ECE to EcE Conversion

I recently attended a seminar conducted by Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineer of the Philippines – Cordillera Administrative Region Chapter now Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP-CAR CHAPTER) regarding Electronics and Communication Engineer (ECE) conversion to Electronics Engineer (EcE). The small ‘c’ in Electronics Engineer is put to distinguish between Electrical Engineer (EE) while the capital ‘C’ in ECE distinguishes between Electronics and Communications Engineer and Electronics Engineer respectively. It was held at University of Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines on March 2, 2008.

I was expecting to meet some of my old friends in college but that was never the case. Where are the Saint Louis University ECE Batch 1994?

Being an Electronics and Communication Engineer myself, I am concerned with this new Republic Act 9292 (RA9292) which is known as “Electronics
Engineering Law of 2004″. I was informed that we can no longer renew our license as an ECE from Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) when our license expires because of this RA 9292. In short, we have to convert from ECE to EcE.

As stated in RA 9292, this law is necessary to “develop and nurture competent, virtuous, productive and well-rounded Professional
Electronics Engineers, Electronics Engineers and Electronics Technicians whose
standards of practice and service shall be excellent, qualitative, world-class and
globally competitive through inviolable, honest, effective and credible licensure
examinations and through regulatory measures, programs and activities that foster
their integrity, continuing professional education, development and growth”

However, I am much concerned with the implementation of this law. I am appealing to the Local Government Units (LGUs) to make sure that this law is enforced so that we can achieve what is being defined in the law. It is high time that laws like should be implemented.

P.S. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) in Telecommunications was also presented. Will this technology replace ASIC? That we have to watch out.

 

Measurement of success!

When I was a child, I dreamt to be a successful lawyer, like my Uncle Elping. But it never happened. Instead, my younger sister Rhoda did it. She became an attorney-at-law.

During my high school days, new technologies emerged and so I dreamt to be a Computer Engineer, to be employed in the biggest and best company available. And of course with all the luxuries of a very high-paying job. But it never happened. Instead, I became an Electronics and Communications Engineer and established my own business.

When college days came, I dreamt to study in Manila – where the best and biggest universities are believed to fulfill my studies. But it never happened. Instead, I graduated at St. Louis University, Baguio City.

Every time I started counting my dreams with my fingers, I also started to count my ‘failures’ with my feet. Most probably, I should include your feet too, in my counting.

So, I ask myself. Am I successful in life? A question that is seems to be unfathomable. A question each of us is maybe asking right now.

That answer came to me just a few days ago in an unlikely manner.

It was late at night. Around 10:30PM. I was busy debugging one of my software under development, when my son passed by to get glass of water from our dispenser. (He usually do that at night.)

When he passed by I ask, “How’s your school?”

He proudly replied, “I got a star in my hand!” And he showed me a red star stamped at the back of his left hand. (If a student did a good job in school, he will get a star in the hand.)

I congratulated him, “Very good!”

He smiled and I kissed him good night.

I don’t know what came to my mind. But I realized how happy had been my child when he got that star. I realized how successful he was to himself.

One by one, I count the things I have done. As I recall each thing, I smiled and look at the back of my hand and I said to my self, “This could have been full of star if I did stamp my hand for every good job I did!”

Surely, being successful is not measured by the amount of money you got. It is not measured by material things you acquire. Nor it is not measured by the luxurious lifestyle.

Being successful is doing what you think is right and best in everything you do. Being successful is appreciating yourself for each good job you made. And don’t forget to stamp that star in you hand!

Originally posted at www.lakay-lakay.com

 

Hello world!

program HelloWorld;
begin
  writeln('Hello World');
end.

That was the first programming language I was in love with – Pascal. I was able to developed an anti-virus for Sayhawatpu (the most famous virus at that time in our school, St. Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines – 1990’s) and a generic anti boot-virus which I planned to sell but turned out to be a freebie to my friends.

My passion to Pascal died down when I was introduced to C programming language. I was amazed with its efficiency, ability to access low-level system access and its flexible syntax. Eventually, I moved to objected-oriented C++ where I developed my first ever commercial application, Breakpoint WinTimer.

I was not spared from the .NET technology storm in 2002. I co-developed a school system using ASP.NET – VB.NET in 2003. However, C runs deep to my blood so I shifted to C# in my choice of programming language.

For now, all our developments are made in C# using Visual Studio.