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Egor Dontsov Face to Face with Shale and the Tip of Hydraulic Fracturing
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Graduate Student Sweeps Award with Ways to Clean the Water
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Bringing MIT to UH: Classrooms Combine for Knowledge Sharing
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Writing Papers Tips The Scales for Chong Dai
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New issue of Blueprint Magazine now available!
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The Dream Team: Awash in Brilliance and Improving Water Filtration
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Civil Engineering Online Master's Program
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Named Best Engineering School of 2017 by U.S. News & World Report
Welcome to the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston. We are located in Houston, Texas; a city with one of the highest concentrations of civil and environmental engineering companies in the country. Our educational programs offer unique opportunities for a successful career start. The Department has approximately 234 undergraduates and 182 graduate students pursuing BSCE, MS, MCE and PhD degrees in civil and environmental engineering.
Latest News
 In the days after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas Gulf Coast, thousands of evacuated families returned to their homes to survey the flood damage and begin the long road to repairs. But the dream to rebuild isn’t a realistic one for many families in riverfront neighborhoods east of Houston, where industrial waste from the notorious San Jacinto Waste pits, a Superfund site, may possibly have contaminated the land. |
What’s in the Water? Hurricane Harvey Renews Attention to UH Research on Galveston Bay Pollutants |
 Geotechnical engineers toil in the mechanics of soil and rocks to design and build structures, roadways, levees and other systems that are supported by soil or rock. Career opportunities abound for graduates in the geotechnical engineering field, but obtaining certain skillsets in this field can give geotechnical graduates an advantage in landing their dream job. |
Rigzone: Advice for Geotechnical Engineering Graduates from UH Civil Engineer |
 In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and its devastating aftermath, many across the state of Texas were left asking how such catastrophic flooding could have occurred and what we can do to try to prevent it from happening again in the future. |
UH Civil Engineer Provides Science Behind Hurricane Harvey Floods to National Media |
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Faculty Accolades
 Selected by NASA to help manage water for Indochina, Assistant Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Hyongki Lee is now teaching them how to do it without him. |
In Vietnam, UH Engineer Hyongki Lee Trains Stakeholders to use Satellite Data for Managing Water |
 In the world of hydraulic fracturing, where subterranean fractures are forced open to extract oil or gas, much is done before the drill meets the earth. Research to pinpoint the ideal extraction spot would be impossible if it had to be conducted 1-2 miles down in the Earth’s core. |
Egor Dontsov: Tips for the Fracking Industry |
Student Success
 In April, representatives of the University of Houston’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) traveled to Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, to write and sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will bring what is expected to be a continuous stream of DMU students to CEE’s M.S. and Ph.D. programs. |
Cullen College of Engineering Joins Forces With Maritime University |
 Environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate Aparna Balasubramani has found that carbon nanotubes may be the one of the best ways to stop poisonous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from entering waterways. |
Aparna Balasubramani: Cleaning the Environment and Sweeping Awards |
