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Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
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American Academy of Water Resources Engineers Recognizes UH Civil Engineering Retiree
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Solving Texas Water Problems: One Project at a Time
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UH Engineering Rises in U.S. News Rankings
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New issue of Blueprint Magazine now available!
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Civil Engineering Online Master's Program
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
 Research Soaring to New Heights on the Tails of NASA Satellites
Andrea Albright, a graduate student in the Cullen College of Engineering’s geosensing systems engineering and sciences program, won a 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. She is among 69 U.S. fellows chosen from more than 3,600 applicants. |
UH Student Earns Top National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship |
 Debora Rodrigues, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, recently accepted the invitation to serve as an associate editor of npj Clean Water, a new open access online journal dedicated to publishing papers about cutting-edge research aimed at ensuring the clean water supplies around the globe. It is published by Nature Research. |
UH Engineering Professor Appointed Associate Editor of Clean Water Journal |
 UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers
Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing that – especially along shorelines, where underwater mines and other hazards can pose serious risks – all have drawbacks. It is especially difficult if keeping the technology out of enemy hands is a priority. |
Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain |
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Faculty Accolades
 Researchers Use Technology to Revolutionize Archaeology
In an article titled “This UH Research Center is Revolutionizing Archaeology,” Houstonia magazine shines the spotlight on University of Houston’s National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) and its director, Ramesh Shrestha. The two are responsible for unearthing archaeological treasures hidden for centuries. |
Houstonia Magazine Highlights Unique UH Research Center |
 It’s no secret that the water supply is constantly inundated with all sorts of waste and chemicals. Some are filtered out, others are not. Think about old, expired medicine you casually toss away. Pharmaceuticals don’t degrade. |
UH Engineers Shedding Light on Water Pollutants |
Student Success
Research Soaring to New Heights on the Tails of NASA Satellites
Andrea Albright, a graduate student in the Cullen College of Engineering’s geosensing systems engineering and sciences program, won a 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. She is among 69 U.S. fellows chosen from more than 3,600 applicants. |
UH Student Earns Top National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship |
 Inspired by nature, Ph.D. candidate proposes computational framework to solve life problems
Real life problems are often complex and hard to resolve. So Mohammad Sarraf Joshaghani, a third year Ph.D. student at the Cullen College of Engineering, looks to nature, numerical techniques and computers to find possible solutions. |
UH Engineering Student Wins First Place at 2018 EMI Conference |
