Department Updates

The UPLB Chemical Engineering Quiz Team bagged 2nd Runner Up in the 45th Inter-University Chemical Engineering Quiz Show (INTER-U), a sub-event of the Students’ National Chemical Engineering Conference (SNCEC) 2023, organized by the UP Chemical Engineering Society Inc., commonly known as UP KEM. This year’s INTER-U was held last January 21, 2024, at the MERALCO Multimedia Lecture Hall, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Building, UP Diliman, Quezon City, and was participated by 10 teams from 6 universities and colleges nationwide. Two teams represented UPLB, dubbed Team A and Team B, during the said event.

The University of the Philippines Los Baños Department of Chemical Engineering (UPLB DChE) was awarded as the second Top-Performing school in the recently conducted October 2023 Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination by the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) with an overall passing rate of 96.43% (27 passed out of 28 takers).

Amidst the evolving landscape of the “new normal,” the Department of Chemical Engineering (DChE) at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) convened its first face-to-face testimonial program (post-pandemic) on August 4, 2023 at CEAT Lecture Hall. The department gave recognition to 73 Bachelor of Science (BS) graduates, 4 Master of Science (MS) graduates, and 62 new passers of November 2022 and May 2023 licensure examinations, infusing the gathering with a blend of inspiration and an optimistic outlook towards the future.

Last April 27, 2023, Prof. Monet Detras, UP Scientist I and the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, delivered her lecture as the recipient of the 2022-2023 UPLB Centennial Professorial Chair Award.

the BS Chemical Engineering curriculum on March 7, 2023.

The 2022 DChE Testimonial honoring the BS ChE Graduating Class of 2022 and May 2022 board passers was held virtually last August 5, 2022.

The UPLB Department of Chemical Engineering will be organizing a virtual stakeholders’ workshop with the theme “Stakeholders Engagement: Sharing Vision and Goals in Advancing the Chemical Engineering Education.“

We would like to inform everyone that the UPLB College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (UPLB CEAT) is already accepting applications for the Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) Scholarship for 1st Semester 2022 to 2023.