USC ALUMNUS SHARES EXPERTISE ON WEB-ENABLED PROGRAMMING
SELECTED Computer Engineering students and the Computer Driven Enthusiast Club members at the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City have learned about web-enabled programming, which they applied in a car.
Engineer Mark Lven T. Palejaro, a USC alumnus now based in Singapore, shared his expertise with the students at the USC Science and Technology Library in Talamban campus on July 12, 2019.
The USC Library System, Computer Engineering Department and American Corner-Cebu organized the workshop in collaboration with Maker Initiative Singapore.
Dubbed “Library MakerSpace: Web-Enabled Programmable Car (WEP-C),” the event aimed to empower the next generation of computer engineers, encouraging their creativity and innovativeness. The workshop also promoted educational technology.
The Library MakerSpace series also aimed to promote sustainable living through science, technology, engineering, art and math, according to USC SciTech librarian Marciana R. Mariñas, MS.
WEP-C deals with the program that allows participants to experience firsthand the web-enabled programming, and to better understand the meaning of robotics in the context towards the fourth industrial revolution, which according to whatis.techtarget.com is “the current and developing environment in which disruptive technologies and trends such as the Internet of Things, robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are changing the way we live and work.”
The workshop’s participants first learned to assemble, create and design a car. Then they applied the programming later in the day.
They completed web-enabled programmable cars and exhibited their output before librarians led by USC director of libraries Maxie Doreen L. Cabarron and some USC community members.
Holograms
Maker Initiative Singapore gave out an Intel Galileo, a micro-controller board for robotics, to Andre Kimberly Trish D’Silva for being able to finish first in the challenge.
As a runner-up, Charm Johannes Relator got a Google Card Board that creates virtual reality viewing; and Daryl Butar received the special award for having the best design, tidiest and sturdiest car.
Engineer Linda E. Saavedra, MEng, chair of USC Computer Engineering, also joined in the workshop with her professors— engineers James Michael Cañete, Thairell Imperial, Alvin Joseph Macapagal and Jan Dave Campañera.
Campañera assisted in facilitating the one-day workshop with the speaker’s sister, engineer Mae Lennyvie T. Palejaro, also a USC alumnus.
Mark Lven, a major in Digital Systems Design when he graduated at USC in March 2009, first worked as senior software engineer at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a US firm operating in Biñan, Laguna. In 2014, he later became the advanced software engineer at Kulick and Soffa Pte Ltd. in Singapore.
While at HGST, he earned its Innovation Award and Hi 5 Award for Innovation and Execution.
He won first prize in the “Hackathon @ SG” by the Infocomm Development Authority with the International Testing Services Center; and second prize in “Startahon 2.0” by Ideasinc at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Mark Lven is a co-founder of Pocket Hologram, a project that promotes the creation of holograms with mobile application, and an active volunteer in One Maker Group, Sustainable Living Lab, and resource person in various National Geographic Channel events. S