Editing Wilfredo Jose (section)

==Article reprinted from Ingenium 2007, The UP Alumni Engineers' Digest"==

I am a College of Eng’g alumnus because I finished my MS from the U.P.Ch.E. Department. I obtained my BSChE degree from another school. It must be a good school; otherwise, Dr. Rey Vea would not want to be President of that school. I spent leisurely solving chemical engineering and mathematics problems during my undergraduate years. During the exams, it always turned out that I had already solved at least one or two problems in almost all the exams. I consider that luck, which was with me in the Board Exams (where I got first place) and the M.S. and Ph.D. courses. I compiled the solutions to the problems I solved and made a reviewer for my use. A friend borrowed it; unknown to me, he photocopied it, and other people used it. Years later, I learned this reviewer was being used in other schools. Until now, some people have thanked me for using the unauthorized reviewer and passing the board exam. Hey, where’s my royalty?  (joke) But I did not want to be known as an author of a reviewer, so I started writing a book. However, it took me so long to publish it. Watch out for the first book in <s>2007</s>, <s>2008</s>,<s> 2009</s>, <s>2010</s>, 2011, “Introductory Concepts in Chemical Engineering,” to be published by Alex Sy of Alexan. It contains a more straightforward teaching strategy. (Latest: The 2nd Edition 2018 is finally copyrighted and  is now available at PhP700 per copy published by WIJTECH Solutions.) The next will be “Biotechnology for Engineers,” which features a new teaching strategy and original research. I like to tell jokes, but they are corny. My adviser in the US did not like them and called them “Willy Joke”. Watch out for my third book, “Willy Jokes by Willy Joe”. (No joke, really.)
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They say I do many types of research, and I love to do researches. However, some circumstances prevented me to pursue the work as hard as I should have. Instead, I turned my attention more and more to social science aspects, particularly to the concept of paradigms. I attended the seminar by Stephen Covey on invitation by Proctor and Gamble. At about the same time, I received a monograph describing the frontiers of chemical engineering. In these two instances, paradigms were described. I became interested in the concept and started probing the chemical engineering paradigm. It was very intuitive. I gradually developed a technique for promoting creativity and innovation. I first focused on formulating teaching strategies and innovations and devised several methods. I have probed the paradigms of biotechnology and biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, energy engineering, and engineering design. One of the results of probing paradigms is the truth about chemical engineering. Some comment that chemical engineering is a dying profession, gauging from the falling enrollment in other schools. But that is not the case in other countries. The problem in the Philippines is that our technology cannot offer applications for this profession. Probing its paradigm will tell us that all the basic principles in science and engineering are provided by chemical engineering, which we can consider an excellent essential background for applied science and engineering disciplines. 



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