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Team Blue Ocean thought bold and made it happen as they the Engineering Student Council (ESC), which consists of various
were hailed this year’s Marketing Congress (MC) champion, besting seminars, an exhibit and the Finals Night. The seminars focus on
seven other teams in the culminating Finals Night held last product proposal and technical writing, product packaging, exhibit
September 21 at the Engineering Theater. The winning team’s design and communication skills. The Marketing Congress aims
marketing proposal, the use of tobacco dust to kill unwanted pests to provide a venue for engineering students to hone and showcase
that hinder fish growth in ponds, won them the coveted prize of their marketing skills. This year, a total of 19 teams participated
P30,000. The said tobacco dust, branded as Unico, is an eco in the event.
friendly, biodegradable pesticide that can even enhance algae
growth which are a natural food source for fishes. Blue Ocean is ESC Pioneers First Ever Eng’g
composed of Industrial Engineering majors Jose Leonardo Jasa,
Opening Week
Paul Andrew Lim, Edgar Maguan and Katrina Fe Ramos.
By Anna Karmela B. Keh
Meanwhile, the second prize of P20,000 went to the Green
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Academic year 20072008 started off with a blast as the
League team for their Gasan Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for
Engineering Student Council (ESC) pioneered the first ever
household consumption proposal. Finishing third was Team Ohana
Engineering Opening Week. According to Mark Ivanz L. Espiritu,
with their proposed household cleaning services using standardized
ESC ChE representative and overall cohead of the event, the
cleaning methods. The cash prize of P10,000 was awarded to
ESC wanted to involve more engineering students in the opening
them. For the minor awards, Blue Ocean’s exhibit was judged as
week so they decided to revolutionize the traditional Freshmen
the Best Exhibit while Green League was declared Best in Oral
Week. The Opening Week, themed this year as Ignite: Jumpstart
Presentation. Both teamswon a cash prize of P5,000. The UP Gears
your Eng’gines, aimed to welcome the new breed of engineering
and Pinions also won P5,000 for having the most number of
students and the upperclassmen as well.
attendees in the MC seminars and in the Finals Night.
The first event to kick off was Pitstop (June 1819), wherein
a photo studio was set up at the Engineering lobby, Kalayaan
Residence Hall, and Math building. The traditional Freshie Pakain,
themed this year as Full Tank was held last June 20 at the
Engineering Front Lawn. Team activities such as Blaze yourself
(June 20), a block picture contest, and The Amazing Race (June
22) were enjoyed by the engineering freshmen blocks. New events
like GearUp (June 2122), a paintball camp challenge and
Sparkplug (June 25), a trivia quiz show, were held to showcase
the agility and wittiness of engineering students. To culminate
the weeklong event, a dance and fashion show competition,
entitled Overheat, was held at the Bahay ng Alumni last June 26.
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present the studies conducted by senior faculty members of
4th Engineering Professorial Chair the college. These studies are funded by various private companies
Colloquium Held and individuals to recognize the efforts they made as well as
their invaluable contributions to the college.
By Anna Karmela B. Keh
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Last July 4, 2007, the College of Engineering witnessed the
4 th Professorial Chair Colloquium held in different venues in and YouPlay: Engineering Cup 2007
out of Melchor Hall. Dr. Norbert S. Que, the college’s Associate
By Jeureen Maye Tolabing
Dean, gave the opening remarks at the P&G audiovisual room.
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Speakers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, July through September 2007 marked the celebration of the
Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering annual Engineering Cup, an event hosted by the College of
and Department of Geodetic Engineering (Group 1) were Engineering to encourage its students to foster sportsmanship,
designated in the Beta Epsilon multimedia room. Among the healthy competition and fun.
