UP College of Engineering: our official PEx Thread

[klintz]

syempre naman. Yung sa Alchemes mukhang babae talaga.
IE club ulit ang EWOC.

[hanzo24]

Ano *** EWOC?

[psycho_wrath]

EWOC = Engineering Week Over-all Champion

[hanzo24]

EWOC = Engineering Week Over-all Champion

okie.

Nice. Congratulations IE Club

[jinj3k]

Oo nga. Yung sa IE Club nagagalingan rin ako. Kilos bakla/babae talaga. Ang galing nila

[carlhiro]

hello! mech eng here. sophomore.
on our hell semester! with es11 coming. haha.

hi rommel!

haha. wah. 3 lang es namin. 1, 11 at 12. natatakot na ko. nahilo na ko sa es1

[klintz]

^EEE ka ba?

hay nako, sa pasukan exam agad ng onse kelangan pang mag-aral.=(

[jinj3k]

Onse takers rin pala kayo Buti nga 5 LEs na ngayon e Di katulad dati

[klintz]

oo nga, sana madali lang din yung second exam tulad nung first. ^_^

[huntfan]

Kumusta na ang mga ka-College ko?.. post ko lang itong nabasa ko sa Manila Times about computerized election in UP and our college's leading role in its implementation. Natawa lang ako kasi nung student pal lang ako sa Engg eh parang isang beses lang ako na bumoto sa limang taon na stay ko..

Monday, February 11, 2008


UP Colleges Computerize
Student Council elections

By Ike Suarez, Tech Times Correspondent

Seven of the 25 colleges and institutes at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City will computerize the casting and counting of votes when campus-wide student council elections take place on March 4.

To be used will be the Halalan Voting System, a Linux-based application developed by UP students, which will run on existing computers in the participating colleges.

Tech Times learned that this shall be the second time some colleges in the university shall voluntarily automate their student council elections. The UP College of Engineering and the UP College of Statistics pioneered the practice in March 2007.

Joining the two colleges this year are: The UP National College of Public Administration and Governance, College of Mass Communications, College of Music, College of Science, and College of Business Administration.

The Halalan Voting System had been developed by members of the University of the Philippines Linux Users Group (Unplug), made up of computer science majors from the UP College of Engineering and other Open Source enthusiasts inside the Diliman campus.

Each of the seven colleges will have a copy of the Halalan application installed in one of their PCs linked to other PCs in the local area network (LAN). The latter computers shall serve as voting terminals.

“As early as 2003, Unplug members then had already developed a prototype of Halalan. However, lack of a suitable server had prevented its promotion at that time for voluntary use by colleges whose electoral boards had approved,” UP College of Engineering Professor Adrian Alcayde told Tech Times.

He briefly spoke with Tech Times immediately after Unplug members had recently given a technical presentation on Halalan at the UP College of Engineering before members of college electoral boards interested in using the system.

Professor Alcayde is a member of the UP College of Engineering electoral board. The UP Office of Student Affairs administers student council elections through these boards made up of faculty and student representatives.

UP’s liberal tradition and culture have caused the impartial and honest administration of student council elections over the decades.

“Only after Unplug had won an international contest on Open Source concepts in September 2006 and received an IBM server as a prize that it finally was able to promote voluntary use of the system in the UP Diliman campus,” Alcayde said.

The contest was the Software Freedom Day 2006, a yearly competition organized by Software Freedom International, a non-profit organization based in New Hampshire in the US that advocates greater worldwide use of Open Source applications for social development projects.

As with other contest participants, Unplug submitted online its Halalan concept, including technical documentation. The concept was chosen as Best Plan for Free and Open Source Deployment Project on Web Server for Community Benefit.

In January 2007, the IBM System P5510 Express Server, was shipped, and Unplug arranged for its installation in the new UP College of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Electronics department building where computer science subjects are taught.

“Halalan had initially been conceived to run on the UP Diliman campus’ wide area network (WAN). But unresolved issues on the reliability of its connectivity caused the application to be made to run in its backup mode, via LAN in colleges opting to adopt it,” said John Bitanga, Unplug president, who also spoke with Tech Times.

“Halalan is basically a relational database system running on SUSE Linux. When first used in 2007, its developer platform was PostSQL. However, it has been enhanced this year and migrated to the MySQL platform. Both run on Open Source,” Bitanga added.

Bitanga also said that the Code Ignite enhancement enables rapid configuration of Halalan to adjust to the peculiar voting needs of each adopting college.

In addition to campus-wide student council positions, positions in each of the college’s local student council are also contested for by candidates. Elections for these student councils take place at that same time.

For her part, UP Vice-Chancellor for Sudent Affairs Elizabeth Enriquez told Tech Times: “In 2007, voting at the College of Engineering and in the College of Statistics ended at 7 p.m. with results known in a little over 15 minutes afterwards. Other colleges retaining the traditional method of manual voting and counting had results known only early the next morning.”

Enriquez, a former television newscaster and now a faculty member at the UP College of Mass Communications , attended the Unplug presentation.

[carlhiro]

^EEE ka ba?

hay nako, sa pasukan exam agad ng onse kelangan pang mag-aral.=(

haha. oo. eee ako. next year pa ko kukuha ng onse kasi di ko pa tapos ang 54.

pero good thing, nakasurvive ako sa es1. ang common na nirarant ng isang engg student ay ang onse at dose.

nakita ko nga yung pinagaaralan ng lab partner ko sa chem16 [na shiftee patungong eee] ang onse. grabe. nosebleed.

[psycho_wrath]

dose na ako this summer. haha.

[klintz]

^^ako din dose na sa summer, baka maging classmate pa kita, haha.
pero ngayon onse muna proproblemahin ko.

[bolero]

Musta peeps?

Tagal ko na ring di nakakabalik sa Engg.

[bolero]

Wow, second KEM! K-E-M, go fight!

KEMer ka?

Musta ba KEM? Dami pa rin bang bading?

[kiko17]

ako din KEM (ancient history), ewan lang kung madami pa ding bading...LOL, not that there's anything wrong with that.

[bolero]

haha..

Kiko, ano bang batch mo sa KEM?

[psycho_wrath]

@klintz. kitakita na lang sa dose. haha. mukhang yung 7am class ang kukunin ko. kung meron man.

[kiko17]

bolero, mas ancient history ka sa kin by a couple of batches, kilala kita...LOL

[inghinyero]

Go Engg! Hehehehhehe!