Editing UP College of Engineering (section)

=== Peak Enrollment ===

A peak enrollment of 1,282 students, with an unprecedented number of female students (191) occurred in June 1958. In the faculty, six members resigned for various reasons. Professor Jose M. Segovia, head of the electrical engineering department, was among those who resigned; Professor Mamerto Nepomuceno was designated in his place. Professor Ernesto T. Mendoza retired in July 1958 after serving the University continuously for 34 years. Of the visiting professors, the three RCA field staff members continued to conduct the Electronics Training Program. Dr. Paul R. Byerly, Jr., a specialist in nuclear science arrived to help set up the training program in nuclear engineering leading to Master of Engineering (Atomic Energy) as well as in setting up the Atomic Energy Laboratory which was housed in the newly completed Textile Laboratory and General Purpose Pilot Plant building. One of the significant additions to the facilities of the College in 1953 was the setting up of the Radio Broadcasting Station, DZUP, and the electronics Communications Laboratory, DUIUP, atop the engineering building. The station and the laboratory provided training to electrical engineering students as well as serve the University for disseminating information of its activities to the public. Likewise, the College set up for the University a wireless communication network between UP Diliman and UP Los Baňos, Iloilo and Basilan.

Other events that transpired during the academic year 1958-1959 were the creation of the Department of Engineering Sciences to supersede the old department of mechanics and drawing, the holding of the 3rd Engineering conference, the setting up of the photo-elastic laboratory, and the completion of the wind tunnel building to house the wind tunnel unit of the hydraulics laboratory. Under a new setup for graduate studies in engineering, now being handled by the College, the first student with a Master of Engineering degree graduated. During the summer of 1958, eleven graduate students enrolled in the course leading to the degree of Master of Engineering (Atomic Energy). Also, by virtue of a resolution of the Board of Regents, the course in architecture was transferred to the Fine Arts to form the College of Architecture and Fine Arts.

The enrollment in engineering decreased to 1,319 in June 1959. Aid in the form of equipment was still received under the ICA-NEC program. Two members of the faculty were sent abroad for graduate work. In cooperation with the Bureau of Public School, an ICA-NEC sponsored program for training physics teachers was initiated in the College starting in the second semester of 1959-1960. The object of this program was the upgrading of Physics instruction in the high school. Thirty trainees registered in the course. Also, the Board of Regents created the Department of Industrial Services to take care of the practical side of shop instruction and the manufacture of furniture for the University.
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