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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Dear
Cullen College Faculty and Staff,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Congratulations
on wrapping another semester at the Cullen College! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>On
Saturday, some 147 undergraduates, 97 masters and 18 doctoral students
graduated from our college, joining close to 16,000 other Cougar
engineering alumni. One of those, Mr. John Berry Rogers, a 1950 graduate
from mechanical engineering, walked during the ceremony. He never had the
opportunity to participate in graduation due to military service, but he
was finally able to do so 60 years after graduating. We are very proud of
Mr. Rogers and all of our graduates for their many accomplishments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Below
are a few additional announcements that I would like to share with you
about recent activities and upcoming events.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'>ABET Mock Visit</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>: The Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology visited the college May 2-3 as part of a mock
exercise for our upcoming accreditation process. The evaluators gave us
useful feedback and insights that we will use in preparing for our ABET
site visit in September 2011. We will use this feedback to ensure that we
have no negative findings during our accreditation exit interview next
year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'>Executive Retreat</span></strong><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>: At the upcoming
executive retreat, we will be working on strategic initiatives involving
engineering facilities, enrollment, faculty workload and revenue generating
programs. All of these initiatives are critical to our Tier One goals.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'>Alumni Awards Gala</span></strong><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>: The Cullen College of
Engineering Alumni Awards Gala will be held June 4, 2010 at the Four
Seasons Hotel downtown. Several college alumni will be honored for their
contributions to the engineering profession. Dr. Leang Shieh, in electrical
and computer engineering, will be receiving the Abraham E. Dukler
Distinguished Faculty Award. If you are interested in attending the gala,
please visit <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/newsletter/deansmemo/www.egr.uh.eu/alumni/awards/">www.egr.uh.edu/alumni/awards/</a>
to RSVP.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'>Industry Day</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>: The UH Center for Emerging
Technologies in Geosensing and Remote Sensing is hosting an Industry Day
June 14. If you are interested in sensing research and would like to attend
this event, please contact <span class=style21><a
href="mailto:lcrobertson@uh.edu">Lisa Robertson</a>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'>Entrepreneur Boot Camp: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Julie
Goonewardene and Jeff Warren from Purdue University will be at UH to lead
Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a program designed to train faculty, staff and
graduate students in entrepreneurship and commercialization. The event will
be held on Sept. 21. For more information, please contact <a
href="mailto:lcrobertson@uh.edu">Lisa Robertson</a>.</span></span><span
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<span class=style21>Thank you, once again, for your continued support and
dedication.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Warm
regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-line-height-alt:0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Joe Tedesco </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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