speakers were Dr. Alexander Paran and Dr. Edwin Quiros from
the ME Department; Dr. Alberto Amorsolo, Dr. Herman Mendoza, The Engineering Cup 2007, entitled “YouPlay: your connection
Dr. Leslie Joy Diaz and Prof. Eligia Clemente from the MMM to the games,” which was patterned after the popular online video
Department; and Dr. Enrico Paringit, Dr. Rhodora Gonzales, Prof. sharing website, held its opening ceremony last July 2 at the
Epifanio Lopez and Prof. Florence Galleon from the GE Department. Engineering Theater. Games were held in the weeks to follow
Moderators for this group were Prof. Noelle Easter Cruz and Mr. until midSeptember. Basketball games were held in the Christy
Matthew Dimal. Hernandez Activity Center (CHAC), while volleyball games were
conducted in Molave and Yakal Residence Hall. Soccer games, on
Meanwhile, the P&G room was reserved for the presentors the other hand, were done in the Sunken Garden. Other events
hailing from the Department of Chemical Engineering and the such as bowling and badminton were held at offcampus venues,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research namely Sureplay Badminton Center in Araneta, and Cyberbowl
(Group 2). Speakers included Dr. Genandrialine Peralta, Dr. Alley in Katipunan.
Wilfredo Jose, Dr. Richard Chu, Dr. Ernesto dela Cruz and Dr.
Angela Escoto from the ChE Department; and Dr. Aura Matias, This year’s Eng’g Cup saw a few changes to the usual lineup
Dr. Virginia Soriano, Prof. Iris Ann Martinez, Prof. Edgardo Atanacio of sports events. Some events were discontinued, while events
and Prof. Kathleen SantosTankia from the IE Department. Dr. like soccer were introduced. In an interview with ESC councilor
Rizalinda de Leon and Dr. Hilario Sean Palmiano were the and Eng’g Cup cohead, Jeffrey Laguitao, he stated that the
moderators for this group. organizers wanted to focus on popular events, including soccer,
which was gaining popularity. He also revealed that while
The NCTS audiovisual room was booked for the speakers from swimming and sports climbing were popular, they were more
the Department of Civil Engineering (Group 3). Participants from expensive to hold and did not cater to the majority of engineering
the CE Department were Dr. Mark Albert Zarco, Dr. Leonardo students.
Liongson, Dr. Guillermo Tabios III, Prof. Peter Paul Castro, Dr.
Nathaniel Diola, Prof. Fernando Germar, Dr. Ricardo Sigua, Dr.
Jose Regidor, Dr. Karl Vergel. Prof. Paul Rodgers from the ME
Department was also included in this group. Moderators for the
third group were Dr. Maria Antonia Tanchuling and Prof. Alexis
Acacio.
Lecturers from the Department of Computer Science and the
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Group 4)
spoke before their audience at the VLC room at the DEEE building.
Among the speakers were Dr. Rowena Cristina Guevara, Dr. Luis
Sison, Dr. Allan Nerves, Dr. Miguel Escoto Jr., and Prof.Marc Rosales
from the EEE Department; and Dr. Cedric Angelo M. Festin, Dr.
Susan PanchoFestin, Dr. Jaime Caro, Prof. Evangel Quiwa and
ENG’G CUP 2007 BANNER
Prof. Prospero Naval Jr. from the CS Department. Prof. Anastacia
Ballesil and Dr. Norbert Que served as moderators for the fourth The Eng’g Cup exhibit and opening ceremonies were also
group. made simpler this year. According to the organizers, the students
were more interested in the games compared to the pregame
The Professorial Chair Colloquium is held once a year to events. (turn to page 4)
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slope inclination and vegetation growth. Findings were said to
CE Professor developed a tool be counterintuitive. For instance, steeper slopes don’t necessarily
indicate greater landslide risk.
for determining risk in tropics “What we found didn’t follow any kind of predictable pattern,”
Property loss said to diminish using the system she said. “The conclusion we reached is that thelandslide hazard
is determined by a combination of two factors: the underlying
By Larry G. Hular bedrock and the slope.
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A tool that could help planners improve building codes, ” They found that landslides are less common in areas with
determine zone system, and strengthen mitigation measures in limestone bedrock, even though they may be relatively steep.
mountainous regions in the tropics frequently hit by typhoons “Limestone is a very hard rock that forms steep slopes naturally.
were developed by CE department professor Artessa Niccola D. So the steep slope is the stable condition for this rock,” she said.
