UP Association of Civil Engineering Students

Two students from De La Salle University made their school proud by bagging the first place at National Civil Engineering Summit’s First CE Undergraduate Project Competition last Thursday, September 2, 2010, at the GE Theater in the UP College of Engineering.

Proponents Patricia C. Diaz and David Joseph J. Vidad presented their thesis entitled “Effects of Exterior Post-tensioning on Retrofitting Deformed Wide Flange Steel Beams” to Engr. Rolando Dimaano (a UP ACES alumnus), Hilario Sean Palmiano, D.Eng., and Leizl C. Fallarna, D.Tech. The second place went to the “Utilization Of Excess Post-tensioned Tendons as Steel Bar Reinforcements” of  Carl Patrick B. Pasana of University of the Philippines – Los Baños. The third place was again claimed by DLSU’s Mickel N. Fernandez, Ralph Luigi F. Franco and Morgan P. Say (Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry Through ISO 14001 EMS (Environmental Management System)).

The winners received Php 8,000.00, Php 5,000.00, and Php 3,000.00, respectively. They presented their thesis to more than 2,000 participants of the National Civil Engineering Symposium.

The winners’ advisers were Dr. Bernardo A. Lejano, Engr. Paul John Ross L. Narciso and Jason  Ongpeng, respectively.

Last September 1, 2010, UP ACES held the InCEthink: Bridge Building Competition and Career Talk both for Highschool students around Metro Manila.

The Highschool Career Talk, which aims to expose Highschool Students on the different fields of Civil Engineering, had four speakers. Engr. Cherry Mae Mateo discussed problems and challenges of current environmental issues, and the solutions provided by the field of Environmental Engineering. Engr. Jaylord Tan Tian delved into the specifics of Geotechnical Engineering, its different specializations and the professions that had sprouted from the field. For Water Resources and Transportation Engineering, the speakers were Engr. Robert Michael Baffrey and Engr. Sandy Mae Gaspay, respectively.

Winners from the bridge building competition are as follows: Paco Catholic School, Makati Hope High School and Grace Christian High School for first, second and third place, respectively. The said competition had 21 teams from different schools as participants, with UP ACES alumni Engr. Cherry Mae Mateo and Engr. Diocel Harold Aquino, as well as UP College of Engineering graduate, Engr. Jaylord Tantian as judges. InCEthink aims to promote CE awareness among secondary education students, by building model bridges using barbeque sticks attached with glue. Each team were given four hours to construct a bridge, and improvisational incremental loading were used to test each bridge. By Genarro Pascual 07B

Good news to those that were not able to pass the requirements for advance registration on time! It is moved next week, August 11, 2010, at the same time of 6PM.

Advance registration has lower registration fees (Php 1,300 for walk-ins as compared to Php 1,200 for advance registrants for National Civil Engineering Summit), guaranteed slots, and will give your school’s logo and the names of the National CE Quiz participants the privilege to be included in the souvenir program.

You can download the reply forms at the “National CE Summit Registration” tab at the top.

Do you have a facebook account? You can now like this years National CE Summit 2010! The facebook page, aside from the UP ACES website, will also help you get updated in latest developments as we prepare this year’s summit for you!