With the help of our member Annette Alcasabas, MetE alumna Agnes Marquez-Whiten, UPAE Global Awardee for Women’s Empowerment in 2014, made a significant donation to the High Performance Computing Facility Project. Agnes was cited as a champion of women’s rights and women in industry in Australia. Using FEMINIST as the one Read more…
Good progress has been made on the programs and projects that the Board approved to pursue in the February meeting. Approval in principle of the Innovation Model proposed by the Innovation Committee. This is being fine-tuned by our Innovation Committee led by Chicho Mantaring and Val Reyes. Approval of the 2021 Read more…
Team leader Trustee Val Reyes has enlisted DOST Secretary Boy de la Peña, former DOE Sec. and Dean Sonny Viray, former DPWH Sec Babes Singson, former SunLife Philippines CEO Riza Mantaring, Dean Ferdie Manegdeg, Adviser Chato Calderon, Trustee Glen Tabios, Trustee and Audit & Governance Committee Chairman Wash Roqueza, and Read more…
As part of the new 4-year Engineering curriculum that started with the freshmen enrollees in 2017-18, all candidates for graduation in 2022 are required to take part in a Midyear Internship, this July-August 2021. UPERDFI is assisting the College in seeking collaborating companies that will host interns for a 300-hour Read more…
To formalize our collaboration with UP Diliman in helping move UP research results to deliver their promised impacts to society, UPERDFI President Ferdz de la Cruz and UP Diliman Chancellor Dr. Fidel Nemenzo signed two MOUs in a virtual ceremony on March 2, 2021. One involves the UPD Technology Transfer Read more…
In a virtual ceremony on February 24, 2021, China’s Ambassador to the Philippines, Hon. Huang Xilian and DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña, signed the MOAs that covered eight projects in the country. Also in attendance was Philippine Ambassador to China, Hon. Oscar Sta. Romana. This was the culmination of Read more…
The Membership Committee, headed by VP Dante Briones and MemComm members Bing del Rosario, Ronnie Nolasco and Tito Aliga, invited 16 alumni for UPERDFI membership. The 14 below accepted, bringing our roster to 206. Let’s welcome them! Jose “Joe” B. Cruz, Jr.; EE ’53. PhD in EE, Professor Emeritus of Read more…
With the active push provided by the Philippine Council on NGO Certification (PCNC), UPERDFI received from the BIR a second extension of our Donee Status. Due to the inability to carry out field reviews, PCNC helped us obtain the first extension covering March to December 2020, and the new extension Read more…
(top-left to right) Dado Banatao (from US), Sec. Boy de la Peña, Tito Aliga, Ferdz de la Cruz, Chicho Mantaring, Vic Villagracia (US), Joe Cruz US), Babes Singson, Vladimir Co, Alex Ibasco, Val Reyes, Glen Tabios, Alex Sy, Babby Reyes (Japan), Ray Goco, Ricky Peña, Sonny Viray, Chato Calderon (US), Read more…
Bakas Pilipnas, a non-profit foundation, and AMH Philippines are beefing up the software suite of the ICE Computational Laboratories by donating a software called DIANA-FEA, a widely-used tool for preservation engineering. Bakas Pilipinas is led by a New York-based Filipina architect, Ms. Roz Z. Li. Her firm, Li/Salzmann Architects, specializes Read more…