Dr. Garciano and Engr. Abinales inducted as ASEP directors

Two faculty members of the Civil Engineering department were elected as Board of Directors (BOD) of the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP). The election was held last May 20, 2016 at the Century Park Hotel during the ASEP Convention on Concrete Engineering Practice and Technology or a.concept 2016.
  
Dr. Lessandro Garciano, full time Assoc. Professor and head of the Structiral Engg Division of the CE Department and Engr. Adam Abinales, a part-time faculty member (ASEP past president)  were re-elected for the second straight year as members of the ASEP BOD.

The oath taking ceremony took place last Monday, June 27 at the 7 corners restaurant, Crown Plaza Hotel in Ortigas. The oath of office was administered by incoming DOLE Secretary Silvestro Bello III.

The CE Faculty members of DLSU are active members of ASEP. Dr. Andy Oreta and Dr. Bernardo Lejano are ASEP fellows while Dr. Jonathan Dungca, Dr. Mary Ann Adajar and Engr. Ronaldo Gallardo are regular members of ASEP.

Introducing new faculty, Engr. Lydia Florentino, ERDT MSCE Graduate

Dr. Garciano presents paper at the TSLEE 2016 -Shanghai, China

 

Dr. Lessandro Garciano, a full-time Assoc. Professor of the civil engineering department, presented a paper with co-authors, Assoc. Prof. Khin Aye Mon (YTU), Prof. Takeshi Koike (retired professor of Kyoto University / JICA expert), Mr. Nishikawa and Professor Junji Kiyono (Kyoto University)  entitled "A Simplified Seismic Design Method of Water Lifelines in Developing Countries" at the   7^th US – Japan – China Tripartite Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TSLEE 2016) recently held at Tongji University, Shanghai, China from June 1 to 4, 2016.  This symposium was co-organized by the International Society of Lifeline and Infrastructure Earthquake Engineering (ISLIEE), Tongji University, Kanazawa University and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division. 

There were 4 keynote lectures, 5 invited Lectures and 82 full papers in 12 parallel sessions. The main objective of the Symposium was to provide a forum for Chinese, Japanese and US professional lifeline engineers and researchers, for mutual exchange of recent results of main investigations on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, including buried pipeline, bridge, road and railway systems (http://www.tslee2016.org).

        A similar conference can be organized in our country to serve as a platform for experts, engineers, country leaders and stakeholders to discuss current problems / solutions and research activities on aging infrastructure, lifeline vulnerability and resilience. In doing so,  vulnerabilities can be addressed prior to an extreme event, communities are equipped and prepared to respond and can quickly recover from a catastrophe. This local conference will also help push the state-of-the-art in lifeline and infrastructure earthquake engineering and cultivate young minds to pursue a career or research work in this field.

Reported by LEO Garciano