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HEADLINERS Erap’s Alma Mater "Reinvented" He never did get his engineering degree from there, but President Estrada feels proud that his alma mater, the Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), the country’s premier engineering school, is being "reinvented" under the leadership of a student activist-turned-scientist. Estrada was one of the first to congratulate Dr. Reynaldo Vea when the former Dean of the University of the Philippines’ College of Engineering became the new Mapua president. "Galing ako diyan [I came from there]," Estrada proudly told Vea when the latter personally went to Malacañang to inform him that he was leaving government service to head the academic institution. The new MIT president served as administrator of the Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System. Vea, whose investiture as MIT’s third president was held recently, aims to produce the first Filipino student to devise the "cheapest computer chip" in the world. Vea finished mechanical engineering at UP and has a master’s in naval architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Marine Transportation Systems from the University of California in Berkeley in 1991. In January, the YGC -- the school’s new owners -- chose him to head MIT. At least 15,000 students are currently enrolled at Mapua Tech. Another 1,800 are enrolled in high school. The school graduates the biggest number of professional engineers in the country. In the next five years, Vea hopes to see Mapua Tech not only at the "frontier of knowledge" and very competitive regionally, but also at the forefront in solving the problems of the country.

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