UPERDFI President Val Reyes convened the meeting with the Council of Advisers on August 11, 2021 via Zoom. In attendance were (5) Advisers Dr. Mags Albarracin, Sec. Sonny Viray, Sec. Nina Alabastro, former ERDFI chairs Emil Tumbocon and Pete Maniego and former ERDFI Trustee Sec. Jun Uriarte who came as Read more…
UPERDFI hosted a meeting with UPCOE and the National Engineering Center (NEC) on August 5 to discuss the next steps in promoting the Energy System Model to industry and government sectors. The group discussed three avenues to be pursued for ESM promotion – a regular training course offered at the Read more…
Arranged by Adviser Chato Calderon, UPERDFI discussed opportunities with parties based in San Francisco USA in a zoom meeting on August 3. UPERDFI, Dynamico, the Philippine Consulate and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) explored potential collaboration to commercialize Philippine innovation projects. Dynamico is a co-working space and incubation Read more…
Dr. Luis Pascual, who is retired and based in Los Angeles CA, gave a summary of his lifelong pursuit for ST&SD as a framework for identifying problems and finding optimum solutions using a holistic approach. He has published a book, “What Goes Around Comes Around”. Dr. Pascual, ME ‘60, started Read more…
UPERDFI Members were keynote speakers in various UPCOE online recognition ceremonies held in the third week of July, 2021. Salvador Antonio “Aboy” Castro, Jr., ChE ‘92, President of CleanTech Global Renewables, Inc. was the keynote speaker at the UP College of Engineering Recognition Rites on July 24. He encouraged the Read more…
UPERDFI congratulates the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (DIEOR) which celebrated its 50th founding anniversary on July 31 via Zoom with the theme, “Pursuit of the Optimum”. Founding Chairman Dr. Luis Pascual, recounted the brief history of the department. UP Industrial Engineering Alumni Association (UPIEAA) President Ricky Peña Read more…
The UPERDFI Digitalization Task Force headed by Dante Briones met on July 28 to track the progress of the QuickBooks Online migration. Accountant Nelly Manalo has loaded all transactions for 2021 on QBO and has generated the monthly reports. UPERDFI will request for an external mid-year audit to ensure the Read more…
The UPERDFI Management Committee met on July 21 to set the priorities for each committee for the term. Innovation (Chicho Mantaring) One UPCoE project on the way to commercialization Collaboration with at least one donor in support of UPSCALE initiatives Series of forums with UPCOE that encourages innovation in emerging Read more…
Helping UPCOE Students COPE, SUCCEED and EXCEL! Seeing the convergence of our goals, the Alvarez Foundation has set up a Scholarship Program effective AY 2021-22. They will provide benefits to two students for a 2-year support. UPERDFI will provide fund administration, with the Associate Dean for Student Affairs doing the Read more…
Following the online reunion of the ME alumni hosted by Dean Ferdinand Manegdeg on June 6, the Class of 1980 decided to pool their resources to set up The ME Class of 1980 Professorial Chair in Mechanical Engineering, to be offered starting AY 2021-22. The convenor is Jomie Francisco. The Read more…