SaldivarSali together with Professor Herbert Einstein of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor SaldivarSali is having her PhD in Building
Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after
The project initiated in her master of engineering thesis obtaining her Master of Engineering degree in the same college.
wherein she and Professor Einstein worked side by side to devise She teaches soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering at the
a system for determining the area of landslide risk originally UP Department of Civil Engineering.
devised for Baguio City. Source: MIT News Office
The risk rating system relies on data normally available in
developing countries. The system uses information about the You Play...
history of landslides, type of bedrock underlying the slope, and from page3
type of vegetation growth to determine an area’s hazard rating.
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The data will be analyzed together with land use and population Each department actively participated in all of the events.
Players were made up of undergraduate and graduate students
density to determine the overall risk rating.
eager to win for their respective departments the title of Eng’g
Cup Champion.
Why Baguio City? “It’s the fact that Baguio City has a constant,
heavy rainfall makes it susceptible to landslides, which occur AN EVENT AT THE ENG’G CUP 2007
frequently. Although everybody knows that, nobody has ever put
a system in place to determine where this risk or hazard is higher, Overall, the Industrial Engineering Department emerged as
and used that system to consistently inform building codes and champion of the Engineering Cup while the Civil Engineering
Department earned second place, and the Mining, Metallurgical
zoning laws,” said SaldivarSali.
and Materials Engineering Department got third place.
“The system could be applied directly to any country with
similar topography, geology and climate, which would be much of
Southeast Asia,” said Herbert Einstein.
To indicate the hazard ratings, the researchers mapped the seven
types of underlying bedrock in the area overlaid with data on
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FEATURES
From Books to
Electronics and Computer-Based
Undergraduate Student Projects
Bytes:
An Assessment of One of the Most Ambitious
Dominate Early 2007
Schemes the College Has Ever Ventured
By Katrina O. Taban By Katrina O. Taban
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“Books aren’t dead, they’re just going digital...”
With the advent of highly sophisticated telecommunication
and software development necessity, the University of the
Newsweek
Philippines has never ceased to improve its focus on the fast Internationally competitive facilities and cool and laidback
paced evolution of technology. Armed with the latest equipments ambiance surrounded by a neat pile of dense information—with
and uptodate research methods, this year’s undergraduate the advent of the new Engineering Library II, things will never be
theses and projects in the field of electrical, electronics and the same again.
communications engineering (EEE), and computer science (CS), After 11 years in the making, the new College of Engineering
prove to be among the best researches the College of Engineering Library II has finally opened up to provide its services to the
has ever produced. academe. Finally, the new information center located just in front
of the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) and near
This year’s undergraduate projects under the Department of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department (EEE) was
Electrical and Electronics Engineering include the following: inaugurated last February 24, 2007, in what one could actually
Zigbeecompliant Fullyintegrated DeltaSigma AnalogtoDigital call, a giant step towards academic modernization. This special
Converters Implanted in 0.25 µm CMOS Process (Abaya, Tanya event was attended by different faculty members of the College
Vanessa with Christine Lei Manio and Kristina Marasigan), of Engineering, UP officials and college librarians. Guest speakers,
Improvement of an RFID Reader through the use of interference Dean Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, PhD and Chancellor Sergio S.
cancellation and beamforming antennas (Adaoag, John Paulo with Cao, PhD., led the ribbon cutting to formally open the library.
Roy Flores, Mark Gil Manalansang, Joe Cris Molina and Deogracias Since 1996 to 2007, the new building underwent three major
Villame), Variable voltage, variable frequency single phase phases. For those long struggling years, the UP officials and former
induction motor drive for dumb waiter application (Borjal, Rodel), college deans collaborated continuously to support the construction
Zwire: Wireless ZDSII using COTS transceiver modules (Bulaong, of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Library
Jonathan), Programmable multichannel wireless transceiver II building. Phase I was done from 1996 to 2000 under Dean
module development kit (Contento, Eden with Raymond Lawrence Reynaldo Vea; Phase II was implemented from 2000 to 2002 under
de Vega, Jean Gohetia, and Juan Paolo Samontanez), ZIPPMac: Dean Edgardo Atanacio; and Phase III was constructed from 2004
the zilog microcontrollerpowered polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 2007 under Dean Atanacio and Dean Rowena Cristina L. Guevara.
