Written by: Justine Keith Moises, Mark Rafael Santos, Carl Christian Calderon, Ady Advincula, Carl Tristan Gile, Mary Andrew Dalogdog, Laurence Gabriel Arellano, Mary Angela Aquino, Gerald Araco, Julienne Ramano, and Szarina dela Paz
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The Industrial Engineering (IE) Department commemorated its 45th founding anniversary in its annual celebration of IE Week with the theme “INVICTUS: 45 Years of Glorious Iennovation and Thomasian Industrial Engineering Excellence'' on April 4, 2022, via Zoom Cloud Meetings.
The INVICTUS: Industrial Engineering Week Opening 2022 began with a holy mass led by Rev. Fr. Roberto Luanzon Jr., OP, Faculty of Engineering’s Regent.
Associate Professor Joehanna K. Ngo, MSIE, PIE, ASEAN Eng graced the event with her opening remarks highlighting the significance of Invictus in the life of Thomasian industrial engineers. She also conveyed her appreciation to the advisers, professors, and student leaders behind the IE Week.
The CineFiesta Film Festival was held afterward, which featured short films made by students from the IE Department.
The judges for the film festival are Martin Gabrielle Alcantara, President of UST - Communication Arts Students Association (CASA), and Christopher Joshua Barlaan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Tomasian Cable Television (TOMCAT - UST).
The UST Industrial Engineering Circle (IEC) also presented a film entitled 'Papel' directed by Nestor Paul Casipit, featuring some faculty members and alumni from the department.
The closing remarks from Engr. Yoshiki B. Kurata, MSIE, CIE, the adviser of IEC, formally concluded the event.
Webinars
On the first day of the IE week, Industrial Engineering students were able to identify and recognize their rights as individuals, especially with the upcoming elections with the help of an eye-opening webinar entitled “Mulat - Simula ng Pagbabago” via Zoom.
The guest speakers were Ms. Abigail Hapal from GoodGovPh, tackling the role of youth in elections and youth for good governance, and Mr. Anthony Rizaldy Rosales ECE, ACMC from Bawa’t Isa Mahalaga Movement (B1M), discussing voter’s discernment.
To aid the students in using Tableau 10.x Software and in understanding and maximizing their personal strengths, a webinar entitled “ IECxASKLEX: Data Visualization Workshop and Career Path Counseling” was conducted on April 5 by the UST IEC in partnership with Ask Lex PH and Mapua School of Industrial Engineering Management (IE-EMG) Student Council.
Engr. Joshua I.L. Palisoc provided a discussion on the terminologies and components of Tableau 10.x Software and a workshop to help the students practice the application. Moreover, Ask Lex PH Academy Founder and CEO, Dr. Felix C. Veroya, talked about understanding and maximizing one’s personal strengths to succeed in life.
The UST-IEC’s series of webinars continued with IEnhance: Enhancing Student’s Public Speaking Skills at Zoom Meetings.
Buensuceso Mackay Construction Corporation co-founder and COO Engr. Benedict Co mentioned that one needs to consider content and style or structure when it comes to public speaking. He also mentioned that it takes experience to become a good public speaker, thus inspiring the audience to practice gradually, and consistently.
Former UST Engineering Student Council President and Chick-In Counter owner Engr. Sharlene Santiago CIE talked about the meaning, and practical applications of public speaking as a student leader, employee, entrepreneur, and on personal levels. She also shared tips on how to improve public speaking skills, imparting the audience with a quote, “Say what you mean, mean what you say.”
Chair and Program Lead of the UST Department of English and UST Graduate School, Prof. Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao, Ph.D., focused on how the students could improve their digital and academic presentations by making it interactive with the audience.
The UST Industrial Engineering Circle, together with Industrial Management Engineering Society-DLSU, launched "IENVEST: A Financial Literacy Webinar" on April 6 via Zoom Cloud Meetings, aiming to improve the participants' financial literacy.
Two guest speakers also graced the event—the first is Mr. Miranda Miner, who discussed fundamentals about stocks, mutual funds, the world of cryptocurrency, and NFT before an open forum with the audience happened.
The second is Engr. Michael Christian Tee Chan Rosañes who imparted knowledge about real estate and the benefits of investing in it, with a question and answer segment following it that encouraged audience participation.
On April 7, a webinar entitled “SCHEME: A Product and Service Design Webinar” was held via Zoom Cloud Meetings.
Engr. Mary Kay P. Valenzuela, PIE, proceeded with the event with her presentation regarding product design. She emphasized key concepts such as product design, its whole process, and also the relevance of integrating it to academic studies. She ended her talk with her advice, “Today, we design ourselves, our experiences, our mindset, our products, [and] our services. Then tomorrow, we learn, we improve, [and] we refine. Then repeat.”
Engr. Chiqui Rosanna T. Calayag continued the webinar with her presentation regarding product and service design, specifically in the elevator manufacturing industry. She also emphasized the relevance of the participants’ learnings as college students and its application on their future careers by relating it to her own career story.
The webinar held via Zoom Cloud Meetings entitled “ORGANIZE: A Productivity Management Webinar”, served as the highlight of the afternoon session of the week-long event’s fourth day, as the webinar aimed to help students in their time management and productivity.
The event’s first speaker, Ms. Riechell E. Testor, MA, RGC, one of the guidance counselors in the Faculty of Engineering, discussed the importance of understanding oneself to achieve productivity and organization, and the importance of forming and breaking habits. Mr. Christian Alan Vibar, the founder of Productivity Coach Project Productivity, followed afterward discussing productivity in workplaces.
A financial literacy webinar entitled “FinTalk: An Asset to Life,” in collaboration with UST Computer Science Society (CSS) concluded the IE week on April 8 by UST IEC as part of the third phase of “Dunong Sulong,” a month-long community development project that aims to provide teaching supplies and training webinars for the faculty of Ateneo Casa Famiglia Servants of the Poor Inc. of San Jose del Monte Bulacan.
Asst. Prof. Charmina Lou C.Bautista, PIE, RFP, CSS led the discussion on the vitality of managing one’s finances and elucidated the investment plans available nowadays.
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