STUDENTS ALUMNI
‘ONE LONG JOURNEY’ UH Grad Turns Life Story into Page-turning Memoir
BY SARA STRONG
At first look, the life Lohit Datta-Barua now enjoys seems to have little resemblance to his early years. He is confident and comfortable, and retired since 2016 after a long engineering career in the oil-andgas industry. He now dedicates much of his time to community service, his writing and his family, which now includes four grandchildren. But life was not always so orderly for Datta-Barua (MSEE ’76, former Cullen College civil engineering instructor). His struggles to start a life in Houston in the 1970s would be beyond what was imaginable by most of his University of Houston classmates or professional engineering colleagues over decades that followed.
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