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Chairman Bayani F. Fernando was born on July 25, 1946 in San Juan, Metro Manila. He is married to the present Mayor of Marikina City, the Honorable Maria Lourdes C. Fernando. He is a licensed Mechanical Engineer who has acquired his managerial skills from the company he has established – the BF Group of Companies, a steel fabrication, general construction and manufacturing business. His success in private business coupled with his aspiration to help people, motivated him to pursue a career in government.
Chairman Fernando ran for public office and became mayor of Marikina City in 1992. Because of the significant transformation of Marikina City from a “rape capital” into one of the country’s model cities, he was re-elected as Mayor for two consecutive terms.
The Chairman was conferred with 55 major regional and national awards during his incumbency as Mayor of Marikina City. Among the major awards are: The Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Awardee for Government Service in 1998, conferred by the Phil. Jaycee Senate and Insular Life Assurance Company; the Philippine Quality Award in 1999, Silver Award / Proficiency Level for Organizational Excellence, given by DAP / DTI; and the Galing Pook Hall of Fame Award for his various programs in Marikina City.
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DPWH Secretary Manuel M. Bonoan, the 38th head of DPWH, has spent more than half of his life in the Department as a Civil Engineer having started his career as civil engineering aide in 1967 during his senior year in Civil Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology. A year after, he passed the licensure exams and was promoted as Junior Civil Engineer, a job he held for only seven months, after which, he was again promoted as Civil Engineer of the then Bureau of Public Highways. From then on, he rose from the ranks until his appointment as DPWH Assistant Secretary for planning in 1987 and as Undersecretary in 1994. To beef up his civil engineering knowledge, Secretary Bonoan has finished his graduate diploma in Highway Engineering at the University of South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 1976. Secretary Bonoan, married with two children, is both a licensed civil engineer and environmental planner.
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Diosdado Banatao, a native of Iguig, Cagayan and an Electrical Engineering graduate from Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila is credited for eight major contributions to the Information Technology. Banatao holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
Banatao is most known for introducing the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster and for helping develop the Ethernet controller chip that made Internet possible. In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for personal computers and in the following year developed the First Windows accelerator chip. Intel is now using the chips and technologies developed by Banatao. He now runs his own semiconductor company, Mostron and Chips & Technology, which is based in California's Silicon Valley.
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Edith Mijares Ardiente, Vice President Environmental Affairs for International Truck and Engine Corporation of Warrenville, Illinois and 2005 President of the Air and Waste Management Association was given the prestigious Pamana Ng Pilipino (Heritage of the Filipino) Award by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at ceremonies held on December 7, 2006 at the President’s Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines.
Ardiente received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering, valedictorian, magna cum laude from the University of San Agustin in the Philippines. She was valedictorian of her high school class at the Colegio de San Jose in Jaro, Iloilo City. In college, she was a full university academic scholar and a Philippine Science Development Board scholar. She received her M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is a registered professional engineer (PE) and a qualified environmental professional (QEP).
Ardiente is the top environmental officer of International Truck and Engine Corporation. She is responsible for establishing corporate environmental policies and guidelines and providing technical and regulatory assistance to all International locations and operations. Under her leadership, the company has been recognized for its environmental excellence and leadership as evidenced by over 100 environmental awards received by its operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and India. These awards were mostly for pollution prevention efforts with documented savings of over 80 million dollars.
Ardiente was previously manager of environmental protection for Borg Warner Corporation (1986-1987); served as section chief for the hazardous waste permitting program and section chief of the air enforcement program at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 (1979-1986); and was senior chemical engineer for Sargent and Lundy Engineers (1973-1979). Prior to coming to the United States she was an engineering instructor at the University of San Agustin in the Philippines.
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Cesar “Buboy” Montano was born on August 1, 1962 in Manila. He is married to Sunshine Cruz and is with five children. He was educated at the Lyceum University in Industrial Engineering. He is now an actor/director/film producer and businessman. He was also appointed last May 19, 2004 as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Philippine commissioner for culture and arts. Currently, he is running for office in a senatorial seat.
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Antonio Trillanes IV was born on August 6, 1971. He is married to Arlene G. Orejana and is with three children (1 died). He was educated at the University of the Philippines, Master in Public Administration, and at the Philippine Military Academy, BS Naval Systems Engineering, 1995. He is an AFP Officer under trial because of his involvement in the Lakewood Mutiny. He is currently running for office in a senatorial seat.
They were engineers. They are engineers. Engineers actively engaged in the creative process of idea generation and problem solving in the real world practicing constructive profession attempting to make a better world through change. They are the personification, the representation of those others like them who have
To not only engineer perfect machinery as profession
but to engineer a promising society with passion
by taking their engineering to a leading position.
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