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August 26, 2022 An alumni of the Cullen College of Engineering has been selected by The Houston Business Journal as one of 45 honorees in the fifth-annual Most Admired CEO Awards.
Daniel Wong, CEO of Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc., is a 1988… |
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April 28, 2022 The Cullen College of Engineering extends its condolences to the family of Gerlene “Gerri” R. Snider, a longtime benefactor to the College and the University of Houston.
Along with her husband Larry, a UH alumnus, she established… |
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December 9, 2021 For D. Wayne Klotz (MSCE '76), it wasn't a tough decision when it came to the specific resource he wanted a new Cullen College of Engineering fellowship to support. The 2018 recipient of The Outstanding Practitioner in Water… |
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August 17, 2021 University of Houston Alumnus, Wife, Expand Legacy of Support to Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston alumnus Larry Snider achieved great success throughout his career as an engineer, leading companies and… |
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July 13, 2020 Gwen Salama, the wife of the late Dr. Kamel Salama – a professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and the director of the Materials Engineering program – said his charm and social nature were evident… |
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June 1, 2020 Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the UH Cullen College of Engineering, announced May 29 that Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan has been selected as the recipient of the newly-established Honorable Daniel Wong… |
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February 28, 2019 Cullen College Beneficiary of Hickman Estate in Colorado
Herbert David Hickman (BSEE ’59) from Colorado gifted his home to the UH Cullen College of Engineering to establish an endowed scholarship, with preference for electrical… |
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May 11, 2018 The UH Cullen College of Engineering's biannual Parameters magazine earned the American Marketing Association's (AMA) Crystal Award for best public relations/communications newsletter. Finalists in the category included UH's… |
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March 21, 2018 The UH Cullen College of Engineering is several steps closer to landing a spot among the Top 50 engineering colleges in America.
The 2019 U.S. News and World Report rankings place the Cullen College on the list of the Best… |
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February 5, 2018 Alumni and friends of the UH Cullen College of Engineering gathered at the Dish Society restaurant in Katy for the first Alumni Breakfast with Dean Joseph Tedesco on Friday, Feb. 2.
Guests enjoyed an intimate breakfast with… |
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January 24, 2018 As a child in Lebanon, Abe Najjar (BSEE ’89, MSEE ’91) never dreamed he would one day be working in Houston as an engineer for one of the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in the U.S. Najjar’s… |
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November 16, 2017 Since earning his master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the UH Cullen College in 1986 Stuart Filler has witnessed his alma mater undergo many positive transformations, eventually outgrowing its reputation as a “city… |
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May 25, 2017 In the early days of personal computing, Cullen College alumnus Rod Canion (bachelor’s in electrical engineering 1966, and master’s in electrical engineering 1968) left the security of his job at Texas Instruments and co-founded… |
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October 19, 2016 More than 150 UH civil engineering alumni, faculty and students gathered at the HESS Club on Westheimer to reconnect and honor the memory of Charles Beyer at the 14th annual Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Luncheon… |
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July 24, 2015 State leaders have paved the way for new construction at UH Sugar Land (UHSL), a campus of the University of Houston. UHSL received a $54 million allocation in HB100, which the governor recently signed, to construct a new 150,000… |
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July 9, 2015 Doug Verret is a high school physics and math teacher turned university physics professor turned tech industry engineer. In his over three decades of experience working in technology development at Texas Instruments, Verret has… |
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June 17, 2015 The Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) held its annual Alumni Awards Gala on June 11 at the Houston Petroleum Club. The event is held every year in honor of distinguished Cullen College alumni and faculty who are awarded for… |
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May 19, 2015 As the son of a migrant farm-working mother and an Air Force veteran father, Reynaldo Guerra said his path to pursue an engineering degree at the University of Houston came about by chance.
In his junior year of high school,… |
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February 11, 2015 M.S. Kalsi (MSME ’70, PhD ME ’75) has been a long-time supporter of the UH Cullen College of Engineering and its mechanical engineering department. Now, Kalsi is giving back to the Cullen College by establishing an endowed… |
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January 20, 2015 Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. (www.bgeinc.com), an engineering consulting firm based in Houston, established an endowed scholarship in the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s civil and environmental engineering department. The… |
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