Engineering Week

Engineering Week

History

Pre-EWOC Format

Engineering Week began as a collection of competitions and games held by student organizations of the College of Engineering. These included Engineering Smoker of the Engineering Student Association - the first student organization of the university which was transformed to the Engineering Student Council, Awitan of the UP Chemical Engineering Society, and Indakan of Engineering Fraulein (Now Defunct) - the first female-exclusive student organization in the College of Engineering. 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 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 dismantling of certain students organizations. Personalities within campus also refused participation due to general suppression of freedom within the university.

EWOC Format

The lifting of Martial Law in 1981 allowed minor improvements to student organization. Dissent grew and became more vocal as the economic crisis of 1983 was exposed, which compounded with the news of Ninoy Aquino's assassination. Student organizations became shelters for discussions and organized activities.

In 1986, the Engineering Student Council transformed the entire event into a competition - by introducing the Engineering Week Overall Championship (EWOC) - to encourage participation. The UP Industrial Engineering Club was awarded the 1st EWOC after deciding to support all competitions with their participation, and quickly established a winning streak that would last until the next decade. The new format of Engineering Week was still held on February and continued without indication of the implications of demonstrations that today is better known as the 1st People Power Revolution. The succeeding Engineering Weeks were held on December to include the Christmas competitions and other activities that occurred like Maskipaps of the Beta Epsilon, and Lantern Parade activities.

Development

The streak of the UP Industrial Engineering Club was disrupted three (3) times during the 90s: twice by being dethroned by UP Chemical Engineering Society and once by campus violence; each leaving a profound effect on the competition.

The UP Industrial Engineering Club Era

The UP Industrial Engineering Club regained its streak in the start of the new millenia held it for 20 years.

Certain changes were effected to encourage participation. In 2013, fielding multiple participants per organization were virtually disallowed in all events. Previously, many events allowed organizations to have multiple representatives, however, this allowed large organizations to field multiple representatives to secure more points. This, however, was offset by the organization of over a hundred day events for Engineering Week. Subsequent Engineering Weeks, however, slowly decreased the number of events and extended the celebration from one week to two weeks.

Winners

No.	Year	Date	Champion (EWOC)	1st Runner-up (EWOR)	2nd Runner-up	Notes
34	2020	07 Mar 2020	UP KEM	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	3rd EWOC of UP KEM
33	2019	Mar 2019	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	30th EWOC of UP IE Club; Longest Streak of 19 EWOCs; Longest Duration of 20 years
32	2018	Mar 2018	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
31	2017	Mar 2017	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
30	2016	Mar 2016	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
29	2014	Dec 2014	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
28	2013	Dec 2013	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
27	2012	Dec 2012	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
26	2011	Dec 2011	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
25	2010	Dec 2010	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
24	2009	Dec 2009	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
23	2008	Dec 2008	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	20th EWOC of UP IE Club
22	2007	Dec 2007	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
21	2006	Dec 2006	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
20	2005	Dec 2005	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
19	2004	Dec 2004	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
18	2003	Dec 2003	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
17	2002	Dec 2002	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
16	2001	Dec 2001	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
15	2000	Dec 2000	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
14	1999	Dec 1999	UP KEM	-	-	2nd EWOC of UP KEM
13	1998	Dec 1998	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
12	1997	Dec 1997	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	10th EWOC of UP IE Club
11	1996	Dec 1996	Not Awarded	Not Awarded	Not Awarded	Violence caused the awarding to be cancelled (For Confirmation)
10	1995	Dec 1995	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
9	1994	Dec 1994	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
8	1993	Dec 1993	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
7	1992	Dec 1992	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
6	1991	Dec 1991	UP KEM	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	1st EWOC of UP KEM
5	1990	Dec 1990	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	End of 1st Streak of UP IE Club (5 years)
4	1989	Dec 1989	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
3	1988	Dec 1988	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
2	1987	Dec 1987	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	-
1	1986	Feb 1986	UP Industrial Engineering Club	-	-	1st EWOC of UP IE Club