Former COMELEC Commissioner and BS Mechanical Engineering Class 61 alumnus Augusto “Gus” Lagman established the Augusto and Teresita Lagman Scholarships in Engineering. Starting this AY 2024-25, the scholarships will support four incoming freshmen coming from low-income families for four years, until their graduation. The donation handover was held on July Read more…
Michael Oliver G. Manuel, Trust Officer of AB Capital and Investment Corporation (ABCIC), set up a scholarship fund in honor of his departed sister-in-law, Naomi P. Martin. The scholarship will benefit two incoming juniors hailing from low-income families until their graduation. Under the lead of Mike, ABCIC has been instrumental Read more…
UPAABC Board Member and Scholarships head Anita Aytona and husband Tony Aytona (EE’71) visited the UP College of Engineering on July 12 to meet with ADSA Kate Tungpalan, UPERDFI ED Tito Aliga and DED Norika Ishikawa to discuss the status of the scholarship program. The UPAABC Scholarship Program was started Read more…
Capitol Steel Corporation, represented by Executive Vice President Berck Y. Cheng, signed the Memorandum of Agreement with UPERDFI President Lito Bermumdo and UPCOE Dean Tonette Tanchuling for the Capitol Steel Scholarship Program. The ceremony was held on July 3 at the National Engineering Center. Mr. Cheng was accompanied by CSC Read more…
UPCOE Dean Tonette Tanchuling and UPERDFI ED Tito Aliga sign the Deed of Donation for the Laguinia Professorial Chair and Scholarship The Laguinia Family, through the family-owned companies Goodfire Stoves Corporation and Urvara, Inc., established the Enrique Lee Laguinia Professorial Chair Award and Scholarships, respectively. The honoree, Enrique Lee Laguinia, Read more…
Ceremonial Signing for the Megawide Scholarship Program with (L-R) Atty. Carmela Castro, Ms. Teresa Chua-Saavedra, Dean Tonette Tanchuling and ED Tito Aliga The Megawide Foundation, represented by its President and Executive Director Ms. Teresa Chua-Saavedra, is the corporate foundation of Megawide Construction Corporation. They established the Megawide Foundation Scholarship Program Read more…
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…
(L-R) Dr. Jaybie de Guzman; MpowHER Scholars Lynille Magbanua, Angela Kaye Sotto, Crizhalyn Weng Miguel, Jana Reven Valenzuela, Deceryl Cortez; ED Tito Aliga Within the ambit of the Meralco MBrace Program, One Meralco Foundation hosted the annual gathering of participating schools and scholars in the MPowHer Scholarship Program on March Read more…
(seated, L-R) JAAF Trustee Rowell Recinto, JAAF ED Christine Diane Romero, 2 COE Students, AD Kate Tungpalan; (standing, L-R) ACI BizDev Danica Berunio, 6 COE Students, ED Tito Aliga, JAAF Admin Officer Leonor Carmela Gealogo, ACI BizDev Neil Parin Five UP Engineering teams comprising BS Metallurgical Engineering seniors presented their Read more…
Scholarship Awarding and Contract Signing for the Orica Philippines Scholarship with 7 Orica scholars (seated) and (standing, L-R) Orica Philippines’ Joel Laqui, Gordon Matthew Wallace, DMMME Chairperson Mitch Oyales, UPERDFI ED Tito Aliga, COE Dean Tonette Tanchuling, Orica Philippines’ Arnel Tegelan, COE AD Kate Tungpalan and DMMME Faculty Christian Arranz Read more…