Oreta attends PBEd-STRIDE Workshop

Dr. Andy Oreta, professor of civil engineering represented DLSU in the PBEd-STRIDE Curriculum Mapping Workshop for BS Civil Engineering on 27-28 April 2016 at The Tower Club in Makati City. There were ten invited academe representatives from DLSU, UPD, UPLB, TUP, MIT, MUST, UST, AdU, USC and BSU who participated in the workshop and provided inputs to the PBEd-STRIDE project. The objectives of the workshop were (a) to review and align the industry-defined outcomes for the civil engineering program, (b) to provide focus of instruction for faculty members, and (c) to establish a curriculum matrix between desired industry outcomes and the professional subjects.

The main output of the workshop is a matrix wherein professional subjects were identified that can address the industry-defined outcomes with respect to knowledge and ability. The industry-defined outcomes are grouped into three (A) Design  (B) Construction and (C) Basic CE Principles & Practices. The industry-defined outcomes listed below are what industry expects from a fresh CE graduate. A fresh civil engineering graduate or a newly-hired civil engineer must be able to:

A. Design
1. Interpret design specfication and criteria
2. Interpret codes
3. Interpret topographic maps
4. Interpret geotechnical reports
5. Calculate design loads
6. Analyze and design simple structures
7. Prepare basic drainage and site grading
8. Perform basic road design
9. Translate basic design to engineering sketches/preliminary drawings
10. Produce construction drawings from engineering sketches using CAD

B. Construction
1. Perform PERT-CPM for simple structures
2. Use project scheduling software
3. Prepare quantity estimates
4. Interpret project contract obligations and agreements
5. Identify construction equipment and tools
6. Identify construction materials
7. Recognize construction terminologies in the vernacular
8. Generate project S-curve on simple structures
9. Create rebar cutting list
10. Lay-out and stake simple plans
11. Distinguish common architectural finishes
12. Interpret material testing results
13. Verify actual construction works vs plans
14. Prepare accomplishment reports

C. Basic CE Principles and Practices
1. Organize project documents
2. Write technical reports
3. Read plans (i.e. architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical)
4. Implement 5S housekeeping
5. Interpret CE laws and ethics
6. Differentiate the six specializations (CTM, HWR, STE, TRE, GTE and ENV)
7. Practice basic safety

The industry-defined outcomes are very useful in upgrading the CE  curriculum especially in preparing the graduates for the real-world tasks.

CE Visiting Professor Lecture by Dr. Mateo-Babiano

Dr. Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Visiting Professor, Civil Engineering Department, DLSU and Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Queensland (UQ), Australia will deliver a lecture on "Bicycle sharing in Asia: a stakeholder perception and possible future, " on  March 30, 2016 (Wednesday), 1400-1530 hrs at the Yuchengco Seminar Rooms 407-408.

Abstract:

Despite public bicycle sharing programs (PBSPs) gaining global attention as important climate smart transport strategy to support sustainable, low carbon societies in the West, they still continue to have limited uptake in the Southeast Asian setting. Evidence points to the scheme’s high capital cost requirements, a perceived lack of support or the limited awareness and understanding of its potential role as a green transport alternative within Asia’s distinctly diverse context. While existing schemes in other regions could provide a better understanding about bicycle sharing, the need to improve our understanding of PBSP’s role in catering for the local transportation mobility and access needs and requirements as well as identifying strategies to make PBSP better adapted to local Asian condition is in order. To address this gap, this paper aims to understand the glocalisation of low carbon technological innovations such as PBSPs. Using a survey-based research design approach, this study examines the perception of various stakeholders on their perceived benefits and values as well as to identify the factors, which have facilitated or constrained the implementation of innovative PBSP technologies within the Asian setting. This paper aims to improve our understanding about the perception of potential PBSP implementers within Asia’s urban centers. A better understanding of the challenges is the first step in planning for a smarter society, while a more crucial aspect is building the evidence base so as to enhance our understanding on the glocalisation of bike sharing schemes. To date, there has been limited information and analytics to inform low-carbon planning globally especially from the perspective of diverse stakeholders.

