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taken from:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4901026092422&set=a.1164669205835.25303.1501022934&type=1&theater |
Last November 9 to 10, 2012, some of the distinguished and respected civil engineering educators from Kenya, Japan, Indonesia, United States of America (Fil-Am), New Zealand (Kinoy), and Filipinos (Ilocanos, Capampangans, Bicolanos, Tagalogs, Ethic groups from Visayan and Mindanao Islands) gathered at one of the auditoriums and function rooms of the Brother Andrew Gonzales Hall of De La Salle University - Manila for the first International Conference on Civil Engineering Education (ICCEE) that has the theme "Addressing Global Challenges in Civil Engineering Education."
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taken from :
http://iccee2012.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-10-24T18:55:00-07:00&max-results=7 |
Our paper, co-authored with Engr. Orlando P. Lopez (my CE Director at Far Eastern University - East Asia College), entitled "USING INTERNET AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION" was included as one of the plenary session presentations and lauded as "great" by my former professor, Dr. Danilo C. Terante, an Associate Professor from DLSU-Manila who heads the Hydraulics and Water Resources Division, who himself was also one of the Plenary Session presentors, with the paper entitled "MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS: LAND-USE STRATEGY FOR WATERSHED MANAGEMENT".
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my CE department director,
Engr. Orlando P. Lopez |
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ACEEP President,
Dr. Danilo Cualteros Terante |
It was my dream to present my paper on stage, fronting such respectful audience, that includes my former professors from DLSU-M (undergraduate & graduate), UP Diliman (graduate), and colleagues from different universities. I was positioned as the first speaker after the scheduled coffee break and after the last three Keynote Speakers who are Kenyan, Japanese, and Indonesian.
What made it memorable is that i wasn't able to present the research side of my paper, that is, presenting the charts of my survey data analysis results because of lack of time. My mentor, Dr. Andres Winston C. Oreta, who happened to be the Conference Over-all Chairman, said that there were lots of pauses in my presentation, just like forgetting some terms, and looking from my laptop to read aloud a passage.
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| The ICCEE 2012 Over-all Chairman |
But the "meat" of my presentation was presented well, that is, the different features of the social networking site called FACEBOOK, and how it was interactively woven with internet, software application, and multimedia tools. In fact, I also showed the result of a case study or application of that interactivity feature. But the moderator of our plenary session group named as Information and Computing Technology, Engr. Alden Paul Balili, an Assistant Professor of the host university, said that it was a nice presentation that not only CE educators but also other teachers would emulate. He also added in the form of a question, since no one from the audience would ask one, that such endeavor is only a SUPPLEMENT to a face-to-face traditional form of holding lecture classes, inside a conducive classroom.
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Engr. Alden Paul Balili:
my plenary session group moderator |
In a nutshell, the conference was a very nice experience for a budding researcher like me. Hopefully, I could attend or present a paper or two in foreign lands.
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taken by my mentor, Dr. Andres Winston C. Oreta,
while I was presenting my paper on stage. |
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| a capture photo from a Facebook status. |
if you're interested to download my full paper, here's the link:
http://sdrv.ms/RucTxD
if you would like to download my powerpoint presentation, here's the link:
http://sdrv.ms/SEEwmq
