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2401 Issue # 14
2401 Issue # 14
2401 Issue # 14
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F I G U R E S
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
NUMBER
VOLUME 45
20JAN2014
14
The second KRA, which is the creation of green campuses and facilities, involves compliance with environmental laws, promotion of lower environmental impacts, green productivity, and improvements in indoor and outdoor environments.
develop disaster risk reduction management and emergency preparedness as well as community engagement and partnership as ways to deal with climate change.
Source: DLSU Learning Commons Figures as of January 2014
INSIDE: Administrators attend leadership development program New appointments for 3rd Term DLSU unveils new eco cars Traffic updates via Archers Eye app
2401 (twente fr,o, wun) is a landmark number along Taft Avenue. It is the location ID of De La Salle University, home to outstanding faculty and students, and birthplace of luminaries in business, public service, education, the arts, and science. And 2401 is the name of the official newsletter of DLSU, featuring developments and stories of interest about the University.
and Robotics Engineering in DLSU have recently developed an unmanned GPS-driven and remote-controlled crawler for the efcient and safe
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DLSUs GPS-driven pesticide crawler, from page 1 pesticide application on soil. The research project is the studentsundergraduate thesis. Roughly the size of a standard ofce desk, the crawler moves on tracks directed by a remote control operator that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. A mounted camera helps direct the operator, while a remote control correction program ensures that the crawler only sprays precisely where and when it is intended. The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and Departmentof Science and Technology The Magsaysay Future Engineers Award is a competition that was opened to Bachelor of Science students who are enrolled in an engineering program or related elds of study within the priority areas of DOST. The winning group is composed of research leader Ken Russel Go, his group members: Brent Ong, Kevin Te, Michael Uy, Audrey Virgula, and their thesis adviser and mentor, GCOE faculty member Dr. Nilo Bugtai. (DOST) recognized the project by giving it the rst prize in its Technology Award, also dubbed Magsaysay Future Engineers Award last month.
An acting Chair of Computer Aided Process Engineering of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, he has authored nearly 200 archive papers.
He is the winner of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of the Institution of Chemical Engineers UK, Young Engineer Award 2010 of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, and Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International.
country and bagged the Technical Innovation Award during the 2011 competition.
The program consists of seminars and workshops on various aspects of university leadership and management. By adopting different learning approaches and techniques such as lectures, group interactions, case studies, and mentoring, participants are expected to acquire new perspectives on leadership and management. They are also tasked to develop projects that respond to social development needs and are relevant to the Lasallian context.
Participants include academic and administrative leaders and managers. At the end of the program, they are expected to present a project that he or she developed to respond to the needs of the academic community Modules include Foundations of Leadership and Management; Academic Leadership and Management; The University in a Globalizing Society; and The Lasallian Learning Leader or Manager.
from the following locations may be viewed remotely: Gate 1 (South); Gate 2 (North); Gate 3 (Velasco Hall); Gate 4A (Gokongwei Hall Front); Gate 5A (Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall Front); Gate 6 (Enrique Razon Sports Center); Gate 9 (Leveriza St.); and the Estrada Street corner Taft Avenue intersection. DLSU is the rst school in the Philippines to release an app that streams live road trafc from a CCTV camera. The application was developed as a donation by Natrolite Technologies, an IT company owned by DLSU CCS alumni Allan Paul Ortile and George Tan. The appsmay be downloaded for freefrom these links: Apple version, http://tinyurl.com/aeyeapple; Android version, http://tinyurl.com/aeyeandroid.