West Visayas State University

West Visayas State University (formerly the Iloilo Normal School / West Visayas State College) will hold its Alumni Day celebration on January 28, 2012.

In commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Batch 1962 and the silver Jubilee of Batch 1987, the alumni are invited to be part of the celebration to once again reminisce and relive the University’s prestige.

The celebration will include the following, among others:

4:30 AM	Fun Run	College of PESCAR Alumni
7:00 AM	Mass
8:30 AM	Opening Program
	Welcome Remarks	Regent Ariel D. Castañeda (’87) President, WVSU Alumni Association Inc.
		Dr. Pablo E. Subong, Jr. President, WVSU
		Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog (’87) City Mayor
	Recognition of the  Participants	Dr. Leila D. De La Llana Director, WVSU Alumni Affairs
	Introduction  of the Guest Speaker	Dr. Napoleon Tiongco (’80, ’76, ’72)
	Message	Comm. Horacio P. Suansing (’76) Bureau of Customs
12:00 NN	Lunch Break
2:00 PM	Tribute to  the Awardees	PANAYANA Cultural Group
		Irong-Irong  Dance Company
	Awarding	Dr. Pablo E. Subong, Jr.  to be assisted by Regent Ariel D. Castaneda, Mrs. Ida B. Endonila and Prof. O B. Dañocup

 Program will be at the Quezon Hall grounds. A registration fee of PHP 150.00 shall include a snack and a invitation to donate for the "Sendong Victims" and other worthy projects of the Alumni.

Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo and Prof. Ma. Beth Concepcion, both faculty of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology presented three ICT research papers last December 8-15, 2011 at Jeju Island, South Korea for the Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) International Workshop as part of the Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT) Conference. This is a venue to gather researches from the academic and industry sectors including practitioners to collaborate and share ideas at the same time find problems and solutions relating to Information Technology.
Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo and Prof. Ma. Beth Concepcion The papers presented and published in the International Proceeding of the Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN), indexed by SCOPUS with book ISSN-1865-0929  and ISBN-978-3-642-27200-4 include: (1) Hierarchical Clustering and Association Rule Discovery Process for Efficient Decision Support System, Authors: Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung-Cheol Byun, Bartolome Taguiling III, Marino Osorio and Anrem Balontong; (2) Automated Video Surveillance for Monitoring Intrusions Using Intelligent Middleware based on Neural Network Algorithm, Authors: Ana Rhea Pangapalan  (BSIT 2010), Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung-Cheol Byun, Joel T. De Castro and Francisca Osorio  and ; (3)  SMS-Based Automatic Billing System of Household Power Consumption based on Active Experts Messaging; Authors: Marc Dominic Cabioc (BSIT 2010), Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung Cheol Byun, Leopoldo B. Carmelo and Ma. Beth S. Concepcion.

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SERA 2011 conference in Baltimore USA, Aug. 10-11. Dr. Gerardo (WVSU), 2nd and from right with the Conference Chairs, Chao Lu, Towson University (3rd) , U.S.A. Dr. Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, U.S.A. (4th) Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo, Faculty of the Institute of ICT and currently the Vice President for Administration and Finance and some IICT Faculty members have a total of four research papers that have been accepted and presented in the SERA 2011 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA last August 10-11, 2011.

Along with Dr. Gerardo are three other co-authors that come with him in the USA were Bartolome Tanguilig III, Ariel Sison and Joseph Manalang of Technological Institute of the Philippines. Dr. Yung-Cheol Byun from Jeju National University is one of the international research partners of Dr. Gerardo that have contributed a lot in the acceptance and presentation of the four papers. Two of the papers where developed through the leadership of April Rose Semogan, IICT student and Ariel Sison, PhD student of Dr. Gerardo.

This endeavor has been successful because of the involvement of selected IICT Faculty members such as Joel T. De Castro, Director of IICT and Louie F. Cervantes, Director of the Management Information System Office and the support of the WVSU administration. This publication is indeed one of the achievements of WVSU for its vie to be globally competitive in terms of research publications.
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The Green Technology Business Incubation Facility (GTBIF) Business Plan and Building Design Finalized The GTBIF Project Team headed by its Project Leader, Dr. Gerard L. Penecilla and Asst. Project Leader Prof. Joel T. de Castro with the assistance of technical experts from the DOST Technology Resource Center (TRC) headed by Director General Dennis L. Cunanan, Mr. Abelardo Valdez, Manager of the Technology Assessment and Commercialization Department (TACD) and Ms. Cherryl D. Ortega, Development Management Officer III of TRC provided the major inputs of the business plan for the WVSU Administration headed by Dr. Pablo E. Subong Jr., President, and Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo, Vice President for Administration and Finance.
The GTBIF will house two major priority S&T areas of concern for development and commercialization of new products: herbal pharmaceuticals and industrial technologies with ICT component.  DOST Philippine Council for Industrial, Energy and Emerging Technologies Research and Development (PCIEERD) and Technology Assistance and Promotion Institute (TAPI) can provide the needed high-end equipment while Technology Resource Center (TRC) and Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) can provide funds for the infrastructure and other technical assistance.  The whole project is estimated to require about twenty million pesos (PHP 20M) capital outlay with additional annual operational budget from TRC for a maximum duration of three years after which the facility will be self-supporting.

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