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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=120 height=150 src="cid:image003.jpg@01CDAC7E.519812F0" align=right hspace=9 alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/DeansMemo/images/tedesco.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Dear Cullen College Faculty, Staff and Members of our Leadership Board,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>A busy fall semester is well underway, and I'd like to thank you</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> for all your hard work and dedication to realizing Cullen College goals for success. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Earlier this month, we honored fourteen members of the National Academy of Engineering, who are distinguished representatives of the Cullen College family. The Wall of Fame in Engineering Building 1 is dedicated to our NAE members for their significant impact on engineering research, education and the profession. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The honorees are Neal R. Amundson, Ph.D. (posthumous); Benton Baugh, Ph.D.; Charles Cutler, Ph.D.; Abraham Dukler, Ph.D. (posthumous); Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D.; Fazle Hussain, Ph.D.; John Lee, Ph.D.; John Lienhard, Ph.D.; Dan Luss, Ph.D.; Michael Pao, Ph.D.; Allen Rhodes, Ph.D. (posthumous); James Symons, Ph.D.; Anestis S. Veletsos, Ph.D.; and Kaspar Willam, Ph.D. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I'd like to recognize Navin Varadarajan, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, who has recently been awarded a R01 grant by the NIH worth approximately $2.1 million to study the engineering of human immune cells to fight against cancer. Varadarajan’s collaborators on this project include Laurence Cooper, a physician and researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Badrinath Roysam, electrical and computer engineering department chair at the Cullen College, and Peng Qiu, an assistant professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at MD Anderson.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Additional recent grants have been awarded to Stanko Brankovic, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, who received an $80,000 grant from the Semiconductor Research Corp. to develop a new way of connecting transistors in integrated circuits; and to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, which won a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program, to provide up to 12 one-year scholarships for students pursuing a Ph.D. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Faculty Advisory Committee:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> As previously announced in July, a new faculty advisory committee has been established to provide input and guidance to our college on critical issues related to academic programs, research initiatives and budget, and to assist in the development of our next strategic plan. The committee held its initial meeting in September and will now assist in laying the groundwork for the our next strategic plan. Feedback to the members is welcomed and appreciated: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Ravi Birla, Elebeoba May (BME)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dan Luss, John Lee, Vemuri Balakotaiah (ChBE)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kaspar Willam, Hanadi Rifai (CEE)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jose Contreras-Vidal, Ji Chen (ECE)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>May Feng, Ali Kamrani (IE) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Venkat Selvamanickam, Gangbing Song (ME)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Approves Two Master of Science Programs:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> The College has been notified that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved our requests for two new Master of Science programs: Subsea Engineering with an implementation date of October 1, 2012 and Geosensing Systems Engineering and Sciences with an implementation date of January 1, 2013. Congratulations to these new programs.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Cullen College Web Site:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> Within the next few months, the Office of Engineering Communications will release a redesigned Cullen College web site. The new look and usability of the site will strengthen the UH and Cullen College brand, and provide an accessible and robust online experience for the Cullen College community and external audiences. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Megatrend Future Day Nov. 9:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> Please join us for the November 9 <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/research/megatrend_future/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>UH Megatrend Future Day</span></a>. This event is the largest to be held in North America, and includes a morning panel discussion on energy and natural resources with experts from academia, government, industry, and global consulting. Following a lunch with UH keynote speaker Dr. Joseph Pratt, expert in the history of the petroleum industry, the UH Policy Debate Team will debate the role of federal and state government in bridging the gap between the growing demand for energy and energy production. I would like to have good representation from Engineering as we will definitely be looking to our audience for input to the discussion. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>ELB:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> The Engineering Leadership Board will convene on Friday, October 26 to review the college's strategic initiatives and provide suggestions on how we can achieve our objectives and goals.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>EAA Tailgate:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> As you all know, this is the last season for Cougar football at Robertson Stadium before construction begins on a new stadium. On behalf of the Engineering Alumni Association, I'd like to invite all of you to join us at the EAA tailgate pavilion in celebration of the final season of UH football in Conference USA! On Saturday, Oct. 27, the tailgate starts at 1:30 p.m., game time is at 3:30 p.m.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Warm regards,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=180 height=32 id="Picture_x0020_14" src="cid:image004.png@01CDAC7E.519812F0" alt="http://egr.uh.edu/newsletter/DeansMemo/images/Tedesco_Signature.png"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Joe Tedesco </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=1 width="98%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></span></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><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></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"><span style='color:blue'>EGR HOME</span></a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>EGR NEWSROOM</span></a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/alumni/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>EGR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION</span></a> | <a href="http://www.egr.uh.edu/communications/?e=pub" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>PARAMETERS</span></a> | <a href="http://egr.uh.edu/communications/?e=pub" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>THE COUGAR ENGINEER</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>