Silverio won Second Place for his poster presentation entitled “Development of a Wearable System for Fall Detection and Physiological Signs Monitoring,” which was co-authored with Mhar Ian Estayan, Edgardo Giuseppe G. Catambing, Carl Anderson Lei Yee. Meanwhile, Engr. Gabriel C. Bucu, CIE, AAE won Fourth Place in the same competition, this time for his poster entitled “Establishing a Procurement Model in Philippine Barangay Health Centers Using an Integer Linear Programming Model.” Bucu’s co-authors were Glenn Gerald Castañeda, Keziah Marella Cueto, Clara Franchesca Mendoza, and Angeline Nicole Regalado.

An Industrial Engineering faculty member likewise won Second Place in the Excellent Poster (Audience Choice) competition. Assoc. Prof. Carlos Ignacio Jr. P. Lugay, PhD, PIE, ASEAN Eng. won the distinction for his poster A Comparative Study on the Human preference and the Nutritional Value between Mung Bean Chips and Common Commercial Snack Food. This was co-authored with Adonis S. Clet, David Lorenz M. Dometita , Fredric L. Go, Ericson F. Niones.

Other posters presented in the same event were entitled “Customer Satisfaction among Private Tertiary Hospitals” by Assoc. Prof. Joehanna K. Ngo, PhD, PIE, ASEAN Eng., Charlie A. Marquez, Michael Jon L. Chang, Jose Luis Razon, and Trishia Denisse Torres. Ngo likewise presented the poster entitled “Quality Assessment by Users of a Philippine Public Library,” which she co-authored with Alliah Roi Bernardino, Kiara Marie Bool, and Sheena Justo.

Lugay likewise presented the poster entitled “A Study on the Effect on Customer Perception, Attitudes and Purchase Intention of Food Establishments with Persons with Disabilities as their Employees,” which was co-authored with Rane Eon B. Carreon, Russel Brendan G. Gupit, Leslie Marie M. Montecillo, and Bianca Mariko O. Quizon.

Finally, Bucu presented two other posters. The first was co-authored with Alexis Joseph M. Baarde, Rosarie Joy C. Balneg, Lara Isabelle P. Cabral, and Maria Jocelyn B. Cerezo and was entitled “Establishing an Optimal Model on the Total Implementation Cost in Preventing the Occurrence of Dengue Outbreak in the Barangays of Lipa City, Batangas using Integer Linear Programming.” The other one was co-authored with Polo Miguel D. Elefante , Julien Christiane N. Gicalao, Loreto K. Jaen II., John Danyael B. Taguinod and was entitled “An Integrated Application of Integer Linear Programming and Ergonomic Principles in Re-designing Disaster Go Backpacks for Adult Filipinos.”

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Silverio and Suria with PhilDev Chairman Dado Banatao

“It was an enjoyable learning experience,” said Dr. Silverio of their stint while Engr. Surla marveled at the exhilaration of “presenting my ideas to Technopreneurship experts”, including the prominent technopreneur himself and current Chairman of PhilDev, Engr. Dado Banatao. Dr. Silverio and Engr. Surla, who is eyed by the Faculty of Engineering to help design its Technopreneurship Program, joined close to 70 faculty members from different universities all over the country who participated in the Bootcamp. Four faculty members from their cohort will be chosen to join the Study Visit at UC-Berkeley in Fall 2017 (9 August – 17 December 2017).

This is the third year of Bootcamp. This year, Dr. Ikhlaq Sidhu�����Ի���Ken Singer, the Chief Scientist and Founding Director and the Managing Director of SCET Berkeley, respectively, led the Team of lecturers and trainers in the Bootcamp. The Faculty of Engineering has sent four faculty members in the 2015 and 2016 series of the Bootcamp where Engr. Charlie A. Marquez of the Department of Industrial Engineering was chosen to join the first batch of five faculty members chosen to join the Study Visit at UC-Berkeley.

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The 3^rd ISMS, which coincided with the celebration of the 90^th year of foundation of the college, served as a platform for research dissemination and academic discourse, provided a venue for research collaboration, fostered international cooperation through academic and research partnership, and promoted the Sciences to young Filipinos. Notably, the importance of interdisciplinary and collaborative research was epitomized as non-Thomasians were invited to interact with the presenters and to look for possible future research collaborations. High school students were invited to promote the sciences as a possible future career option. To emphasize, Dean John Donnie A. Ramos, Ph.D., invited the participants and guests to “listen, interact, and forge collaborations with the speakers.” Nagoya City University Vice President Prof. Yuji Imaizumi, Ph.D., was guest.

Moreover, the strive for excellence by the College of Science resonated in this year’s theme, “Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research towards Intellectualization” as stated by Office of International Relations and Program Director Prof. Lillian J. Sison, Ph.D., in her opening remarks. This symposium gave opportunity to researchers to share one’s techniques and ideas in solving scientific problems – providing an environment that allows different researchers to collaborate. Furthermore, this provided research opportunities for students to contribute in the solution of regional and global concerns. Beyond this, however, the symposium provided means to deepen relationship and appreciation of one another’s culture.

Lecturers were from the partner universities abroad, along with the researchers of the different departments of the UST College of Science. The speakers from the Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan were: Prof. Danny Wen-Yaw Chung, Ph.D., Department of Electronics Engineering; Prof. Hsi-Ya Huang, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry; and Dr. Fang Sheng Tsai, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Urology Department and Vice Superintendent of Academic Affairs, Ten-Chan Hospital; Biomedical Engineering Department.

From the National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan the speakers were: Prof. Yuan-Ron Ma, Ph.D. Head, Department of Physics and Prof. Yen-Peng Ho, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, College of Science and Engineering.

Lecturers from partner universities in Japan were (Nagoya City University) Prof. Hidehiko Nakagawa, Ph.D., from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Prof. Kazunobu Sawamoto, Ph.D., of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences. From the University of Shiga Prefecture, the lecturers were Prof. Shuhei Ban, Ph.D., of the Department of Ecosystem Studies, School of Environmental Science, while from Hiroshima University, the speakers were Prof. Tsunehiro Aki, Ph.D., and Prof. Yoshiko Okamura, Ph.D., from the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter.

Experts from the four different departments of the UST College of Science who shared their research studies along the line of identified categories were Assoc. Prof. Cecilia I. Banag, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Richard Thomas B. Pavia, Jr., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Pia Marie S.P. Albano, Ph.D., and Asst. Prof. Loida Medina of the Department of Biological Sciences; Asst. Prof. Glenda D.L.R. Delos Reyes, Ph.D. and Ms. Michelle Inciong, M.S., of the Department of Mathematics and Physics; Assoc. Prof. Karen S. Santiago, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office of International Relations and Programs, Asst. Prof. Oliver Villaflores, Ph.D. , and Asst. Prof. Dharmatov Rahula B. Albano, Ph.D., of the Department of Chemistry; and Engr. Angelito A. Silverio, Ph.D., of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.

The symposium, which was chaired by Prof. Ma. Carlota B. Decena, Ph.D., was attended by more than 200 participants composed of researchers, faculty members, and students from UST and from other schools.

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