UE Caloocan student Fitzgerald M. Tañala has been declared as the Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Student of the year 2020 (MOCES 2020)! The Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Student title is awarded annually by the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) to an outstanding student member who belongs to an active PICE student chapter.
Mr. Tañala, a third-year Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering undergraduate of the UE College of Engineering-Caloocan, was awarded during PICE’s 83rd Founding Anniversary, a.k.a. PICE Day, last December 11 as broadcast via Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook.
Mr. Tañala is an active member of the UE Caloocan Association of Civil Engineering Students (UE-ACES) and is the current UE College of Engineering-Caloocan Student Council President.
He had served as Vice President-External (SY 2019-2020) and 1st-Year Representative (SYs 2018-2019 and 2019-2020) of UE ACES, during which he headed and became part of different outreach programs such as Carolus Christmas Giving 2018 and the “Green Day: Tree Potting Activity” that was held among the Dumagat community in Norzagaray, Bulacan.
He also served as the Auditor of the Caloocan Campus’s Engineering Student Council for SY 2019-2020, and was the Lakas Mag-aaral ng Pamantasan ng Silangan Community Involvement Co-Chairman for SY 2018-2019. He was a University Scholar under UE’s Integrated University Scholarship program for the second semester of SY 2018-2019 and the first semester of SY 2020-2021.
He had also competed in the Rube Goldberg competition at the 21st National Civil Engineering Conference, which was held at Lou-is Resort and Restaurant in Balanga City, Bataan on November 24, 2018—during which Engr. Joshua Ferdinand B. Villafuerte was awarded as the MOCES, not long before earning his BS Civil Engineering degree from the UE College of Engineering-Manila in April 2019.
The MOCES 2020 award is based on the PICE board members’ evaluation of the participants’ academic performance, leadership involvement, community service, and content of the nominees’ individual oral discourse based on the theme of “The Role of Civil Engineering in Moving the Nation through the New Normal.”
The top five finalists were judged during a round of interviews conducted via Zoom last December 8. Rounding out the top five along with Mr. Tañala were the respective bets of the Technological Institute of the Philippines-Quezon City, Southern Luzon State University Student Chapter, Xavier University and Bulacan State University.
Serving as Mr. Tañala’s mentors were Engr. Eduardo B. Leron Jr., a UE Caloocan Civil Engineering professor who is the UE CSC Adviser and the Business Manager-PICE North Metro Manila Chapter; Engr. Alexander D. Co, UE Caloocan CE Department Chairman and Engineering Student Council Adviser; the UE-ACES adviser, Engr. John Rei Gomez; other UE Caloocan CE professors; Dr. Victor R. Macam Jr., the UE CEng’g Caloocan Dean; Engr. Andres C. Macaalay Jr., the PICE North Metro Manila Chapter President; and UE Caloocan alumni such as Engr. Sebrina Nichol Packer, Engr. Calvin Maningas, and Engr. Joshua Ferdinand Villafuerte.
As MOCES 2020, Mr. Tañala earned a plaque of distinction and a P30,000 cash prize, along with certificates for his school and his mother chapter.
Congratulations and kudos, Civil Engineering Student Warrior!(Report courtesy of UE CEng’g Caloocan; image from the PICE Student Affairs and Education Facebook page:
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