The Radial Q1 2022

the Volume I No. 1 | ISSN 2945-4891 | January - March 2022 radial The Official Newsletter of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education CIEE HOSTS 1ST INT’L CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN ENG’G ED In a pioneering effort to actively drive the quality of engineering education in the country, Batangas State Dr. Sheryl Sorby, immediate past University, through its Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE), successfully hosted its 1st president and fellow of the American International Conference on Innovations in Engineering Education (ICIEE) 2021, themed “Engineering Society for Engineering Education Educators: Active Drivers of Innovation,” held virtually via Zoom Webinars on Nov. 10-11, 2021. (ASEE) and CIEE advisory board member, delivered her keynote address University officials and Dr. Sheryl Sorby of the ASEE and University of Cincinnati partake in an important on “Innovating Today Towards the conversation in engineering education. Engineering Mindset of the Future,” emphasizing the need for “re-envisioning the engineering curriculum to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion…to foster better learning for the jobs of tomorrow.” Prof. Dr. Gong Ke, President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and Dr. Xu Lihui Assistant to Secretary-General of the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) co-presented the first of three plenary sessions. They shared the UNESCO Engineering Report of 2021, revolving on the continuing role of engineering education in the attainment of the sustainable development. Continued on Page 4 > WORLD ENG’G DAY FOR With the global theme “Build Back Wiser: Engineering the SUSTAINABLE DEV’T Future,” the local event adopted “Engineering Today for a AT BATSTATEU CIEE Sustainable Tomorrow” as its theme, reflecting the integration of the three pillars that constitute the framework of responsible engineering education: sustainable development, innovation, and futures thinking. Batangas State University through its Center for Innovation in From Left, Clockwise: Pres. Ronquillo, Sen. Cayetano, Prof. Dr. Gong Ke, Engineering Education (CIEE) co-celebrated World Engineering Dado Banatao, Prof. HL Lien, and Prof. Cruz launch BatStateU’s three-day Day for Sustainable Development (WED) alongside UNESCO celebration of WED 2022. and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in a three-day virtual program, March 4, 7, and 8, 2022. Continued on Page 6 > WED is an official International day proclaimed in 2019 to celebrate engineering and the contribution of the world’s engineers for a better, sustainable world by addressing the UN 2030 SDGs. This is the second year BatStateU celebrated the occasion.

02 I N S I G H T S THE RADIAL Assoc. Prof. DIVINA A Brief on Eng’g GRACIA D. RONQUILLO, A.Y. 2021-2022 ASEAN Eng, PECE CIEE Director QAM Alangilan Campus STAYING RELEVANT BatStateU is a leader in engineering and a pioneer of engineering education in the region and in the country, Quality Assurance and continuously aggrandizing in globally-competitive academic BatStateU Eng’g Ed opportunities. Technology advances at a breakneck pace in today’s modern world; Of the undergraduate engineering programs offered in A.Y. and so, every educational program must adapt to keep up with the 2021-2022, twelve are well-established pre-existing programs, changes occurring across the facets of its present systems—changes having produced many graduates in the past decades. The that call for improvement and standardization. other nine programs are emerging disciplines in engineering, newly developed and offered as a response to societal needs Quality education is not only measured by effectiveness and and research agenda. As of the academic year, there are over sustainability, but also by global competence and relevance. These 10,000 and approximately 400 enrolled students in the pre- necessitate the thorough inspection of the needs of the students exisiting twelve and emerging nine programs, respectively. and employers, which goes hand in hand with designing programs that meet the knowledge and skills requirements of its graduates, Data from the Quality Assurance Management and University especially in the future. Registrar reveal that students enrolled in engineering have doubled in number since 2021. Mechanical Engineering In the Philippines and around the world, voluntary accreditation is and Civil Engineering have the highest and second highest an accepted means of quality assurance, warranting that programs population of students, respectively, among the pre-exisiting undergo rigorous processes of external evaluation based on engineering programs; while Aerospace Engineering, the predefined standards. The Commission on Higher Education has engineering field specialized in aircraft and spacecraft design released several CHED Memorandum Orders (CMOs) to establish a and development, appears to be a popular choice among system of outcomes-based education, and hence, outcomes-based the emerging programs. Additionally, it is useful to note accreditation. One policy to note, CMO No. 46 Series of 2012, defines that at BatStateU engineering, there is nearly a one-to-one quality assurance as not just standards and specifications that correspondence of male and female students. UN SDG 5 is merely measure or control quality, but rather as those that secure