De La Salle University opened its doors last March 13-17 to a team of assessors for the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance Assessment (AUN-QA) at the institutional level.

The assessors examined the different aspects of DLSU’s operations, including the Vision-Mission and key result areas, strategies and governance, quality assurance systems, core functions of teaching, research, and service, as well as the outcomes of the University’s various efforts. The formal result of the assessment will be released after about two months.

In a message to the community, DLSU President Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC cited the Quality Assurance Office headed by Dr. Gerardo Largoza and with support from Dr. Wyona Patalinghug, who served as consultant.Also cited were the staff including Sonia

Casabuena, Christine Lucero,Lilia Celio,and Michaella Buhainand the writing team composedof Dr. Esperanza Cabrera,Dr. Rechel Arcilla andJoy Rabo.

“The AUN QA institutional assessment is a reflection of our commitment to push the boundaries of excellence and service by constantly exploring ways to improve our selves and the Institution, as well as working together in pursuit of our Lasallian Mission,” he said.

DLSU undertakes AUN InstitutionalLevel Assessment

Developmental Legal Advocacy Clinic1st Semester, Academic Year 2016-2017

College of Law

288 Total cases

55 Archived andpending cases

55 Closed cases

34 Active cases

3 New casesfor approval

141 Cases withlegal advise

Students volunteers Hours of volunteerwork per intern

94 120

Archived cases are in the courtsand pending cases are in the COL advocacy clinic.

2401 is published bi-weekly by the Office for Strategic Communications (AH-21F, intercom 144). Editorial deadline is 3 p.m. Tuesdays. Contributions should include the name, office and signature of the sender. Materials may be edited for clarity or space. 2401 may be accessed online through the URL: http://www.dlsu.edu.ph.

Writers | Anne Alina-Acuña, AA dela Cruz, Juan Horacio Gonzalez, Arfie Koc, Donna Manio, Roy Monarch Sy Editorial Support | Alaric Lopez de Leon, Jill LegaspiMultimedia Coordinator | Magsy Magbanua

Creative Director | Peter Varona Art Director | Marc Louie EstevesGraphic Artists | Miguel Pabello, Chris Perez, Rhea BoholanoSecretary | Virginia Umacob-GasesOffice Assistant | Raymond Menor

Executive Director | Johannes Leo BadilloEditorial Supervisor | Ruby Carlos(ruby.carlos@delasalle.ph)2401 Issue 08 Artist-in-charge | Thomas Miranda2

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITYVolume 48 • Number 12 • 27 March 2017

F A C T S a n d F I G U R E S

Source: Developmental Legal Advocacy Clinic, College Of Law

Eco-car Delta wins top prize inShell Drivers’ World Championship Asia

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DLSU undertakes AUN Institutional Level Assessment

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Gold Anvil Awardfor institutional magazine

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Engineering student teams bag research awards

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5DLSU opens doors to ASEAN Chemical Engineering Academic Association

De La Salle University’s eco car Delta cameto a stellar finish at the first Shell Drivers’ World Championship (DWC) Asia in Singapore last March 19, beating five other Asia-Pacific teams to take the first spot in the Urban Concept-Internal Combustion Engine Category.

The Philippine team, together with Indonesian squads Bengawan Team 2 from Sebelas Maret University (2nd place) and ITS Team 2 from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (3rd place), will represent the region in the DWC Grand Finals in London where they will compete against top teams from Europe and America in May.

2401 (twen´te fôr´,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.

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Team members who helped in the development of the eco car celebrate their victory for DLSU and the country. Photo by Joseph Nair of Shell.

From left: BOT Chair Edgar Chua, Signum Meriti Awardee Rogelio Lazo Singson, and President Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC

Good governance crusader receives Signum Meriti medal In recognition of his invaluable contributions to the field of governance and public service, De La Salle University presented the Signum Meriti Medal to Rogelio Lazo Singson at the University’s 178th Commencement Exercises at the Philippine International Convention Center last February 25. The Signum Meriti Medal is a special university award of honor given to outstanding individuals for their exemplary leadership and service in their respective fields or industries.Singson earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City in 1971 and pursued a master’s program in Public and Business Management at DLSU.

He served the government as Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways from 2010 to 2016 and Chairman and President of the Bases Conversion Development Authority from 1998 to 2002. He also took executive posts at the Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation, John Hay Poro Point Development Corporation, BCDA Management Holdings, Inc., North Luzon Railways Corporation, Clark Development Corporation, and the Clark

International Airport Corporation from 1996 to 2002.

In his time in public service, he promoted transparency in the bidding processes and right-on-time implementation of infrastructure projects.

He also served in other private companies and entities, and is the current president of Light Rail Manila Corporation.

The College of Computer Studies Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing, and Networking presented the lecture, “Topics in Computational Photography: Seam Carving, Inpainting, and Texture Synthesis,” by Visiting Professor Michael Brown of York University, Toronto, Canada last March 22.

Brown discussed “computational photography,” a broad group of imaging and processing techniques that enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography to produce photographs that could not have been taken by a traditional camera.

Computational photography promises to change the way we think about photography. Seam Carving is a content-aware image resizing algorithm, developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir of Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. It works by creating seams or paths of least importance in an image and automatically removing these seams to reduce image size or inserting seams to expand it.

Inpainting refers to algorithms that replace lost or corrupted parts of the image data particularly small regions or to remove minor defects.

Brown obtained his BS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He held positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, California State University–Monterey Bay, Nanyang Technological University, and National University of Singapore. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Computer Vision.

The De La Salle University College of Law’s (DLSU COL) International Law Society and Licensing Executives Society International held a forum entitled, “Cybersecurity: Implementing the Data Privacy Act,” last March 2 at the DLSU Rufino Campus. The forum sought to shed light on the Data Privacy Act of 2012. National Privacy Commission Deputy Commissioner Domingo Mapa was the event’s keynote speaker.

