Last October 19, our Innovation Committee leads Chicho Mantaring and Val Reyes organized a discussion workshop with the College Academic Personnel group. Dean Ferdie Manegdeg led the 19-person UPCOE discussants, comprising Associate Deans, Institute Directors and Department Chairmen. President Ferdz de la Cruz also took part. With Val Reyes deftly Read more…
UPCOE Dean Ferdie Manegdeg endorsed the roster prepared by the College Academic Personnel Committee for the proposed recipients of Professorial Chair Awards and Teaching/Research Awards and Grants for 2020. The first three lists comprise 132 chairs and 33 TRAGs. The roster includes seven chairs administered by the UP Foundation, out Read more…
UPERDFI Adviser and former Chairman Lito Frondoso, Director of SEAOIL Philippines, donated to the High Performance Computing Lab Project, the Victor Lim Professorial Chair Fund, and the Tau Alpha Infinity Walk Project. The last one is a legacy project of Tau Alpha Fraternity that is meant to enhance the inner Read more…
The UP Engineering R & D Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the UP College of Engineering and the UP Alumni Engineers, held the second installment of the High Impact R&D through High Performance Computing Webinar Series on October 10. After a rousing welcome by the host, UPERDFI VP Dante Briones, Read more…
Innovation Committee Chairman Chicho Mantaring, Pres Ferdz de la Cruz and ED Tito Aliga discussed going-forward ideas with newly-returning PhDs from the Dept of Chemical Engineering. In the September 25 meeting, Dr. Bryan Alamani, Dr. Jhud Aberilla, Dr. Karl Pilario and Dr. Ramuel Tamargo talked about how they intend to Read more…
The Energy Systems Modelling Project Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), UPERDFI and the project team, met on October 2 to finalize the report. ESM Project Leader Dr. Michael Pedrasa presented the draft report which will be finalized to incorporate the agreements made during the meeting. The schedule of presentations to concerned Read more…
The pandemic has forced UP to shift to remote learning, and for this, students need to be equipped with the appropriate devices with efficient connectivity. UPERDFI threw its full support to the UPCOE Laptop Donation Drive, in parallel with efforts by the UP Alumni Engineers and other alumni organizations. The Read more…
Led by Singapore-based Grace Ke of the James Dyson Foundation, in discussions with AD Juvy Balbarona and UPERDFI member Prof Rhod Gonzalez, JDF released the funds for five Thesis Support Grants and five idea development papers for AY 2020-21. The availability of the grants have been advertised by UPCOE. The Read more…
Following the detailed discussions with DCS professor Dr. Pros Naval, proponent of FISH-I, the InnovComm had meetings with EEEI professor Dr. Nestor Tiglao of Adapsense (Smart Surface) and College of Science Dean Dr. Giovanni Tapang of VISSER. These three were among the five potential Unicorns presented during the October 2018 Read more…
After seeking feedback from COVID-19 Donors who entrusted the UPERDFI Board of Trustees to decide, the BOT meeting on August 19 approved the repurposing of P1.2 Million unappropriated funds for the procurement of laptops. These are meant for Engineering students who need help, and faculty whose personal devices are under-capacity Read more…