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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Cullen College Faculty/Staff,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>In an effort to bring more prominence to our materials engineering program—one of the major research thrust areas for the college—we are taking a new direction in leadership and marketing for this important interdisciplinary graduate program. Dr. Dmitri Litvinov, one of our leading materials engineering researchers, has been appointed the new director of the program. I would like to thank Dr. Ken White in mechanical engineering for his dedicated service to this program over the last few years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dr. Litvinov is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a joint appointment in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is the</span><span style='color:black'> director of our Nano Engineering Minor program and our Nanofabrication Facility. We are very excited for Dr. Litvinov’s</span> vision for this program and his enthusiasm for taking on this very important role. The Materials Engineering Program website has been moved to <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/materials">http://www.egr.uh.edu/materials</a> and work on a new site will commence in the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe Tedesco<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph. D., P.E.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean and Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cullen College of Engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:jtedesco@uh.edu">jtedesco@uh.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(713) 743-4207<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=210 height=103 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CC7913.949BA6B0"></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>