Wilfredo Jose

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WILFREDO I. JOSE, PhD (DocWillyJoe) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering, University of the Philippines where he teaches several graduate and undergraduate courses. Prof. Jose obtained his BS Chemical Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology in 1969, MS Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines in 1976, and M. Phil. and PhD from Rutgers University in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He placed first in the Chemical Engineering Board Examination in 1969 and was conferred the Outstanding Chemical Engineer of the Year Award in 2007 by the Professional Regulations Commission.

Courses handled

ChE 101 Introduction to Chemical Engineering
ChE 171 Introduction to Biochemical Engineering
ChE 198 Special Problems: Health and Wellness Engineering (This is a new area of study.)
ChE 266 Waste Utilization (For revision to Waste Engineering)
ChE 202 Biotechnology for Engineers (This course is available to non-engineers as an elective)
ChE 233 Chemical Bioreactor Design
ChE 292 Biochemical Engineering
ChE 297 Special Topics: Design Engineering Principles and Practice (A new course)
ChE 298 Special Problems: Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design (A new course)
ChE 298 Special Problems: Design for Environment and Sustainability (A new course)
EnE 303 Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
Special Courses Offered Through the National Engineering Center
Seminar/Workshop on Innovation and Creativity for Industry Professionals
Seminar/Workshop on Innovation and Creativity for Educators
Seminar/Workshop on Innovation and Creativity for Researchers

Awards and Recognitions

Achievement Award in Engineering, National Research Council of the Philippines, 1990.
Outstanding Young Scientist in Engineering, National Academy of Science and Technology, 1987
G. Y. Zara Award in Applied Science (Biochemical Engineering), conferred by the Philippine Association for the Advancement of Science, 1991.
Outstanding Researcher of the University of the Philippines System for 1986-87.
Outstanding Engineering Researcher, conferred by the U. P. Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc., July 1992
Holder, UPERDFI (University of the Philippines Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc.) Professorial Chair in Waste Utilization, 1978 to 1990
Holder, C. A. Ortigas Professorial Chair in Chemical Engineering, 1991 to 1999
Holder, Cerlito San Juan and Family Professorial Chair in Engineering, 2000-2009
Holder, Sy Ling Chat Professorial Chair, 2010
Winner, 1991 National Science and Technology Week Search for Outstanding Research Award (Environment Category), Department of Science and Technology, July 12, 1991
Winner, Best Poster Paper Competition, 2nd Asia Pacific Biotechnology Congress, Los Baños, Laguna, May 22-24, 1991
2nd Prize, Regional Cluster Competition of the 7th Regional and National S&T Fora Competitions in Industry and Energy, February 2008
2nd Prize, Scientific Poster Presentation, Scientific Poster Exhibition, 74th NRCP Meeting, Manila Hotel, March 8, 2007
Outstanding Silver Jubilarian Award in Academe, MIT ChE-Chem Alumni Association, Inc. 21st Alumni Homecoming and Convention, Nov. 26, 1994

Articles Written

• An_Engineer,_But_a_Teacher_First
• Health_and_Wellness_Engineering
• Patents_and_Paradigms
• Generating New Ideas by Probing Paradigms
• Engineering Education in the 21st Century: Toward an Innovation-Driven and Sustainability-Centered Engineering Design by Joel L. Cuello
• The Application of Engineering Principles to Health and Wellness
• Handling Knowledge and Ideas as Patterns: Employ Paradigms as Packets Forming Non-regular Interloping Fractals

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. During my undergraduate years, I spent my leisure hours solving chemical engineering and mathematics problems. During the exams it always turned out that I have 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 in the M.S. and Ph.D. courses. I compiled the solutions of the problems I solved and made a reviewer for my own use. A friend borrowed it and unknown to me, he photocopied it and other people used it. Years later, I learned that this reviewer was being used in other schools. Up to now, some people thank me for having used the unauthorized reviewer and passed 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 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, “Introductory Concepts in Chemical Engineering”, to be published by Alex Sy of Alexan. It contains an easier teaching strategy. The next will be “Biotechnology for Engineers”, which features a new teaching strategy and original researches. 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.)

They say I do many researches and I really loved to do researches. However, some circumstances prevented me to pursue the work as hard as I should. Instead, I turned my attention more and more to social science aspect particularly on 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 I started probing the paradigm of chemical engineering. It was very intuitive. I gradually developed a technique of promoting creativity and innovation. I first turned my attention to formulating teaching strategies and innovations and came out with 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 people 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 the state of our technology cannot offer applications for this profession. Probing its paradigm will tell us that all the basic principles in science and engineering is provided by chemical engineering that we can consider a good basic background for applied science and engineering disciplines. [[