Mapa’s lecture tackled the Data Privacy Act and how it ensures the protection of the fundamental human right to privacy of communication. According to the deputy commissioner, the Data Privacy

Act of 2012 is essential in forming a culture of trust in our society as well as in driving innovation and growth. Other speakers in the forum were from the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group and the National Bureau of Investigation. Representatives from companies such as Johnsons & Johnsons, Wells Fargo, Century Pacific Food, Inc. as well as leading law firms, such as ACCRA Law, Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia,and Cochingyan & Peralta attendedthe event.

The ASEAN Chemical Engineering Academic Association (AChEAA) will hold office at the Chemical Engineering Department of De La Salle University, following the election of DLSU faculty member Dr. Susan Roces as president of the Association.

AChEAA was recently organized by the ASEAN chemical engineers in recognition of the need to contribute to the academic, research, and the economic development of the region, through the advancement and promotion of the chemical engineering science and technology, consolidation of expertise, as well as bridging and strengthening of partnerships among Southeast Asian countries.

The association is founded bythe ASEAN Regional Symposiumon Chemical Engineering (RSCE),an annual collaborative scientificmeeting of ASEAN chemical engineers

that was initiated by Tokyo Institute of Technology throughthe support of the Japan International Cooperating Agency.The RSCE advisers elected the AChEAA interim officers duringa meeting last February 8-9 at King Mongkut’s Instituteof Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand.

De La Salle University teams won in the 10th Annual

Research Awards (ARAW) hosted by the Polytechnic

University of the Philippines Manila last March 11.

In the Scientific Research Category, the team of Karlo

Molato, Jesse Santos, Arthur Imperial, and Kyle Fermin with

adviser-coach Dr. Argel Bandala, associated professor of

the Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE)

Department, won 2nd place for their work, “Design and

Implementation of Swarm Algorithms for Swarm UAV for

Disaster Response Operation.”

Another DLSU team composed of Angel Medrano, Jonaida

Ebreo, Joshua Dela Cruz, and Reniel Inovejas,

likewise advised and coached by Bandala,

also bagged 2nd place in the Innovation

Research Category for their project,

“Development of a Text to Braille Interpreter

for Printed Documents Through Optical

Image Processing.”

Bandala served as coach and as fellow

adviser to co-faculty members from ECE

Department Engr. Edwin Sybingco and

Engr. Alexander Abad, Dr. Elmer Dadios, full

professor of the Manufacturing Engineering and

Management Department, for the team of Aaron

Uy, Ana Quiros, and Rhen Bedruz, which likewise garnered

2nd place in the Commercialization Research Category for their

project, “Development and Implementation of a Contactless

Vehicle Apprehension System.”

For his part, Engr. Jay Robert Del Rosario of ECE served as

adviser-coach to the team of Allen Koizumi, Gervin Guevarra,

Nicholas Moreno, Carl Michael Sy, and Jeremy Reccion for the

project, “Design and Development of a Vision-Based Target-

Oriented Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor UAV,” which

placed 5th in the Commercialization Research Category.

Visiting prof challenges conceptsof photography in CCS lecture

Forum tackles legal measures on cybersecurity

Gold Anvil Award for institutional magazineINVOLVED, an institutional magazine featuring someof DLSU’s outstanding faculty community engagement initiatives that have made impact on various communitiesand partners, brought a Gold Anvil Award for the University.

The award was given by the Public Relations Societyof the Philippines last March 10 at the Shangri-La Makati.

A team from the DLSU Office for Strategic Communications received the award for the publication, which wonin the category “Tools” and sub-category “Magazine”by a non-profit organization.

It was cited “for sharing the community engagementefforts of DLSU faculty members and highlighting the various programs and initiatives of the University as a national resource.”

Engineering student teams bag research awards De La Salle University is the top private university in the Philippines for 2016, according to the Webometrics Rankingof World Universities. The University ranked 1,925th globally and 45th in Southeast Asia, based on a review of more than 21,000 higher education institutions worldwide. Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions. The ranking was conducted by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. The independent research group aims to provide reliable, multidimensional, updated, and useful information aboutthe performance of universities from all over the world basedon global performance and visibility, as well as web presenceand impact.

Top private PHL university

DLSU opens doors to ASEAN Chemical Engineering Academic Association

The AChEAA interim officers, from left: Dr. Ir. Sanggono Adisasmito (Institut Teknologi Bandung), vice president;Dr. Maria Natalia Dimaano (University of Santo Tomas), secretary; Dr. Susan A. Roces (DLSU), president;Dr. Anchaleeporn Waritswat Lothongkum (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand), memberof the Board of Directors; and Dr. Ir. Moh. Fahrurrozi (Universitas Gadjah Mada) member of the Board of Directors.

Brown

The DLSU team, starting from third from left, Ruby Carlos (editor), Johannes Leo Badillo (executive director), Dr. Laurene Chua-Garcia (vice president for External Relations and Internationalization),Donna Manio (PR coordinator), Mark Louie Esteves (artist), and Jose Magbanua (multimedia coordinator), with members of the PRSP board of judges.

Eco-car Delta, from page 1

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The awarding ceremony was held during the culmination of the Make the Future Singapore 2017 at Changi Exhibition Center.

Shell Eco-marathon Asia gathered in a four-day event 124 student teams from Asia-Pacific countries to challenge them to design and build innovative and energy-efficient cars of the future.

- St. John Baptist de La Salle

Example makes a much greater impressionon the mind and heart than words.

Source: “How a Brother of the Christian Schools Must Show Zeal in His Ministry”,Meditations for the Time of Retreat