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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
 Early exposure to the engineering fields can mean all the difference to high school students who are deciding what majors to pursue in college. That’s what inspired Miguel Ramirez, a math teacher at Galena Park High School, to bring 23 of his students on a field trip to the Structural Research Laboratory at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. |
Cullen College Field Trip Yields Crash Course in Civil Engineering for Galena Park High Students |
 More than 500 guests honored the memory and legacy of dedicated UH alumnus and long-time supporter William A. Brookshire at a memorial service held in his honor this summer. The Brookshire Memorial Service was held at the UH Student Center on May 19, nearly one month after Brookshire’s passing in April. |
College Holds Memorial for Dedicated Alumnus and Supporter William A. Brookshire |
 In a continued effort to promote international collaboration in engineering research and academics, the UH Cullen College of Engineering has entered into an articulation agreement with Delhi Technological University in New Delhi, India. |
UH Engineering Signs Articulation Agreement With Delhi Technological University |
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Faculty Accolades
 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 |
 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 |
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 |
