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UH Cullen College of Engineering alum Rex Walheim (1989 MSIE) will be aboard the Atlantis (STS-122) mission when it blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 7. The launch has been delayed twice due to the…
College Alum Aboard Upcoming Atlantis Mission
NSF grant will fund more than 30 students over the next five years The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships for students in the…
College Offering Scholarships for Accelerated B.S. to Graduate Program
A contingent from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has returned from India with informal agreements to discuss research and educational partnerships with institutions throughout the country. The group,…
Cullen College Delegation Returns from India with Plans for Future Talks
Hamid Parsaei, professor and chair of industrial engineering with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, recently received the UPS Award for Minority Advancement from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE…
Engineering Professor Receives Minority Advancement Award
National Engineers Week, Feb. 19 to Feb. 25, kicked-off with events and ceremonies being held throughout the country. It is run by the Engineers Week Foundation, a coalition of engineering associations, businesses and government…
UH Engineering Alums Honored During EWeek
When Yamile Cendales Jackson (2000 PhD IE) gave birth to her son Zachary, he was 12 weeks premature and weighed only one pound, 15 ounces. Now Zachary is a thriving four year old, and Jackson used her experience to develop a hand…
UH Engineering Alumna Develops Hand Mimetic Device For Premature Babies, Mothers
“Beware the Black Hole! The Black Hole is the place where retail companies that are no longer relevant to customers go to die. As you may recall from high school physics, a black hole is a region in space where the gravitational…
UH Industrial Engineering Alumnus Co-Authors First Book on Retail Consulting
There aren’t enough hours in the day for this year’s recipient of the University of Houston’s George Magner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising. Christopher Chung, associate professor of industrial engineering…
UH Engineering Professor Chung Honored For Words of Wisdom
The Society of Logistics Engineers awarded Benjamin Ostrofsky, University of Houston Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering, his second Eccles Medal at the 2003 International Symposium of the Society of Logistics Engineers…
Ostrofsky Takes Second Eccles Medal For Logistics Education
While engineers with a background in elementary education are not ordinary or plentiful, the 2001 scholarship committee still named Rebecca Ginsburg as the first winner of the John Lienhard “Engines of Our Ingenuity” Scholarship…
Industrial Engineering Major Captures 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' Scholarship
Dean Raymond Flumerfelt announced the winners of this year's faculty teaching and research awards at the UH Cullen College of Engineering's annual Faculty and Staff Meeting on April 22. Karolos Grigoriadis claimed the W. T.…
Dean Announces 2003 Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research
An interdisciplinary team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering placed third in the 2003 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Competition.…
UH Team Places Third in ASME Design Competition
The University of Houston Department of Industrial Engineering is one of only five such departments in the country to be approved for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Program for Underrepresented Minorities.…
UH Approved for Sloan Foundation Scholarships
University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering students Dimple Pajwani and Monica Greak were recognized as outstanding engineering students by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers during their annual Outstanding…
Outstanding UH Engineering Students Recognized by TSPE
Thirteen interdisciplinary teams of University of Houston engineering students showed up in the Engineering Commons on a Friday morning this fall with no idea what they were going to be asked to do. At 8 a.m., each team was…
UH Engineering Students Test Creative Skills in 'Impromptu Design Competition'
Benjamin Ostrofsky, professor of industrial engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, recently accepted the President's Award for Merit from the Society of Logistics Engineers. The award recognizes…
UH Engineering Professor Ostrofsky Receives President's Award of Merit from Society of Logistics Engineers
How does a student get a job to get experience if the job requires experience? The UH Cullen College of Engineering has solved that problem with its Cooperative Education and Industrial Scholar Interns Program. These programs are…
Only Experienced Engineers May Apply
Four industrial engineering students earn scholarships from prestigious International Education Foundation.
Logistically speaking UH students rule awards competition

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