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Taraka Ravi Shankar Mullapudi, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and structural engineering, placed third at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) USA Graduate and Student Paper Competition recently. Mullapudi was among three chosen…
Graduate Student Takes Home Honor at ICE Competition
For months, a team of University of Houston civil engineering students has been concocting the perfect recipe. A dash of fly ash, some silica fume, foam, shredded tires, PVA fibers, water, ceramic beads, glass bubbles and most…
Concrete Canoe Team Captures First, Qualifies for Nationals
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) and the groundbreaking researcher leading it, in January, moved operations to the University of Houston. Ramesh Shrestha, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished…
College Adds National Center Focused on Airborne Laser Swath Mapping
Four University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering alumni were among those honored recently by area professional organizations as their 2010 Young Engineers of the Year. The awards, which recognized both outstanding…
Alumni Honored During National Engineers Week
Surendra P. Shah, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, this spring joined faculty at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering as a visiting professor. During…
College Adds National Academy Member
Abdeldjelil “DJ” Belarbi will return to his roots in December when he takes over as chair of the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Belarbi—currently a…
Alumnus to Fill Chair Post in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
A John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Thomas T.C. Hsu is an internationally known researcher in the field of structural engineering. Though he has…
Accomplishments of CE Professor Honored With International Symposium
Jerry Rogers, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Houston, was among a select few to be present at a wreath laying ceremony this month for a famed London train and bridge engineer. The ceremony,…
Professor Travels to UK to Celebrate Civil Engineering Achievements
Wide array of profitable, rare programs offered at UH In recent weeks Kaytie Curttright (2009 BSChE) has been settling into work as an engineer with Samsung Austin Semiconductors. The position, which has her responsible for…
Lucrative Lessons: Engineering Pegged as Degree With Highest Starting Salary
Hanadi Rifai hopes to leave behind some of the discomforts area residents experienced last year after Hurricane Ike should another big storm pass through Houston. A civil and environmental engineering professor at the University…
UH Researchers Part of $1.25 Million SSPEED Center Study on Ike
Those who know Keh-Han Wang best describe this professor of civil and environmental engineering as a modest man with an immeasurable love for teaching. For nearly two decades, Wang has devoted countless hours to daily preparation…
Civil Professor Receives UH Teaching Excellence Award
Jerry R. Rogers, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was presented with one of the American Society of Civil Engineers highest national honors at the ASCE 2008 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. in…
Professor Inducted as a Distinguished Member of ASCE
D. Wayne Klotz (1976 MSCE) has been named president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the oldest national engineering society in the United States. Klotz was installed as ASCE president Nov. 8 at the organization’s…
Alumnus Tapped to Lead National Engineering Society
An associate professor in the UH Cullen College of Engineering and the university’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineering were both honored earlier this month at the ASCE Texas Section Fall 2008 Meeting.…
Professor, Student Organization Honored at Annual ASCE Event
From his driver’s seat, University of Houston Professor Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan has a clear view of exactly how the city is adjusting, now two weeks after Hurricane Ike’s landfall. Through his car window, there’s nothing but a…
Hurricane Center Using Ike to Research Recovery Protocols, Protection Tools
Jerry R. Rogers, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is being presented with one of the American Society of Civil Engineers highest national honors. This fall, Rogers will be formally inducted as a…
Professor Named Distinguished Member of National Engineering Society
A University of Houston engineering professor is one of two individuals behind the development of curriculum for a knowledge transfer program designed to assist Libyan engineers in modernizing their country’s infrastructure.…
Engineering Professor Helps Launch Libya Knowledge Transfer Program
A team of University of Houston engineering students paddled their way to a second consecutive first place win April 28 at the Texas/Mexico Regional Concrete Canoe Competition. The students beat out 11 teams competing at…
UH Students Win Regional Concrete Canoe Competition for Second Year
Environmental researchers have long been studying the impact of the various physical attributes of moving water sources to better determine their effect on their ecological surroundings. Many of these naturally-occuring phenomena…
Newly Discovered River Bedforms May Impact Stream Restoration
Shankar Chellam, professor of environmental engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and environmental engineering graduate student, Appala Raju Badireddy, have demonstrated a new technique that reduces the biological…
Engineering Researchers Develop Advanced Technique for Water Purification