With the introduction of Consul Vanessa Bago-Llona, UPERDFI ED Tito Aliga organized a discovery meeting among Amini CEO and Founder Kate Kallot and Head of Platforms Zoe Cayetano, the UP College of Engineering AI Program Professors Pros Naval and Migs Remolona, and National Engineering Center Deputy ED and GE Professor Read more…
The Chemrez Technologies technical team, led by General Manager Henry Siy, met with UPERDFI Executive Director Tito Aliga and UP College of Engineering professors in June 2024 to discuss research collaboration areas between industry and academe.
Mr. Hang Jun Cho, CEO of KTP Services Co., and Mr. Ben Bulatao, President and COO of ComClark Network and Technology Services Corporation discussed opportunities to collaborate in the Artificial Intelligence field with UP Professors Rex Jalao and Manolo Mena, and UPERDFI ED Tito Aliga, on May 22, 2024.
To carry out our goal of promoting projects with societal impact and to nurture future engineers, UPERDFI awarded grants to two start-ups and six student projects that were chosen by the UPERDFI Innovation Committee from a pool of students, faculty and budding entrepreneurs who responded to UPERDFI’s call for Research-to-Market Read more…
The James Dyson Foundation provided grants for student teams in the UP Diliman Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Academic Year 2023-24. Thanks to ME professors Louis Danao and Julius Lustro for running the awards. Congratulations to the eight project teams: The winners have submitted their entries to the James Read more…
The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between UP Diliman and Fluor Daniel, Inc. – Philippines was held at the UP Board of Regents Room at Quezon Hall on March 15, 2024. The MOA enumerated six streams of partnership for the benefit of the College of Engineering, which Read more…
The STEALTH Project officially started on September 18, 2023 after the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement by industry partner Craft Research Technologies, Inc. (CRTI), UP Project Team (joint UPCOE DMMME and EEEI), and UPERDFI as fund administrator. CRTI leaders, the UP Project Team, and UPERDFI met on September 22 Read more…
The Murata Science Foundation, headed by its Chairman Tsuneo Murata, will provide research grants to young researchers or groups of researchers for three (3) years starting in 2022. The grant will be 300,000 Japanese Yen per grantee for one (1) year. This may be used for instruments and devices or Read more…
The Uratex Group of Companies provided UPERDFI a list of research topics and explored how collaboration between Uratex and the UPCOE on these topics could be initiated. A meeting between the UPCOE and Uratex was hosted by Chicho Mantaring, UPERDFI Innovation Committee Chairman last December 27. Present for the UPCoE were Read more…