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After almost 3 months of serving as officer-in-charge, Engr. Nonilo Peña has been promoted as new chief of the Council’s Energy and Utilities Systems Technology Development Division (EUSTDD). He took his oath before Executive Director Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara witnessed by Deputy Executive Director Engr. Raul C. Sabularse and the division staff. Engr. Peña replaced Engr. Darwin M. Rosales who resigned in August 2013.

Engr. Peña started as Science Research Specialist I, of the same division, when he joined PCIERD in 1988. He rose from the ranks and was promoted as Supervising SRS in 1995. He maintained this position until the PCIERD-PCASTRD merger to PCIEERD in 2010. Before joining PCIERD, he was a Field Engineer for 2 years in Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific (AG&P), an industrial process outsourcing (IPO) company providing fabrication and assembly, modularization and asset management services to the oil & gas, mining, power and civil infrastructure sectors.

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Research and testing institutes as well as regional standards and testing laboratories under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) are now better equipped to handle requests for research, testing and validation services from manufacturers, researchers and students.

From 2007 to 2011, the DOST allocated P365 million for the upgrade and renovation of its seven research and development institutes (RDIs) to address the need for safe, accurate and cost-effective testing services in the food, metals, furniture, textile, cosmetics and other industry sectors.

The research institutes that were upgraded include Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI), Industrial Technology and Development Institute (ITDI), Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) and Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC).

Additionally, the DOST allocated P156 million to upgrade the facilities and expand the scope of services of its 14 Regional Standards and Testing Laboratories (RSTLs) by building capacity on specialized tests, enhancing manpower capability, and providing appropriate safety equipment and support to laboratory wastes treatment.

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President Benigno S. Aquino III has appointed Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara as the new Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

The appointment of Dr. Guevara comes after the recent appointment of Dr. Amelia P. Guevara, erstwhile PCIEERD Executive Director, as DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development.

A well-respected engineer and educator, the new Executive Director of PCIEERD specializes in speech and audio signal processing, time-frequency analysis and synthesis, and artificial intelligence.

As an educator for 27 years, Dr. Guevara began as an instructor and is currently a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. From 2004 to 2010, she served as Dean of the UP Diliman – College of Engineering and was Executive Director of the UP National Engineering Center.

From April 2007 to July 2010, Dr. Guevara was the program leader of the Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) of the DOST. The ERDT Project, which is being implemented through a consortium of eight universities in the Philippines, aims to upgrade the qualifications of local engineers and to increase the number of MS and PhD graduates in Engineering.

Additionally, Dr. Guevara has been the recipient of several awards in engineering and education, including the 2010 Metrobank Foundation Search for Outstanding Teachers of the Philippines for the higher education category.

As the new Executive Director of DOST-PCIEERD, Dr. Guevara will be responsible for leading one of three sectoral planning councils of the DOST. DOST-PCIEERD is the lead agency for the planning, promotion and management of scientific and technological research for the industry, energy and emerging technology sectors. (Margarette T. Maceda, RITTD-PCIEERD)

Caption: DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo swore in Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara as the new Executive Director of DOST-PCIEERD on July 2, 2012. Also in the photo are (left to right) USec. Fortunato T. Dela Peña, USec. Amelia P. Guevara and USec. Carol M. Yorobe.

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As promised by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), secondary senior students who have qualified for the college scholarship exam may now also access the online reviewer in preparation for their entrance examination on September 22, 2013. The scholarship program is under the Science Education Institute (SEI) of the DOST. 
  
In her interviews, Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCIEERD) said the online reviewers for both PSHS scholarship and SEI college scholarship will help applicants familiarize with the examination and make the scholarship even more accessible. More scholars mean more students taking up courses in science and engineering.  The college scholarship reviewer is ready and may be accessed at www.dostseireviewer.org.  Like the PSHS reviewer, this is internet-based and is accessible to any interested party, most especially to those who wish to simulate the examination, or those cannot afford to enrol in private review centers or have no access at all to such reviewers.
 

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Nowcasting.  Yes, there is such an activity which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) defines as the detailed description of the current weather along with forecasts obtained by extrapolation from the current time to six hours ahead. In this time range, it is possible to forecast small-scale features such as meso-cyclones, thunderstorms and tornadoes with reasonable accuracy”.
 
In its resolve to attract and encourage students to embrace the science of Meteorology, the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) of the Department of Science and Technology came up with the Nowcasting Competition. They will be challenged to use their research and computer programming skills in providing short-ranged weather forecast.
 
With the recent natural disasters caused by climatological changes, nowcasting could very well become a useful tool in the government’s efforts in disaster preparedness.