The UPERDFI Board of Trustees headed by Chairman Alex Sy and President Chicho Mantaring met face-to-face for the first time in three years on February 15 at the NEC Executive Board Room. The Board welcomed UP Alumni Engineers President Joey Gomez as ex-officio Trustee replacing Anton Pascual. Corporate Secretary Bong Read more…
The UPERDFI Board of Trustees welcomed the new members to the Foundation during the quarterly meeting held on November 16 via zoom. After a rigorous 4-month long process undertaken by the Membership Committee headed by Val Reyes, the Board welcomed the following new members, which brings the roster to 220 strong:Joselito Read more…
The UP Alumni Engineers (UPAE) conducts an annual nomination and recognition of engineering professionals and leaders in government, industry and academe. For 2022, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Governor and UPERDFI Member Mamerto “Mert” Tangonan, CE ’84, will receive the Most Distinguished Alumnus Award for his work in ushering the digital Read more…
UPERDFI hosted a reception to welcome the UP College of Engineering Leadership Team headed by Dean Maria Antonia “Tonette” Tanchuling on September 29, 2022 at the Melchor Hall Faculty Lounge. Dean Tonette presented her Vision Paper, tagged ENGGAGE!, which is anchored on engaging the UP Engineering community towards sustainable national development. Read more…
UPERDFI would like to thank our outgoing Trustees for serving the Foundation and supporting the UP College of Engineering from June 2019 – May 2022, our continuing Trustees, and our Officers who served in 2021-22. We also thank all our Trustees and Officers for having served and led the Foundation throughout Read more…
High Performance Computing Project Implementation The UPERDFI Governance Committee led by Trustee Noly Torres convened the HPC implementation team on April 25. The team discussed the next steps for the smooth and timely delivery of the project. On May 3, the implementation team discussed with ePLDT representatives to iron out Read more…
Led by President Val Reyes, the Stratplan Ad hoc Team conducted three meetings on March 15 and 24 and on April 7 for the continuation of the five-year strategic planning for UPERDFI. The team refined the Vision, Mission, and Strategic Objectives of UPERDFI based on the output from the two-day Read more…
The Management Committee met on April 6 to discuss the open items and decide on key items. The Annual Report for 2021 is also due for completion by the third week of April, and for printing and distribution in May. Pres. Val shared the progress of the strategic plan ad Read more…
23 trustees, advisers and members held a two-part strategic planning session on February 23 and 26, 2022. The workshop was facilitated by President Val Reyes. The participants formed breakout groups to come up with the top 3 challenges, main problem statement, proposed changes to the current vision/mission and strategic objectives Read more…
The UPERDFI Membership Committee headed by Dante Briones, carried out the nomination and invitation of 10 new members, to be formally welcomed by the Board at the February 16 Board meeting. The new members include ex-officio Trustee, 2022 UPAE President Patrick Anthony D. Pascual. The following members bring the membership Read more…