From the UPDIEOR Chairman
State of the IE Department 2019
The Department has come a long way since its creation as a unit back in 1971. Which means, we will be having our Golden Anniversary in 2021! We are excited and looking forward to it.
Per record of the College, the program has produced a total of 3,315 graduates. Sir Ega estimates around 3,000 of this total have been his students!
Currently we have 17 faculty members in our roster and we are recruiting for full-time members, by the way!
The Department continues to excel in academic contests, proof of which we bagged first place in 2019 PIIE National Quiz as well as in ORSP Quiz. And for sure with Sir Monty as our great coach, we will never stop in pursuing accolades and awards in these areas.
In terms of student population, Undergraduate: 330, Graduate: 66. Based on records of Admissions Office, we’re also getting very good students as inputs looking at their UPGs which is one of the factors actually why we are seeing increasing number of IE graduates with Latin
Honors. Hopefully, we would be able to conduct survey with the assistance of UPIEAA to determine voice of customers with respect to graduates of our program.
What are our plans? Currently all our major courses are taught at Melchor Hall. Come January next year, we will start to hold office and some of the classes in this building. Definitely, this building will start to be busy next year, and hopefully we can start to serve notice of eviction sa mga paniki that’s currently occupying the building.
We have a new 4-year curriculum right now consisting of 156 units. The old curriculum has a total of 180 units, reduction came from GE and Foundation courses. The we added a few in the IE Core courses. Btw, in the new curriculum, internship is instituted and formalized during the midyear for a minimum of 100 hours (June and July) and we hope, through the assistance of UPIEAA, will be able to enter into internship Memorandum of Agreement with 100 companies.
In terms of facilities, we have additional laboratories. At present we have 2 operating labs – computing lab and Human Factors but starting next year, we will have 4 more laboratories: Cognitive Ergo Lab, Kaizen and Innovation Makerspace, Product Design and Development Lab and Analytics and Facilities Planning Lab.
We hope that you share our excitement with all these plans and way forward. Together with UPIEAA as our partner, we are optimistic that all our efforts will be successful.
Launch of Fund Campaign
As you very well know, UP is implementing the No Tuition fee especially for undergraduate students. This is also good for us parents. However, what used to be a good source of funds for the Department, for the library and for our laboratories, now it’s no more!
We were informed by the past Dean of the College that Lab and Lib fees will no longer be reimbursed. Now even our Engg Lib is asking Departments to share with them certain percentage of what we collect from graduate students. Even our internet connection for this
building is on hold, pending Dean Ferdie being able to secure the PhP600K to have it connected. Despite of these, we strive to excel. Sabi nga ni Manny Pangilinan, UP is value for money! And that is very true for the IE Dept!
Still for all our plans to materialize, our calculation requires us to have P13.5M. Ms. Regine, one of our faculty, has been helping us on this one. Based on our calculation, we require a total of 13.5M for us to complete everything we need to make all the additional labs and classrooms fully operating. For now we only have 3.5M from our funds to spare so if only for us to start holding classes here next year, we have prioritized buying chairs, whiteboards, smart TVs.
What we have now is a P10M challenge! How do we intend to raise this? We are looking at several ways: Our plan is to launch the Alumni Wall Campaign. When you entered this building, you saw two big blank walls – one to your left and the other to your right. IE is taking the left wall and ME is taking the right one. We intend to have the names of the contributing alumni on that wall for a certain financial contribution. Of course, this will take some time.
Another approach is for corporate sponsors or groups to sponsor the requirements of particular labs or classrooms and have the name of company or the group on a plaque to be posted on the wall outside the room in recognition.
With the help of the UPIEAA, we will be finalizing the details of these fund raising campaigns. It is our hope in the Department that we can all have these in place before our Golden Anniversary!
Thank you very much and we counting for your full support!
Erick Llaguno
UPDIE/OR Chair