machine (Cruz, Reinald), FPGA Implementation of spacetime Ms. Sharon Ma. S. Esposo, Head Systems Librarian, personally
encoders (Fadera, Geoffrey Nicolas with Lyand Richwell Ignacio, assisted the Logsript staff in discovering the sections of the new
Mark Benson Nastor and Paulo Isagani Urriza), and Ip v6 in low library. She stressed out that everything that could be seen isn’t
power transceivers for wireless sensor networks (Lamsang, Jeric just about science alone—the new library is actually an execution
Francis). of art itself.
“The College sent me to observe state of the art libraries
The Department of Computer Science has also produced four abroad [and borrowed some good ideas],” she said.
projects which include the following: PSCSS Particle Swarmbased Although some new concepts were introduced, she also
Course Scheduling System (Alcala, Mary Nihiza with Charmagne pointed out that the library possesses some qualities which couldn’t
Ladannie Cayetano and Christianne Mogarte), Design and be found elsewhere. To cite some, it has set up a facility to allow
Implementation of Asterisk in LAN for UP (Dial Up) by Camerino, students to work in groups, a venue for academic discussion.
Alan Josef with Marc Alvin Francisco and Chassie Kate Santos, Hence, the library is not for individual reading only. Also, the
Interoperability Between Bluetooth and Wifi Networks (Cervantes, library is equipped with surveillance cameras and coinoperated
Ma. Margarita with Kathryn Joyce Hong and Faye Marian Ramos) lockers for enhanced security.
and Anopheles Project: Automated Malaria Detection Through “The students can use the coinoperated lockers for P10.00 a
Processing of Erythrocyte Images (Manso, Maricon with Renz day, just in case they needed a safer place to keep laptops, cell
Darnell Noble). phones, digicam, video cam and the like,” she added.
The sections located at the ground floor of the newly
With this jumpstart, an optimistic technologicallyadvanced constructed Engineering building has already been fully functional
sequel could be envisioned ahead. since April 12. This houses the Circulation/Reserve Section,
Reference Services and the Engineering Radio Guild (ERG)
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With its fine jumpstart, the staff of Engineering Library II
From Books to Bytes...
from page5 has made the following goals for the next three years: 1) to provide
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Discussion Room. The discussion room is the best seller so far. based information system; 2) to strengthen the collection by
Located at the 1st floor of the new building is the Serials or acquiring more books and journals, and shifting the collection
Continuing Resource Section. It hosts subscribed journals, peri development practice by acquiring more learning material in digital
odicals and newspapers. Available materials include IEEE Explore format; 3) to digitize selected available materials and make them
and other online journals. The section also has the faculty and accessible on the web; 4) to produce materials and databases
graduate students’ reading area which is made exclusive to cater relevant to information technology, computer science and
to their needs. Also in the Serials Section is the thesis collection, engineering as part of the special collection of the library; 5) to
where joint compilation of the research projects of students from provide and maintain an environment conducive to learning by
the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Elec providing adequate and appropriate facilities; 6) to automate
trical and Electronics Engineering is stored. It has a small preser library operations and services through the use of UP’s own
vation area. integrated library system, the iLib; 7) to develop highly
knowledgeable and skilled information specialists and IT personnel
to maintain high quality information services at the library; 8) to
establish “Friends of the Library” for the library’s fund raising
activities; and 9) to establish networks and linkages in the field
of information technology, computer science and engineering to
augment the collection of the library.
