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UPD gets 94.74% passing rate in the April 2024 CE Board Exam

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According to the results released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), 36 out of 38 examinees from UP Diliman passed the April 2024 Civil Engineers Licensure Examination, resulting to a 94.74% passing rate. Overall, 6,680 out of 17,010 exam takers (39.27%) passed the exam given by the Board of Civil Engineering in 18 testing centers nationwide this […]

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Asst. Prof. Candelaria obtains PhD degree from Dong-A University

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UP ICE proudly congratulates Dr. Ma. Doreen Candelaria for successfully obtaining her PhD in Architectural Engineering degree from Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea! She worked on her dissertation “Evaluation of Thermal Damages of Concrete Subjected to High Temperatures Using ML and RNN for Ultrasonic Pulse Waves” at the Advanced Multiphysics Structural Condition Evaluation Lab, Dong-A

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Publication Alert: Asst. Prof. Acosta publishes a new paper on building aerodynamics

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Asst. Prof. Timothy John Acosta recently published his research paper titled ” Non-Gaussian peak factor model for windward walls of rigid buildings of different aspect ratios” in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. The paper discusses how the ASCE 7 building code, which assumes a Gaussian distribution, underestimates peak pressure coefficients on the

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UP ICE faculty members participate in ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2024

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Two of our faculty members, Asst. Prof. Jessica Junio and Asst. Prof. Matthew Travis Alcantara participated in the ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2024 on Sustainable Waste Management including Landfill & Landfill Mining held in Texas, USA from January 15-26, 2024. The program was jointly organized by Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, University of Texas at Arlington

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UP ICE collaborates with PIU Department of Civil Engineering, Cambodia

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Dr. Nathaniel Diola and Asst. Prof. Doreen Candelaria, UP ICE Deputy Director for Planning, Development and Finance, and head of the Construction Engineering and Management Group, respectively, visited Paragon International University (PIU) in Cambodia on 17-20 January 2024 for a collaborative benchmarking engagement. The purpose of the visit is to asisst PIU in developing the

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UP ICE GEG faculty members participate in the 2023 International Training Courses on Geo-Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

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Asst. Prof. Matthew Travis Alcantara and Engr. Helli-mar Trilles, UP ICE faculty members from the Geotechnical Engineering Group, participated in the 2023 International Training Courses on Geo-Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience held from December 11 to 18, 2023, in Taipei, Taiwan. The training was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University,

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Marissa Tibayan, CoMSLab admin aide, retires after 42 years of service to UP

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UP ICE would like to greet our administrative staff, Ms. Marissa L. Tibayan, a happy birthday and happy retirement day! Thank you very much, Ate Marissa, for your 42 years of dedicated work and service to our Institute and to the University of the Philippines. We wish you good health and all the best to

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UPD tops Nov 2023 Civil Engineering Board Exam

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UP Diliman tops the November 2023 Civil Engineer Licensure Examination with a 98.55% passing rate, according to results released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). According to the PRC, 68 out of 69 examinees from UP Diliman passed the licensure examination, making UPD the top-performing school for this examination period. Overall, 6,180 out of 18,582

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Project ExPerlite wins the AMY IP Award 2023 (Professional Category)

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Congratulations to Project ExPerlite for winning the Alfredo M. Yao Intellectual Property (AMY IP) Award 2023 under the professional category! The project team, composed of UP ICE faculty members Karlo Daniel Colegio, Mathew Harvey Peralta, Rosabelle Louise Caram (former), UPDMMME faculty member Jan Lowell Buquiz, and researchers Jomar Christian Camposano, Clarence Guanzon, Paolo Valencia and

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