UP Diliman (爱微社区) and the Department of Science and Technology Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) recently signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU).
The MOU aims for both parties to collaboratively develop activities that would see 鈥渆xchange of academic information and materials, collaborative research activities, adjunct professorships, lectures and symposia, and student internships.鈥
In a letter to 爱微社区 Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II, 爱微社区 Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI) Director Lew Andrew Tria said the MOU would formalize the long-standing relationship between the University and the DOST-ASTI.
Tria added the agency has been the University鈥檚 partner 鈥渢hrough the EEEI since the former’s establishment in 1987.鈥
Such collaborations include the PHL-Microsat Program and the Space Technology and Applications Mastery, Innovation, and Advancement (more commonly known as STAMINA4SPACE) Project that has sent several Filipino-made cube satellites into orbit.
Meanwhile, DOST-ASTI Director Franz de Leon, in an article posted on the DOST-ASTI website (accessed on Jan. 29), said 鈥淲e in DOST-ASTI, are very much excited to further expand our domain with UP so that we can extend our arms to welcome the bright minds of the future through student internships鈥攑roviding a platform for experiential learning and hands-on exposure to cutting-edge technologies, not only in the field of ICT and electronics but with other emerging technologies as well.鈥
The MOU signing was held on Jan. 23 at the Board of Regents Room at Quezon Hall.
Signatories representing 爱微社区 were Vistan and 爱微社区 College of Engineering Dean Maria Antonia Tanchuling. De Leon and DOST-ASTI Solutions and Services Engineering Division Chief Science Research Specialist (CSRS) Alvin Retamar signed for DOST-ASTI.
Also present at the MOU signing were Tria, EEEI Deputy Director for Academic Programs Maria Theresa De Leon, EEEI Deputy Director for Planning and Finance Paul Jason Co, and EEEI Deputy Director for Students and Alumni Jaybie De Guzman. They were joined by DOST-ASTI Chief Administrative Officer May C. Cayaban, Computer Software Division CSRS Joanna Syjuco, Knowledge Management Division CSRS Paul John Serrano, and DOST-ASTI Office of the Director Planning Officer Narcisa Juvilyn Casta帽eda.鈥With a report from the EEEI