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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
 Clean energy research in the UH Cullen College of Engineering was the subject of a front page story in last Sunday's Houston Chronicle, which explores why the city of Houston is failing to draw new tech ventures for a world shifting away from the use of fossil fuels. |
Is Houston Missing the Next Energy Wave? Houston Chronicle Features the UH Engineers Who Are On the Case |
 UH civil and environmental engineering Professor Craig Glennie assisted in a new U.S. Geological Survey-led study that finds deformation below the Earth’s surface caused by earthquakes is expressed much differently than displacement at the surface. |
Harvesting Earthquake Fault Slip From Laser Images of Napa's Vineyards |
 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 |
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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 |
 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
 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 |
