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In support of the University of Houston’s expanding petroleum engineering program, the Society of Petroleum Engineers Gulf Coast Section has committed $250,000 to establish a professorship. The first of its kind for the program,…
SPE Section Pledges First Professorship in Petroleum Engineering
The University of Houston has signed a memorandum of understanding with an Angolan university intended to boost technical training and reduce the southwestern African nation’s dependence on foreign technical expertise. UH will…
UH to Provide Technical Training in International Partnership
More challenging for the petroleum industry than finding new ways to extract hard-to-reach resources may be locating the people to do it. At the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, a bachelor’s degree option in…
College to Launch New Petroleum Engineering Undergraduate Degree
University of Houston engineering professor John Lienhard and petroleum engineering director Christine Ehlig-Economides have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most highly regarded professional…
UH Professors Lienhard, Ehlig-Economides Elected to National Academy of Engineering
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself." -- Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince," 1513 With war against Iraq now almost certain, and assuming that we are…
How Will We Manage the Oil?
No one ever said it was easy to work fulltime and pursue a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Houston -- especially if you live in Mexico. But it can be done. Thanks to a new distance-education…
Master's Students from Mexico Program Arrive for Early Graduation Ceremony
The UH Cullen College of Engineering is now offering master’s programs in Petroleum Engineering and Industrial Engineering in Mexico to Petrleos Mexicanos employees. This program is in partnership with the Universidad La Salle in…
UH Engineering's Global Outreach
The UH Composites Engineering and Applications Center for Petroleum Exploration and Production is recognized as the world’s leading research organization in the engineering of composite material for offshore oil, gas exploration…
World's Top Deepwater Research Center Explores New Frontiers
WHO: The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering will host a reunion for chemical and petroleum engineering alumni to honor C.V. Kirkpatrick and to recognize the Classes of 1947-76. Honoring C.V. Kirkpatrick UH…
Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Alumni Honor C. V. Kirkpatrick and Recognize Classes of 1947-76 at Reunion