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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Dear Cullen College Faculty and Staff,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Welcome back to a new academic year at the Cullen College!
There are many new additions to our faculty and staff across the college.
Please join me in welcoming these new individuals—and the many
freshmen students—to the University of Houston.<br>
<br>
We've had quite a busy summer, so here are a few recent developments and
upcoming events that I'd like to share with you:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>BME PhD</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>: The Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board has approved our request to establish a
doctoral program in biomedical engineering. This is an extremely important
milestone in our strategic plan and for UH Health, one of the major
university research initiatives. Many thanks to Suresh Khator and Metin
Akay for their efforts in getting this program launched.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Honors Program</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>: The Honors Engineering
Program is officially underway this semester. This new program provides
high-achieving students a more comprehensive curriculum in addition to a
variety of experiential learning activities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>New Master's Options</span></strong><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>: Two newly proposed
Master's degree options have been approved by the UH Board of Regents:
Petroleum Well Design Engineering and Petroleum Completion and
Intervention. Both degree options will be presented before the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board for approval this fall.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Wind ERC</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>: The college is the lead
institution in an effort to establish a National Science Foundation
Engineering Research Center for offshore wind energy at the University of
Houston. There will be a site visit on Sept. 8-9 as part of this very
competitive opportunity.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Entrepreneur Boot Camp: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";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. A <a
href="http://survey.egr.uh.edu/index.php?sid=29225&lang=en">pre-boot
camp survey </a>was sent out to all faculty yesterday. Please take a moment
to fill out this quick survey to assist us with the development of the program.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Energy Research Park: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Petroleum
engineering laboratory renovations at the UH Energy Research Park are on
schedule. Those labs are scheduled to open this spring.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Enrollment: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Overall
enrollment for the fall semester is up 7% from fall 2009.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Chair Searches: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>We
are still conducting national searches to name chairs for our departments
of mechanical, and electrical and computer engineering. Hamid Parsaei,
chair of industrial engineering, is on leave. Fritz Claydon is currently
serving as interim chair of IE.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Engineering Communications: </span></strong><span
class=style21><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Join me in congratulating our Office of Communications for
winning several regional awards from the Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education, the Public Relations Society of America and the
Houston Press for magazines, brochures and photography. Photography also
captured several national awards from the University Photographers'
Association of America.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Office Shuffle: </span></strong><span class=style21><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>In
order to establish a more effective undergraduate student operation, all of
our undergraduate program offices have been moved into one area on the
third floor in building 2. The individuals/groups who have moved are listed
below:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Undergraduate Programs/PROMES/Recruiting — E316
Engineering Bldg. 2</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>
<span class=style21>Dave Shattuck, associate dean for undergraduate
programs</span><br>
<span class=style21>Kathy Zerda, PROMES director</span><br>
<span class=style21>Allison Swenson, director of recruiting</span><br>
<span class=style21>Shirley Mate, academic advisor 2</span><br>
<span class=style21>Lesley Sisk, academic advisor 3</span><br>
<span class=style21>Kenneth Garcia, academic advisor 1</span><br>
<span class=style21>Diana De la Rosa-Pohl, lecturer</span><br>
<span class=style21>Chad Willson, director of technical communication
instruction</span><br>
<span class=style21>Barbara Torres, secretary 2</span><br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Communications
— E301 Engineering Bldg. 2 </span></strong><br>
<span class=style21>Lindsay Lewis, director of communications</span><br>
<span class=style21>Andy Rich, senior graphic designer (new)</span><br>
<span class=style21>Tom Shea, photographer</span><br>
<span class=style21>Toby Weber, writer/editor (starting Sept. 7)</span><br>
<span class=style21>Kelly Williams, graphic designer</span><br>
<span class=style21>Harriet Yim, web developer</span><br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dean's Office
— E421 Engineering Bldg. 2</span></strong><b><br>
</b><span class=style21>Suresh Khator, associate dean for graduate studies</span><br>
<span class=style21>Lisa Robertson, executive director of external
relations and strategic partnerships</span><br>
<span class=style21>Russell Dunlavy, senior director of development</span><br>
<span class=style21>Jamie Fricks, secretary 2</span><br>
<br>
<span class=style21>Once again, thank you for your continued support and
dedication.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Joe Tedesco </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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