Overview

Houston International Institute, Dalian Maritime University (License No.: MOE21USA02DNR20202063N) is a Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school of Dalian Maritime University and University of Houston. The institute is a vital platform for both universities on the integration of higher education, cultivation of international talents, cooperation of scientific researches and cultural exchanges. And Houston International Institute introduces top teaching resources from Cullen College of Engineering at UH, combined with DMU’s academic advantages on marine-related programs. It takes opening of education and discipline innovation as the driving force, serves the national maritime powerhouse strategy as the guidance, takes the connotation development and brand building as the objective and sets the promotion of maritime engineering talents as the own duty. Meanwhile, the institute sticks to the concept that the innovation leads the way forward and the characteristic creates the institute and then establishes a highland for cultivating talents in short supply and exporting Chinese education.

Houston International Institute offers three undergraduate programs in Mechanical Engineering (080202H), Civil Engineering (081001H) and Electrical Engineering (080701H) and conducts a four-year full-time undergraduate education.

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Cooperation Milestones (History of the Institute)

• In 2016, Dalian Maritime University and University of Houston embarked on educational and scientific researches cooperation.

• In June 2017, both universities cooperatively established International Collaboration Research Center of Subsea Engineering Technology and Equipment and it was nationally awarded as International Technological Collaboration Base.

• In November 2017, Dalian Maritime University set up College of International Collaboration to push ahead with establishing Chinese-foreign cooperatively run institute with University of Houston.

• In January 2018, both sides formally signed the articulation agreement. Dalian Maritime University and University of Houston carried out joint education for students of all science and engineering programs, covering all levels of undergraduate, master, and doctoral programs.

• In March 2019, Dalian Maritime University set up a foreign office based in University of Houston and dispatched employees there.

• On September 16, 2019, Renu Khator, President of University of Houston, visited Dalian Maritime University and signed the Cooperation Agreement to establish the “UH Institute, Dalian Maritime University”.

• In April 2020, Houston International Institute, Dalian Maritime University was officially approved to establish.