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The Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education (CYBER-CARE), founded in 2023 and led by the University of Houston, recently sponsored two workshops focusing on cyber-security in Washington, D.C.…
CYBER-CARE sponsors security workshops
Information Science Technology (IST) Department Chair Amaury Lendasse, Ph.D., is a Technology Division professor and researcher whose published works have just surpassed 10,000 lifetime citations. We sat down with him to mark the…
IST Chair Lendasse exceeds 10,000 citations
In the Fall, the Technology Division was proud to host three Fulbright scholars from the kingdom of Morocco. This coming academic year, Technology Division assistant professor of digital media Elizabeth Rodwell, Ph.D., will begin…
Rodwell traveling to Japan as Fulbright scholar
Jian Shi, an assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering with a dual appointment to the Engineering Technology and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments, won't soon forget his son's 10th birthday. It's…
ECE, Engineering Technology's Shi earns CAREER award
Online databases and digitally-accessible scientific journals afford not only the instant availability of nearly any of the world's collected knowledge at any given moment, but an associated collection of lifetime statistics on…
Biotechnology's Khan one of world's highly-cited
The Technology Division's Medhat El Nahas, instructional professor of Engineering Technology, has a keen eye for potential. Whether he's reaching out to industry colleagues to keep tabs on professional openings for his students…
El Nahas recognized for dedication to next generation
The Technology Division's Technology Project Management program was recently re-accredited by the Global Accreditation Committee of the Project Management Institute (PMI), reinforcing and affirming the University of Houston's…
Technology Project Management program earns 'Distinguished' grade
Melissa Rurangirwa, a Fall 2023 Technology Division graduate, answers some of our questions while reflecting on the journey that brought her to the University of Houston, as well as her plans post-graduation. You dual majored in…
Rurangirwa finds her path at UH, thanks to classes, Active Minds
Researchers at the University of Houston are training future agricultural scientists in new methods of protecting the world’s foodcrops – which too often are left vulnerable to extreme weather events in these days of climate…
Cullen Professor Trains Future Agri-Scientists to Outsmart Climate Change Threats
When Ashley Duncan thinks about her graduation from the Cullen College of Engineering, the Technology Leadership & Innovation Management graduate and first generation college student can't help but feel a mixture of different…
Duncan cites family, friends, professor for success as 1st gen graduate
Tomorrow, Zahra Rashidbayli will take over the Cullen College of Engineering Technology Division's Instagram account as she prepares to participate in the Fall 2023 Commencement. In advance of commencement, she participated in a…
Fall Commencement 2023 Instagram Takeover — Zahra Rashidbayli
The story of Computer Information Systems (CIS) graduate and commencement banner bearer Aryan Dham's family is the story of the quintessential American dream. His parents gave up their established life in India, selling the…
Banner Bearer Dham living American dream
With funding from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), the biotechnology program at the University of Houston will host African American, Hispanic, Native American and other minority…
UH Biotechnology program serving as host for NIIMBL
When Gabriel Sueiro receives his diploma on Dec. 16, it will end one educational journey that started more than two decades ago at Houston Community College, and included him becoming a father of two along the way. Read along as…
Faith in God, daughters, sister instrumental in Sueiro's success
Shaheer Bhangar is part of this December's commencement class of the Technology Division at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering. In advance of graduation, he shares the reasons that went into picking UH for…
Family, location keys to Shaheer's success at UH
The 2023 Technology Leadership & Innovation Management (TLIM) Conference was a resounding success, attracting more than 20 speakers and a full house of industry leaders and students to the University of Houston’s Sugar Land…
TLIM Conference 2023 bridges leadership, innovation gap between academia, industry
The 65th anniversary of the University of Houston's Construction Management program was celebrated at the Hilton University of Houston Hotel in October with a gathering featuring the various stakeholders that had made the program…
Construction Management celebrates 65 years at UH
Vanessa Davis will graduate this December with her degree in Supply Chain Logistics after excelling for several years at the University of Houston's Technology Division in the Cullen College of Engineering. In her own words, she…
New grad Davis cites strong family support for her educational success
Mechanical Engineering Technology professor Weihang Zhu has now started the second phase of a collaborative offshore safety-focused effort with the American Bureau of Shipping, funded by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) and…
ME Technology's Zhu starting 2nd phase of safety culture research
More than 50 digital media seniors gathered at the University of Houston at Sugar Land earlier this month to participate in DigiFest, a portfolio presentation event held each semester to bring together students, alumni and area…
DigiFest students design a future path

News Stories Published Before March 1, 2023

Prior to March 1, 2023, the College of Technology was a stand alone college within the University of Houston system. This college has merged with the Cullen College of Engineering and is now the Technology Division at the Cullen College of Engineering.
Earlier this month, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher took the time to return home to Texas' Seventh Congressional District and the greater Houston area for several days of…
The first thing you should know about futurists is that we don’t practice futurism. “Futurism,” as Wikipedia can tell you, refers to a 20th-century, Fascist-Party-adjacent…
Prominent entrepreneur and University of Houston Distinguished Alumnus Brij Agrawal and his wife, Sunita, have pledged $1 million to fund manufacturing laboratory equipment at the…
A new student organization encourages members to be innovative as they fold in leadership and academic learning into practice. The Technology and Innovation Leaders of…
Sugar Land, TX – Student interns from the University of Houston College of Technology’s Leadership and Innovation Management Program are impressing City of Sugar Land…
Over a six-week period during the summer of 2022, twelve high school teachers participated in a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site program hosted by the College of…
The DesignYou Code Camps for students are one-week academic camps for students entering grades six through eight in fall 2022. Sponsored by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)…
The University of Houston (UH) College of Technology biotechnology department hosted 29 high school students for Pathway to University Programs on June 13-15 to…
In collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy, the computer information systems (CIS) program at the College of Technology is the first university program to…
First-generation college students frequently have a more challenging experience acclimating to college than students whose parents have college degrees, but a University of…