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December 4, 2023 Mechanical Engineering Technology professor Weihang Zhu has now started the second phase of a collaborative offshore safety-focused effort with the American Bureau of Shipping, funded by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) and… |
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November 29, 2023 More than 50 digital media seniors gathered at the University of Houston at Sugar Land earlier this month to participate in DigiFest, a portfolio presentation event held each semester to bring together students, alumni and area… |
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November 27, 2023 Farmyard and backyard chickens the world over have long been the happy recipients of family table scraps as a part of their regular diets, allowing households to not only reduce their food waste but to decrease the demand for new… |
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November 17, 2023 Abdul Latif Khan, an assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division's Department of Engineering Technology, has received a research grant from the USDA to purchase instruments that will allow for… |
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November 10, 2023 A University of Houston team of architects, engineers and designers will put their creative minds to the test as part of a new competition to design innovative, unique and fully operational homes to lead the housing… |
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November 3, 2023 Technology Project Management graduate student Ashutosh Kadukar recently earned the Project Management Institute's (PMI) prestigious Global Accreditation Center (GAC) scholarship award.
The $3,000 scholarship is intended to… |
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October 27, 2023 The Project Management Institute (PMI), founded in 1969, is a leading global authority in project management. They curate resources, trainings and certifications for the project management profession in addition to promoting… |
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October 25, 2023 Scientists may be on the verge of taking a big step closer to the net-zero carbon emissions goal, thanks to University of Houston research into algae. Hidden potential is being revealed in the major algae studies at the microbial… |
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October 20, 2023 Three student teams from the University of Houston recently took first, second, and third place at the inaugural Breakbulk Student Poster Competition at Breakbulk Americas in Houston, Texas – a successful sweep for the Technology… |
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October 17, 2023 The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce 15 faculty promotions, effective starting the Fall 2023 semester.
Promotions are listed by level, then alphabetically last name. All promotions are granted followed a… |
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October 5, 2023 The University of Houston celebrated the groundbreaking of a new $65 million academic building in ceremonies at the UH at Sugar Land instructional site. Before faculty, staff, students and community leaders, UH officials turned… |
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September 29, 2023 The world is full of good ideas, but only some of them become viable and real.
“You don’t see the full impact of a good idea until someone figures out a way to convert it to a usable product or service that has value, brings it… |
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September 18, 2023 New friends, free food, free stuff – what's not to love?
The Cat's Back, the University of Houston's traditional welcome back event for new and returning students, took place late August as campus came back to life with the start… |
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September 12, 2023 Technological innovation is a multi-faceted, globally driven landscape, with the sharing and exchanging of perspectives vital to growth, success and honing the cutting edge. This semester, the Technology Division is proud to be… |
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September 11, 2023 The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to announce the hiring and promotion of 31 faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year.
All employees were hired after a competitive search process and multiple rounds of interviews… |
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September 7, 2023 The work of a Cullen professor in imparting business philosophies to both students and practitioners has been recognized via an award from an international conference in June.
Jamison V. Kovach, the PMI Houston Endowed Professor… |
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August 22, 2023 Growing Field Opens Promising Opportunities in Human Sciences
A new federally funded program at the University of Houston is meeting the growing need for well-trained professionals in the retailing and consumer science industry… |
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August 3, 2023 Returning at age 51 to finish a college degree at 54 – amid a global pandemic, no less – is a tall undertaking. Ann Clark, recognized at the May graduation ceremonies as the oldest graduate receiving a bachelor's degree in the… |
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July 31, 2023 This summer, the University of Houston's student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) was awarded Gold Status by SME national leadership – a considerable accomplishment.
This award recognizes outstanding… |
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July 27, 2023 With our lives more dependent than ever on digital networks, and the arrival of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Industry 5.0, the field of cybersecurity is booming.
As cyberspace… |
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News Stories Published Before March 1, 2023
Prior to March 1, 2023, the College of Technology was a stand alone college within the University of Houston system. This college has merged with the Cullen College of Engineering and is now the Technology Division at the Cullen College of Engineering.
February 24, 2023 Earlier this month, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher took the time to return home to Texas' Seventh Congressional District and the greater Houston area for several days of… |
November 3, 2022 The first thing you should know about futurists is that we don’t practice futurism. “Futurism,” as Wikipedia can tell you, refers to a 20th-century, Fascist-Party-adjacent… |
October 18, 2022 Prominent entrepreneur and University of Houston Distinguished Alumnus Brij Agrawal and his wife, Sunita, have pledged $1 million to fund manufacturing laboratory equipment at the… |
September 22, 2022 A new student organization encourages members to be innovative as they fold in leadership and academic learning into practice. The Technology and Innovation Leaders of Tomorrow (… |
September 22, 2022 Sugar Land, TX – Student interns from the University of Houston College of Technology’s Leadership and Innovation Management Program are impressing City of Sugar Land leaders,… |
August 22, 2022 Over a six-week period during the summer of 2022, twelve high school teachers participated in a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site program hosted by the College of… |
July 12, 2022 The DesignYou Code Camps for students are one-week academic camps for students entering grades six through eight in fall 2022.
Sponsored by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)… |
June 29, 2022 The University of Houston (UH) College of Technology biotechnology department hosted 29 high school students for Pathway to University Programs on June 13-15 to introduce students… |
June 2, 2022 In collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy, the computer information systems (CIS) program at the College of Technology is the first university program to host an… |
May 22, 2022 First-generation college students frequently have a more challenging experience acclimating to college than students whose parents have college degrees, but a University of… |