CEIT holds friendly basketball and volleyball game

A friendly basketball and volleyball games for the faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Information Technology was held last 28 – 29 September 2009. The activity, which aimed to promote and develop the camaraderie and solidarity among the faculty and staff of the college, was part of the activities of the 24th foundation day celebration of the college.

The teams were collaboration of various departments of the college. The basketball game teams were composed of faculty and staff of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering (DAFE), and Dean’s Office; and the faculty and staff of Department of Civil Engineering (DCE), Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering (DCEE), Department of Industrial Engineering and Technology (DIET), Physical Planning Unit (PPU), and University Computer Center (UCC) as Team 1 and Team 2, respectively. The volleyball game was participated by four teams: DIT (team 1), DCEE and DIET (team 2), DCE and PPU (team 3) and DAFE, UCC and Dean’s Office (team 4). Team 2 in both categories won over the other teams and declared as the champions of the basketball and volleyball games. (SDFenol)

DAFE facilitates seminar - workshop on research proposal writing

A seminar-workshop on writing a research proposal was facilitated by the department last 09 September 2009 at the Conference Room of the College of Engineering and Information Technology. The activity primarily, which aimed to orient the faculty members of the college on writing a winning research proposal and the benefits that may be derived from it. This is in response to the call of the office of the VP for RECETS of coming up with a winning research proposal. Dr. Edna dA. Vida, research director of the university, served as resource speaker. She discussed the research thrusts and program focus of the university as well as the proposal format of the different funding agencies.

In the afternoon, representatives from the five departments of the college presented their outputs. Among the presenters include Ms. Rhodora V. Nuestro (DIET), Ms. Poinsettia A. Vida (DCEE), Engr. Michael Gomez (DCE) and Mr. Simeon E. Daez and Mr. John Mark C. Abanes (DIT). Critiquing of outputs followed with Dr. Edna dA. Vida, Dr. David L. Cero and Engr. Renato B. Cubilla as critics. Dr. Vida persuaded the faculty to engage in research activities because there are several benefits that one can derive from it. (LRMontaron)

Mojica speaks at PCARRD scholars’ meeting

Dr. Ruel M. Mojica, chair of the department, gave an invited talk at the PCARRD Annual Scholars’ Meeting held in Bulwagang Panday Karunungan, PCARRD, Los Baños, Laguna on 28 September 2009. The talk, "Writing and Presenting an Excellent Thesis/Dissertation" focused on the personal experiences of Dr. Mojica in writing and presenting his winning dissertation.
Thesis/dissertation writing is one of the crucial tasks in the life of every student pursuing higher education. Students, generally, are confused on what to choose for their thesis/dissertation and therefore some of them usually end up choosing the wrong topic. Although there are no set rules for finding the right ideas for a thesis/dissertation, Dr. Mojica gave some tips which can at least make their thesis/dissertation writing easy for them. His talk highlighted the step-by-step guide in writing an excellent thesis/dissertation.
The annual scholars’ meeting is held each year to provide a forum for participants to understand the program’s policies and guidelines and derive lessons from the success stories of graduated PCARRD scholars. (RMMojica)

AE faculty and students witness AFMech Law hearing

Last 01 September 2009, the faculty and students of the department headed by their chair, Dr. Ruel M. Mojica witnessed the hearing of the Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanization (AFMech) Law during the second regular session of the Fourteenth Congress of the Republic of the Philippines at the Senate Building, Pasay City. The session was headed by Sen. Loren Legarda as the chairman of the board and the panel was represented by the heads of various institutions both from the private and public sectors such as DA, BFAR, BPRE, BOAE, PhilRice, AMTEC (UPLB) and others. Senator Juan Miguel F. Zubiri, author of the bill, briefly joined the session temporarily and participated in the consultation with different agencies.

AFMech Law is an act promoting and developing the agricultural and fisheries mechanization development in the country. “Unfortunately, the present level of agricultural and fisheries mechanization in the Philippines is quite dismal when benchmarked with its Asian neighbors such as Korea. This country’s low level of mechanization is highly attributed to the various technical and socio-economic constraints such as lack of investment in research and development, inadequate training and extension, poor manufacturing technology and lack of credit and low farming income. Other problems include the inadequacy of after sales service, supply of substandard agricultural and fishery machinery particularly in the government procurement program and the sporadic, fragmented and disorganized implementation of agricultural and fishery mechanization. The Bill seeks to establish a system of accreditation and classification of agricultural and fishery machinery suppliers and manufacturers, state of the art testing and evaluation, enforcement and responsive and adequate support services. This law must be passed to consolidate, integrate and strengthen all existing policies and programs in order to realize the country’s efforts towards agriculture and fisheries mechanization” explained Sen. Juan Miguel F. Zubiri. (GMCastillo)