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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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UH and Taiwan Collaborate to Design Earthquake-Proof Buildings
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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
 The 2017 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Bayou City Event Center on Thursday, June 8, 2017. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association (EAA), celebrates the professional achievements and contributions of college alumni and faculty. |
Photos and Videos: 2017 EAA Gala |
 The Gulf Coast has been spared a major hurricane in the past few years, but as most Houstonians know all-too-well, the wrath of Mother Nature is never far away. |
UH Engineer to Host Conference on Hurricane and Disaster Preparation and Recovery |
 When it comes to success in engineering studies, the data is clear: the better students do in their first-year core classes, the higher the chances that they will complete their engineering degrees. |
Photos: First-Year Students Shine at First Year Experience Summit |
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Faculty Accolades
 Singapore’s Changi Airport, voted the world’s best airport for the fourth consecutive year, already offers travelers a wide array of top-notch amenities, including a rooftop pool, 24-hour cinema, butterfly garden and multiple spas. But in 2018, the airport will unveil its newest attraction – the world’s tallest indoor waterfall called the Rain Vortex. |
Cullen College Professor Discusses World’s Largest Indoor Waterfall with WIRED Magazine |
 Excellence in engineering took center stage as Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the Cullen College, recognized the outstanding performances of faculty, staff and students in teaching, research and service at the spring faculty and staff meeting. |
The Best of Our Brightest: Outstanding Service Awards Given in Cullen College |
Student Success
 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 |
 Three days a week Konrad Krakowiak, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, stands before 13 students that make up his Cullen College engineering materials course to talk about concrete. Eighteen-hundred miles away, at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Professor Franz-Josef Ulm does the same thing, teaching the same course to his six students. |
Teaming Up Through Technology: UH and MIT Engineering Students Share Knowledge of Materials |