 

About the speaker: Dr Iderlina Mateo-Babiano is a Senior Lecturer in Planning at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. She is a scholar in sustainable and active transport research (mainly on walking and bicycling) but has also advanced a significant body of knowledge in land use and transport interaction, transport and health, transport and resilience, urban design, transport history, and development planning, with theory and policy implications within the Australian and Asian setting. Dr Mateo-Babiano received her doctoral degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan while she completed both her Master in Urban and Regional Planning and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of the Philippines.

To date, she has published 46 peer-reviewed publications in addition to several invited talks and international research presentations. She has also been a chief investigator in research projects, both in Australia and Asia. Several of her current research projects encompass research and scholarship of teaching, including Bikesharing; Gender and active transport; Building students’ spatial skills; and Delivering better homes for public housing tenants.

She is currently a member of the International Scientific Committee for the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR), Great Asian Streets, Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) and serves as Topic Group Chief for the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies International Scientific Committee.

 

GCOE faculty attends ERDT Research Management Training, Dr. Oreta: Speaker on Mentoring

 DOST and the Engineering Research & Development for Technology (ERDT) hosted a Research Management Training on March 12-13, 2016 at the Summit Ridge, Tagaytay. The objectives of the training seminar are: By the end of the training,

• "the participants should be familiar with engineering research management, graduate students mentoring, challenges to research and innovation, and collaboration in research; 
• be familiar with key strategies of other faculty advisers from other universities in managing students and research;
•  be able to learn and get insights from the experiences of other faculty members; and 
• be able to establish preliminary and potential linkage and collaborative works in research among co-participants."

Resource Speaker

 Dr. Andy Oreta, professor of the Civil Engineering Department was one of the resource speakers of the seminar. Dr. Oreta was invited to talk about "Research Management in Engineering (Mentoring)." In the seminar, Dr. Oreta presented his talk on "My Reflections on Mentoring" which consists of five subtopics: (a) My former thesis advisees, (b) Why students fail to finish the thesis, (c) My tasks as a thesis adviser, (d) Benefits of an ERDT adviser, and (e) A good mentor. Dr. Oreta listed his successful advisees like Dr. Jonathan Dungca (his 1st MSCE graduate), now GCOE Dean, Engr. Jason Ongpeng, now CE Dept. chair and Dr. Lessandro Garciano, now Head of Structural Engg Division - they are now the bosses of Dr. Oreta! Dr. Oreta used the PhD Comics to add humor to his presentation.  He also recommended a useful reference for mentors and graduate students, "How to get a PhD" by Phillips and Pugh. Dr. Oreta emphasized that mentoring is a lifetime endeavor which starts with academic advising to career & professional/family life counselling. He ended his talk with a quotation by St. Lasalle; "Artists work on canvas, builders work on stone, even doctors work on human bodies, but teachers work on human souls, which will shine with them like stars for all eternity."

One of the slides of Dr. Oreta on Mentoring as a lifetime career

Thirteen faculty members from DLSU-GCOE attended the training. Representing the CE Department were Dr. Mary Ann Adajar and Engr. Richard De Jesus who actively participated in the group activities of the training. There were six resource speakers, three from UP Diliman, two from Mapua Institute of Technology and Dr. Oreta from DLSU. The participants came from the ERDT consortium schools - UPD, UPLB, AdMU, CLSU, MSU, MSU-IIT, MIT & DLSU.

DLSU-GCOE Faculty busy with SWOT exercise

GCOE QA organized SoTL Seminar/Workshop

The GCOE SoTL Scholars and Resource Speakers

The GCOE QA Office and DLSU QA Office hosted a seminar/workshop on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for GCOE faculty on March 4, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at the HSSH 4Flr Conference Room. This seminar/workshop addresses DLSU KRA 1 which is “Education that is excellence-driven and learner-centered” with the goal that “Teachers are enabled to perform more effectively as Lasallian educators.”  This goal is assessed based on an “incremental increase in the number of faculty members engaged in SoTL research projects.” Hence this activity was conducted to increase the awareness of selected GCOE faculty about SoTL and engage them to publish papers on engineering education and SoTL in conferences and journals. This activity enhances the GCOE OBQA program and serves as an impetus to revive the Master of Engineering Education program at GCOE and offer a PhD on Engineering Education in the future.

