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Cullen College Team Knows How to Restore Power Quickly…And Win Awards
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Industrial Engineering Student's Disney Dreams Come True at Disneyland Intership
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Industrial Engineering Students Awarded for Thinking Like Captains of Industry
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Hitting the target
New issue of Optimum magazine now available. Click here to explore.
Real Time Flood Monitoring System
Professor Lim develops a real time flood monitoring system with Houston TranStar funded by City of Houston.
Annual Student Poster Competition
IE Department hosts an annual student poster competition on Public Safety Management.
Annual Award Banquet
IE Department hosts an annual award banquet. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends are invited to the event.
Industrial Engineering
pursue a career in industry, business, healthcare and government
Industrial Engineering Research Areas
Optimization and Operations Research, Distribution and Logistics, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering, etc.

Department Updates

Professor John Birge delivered a seminar talk at UHIE Dr. John Birge is Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management at University of Chicago.
Where Industrial Engineers are from and what Industrial Engineering is? This video highlights the diversity of Industrial Engineers by showing where IEs are from and introduces what Industrial Engineering is from the...
IE Newsletter Fall 2016 The fall 2016 issue of IE Optimum, an annual department newsletter, has been published.

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Latest College News

Taking The Reins of Power (Over Power) Wins Best Paper Award for Cullen College Team Whether you’ve suffered through a major Houston hurricane, flood event or momentary glitch in the power grid, no doubt you understand the severity of...	Whether you’ve suffered through a major Houston hurricane, flood event or momentary glitch in the power grid, no doubt you understand the severity of a power blackout. And lest you think Houston has cornered the market on such catastrophes, think back to 2003 when the biggest blackout in U.S. history left 50 million people in darkness in the northeast corner of America stretching into Canada.
Photos and Videos: 2017 EAA Gala The 2017 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Bayou City Event Center on Thursday, June 8, 2017. The annual event,...	The 2017 UH Cullen College of Engineering Alumni Awards Gala was held at the Bayou City Event Center on Thursday, June 8, 2017. The annual event, hosted by the Engineering Alumni Association (EAA), celebrates the professional achievements and contributions of college alumni and faculty.
UH Engineer to Host Conference on Hurricane and Disaster Preparation and Recovery The Gulf Coast has been spared a major hurricane in the past few years, but as most Houstonians know all-too-well, the wrath of Mother Nature is...	The Gulf Coast has been spared a major hurricane in the past few years, but as most Houstonians know all-too-well, the wrath of Mother Nature is never far away.
Eyes in the Sky: Gino Lim is Watching Your Drones In Gino Lim’s estimation, drones will soon take over the sky, delivering medical kits and medicines to rural patients, relaying sensitive military...	In Gino Lim’s estimation, drones will soon take over the sky, delivering medical kits and medicines to rural patients, relaying sensitive military information to troops and, yes, one day picking him up at his Pearland home and delivering him to his office at UH. In fact, the future as he sees it, is something he could drone on about for hours.