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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=120 height=150 src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC97DE.ABB93F80" align=right hspace=9 alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/deansmemo/images/tedesco.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Dear Cullen College Faculty and Staff,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Good things are happening at the Cullen College! We recently charted the college's progress over the last five years and we are experiencing positive growth in every major area that matters—enrollment, number of faculty, research expenditures and financial support. We are very excited to share this news with you, as it overwhelmingly demonstrates your dedication to making the Cullen College a top 50 engineering program nationwide.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=250 style='width:187.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img width=250 height=154 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CC97DE.ABB93F80" alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/deansmemo/images/EnrollmentGrowth.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Enrollment </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Our enrollment has grown more than 40 percent in the last five years. With over 3,200 students, the college is now home to more than 600 incoming freshman students, a 60 percent growth from our 2007 enrollment numbers. Although difficult to attribute to any one reason, we believe this growth is due to UH's Tier One push, our undergraduate student recruitment activities and new programs such as our petroleum engineering undergraduate program, which continues to draw incredible interest from prospective students. In addition, with the launch of our new Pre-Engineering Program, we hope to retain large numbers of these students in our programs. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Faculty</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>With the redevelopment of the college's strategic plan in 2008, one of the major areas needing growth was overall number of tenured and tenure-track faculty. To be a nationally-competitive program, we should have more than 120 engineering faculty at UH. This semester alone, we added nine new faculty to our college, bringing our total to 105. This marks a 20 percent growth since 2007.</span> <span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Furthermore, during this same period, the college added four members of the National Academy of Engineering, all of whom have changed their official NAE affiliation to UH. This is extremely significant, as it factors in UH's Top American Research Universities (TARU) ranking from the Center for Measuring University Performance, one of the three organizations nationally accepted as determining a university's Tier One status.</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=250 style='width:187.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img width=250 height=158 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CC97DE.ABB93F80" alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/deansmemo/images/ResearchGrowth.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Research Expenditures</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Our research expenditures have doubled over the past five years. Last year, college-wide expenditures hit an all-time high of $22.6 million. As importantly, our research portfolio continues to diversify across all four of our major research thrust areas, indicating that we are strengthening across the board.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Financial Support</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Five years ago, the college was raising between $2-$3 million in support annually. This past year, I am happy to report the college received more than $12 million in support and gifts-in-kind for student scholarships, chairs and professorships, and our academic and research programs. We continually receive interest from corporations and major gift prospects, which definitely reflects the forward progress we are currently making.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Thank you for your dedication and support in helping the Cullen College lead Tier One!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Warm regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><img width=251 height=71 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image006.png@01CC97DE.ABB93F80" alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/deansmemo/images/Tedesco_Signature.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Joe Tedesco </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=30 valign=top style='width:22.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="98%" noshade style='color:gray' align=center></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in'><tr><td width=28 style='width:21.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=572 style='width:429.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=5 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu" target="_blank">EGR HOME</a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/" target="_blank">EGR NEWSROOM</a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/alumni/" target="_blank">EGR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION</a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/communications/?e=pub" target="_blank">PARAMETERS</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>