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UH Engineering Rises In U.S. News Rankings
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Cullen College Professor Combines Math and Engineering to Enhance Safety, Efficiency in Oil and Gas Industry
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Eyes in the Sky: Engineering the Future of Drones
New issue of Optimum magazine now available. Click here to explore.
From Intern to Employee — How a UH Industrial Engineer Made It Happen
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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

Town Hall Meeting for IE Undergraduate Students (Fall 2018) The meeting was held to help students with the new advising process developed by Drs Sitton and Wang.
IE Department Newsletter - Fall 2017 The fall 2017 issue of IE Optimum, an annual department newsletter, has been published.
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.

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Latest College News

UH Cullen College's 'Parameters' Magazine Wins Crystal Award from American Marketing Association The UH Cullen College of Engineering's biannual Parameters magazine earned the American Marketing Association's (AMA) Crystal Award for best public...	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 Bauer College of Business and Houston Methodist Hospital.
BASF Executive Heidi Alderman to be UH Cullen College 2018 Commencement Speaker Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018...	Distinguished chemical engineer and BASF executive Heidi Alderman will be the featured speaker at the UH Cullen College of Engineering 2018 commencement on Friday, May 11.
UH Engineers, Chevron Introduce Houston-area Girls to STEM Fun The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of...	The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston was a happening place this weekend — rockets launched into the sky with great puffs of smoke, robots performed amazing feats, and propeller-powered cars raced down corridors as happy shrieks filled the air. About a thousand Houston-area girls, from grades 4-8, flooded the Cullen College and its surroundings on Saturday, March 24 for the third annual “Girls Engineering the Future Day: A STEM Event,” sponsored by Chevron.
Boys, Fathers and Mentors Work Together for STEM Engagement Both the medium and the message are STEM – encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science...	Both the medium and the message are STEM – encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through hands-on engineering activities with their fathers and other mentors from the University of Houston.