9th Philippine Robotics Olympiad Teachers Training-Workshop at Ateneo de Manila University

The Philippine Robotics Olympiad (PRO) annually conducts Teachers Training-Workshop. This is the 4th time that theTeachers training was held in Ateneo de Manila University. Teachers from all over the country converge at Ateneo to learn the basics of Robotics using the lego RCX/NXT framework. This year, the PRO training was held last July 23 to 24, 2010 at CTC-219. The event was participated by 48 teachers from as far as Isabela and Naga. The workshop is sponsored by Felta Multimedia, Lego Education, DepEd? and DOST. Former ECCE faculty Engr. Reggie Gustilo taught the basics of Robotics as well as the basics of Robot programming using the Lego Mindstorm program. Carlos Oppus and Bryan Lao assisted the teachers in the installation, programming and construction of the robots.

Participants of the 9th Philippine Robotics Olympiad Teachers Training:

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MS Electronics Engineering Students win SMART Android mobile developer competition

Smart Communications Inc. (SMART) conducted the first-ever Android mobile developer competition here in the Philippines. It opened last September 18, 2009 and ended last October 8, 2009. There were 18 teams vying for the ultimate prize of P150,000, an HTC Magic handset, a free trip to Hong Kong, and the chance of representing the country at the Conexus Mobile Alliance Android Showcase. The teams GeoSpatial? Solutions Inc. and Blue Chip Designs, Inc. grabbed the top prizes. The team Blue Chip Designs, Inc. were composed of Noel Patron (BS Physics with Computer Engineering), Anna Veronica Baterina (BS Physics with Computer Engineering), and Jovilyn Therese Fajardo (BS Chemistry with Computer Engineering), all graduates of Ateneo de Manila University and are currently graduate students of the Department of Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering. Their winning Android application is called RemoteDroid?. The said application is designed to solve the problem of retrieving important information from your phone when you forgot them at home, in school, in the office, etc. It allows the user to remotely access their phone through SMS that is, you can get a contact’s number, receive incoming messages and calls, get your phone’s location, and others with just a text.

Launching New Research

27 May 2009 - 07:05 by NathanielLibatique in News

Welcome to our final year undergraduate engineering and science students (ACS, ECE, COE and students from other disciplines), welcome to this integrative year of your Bachelor of Science program. Your faculty are looking forward to working with you this year on many important research areas and fields that are at the frontiers of society's problems and at the leading edge of the engineering discipline.

Five Areas. Our department research teams and thesis/research seminar topics are organized around: Biomedical Science and Engineering, Complex Systems, Energy, Environment and Industrial Support. These five organizing principles cluster together science and engineering faculty and both graduate and undergraduate students around exciting multidisciplinary research on topics that have high impact on society and industry in general.

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Ateneo Teams Bag 1st and 3rd Place in 5th SMART SWEEP Innovation and Excellence Awards

06 May 2009 - 04:55 by RodCoronel in Interesting

Two Ateneo teams emerged as winners in the recently concluded Smart Wireless Engineering and Education Program (SWEEP) Innovation and Excellence Awards held last March 12-14, 2009 at SM Megamall Megatrade Hall 2.

The Smart Pasa Goods team, composed of Carlos Miguel Lacson(5-BS ECE), Aldrin Khan(5-BS ECE), Marc Ericson Santos(5-BS ECE) and Marty Peterson Tan(5-BS ECE) and mentored by Mr. Ronell Sicat(ECCE faculty), bested all ten finalists. Smart Pasa Goods is a system for gathering relief goods through the use of social networking, Smart SMS and Smart Money transfer. It allows advanced collection, easy donation transactions and donation monitoring.

Receiving second runner up is Smart Iwas Baha, a system which allows subscribers to get flood information on public roads through SMS or MMS. Data is collected from actively participating community members and is archived for analysis and other applications. The system was developed by Paulo Olayres(5-BS ECE), Dale Derrick Dy,(5-BS ECE) Grace Benedicto(5-BS ECE) and mentor, Engr. Rod Michael Coronel(ECCE faculty).

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Interlinks 5.0

Directory of Posters:

Poster Number	Title	Department
1	Visualization of Tropical Rain Data Using Wireless Communications Networks for Disaster Management	ECCE
2	A Design of a Low-Cost High-Voltage Pulsed Current (HVPC) Stimulator Applied on a Bacterial Nutrient Agar Medium	Biology
3	Expansion and Refinement of Braille Display For Classrooms	ECCE
4	Water Quality Assessment of Selected Lakes in San Pablo Laguna: Implications to Water Resource Management	E.S.
5	Actuation of an elastomeric diffraction grating by a shape memory alloy	Physics
6	Power Law for fluorescent emission from chlorophyll	Physics
7	Open Source Social Networking Site Engine	DISCS
8	Synthesis of Alkenyl Succinic Anhydride-Modified κ-Carrageenan	Chemistry
9	Energy Harvesting for Low Power Sensors	ECCE
10	Studies on the Optomechanical Properties of Sylgard 184	Physics
11	Clean Water Systems Using Solar Power For Off-Grid Communities	ECCE
12	Wireless Sensors Network Hybrid Design for Global Monitoring and Control	ECCE
13	Remediation Technologies	ES
14	Wireless Library System with Mobile Near Field Communication	DISCS
15	Algae for Oil: Maximizing the Growth and Lipid Production of Chlorella vulgaris and _Chlorococcum humicola_	ES
16	Case Studies on Breast Cancer Risk Analysis Using the Tyrer-Cuzick Model	Math
17	Computer Interface of Thickness Monitor	ECCE
18	Exploratory Simulation of Human Interaction: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator	DISCS
19	Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability in Metro Manila Using the C4.5 Data Mining Algorithm	Math
20	Application of Visibility Graph Analysis in Spatial Marketing	DISCS
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22	Volume Holographic Analysis of Human Pattern Recognition in Solving 4x4 Sudoku Number Puzzles	Physics
23	Techniques for the Deposition of Titanium Dioxide in the Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.	Chemistry
24	The Design Theory of a Low Cost Gas Chromatograph	Chemistry-ECCE
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26	Human Interface Device Making Use of the Nintendo Wii Remote	DISCS
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28	Construction and Calibration of an LVDT-based Surface Profilometer for Sculpted Elastomer Surfaces	Physics-MSE
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31	Java Cell Handwriting Recognition Engine	DISCS
32	Volume holographic storage of Bessel beam arrays	Physics
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34	Filipino-Based Role Playing Game on the XNA Platform	DISCS
35	Strain effects on multiplexing selectivity of elastomer phase masks for volume holography	Physics
36	Mobile Doctor: Mobile Telehealth Information and Resource System for Community Health Workers	DISCS
37	Enabling Ateneo de Manila University’s Cluster Computers For Grid-Based Cancer Research	ECCE
38	Application System for Queuing Analysis	DISCS
39	Video Steganography Using Flash Video (FLV) for Telemedicine	ECCE
40	Data-Logging with GPS and Bluetooth with FPGA	ECCE
41	CPLD-Based IC Tester Implementation and Robotic Arm Characterization	ECCE
42	Telemedicine: Application of Low-Cost Accelerometers via Rehabilitation and Training	ECCE
43	Mechanical & Magnetic Properties of a Silicone-Iron Composite Cured Under the Influence of an External B-field	Physics
44	A preliminary Study of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Based on the Zigbee Protocol	ECCE
45	A Quantitative Analysis on the Quality of the Short Message Service in GSM Networks	ECCE
46	Development of Field Sensors for Off-Grid Aquaculture Applications	ECCE

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