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EPCO Inc. recruiter John Jewitt visits with a student at the 2008 Engineering and Technical Career Fair held on Feb. 6. EPCO Inc. was a platinum sponsor for the event, along with Baker Hughes, CGGVeritas, Fluor Daniel, Jacobs Engineering and Kiewit Corporation. Photo by Todd Spoth. Engineering Career Fair Connects Industry and Students

Booths and business suits were wall to wall at University of Houston Engineering and Technical Career Fair held Feb. 6. Over 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, along with… Read More
The UH Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board awarded $7,300 in cash awards and programmatic support at the 2008 EWeek Reception & Program. Seven engineering students received the $500 "Petroleum Engineering Minds" award. The remaining $3,800 will support the UH petroleum engineering program. From left is Dr. Mike Harold, professor and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering; engineering students Brian Boone, Van Dang, Savera Mansukhani, Diana Montano, Angela Bedoya, Nicholas Brunson and Joseph Harris; 2008 EWeek Event Awards Nearly $29K to Students, Organizations

Last week, the University of Houston Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) hosted its 2008 Engineers Week Reception & Program to celebrate how engineers "make a world of… Read More
Haluk Ogmen Professor Publishes Third Book Surrounding Visual Perception

Haluk Ogmen, chair and professor of electrical & computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has published this third book in three years on the phenomena… Read More
river Newly Discovered River Bedforms May Impact Stream Restoration

Environmental researchers have long been studying the impact of the various physical attributes of moving water sources to better determine their effect on their ecological… Read More
An electron micrograph image shows a colony of bacteria including extracellular polymeric substances which contributes to biofilm formation on a water filtration membrane. Engineering Researchers Develop Advanced Technique for Water Purification

Shankar Chellam, professor of environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and environmental engineering graduate student, Appala Raju Badireddy, have… Read More
UH President Renu Khator tours Professor Dmitri Litvinov's electromagnetics lab to learn about nanomaterials research currently being conducted at the Cullen College of Engineering. Photo by Todd Spoth. UH President Renu Khator Visits Cullen College of Engineering

University of Houston President Renu Khator visited the Cullen College of Engineering last week to discuss major college initiatives and strategic planning with Dean Joseph… Read More
Kishore Mohanty Professor Recognized for Lifetime Work on Enhanced Oil Recovery

Kishore Mohanty, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, will receive one of four 2008 IOR (Improved Oil Recovery) Pioneer… Read More
Haren S. Gandhi Ford's Gandhi, UH's Economides to Speak at 2008 Amundson Lecture

The University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will be hosting the annual Neal R. Amundson Lectures on Friday, February 1 from 1:30-5 p.m. in L2-D2… Read More
Students Receive Energy Engineering Scholarships

Five UH Cullen College of Engineering students were recently each awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the National Association of Energy Engineers Foundation to be used for courses… Read More
Rex Walheim College Alum Aboard Upcoming Atlantis Mission

UH Cullen College of Engineering alum Rex Walheim (1989 MSIE) will be aboard the Atlantis (STS-122) mission when it blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 7.… Read More