the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of all “mechanisms, procedures, and processes in place to ensure that the women and girls. desired quality, however defined and measured, is delivered.” programs are accredited Level II and higher. Furthermore, 8 BatStateU, specifically the College of Engineering, Architecture programs (ChE, CE, CpE, EE, ECE, IE, ME, and SE) are accredited and Fine Arts, maintains a culture of quality delivery in engineering by both ABET (under EAC) and PTC (under ACBET), with the former education, substantially compliant with the standards and criteria a founding signatory, and the latter, a provisional member of the of applicable accrediting agencies. As such, the university, through Washington Accord (WA), “a multi-lateral agreement between the Quality Assurance Management office, is diligent in its function bodies responsible for accreditation or recognition of tertiary- to make certain that viable engineering programs are accredited level engineering qualifications within their jurisdictions who have by the sole national accrediting body for state universities and chosen to work collectively to assist the mobility of professional colleges (SUCs), the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges engineers.’’ The WA is an international agreement signed in 1989 and Universities in the Philippines, Inc. (AACCUP). As of writing, with 21 signatories as of present. This signifies that the graduates the university is the first SUC with programs accredited by the of the abovecited programs at BatStateU have attained the Accreditation and Certification Board for Engineering and Technology global standards, acquired the key foundations for the practice of the Philippine Technological Council (PTC), and the only SUC of engineering at the professional level, and are thus mutually with engineering programs listed in the Engineering Accreditation recognized as equivalents among the participating bodies of the Commission of the US-based Accreditation Board for Engineering and WA. Technology (ABET). BatStateU understands that quality is sustained by continuous improvement, and therefore, does not rest on its laurels Its accreditation merits and accrediting apparatus continuously in terms of quality assurance in engineering education. build the university’s confidence in producing competent engineering graduates, prepared to become part of the working economy in a To date, BatStateU has a total of 113 programs accredited by the world of emerging technologies. BatStateU stands by its mandate AACCUP, where 12 undergraduate and 3 graduate engineering of “Leading Innovations, Transforming Lives.”

THE RADIAL I N S I G H T S 03 Programs, Undergraduate engineering programs: Chemical Engineering Civil Egineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Food Engineering Industrial Engineering Instrumentation and Control Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics Engineering Petroleum Engineering Sanitary Engineering Aerospace Engineering* Automotive Engineering* Biomedical Engineering* Ceramics Engineering* Geodetic Engineering* Geological Engineering* Metallurgical Engineering* Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering* Transportation Engineering* *Emerging Engineering Programs ICIEE 2021 Highlight On Quality Assurance ABET At Large Director Dr. Sarah A. Rajala guests at the ICIEE 2021, delivers plenary on Quality Assurance in Engineering Education; CIEE Director Assoc. Prof. Divina Gracia Ronquillo, BatStateU President Dr. Tirso A. Ronquillo, and CIEE Education and Partnership Officer, Engr. Edgardo Titus Kaalim Jr. panel the session. Innovation and adaptability are critical to address the dynamic adapt, especially to the changing landscape of educational delivery. academe-industry gap in engineering; thus, quality assurance and Dr. Rajala highlights the increasing impact of certificate programs accreditation of engineering education programs continue to be and the prospect of stacked degrees. important. Accreditation processes and procedures will continue to

04 n e w s THE RADIAL CIEE Hosts 1st Int’l Conf on Innovations in Eng’g Ed Continued from Page 1 Dr. Sarah Ann Rajala, At-Large Director experts: Dr. Helene Leong, Co-Director and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021-2022) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) and Regional Leader for Asia of the CDIO Initiative (Innovation of Engineering for the Future Aldert Kamp, Co-Director of the CDIO Initiative, presented the second and third plenary and Director of the Educational Development Universities); Dr. Lim Chee Leong, Director sessions of the conference, respectively. Dr. Rajala discussed the role quality assurance Department at Singapore Polytechnic; Prof. of the Learning Innovation and Development plays in engineering education, while Aldert Kamp focused on matching future- Satesh Narayana Namasivayam, Associate at the Centre for Future Learning at Taylor’s fit engineering education with the CDIO framework. Head for Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure University Malaysia (Redesigning Learning The first of two panel discussions was on and Society and Professor of Engineering for Effective Engagement in the Virtual inclusion and diversity, panelled by Engr. Federico A. Monsada, fellow member of and Science at Heriot-Watt University Learning Environment); and Dr. Jennifer the CIEE’s advisory board, President of the Philippine Technological Council (PTC), and Malaysia; and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Natha Culver, Educational Consultant at the former chair of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations (AFEO); Prof. Kuptasthien, Director of Graduate Office at Texas International Education Consortium Madya Dr. Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan, head of the Research Group in Engineering the Rajamangala University of Technology (Assessment: How Do I Know What They Education and fellow at the Center for Engineering Education (CEE) of Universiti Thanyaburi (RMUTT) and CDIO Initiative key Know?). Teknologi Malaysia (UTM); Engr. Yetunde Adeobola Holloway, Chair of Women in person for Thailand. The ICIEE 2021 was organized by the CIEE Engineering at WFEO and Founding Executive of the Association of Professional Women The ICIEE 2021 closed with a series of in time for the celebration of the College’s Engineers of Nigeria in Lagos, Nigeria; and Engr. Dr. Cho Win Maw, Acting President, masterclasses: Sin-Moh Cheah, Senior 50th anniversary and the 118th year founding Vice President, and Evaluator of the Myanmar Engineering Council. Academic Mentor and Head of the Teaching anniversary of the University as an institution and Learning Unit at the School of Chemical of higher learning. and Life Sciences at Singapore Polytechnic (Advances in Integrated Learning Experiences Using Core Principles of Learning); Prof. Haydn H.D. Chen, Founding Vice President of the Asian Society for Engineering Engr. Dr. Cho Win Maw Prof. Madya Dr. Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan Education (AsiaSEE) and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Engr. Federico A. Monsada Engr. Yetunde Adeobola Holloway The second panel discussion “Teaching and Learning in the New Normal: Best Practices in Southeast Asia,” was membered by regional Assoc. Prof. Dr. Natha Kuptasthien Prof. Satesh Narayana Namasivayam Dr. Helene Leong ICIEE 2021 Highlight On UNESCO Prof. Dr. Gong Ke, President of the World The World Engineering Report was launched Federation of Engineering Organizations in the new context of global sustainable (WFEO) partners with Dr. Xu Lihui of development and the upsurge of Industry the International Centre for Engineering Revolution 4.0, as well as a global response Education under the auspices of UNESCO to pandemic with the coordinated efforts (ICEE) at Tsinghua University to deliver the from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, joint plenary session on the “Continuing Role Tsinghua University and WFEO, supported by of Engineering Education in the Attainment multiple organizations and experts. of the SDGs: UNESCO Engineering Report 2021.”

MINDSETTHE RADIAL H I G H L I G H T S 05 ICIEE 2021 Highlights The rationale of the drive of engineering On Aspects of Education education is straightforward: engineering educators have a background in their Prof. Sheryl Sorby of the University of Cincinnati, and Immediate Past President and Fellow of specializations and technical disciplines, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), shares in her keynote address the but what is much needed at this post-age importance of remembering the crucial role of teachers in engineering education. of information and coming age of creation are pedagogies to educate students into becoming engineers. “When engineers become faculty, they sometimes forget they are engineers,” reminds Prof. Sorby. It is helpful to embrace new methods and ideologies such as relying less on lectures and more on discussions, designing evaluations that test collaborative work over individual efforts, and creating learning plans that highlight societal impact over eningeering concepts that can be googled. CDIO Aldert Kamp, Co-Director of CDIO Initiative and Past Director of Education at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and leader of 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education at TU Delft Netherlands, and Sin-Moh Cheah, CDIO Champion, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, and the Lead Teaching & Learning Specialist at the School of Chemical and Life Sciences at SP Singapore, discuss in the plenary session and master class, respectively, the value that the CDIO framework brings into engineering education. Through careful and intentional curriculum redesign (using a set CDIO aims to produce graduates who are able to conceive, design, of standards and syllabus) to integrate desired skills and attitudes implement, and operate a product, process, system or service in a alongside technical knowledge that are contextualized to real-world team-based environment. workplace, societal, and environmental settings, implementing the ASSESSMENT Dr. Jennifer Culver, Online Production Services Team Manager and Senior Dr. Culver’s lecture draws attention to assessment creation Academic Technologies Services Director for the Simmons School of and delivery, as well the important role it plays in education. Education at Southern Methodist University in Texas and Educational Determining when to use formative and summative assessments, Consultant at the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC), designing graded and non-graded activities, and understanding presents a masterclass on methods of assessment. how to measure the acquisition of knowledge and skills are key points of her lecture “How Do I Know What They Know?”

