Sugar Land - Missouri City Edition | April 2023

HIGHER EDUCATION University of Houston merging technology, engineering colleges

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The University of Houston’s College of Technology is moving to UH at Sugar Land and merging with the College of Engineering. MERGING TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING

New technology building

Existing buildings

Future constructions

BY JACK DOWLING

UH AT SUGAR LAND

FEB. 23 • UH approves merger creating Cullen College of Engineering.

and information and logistics technol- ogy—will now be housed within the College of Engineering. The majority of classes and administration will move to the Sugar Land campus, but the technology departments will still serve the primary UH campus, UH at Sugar Land and UH at Katy as needed. University ocials said the merger will not impact tuition, and relation- ships between the College of Engi- neering as well as federal, state and regional research ties will “multiply as synergies across programs grow.” “The merged Cullen College of Engineering will serve 11,000 stu- dents, making it the third-largest engineering/technology college in the state and one of the largest ones in the nation,” Khator said. Alongside the merger, UH is also constructing a new $66 million technology building at the Sugar Land campus, Director of Media Relations

The University of Houston’s College of Technology is merging with the College of Engineering to increase access to both undergraduate and graduate-level programs—and moving to Sugar Land in the process. UH President Renu Khator said in a Feb. 24 statement to members of the colleges of engineering and technol- ogy that the merger process started in March 2022 and was approved by the university this February in a bid to follow suit with top universities around the country. “Most of the top 50 research univer- sities oer their engineering and tech- nology programs under one umbrella,” Khator said in the statement. According to the statement, the four departments in the College of Technology—construction manage- ment, engineering technology, human development and consumer sciences,

G T O N B L V D

MARCH 1 • Merger goes into eect

• College of Technology begins move to Sugar Land, and merging departments with Cullen College of Engineering SUMMER 2023 • Construction starts on Sugar Land Academic Building No. 2 SEPT. 1 • Develop and adopt new college bylaws • Finalize Transition Subcommittee recommendations DEC. 1 • Develop and adopt new promotion and tenure guidelines SPRING 2025 • Construction nishes on Sugar Land Academic Building No. 2

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONCOMMUNITY IMPACT

Chris Stipes said. Of that gure, $52.4 million is sourced from the 2021 Capital Construction Assistance Project Funding approved by the Texas Legislature. An additional $12.6 million comes from the UH system, and $1 million is “auxiliary funding,” according to documents presented to the UH board of regents in December. The project, dubbed “Sugar Land Academic Building No. 2,” is projected to begin construction this summer and be completed in spring 2025.

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SUGAR LAND MISSOURI CITY EDITION • APRIL 2023