Editing Engineering Week (section)

=== Pre-EWOC Format ===
Engineering Week began as a collection of competitions and games held by student organizations of the College of Engineering. These included the following events:

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! Event !! Organizer !! Description !! Notes
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| [[Engineering Smoker]] || [[Engineering Student Association | Engineering Student Council]] ||  || The Engineering Student Association (ESA) was established in 1920 and is considered as the first student organization established in the College of Engineering. The ESA was the organization that represented students in the community, which was replaced by its subsequent alternatives like the Engineering Association Council and currently lives on as the Engineering Student Council. 
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| [[Awitan]] || [[UP Chemical Engineering Society | UP KEM]] || || 
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| [[Indakan]] || [[Engineering Fraulein]] || || The Engineering Fraulein is currently defunct and was the first female-exclusive student organization in the College of Engineering. Upon it's dissolution, the [[UP ACES]] decided to continue organizing the Indakan.
|}

Some of these events were originally intended and facilitated as university-wide competitions that allowed participants from other colleges; however, engineering organizations like the [[UP Industrial Engineering Club]] quickly became consistent main-stay participants which attracted both viewers and other participants.

The declaration of Martial Law in 1972 challenged the existence of student organizations and affected participation in the Engineering Week. Political organizations were repressed which caused the dismantlement of certain students organizations. Personalities within campus also refused participation due to general suppression of freedom within the university.