06 H I G H L I G H T S THE RADIAL World Eng’g Day for Sustainable Dev’t at BatStateU CIEE Continued from Page 1 Day 1, March 4: BatStateU President Dr. Followed were three sessions concurrent with the Day 3, March 8: Videos were three pillars. Featured speakers were: Diosdado Tirso A. Ronquillo welcomed the audience and “Dado” P. Banatao, Filipino engineer-innovator presented relating to the highlighted the role of the CIEE in reimagining and founder of the Philippine Development WED Hackathon (announced engineering education in his welcome remarks. Foundation; Prof. Dr. Hsing-Lung Lien, Former January 2022), a first-time This was followed by a speech from Senator Vice President and current Director of the New global competition that aimed Pia S. Cayetano, Chairperson on the Senate Energy and Electricity Development Center and to engage engineering students Committee of Sustainable Development Goals, of the National University of Kaohsiung Taiwan; in a fast-paced simulation of Innovations and Futures Thinking. “We need and Prof. Shermon O. Cruz, Co-founder, Chief a real-world project, targeting to … discover better and easier ways to live Futurist and Vice-President of Philippine Futures the SDGs. WED-available sustainably…. [P]reparation is key and that starts Thinking Society. materials of Dr. Marlene Kanga, in your university,” inspirited Sen. Cayetano. Immediate Past President of WFEO, and others recapped WFEO President Prof Dr. Gong Ke delivered the preliminary and final the keynote address for this celebration. “We rounds of the Hackathon, strongly realize that the world should build back which ended in February better and wiser to accelerate the transformation and March, respectively. to a sustainable future, in which engineers have a Judges represented various crucial role to play,” explained Prof. Dr. Gong Ke international organizations on the theme of WED 2022. such as Young Engineers and Engineers Without Borders Day 2, March 7: BatStateU Vice President for Engineering at Western Mindanao State International. University. Research, Development and Extension Services, The CIEE screened for Assoc. Prof. Albertson D. Amante moderated Post-presentation, each panelist addressed the participating student teams in the Forum on the Advancement of Engineering question pertaining to what more is needed to January, where six teams from Collaborations and Innovations for Futures further promote collaborations in engineering, BatStateU submitted entries Thinking. Panelists of said forum are champions especially between private higher education to the Hackathon. One group of engineering projects from select state institutions and SUCs. More ground work, advanced to the final round, universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines: more private-public partnerships, and local and coincidently becoming the only Dr. Ronald L. Orale, Vice President for Planning, international research efforts represented a representative of the Philippines ResearchandExtensionatSamarStateUniversity; general theme. in the competition. Said student Dr. Leonell P. Lijauco, Dean of the College of group, Team WONDERPETS, Engineering and Technologyat Tarlac Agricultural Closing the session, the CIEE launched the emerged champions in the University; Dr. Rowell M. Hernandez, Chair of Sustainability, Innovations and Futures Thinking first WED Hackathon, besting Computer Science at BatStateU Alangilan; Dr. (SIFT) Hub, which aims to bring students, 125 student teams from 23 Cristina Amor M. Rosales, Assistant Director researchers, and academicians closer to countries worldwide. Student for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology the research centers of the university, as an teams from University of British Research at BatStateU Alangilan; and Dr. Jihan avenue to promote learning, collaboration, and Columbia Okanagan (Canada) H. Adil, Head of the Department of Environmental innovation towards sustainable development. and Egerton University (Kenya), came in second and third place, respectively.

