Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Naming Ceremony

The Cockrell School of Engineering’s Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department has been renamed the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering.
Maseeh, who immigrated to the United States from Iran as a teenager, earned a master’s degree in civil engineering at UT and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the managing principal at Surlamer Investments and The Massiah Foundation. He founded IntelliSense Corp., a microelectromechanical systems company that was acquired by Corning in 2000. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for his advancements in efficient design, development of microelectromechanical systems and public service.
Maseeh believes that engineering is in an era of “tiny things,” characterized by rapid development in semiconducting, artificial intelligence and microprocessing. The next era will require big-picture thinking to meet complex, decades-long problems - including the nexus of cities, water and energy.