University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard will be awarded one of four 2002 Freedoms Foundation Awards at a luncheon, Nov. 9, at the Junior League of Houston.

Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and Culture, Emeritus in the Cullen College of Engineering, will be joined by UH political science professor Richard Murray, who will also be honored. Murray is the director of the Center for Public Policy at UH.

UH mechanical engineering professor John Lienhard's nation-wide radio show 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' recently explored the value of an engineering degree. "People who see the world with an engineer's eye are typically able to move in many directions."