SERIALS SECTION
Soon to come up is the Computing Museum which is prob
ably one of the most unique facilities or services the Engineering
Library II has to offer to its users. Though it is still under con
struction, it will soon house a collection of artiacts which will be
available for visitors to see. The objective of the Computing Mu CIRCULATION SECTION
seum is to preserve and present the posterity of artifacts and From here, Ms. Esposo guaranteed a change in the handling
stories about computers and information. It will be a virtual dis of information—that gradually, learning materials shall undergo
play of hardware and creative works of CS and EEE students and a major conversion into digitized information. The new library
faculty. Through the Computing Museum, it hopes to establish has just opened its website to give way for rapid changes in
among the students a deeper appreciation on the development of information technology. “Libraries are no longer just old buildings
technology by learning what was from the past. The special col offering rows of books, stuffy shelves, and total silence. We have
lection will come from the personal collections of faculty mem moved beyond those traditional services, and we have created a
bers. whole new image”, she concludes.
The new Engineering Library II also offers free wireless access
*We would like to thank Ms. Sharon Ma. S. Esposo, head librarian
to the University’s computer network and internet. Only students,
of Engineering Library II, for giving us her time for the interview
faculty and employees with a valid UP webmail account can availof
and for sharing her photos of the library.
this free service.
Since July 2007, the library’s sections have already been
C ONGRATULATIONS!
available except for the Multimedia Section. This shall house the
Internet access and computing facility, AV viewing room, listening MS. REYNA M. PARMAN
OF ENGINEERING LIBRARY II
station, digital media station. At the Lobby will be 2 EKiosks for
online library orientation, virtual tour and virtual reference FOR RANKING #1 IN THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED L ICENSURE EXAMINANATION
services. FOR L IBRARIANS.C IRCULATION SECTION
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OPINION
Summer 2007’s Real Time
Enlistment:
UP’s unsuccessful attempt to make the enlistment
process convenient
By Dennis E. Trias
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Summer 2007 had been very different and difficult from my usual
underthesun escapades. It was the first summer I engrossed myself
even further to my education.
Last summer gave way to the beta implementation of Real Time
Enlistment (RTE)—a registration scheme where students enlist via the
internet in a virtual pila. It was designed to provide convenience to
students, supposedly, but I don’t believe its objectives materialized.
Here’s why: RTE’s accessibility was confined to the Diliman Network
(DilNet) connection, as opposed to the university’s shout for convenient
access by students even in their own homes.
Only “leftover slots” from the CRS were left, and several subjects
especially GE courses did not have enough sections to accommodate even
the freshmen alone. What more for the higher years?
The new enlistment scheme was implemented from April 11 to 13,
2007 but was extended until the 14th due to the overwhelming cries of
students—inconvenience, inability to enlist, slow connection, uninformed
departments, and slot unavailability.
There was a shortage of functional enlistment hotspots. Very few
were set up and unfortunately, not all of them were functional. For the
College of Engineering, the UP Computer Center (UPCC) and a teaching
laboratory were the only enlistment hotspots available. Those who have
their own laptop computers were lucky.
As a result, the socalled virtual pila stretched its way from the
UPCC, to the Engineering Parking Lot, even traversed the road facing
the Yakal Dormitory and went even further to the Engineering Rear Gate.
It was a devastating experience staying in line for nine hours and missing
meals only to be told that all sections were already closed and be forced
to print blank Form 5A’s instead.
Now what do we do?
Realization of a certain technology entails rules andregulations in
order to be successful. That is why implementation guidelines should be
followed religiously.
An application like the Real Time Enlistment should definitely be
accessible in all internet connections, may it be in our own homes or
computer shops.
Information dissemination is one of the most important factors for
a technology to succeed. Everyone should be made aware of when and
where it will be put in effect, and why the people concerned are being
subjected to this kind of technology. For objectives to be realized,
innovation should never be hurriedly implemented.
Lastly, although we are living in the modern world, accessing the
internet does not mean automatic convenience. It has its own advantages
and disadvantages. Technology should be given enough time to be
researched and tested before one could implement it. I do not blame
nor belittle those who worked on the RTE. What I am saying is that
troubles in the implementation of a certain technology should be foreseen
and the fruits of that technology should be felt and manifested. This
should not be like one of those advertisements that do not deliver as
expected. So please, think about it.
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