Although I didn’t set a specific goal for the number of posts I’ll write per week, I think at least 2 posts per week are necessary to be able to consider myself as an active blogger. I don’t want this blog to go inactive like my previous one which I neglected due to the demands [...]
I began my graduate study in the 2nd semester of the year 2006. Back then, I was deciding between two OR tracks at UP Diliman, one offered by the Math Dept. and the other by the Industrial Engineering Dept. I emailed the former and I was told that the focus is more on the theory [...]
As part of the thrust to develop a Silicon Valley-like culture in the Philippines, graduate students from the U.P. College of Engineering were encouraged to take a crash course on technology entrepreneurship this last summer. As described in the syllabus, the course would focus on “introducing graduate engineering students to the many opportunities and challenges [...]
I’m fortunate that I’m taking up my master’s degree with a scholarship from the Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) program of the Department of Science and Techology (DOST) in collaboration with the top universities in the Philippines. One of the objectives of the program is to increase the number of MS and PhD-bearing [...]