THE RADIAL H I G H L I G H T S 07 SUSTAINABILITY BatStateU Engineering student teams go head to head against fellow challengers worldwide in the WED Hackathon Challenge. INNOVATION Student representatives come from BSChE, BSECE, BSIE, and BSICE; solutions address: “Responsible and innovative use of materials and reduction of non-biodegradable waste,” “Biomimicry in Engineering Solutions: Learning from nature for Sustainable solutions that result in innovation, optimal resource use and healthy and improved living,” and “Water accessibility in a changing climate: Climate- resilient water management systems to ensure safe and ongoing access for all.” ICIEE 2021 Highlights On Learning Innovations Dr. Lim Chee Leong shares his expertise on redesigning learning for effective engagement in the virtual learning environment in his masterclass titled “Emerging Pedagogical Theories behind the Learning Design in the Online and Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).” He is the director of the Learning Innovation and Development (LID) at the Centre for Future Learning at Taylor’s University (Malaysia). There are ten elements of design for a “meaningful learning experience,” according to Dr. Lim Chee Leong. Some of which are synchronous discussion sessions to provide real-time interaction of teacher and student. Partnered with micro-learning techniques, such as bite-size and just-in-time (JIT) lectures, interactive asynchronous activities and video quizzes, innovative practices in the virtual classroom create an impact in the learning of today’s students. Also encouraged are peer-to-peer assessments to promote critical thinking, authentic assessments to facilitate real world applications, and channel variety to facilitate rapid response. Dado, one of the Silicon Valley’s best minds, shares his wisdom in his aptly named lecture “Passing the Torch of Innovation.” The world-renowned Filipino engineer-inventor explains that developing economy’s long-term prosperity depends on three types of global economic resources: worldwide market demand, technologically-based innovation and entrepreneurialism, and foreign direct investment. “Conclusively,” remarks Dado, “the enrichment of the poor does not come from charity but instead from a progressive thriving economy. The betterment of the next generation is enabled not by politicians, but by engineers and entrepreneurs rich in ideas for innovation....”

In-Depth: The Winning Entry to the WED Hackathon Challenge Co-written with Ghia Luwalhati, Nicole Elizabeth Tan, and Reaner Jacqueline Bool of Team WONDERPETS, The Winning Team of the UNESCO World Engineering Day 2022 Hackathon Challenge The ability to live and flourish without Incorporating diminishing natural resources for the future is referred to as sustainability. engineering and In the Brundtland Report, the United Nations chemical concepts, defined sustainable development as “development that meets the requirements engineers can of the present without jeopardizing future generations’ ability to meet their own needs”. pursue valuable It assumes that resources are finite and should be used sparingly and wisely to guarantee that climate objectives. there is enough for future generations without reducing current quality of life. A sustainable Recycled PET bottles setting. The 6Rs of circular economy in society must be socially accountable, with adsorbent design may be applied to waste an emphasis on environmental conservation are used as a precursor in the development plastic materials through this suggested and dynamic balance in human and natural wastewater treatment technology, according systems. of an excellent adsorbent, MOFs. Chemical to the team’s vision: reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, redesign, and remanufacture. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) engineering students from BatStateU’s Team are a set of global goals aimed at ensuring This research may serve as a springboard for a sustainable future for all people, where WONDERPETS did precisely that in the WED further exploration of 3D printing as a tool for engineering and technology play a large role further customizability and reusability in MOF in their attainment. Hackathon Challenge, addressing SDGs adsorbent manufacture. They hope that this study’s results will lead to a realistic strategy People must find a solution to the growing 12 and 6 by giving discarded PET bottles a for managing plastic trash by employing problem of global plastic pollution. these materials as functional adsorbents in second life. water treatment and other applications. One of the goals of this research is to help produce For the production of MOF from recycled PET as environmentally friendly solutions that are an adsorbent capable of effectively collecting affordable, compact, and scalable. a wide variety of contaminants from various wastewaters, the study’s structure relies on waste valorization and green synthesis. By nature of its hollow, cage-like shape and incredibly huge internal surface area, this newly synthesized MOF has considerable promise for its ability to effectively absorb many types of contaminants in an aqueous ICIEE 2021 Highlight On the Future of Engineering Education Future universities are faced with an aging society with a low birth rate that changes the job landscape, smart machines and systems that emphasize autonomy and integration, a computational new media ecology, as well as super-structured organizations in a globally connected world. Former Tunghai University President and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Chief Strategy Officer Prof. Haydn HD Chen guests at the ICIEE 2021 for a session on engineering education for future universities. His survey of future directions at global universities included MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, 2019 General Education Reform at Harvard, and 2025 Education at Stanford. Prof. Chen is a distinguished figure of leadership in higher education. EDITORIAL BOARD This is quarterly published by: Editor-in-Chief Assoc. Prof. Divina Gracia D. Ronquillo Managing Editor Engr. Edgardo Titus M. Kaalim Jr. Center for Innovation in Engineering Education Layout Artist Mar A. Lopez Harold V. Pural 3rd Floor, STEERHub Building, Batangas State University Alangilan Campus, Contributors Ryan Kristian Joseph I. Dinglasan Batangas, Philippines 4200 Kristofer Aaron A. Ungria Engr. Enrrie Mykkha P. Brual Karl A. Montalbo Jezreel A. Pisig Consultant Dr. Tirso A. Ronquillo