 

Dr. Sison served as SoTL resource speaker and workshop adviser

 

Certificate of Appreciation from the GCOE Dean was presented by Dr. Oreta to Dr. Sison

The seminar started with a brief presentation by Dr. Andres Oreta, GCOE QA Director about his paper related to the "Evolution of an Engineering Educator." He also presented conferences on engineering education and journals where the faculty can submit scholarly papers on SoTL. The resource person on SoTL was Dr. Raymund Sison, CCS Professor and University Fellow who introduced the SoTL framework which he proposes for DLSU and SoTL concepts. Dr. Derlie Mateo-Babiano, CE Dept. visiting professor from the University of Queensland, Australia announced Graduate Certificate and PhD opportunities in Australia.  Eight faculty members from GCOE actively participated in the seminar/workshop. The GCOE participants were:

• 1. Michelle Almendrala - ChE
• 2. Efren Dela Cruz - ME
• 3. Ann Dulay - ECE
• 4. Samuel Hernando - CE
• 5.  Marlon Musngi - MEM
• 6. Maria Cecilia Paringit - CE
• 7. Jazmin Tangsoc - IE
• 8.  Oscar Unas – MEM

After the seminar, a workshop was conducted wherein each participant shared his/her idea of a possible SoTL project or paper. Dr. Sison gave comments on how to improve their proposals. Interesting proposals were presented such as Innovative teaching of  Engineering Ethics and Laws by Dulay and Dela Cruz, use of virtual reality in ChE by Almendrala, Simulating a CNC machine by Musngi, Pair-wise or cooperative problem solving in Surveying by Paringit and Real-world problems in Structural Analysis by Hernando. The participants which are named as GCOE SoTL Scholars will  champion SoTL in the college and their respective departments. 

Dr. Maricel Paringit, SoTL Scholar from CE Dept.

Engr. Sammy Hernando, SoTL Scholar from CE Dept.

 

A simple SoTL souvenir was given to each participant

DLSU CE-GTE Researches Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment (GEOMATE 2015)

Civil Engineering Department Associate Professors Dr. Jonathan R. Dungca and Dr. Mary Ann Q. Adajar, Academic Service Faculty Engr. Joenel G. Galupino and Engr. Erica Elice S. Uy, PhD student, went to the GEOMATE 2015 conference to present their respective researches. 

DLSU delegates at Osaka International House Foundation, Osaka, Japan.

Papers presented:

•Predicting the stress-strain behavior of mine tailings using modified Hyperbolic model by Mary Ann Q. Adajar and Mark Albert H. Zarco

•Modelling of permeability characteristics of soil-fly ash-bentonite cut-off wall using response surface method by Joenel G. Galupino and Jonathan R. Dungca

•Image processing for geotechnical laboratory measurements by Erica Elice Saloma Uy and Tirawat Boonyatee 

•Strength properties of road base materials blended with waste limestones by Jonathan R. Dungca and Lydia Francisca T. Dychangco

Dr. Jonathan R. Dungca was the session chair for the Technical Session 2 which was held on Nov. 17, 2015.

Other papers submitted to the conference were the following:

•Development of a probabilistic liquefaction potential map for metro manila by Renz Anderson D. Chua and Jonathan R. Dungca

•The propagation behavior of pile-driving-induced vibration done on soil at varying distances and its effects on existing structures by Jonathan R. Dungca, Duane Acosta, Modwena Juego, Heisen Sanchez and Ivy Sanchez

All their submitted papers were published in the International Journal of Geomate (ISI/Scopus-Indexed). 

GEOMATE International Society in coordination with Kansai University, Japan Geotechnical Society, AOI-Engineering, Useful Plant Spread Society, HOJUN and Glorious International organized The Fifth International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment, GEOMATE 2015, last November 16 to 18, 2015 at Osaka International House Foundation, Osaka, Japan. Geoengineering, construction materials, environmental issues, water resources, earthquake and tsunami disasters were some of the topics discussed during the parallel sessions. The conference was also dedicated to the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake victims that happened on March 11, 2011.   

Written by Engr. Erica Elice S. Uy