Diamond Finance Corporation CEO Michael Gonzalez established the Felix M. Gonzalez UPERDFI Golden Jubilee Professorial Chair in Materials Engineering (with special focus on construction materials) in honor of his father, a civil engineer. Michael serves as Resource Generation Committee Chairman. Read more…
PetroEnergy Resources Corporation President/CEO Mila Villavicencio Reyes signed up to support a professorial chair in energy research for a six-year period starting 2021. This will be open to faculty who are doing research in this wide-ranging subject, which has become Read more…
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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 Read more…