2014 Faculty Research Trainings
The trainings started in May May 26-28, 2014 when twenty-two participants from the five campuses went to Surigao City for a training on the creation of proposals for hazard mapping and disaster risk assessment and for the critiquing of the articles of the JEHRD. SLSU was joined by three other state universities from both Agusan and Surigao.
Twenty-seven journal article writers and promising researchers went to Nasipit, Agusan del Norte for a training on scientific article format, regression analysis and application of theory on June 18-20, 2014. The statistics lecture-workshop was the beginning of the soon-to-follow monthly trainings on statistics that ran until December.
SLSU was back in the same venue on July 16-18, 2014 for the continuation of statistics workshops and critiques of research methodologies and statistical results.
In August, the training moved to Cebu with a new set of universities participating for the first time in Padua’s trainings. SLSU played host to a new group composed of Naval State University, Samar State University, Leyte Normal University and Negros Oriental State University, in August 13-15, 2014.
In September, SLSU sent again delegates to the training on Simulation Modeling in Cebu on September 10-12, 2014. Several journal articles created out of this training would eventually find its way into publication in the JSET and spur simulation article ideas among faculty members.
A second training was held on Simulation Modeling on September 26, 2014 to create more simulation articles for JSET. SLSU instructors who had attended the Simulation Modeling training in Cebu were tapped as the resource persons.
SLSU was back again in Cebu in October 6-8, 2014 for a training-workshop on Data Mining and Theory Building and continued critiquing of research outputs from all the participating universities. In November 5-7, 2014 the workshop moved to Fractal Analysis. A continuation of the training on Fractals in Cebu in December 3-5, 2014 was cut short by typhoon Ruby.
“These trainings are an investment, and we should invest,” said Vice President for RDE Dr. Prose Ivy Yepes. “We should empower those from the technical and engineering fields, as our journal name – the Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology carries the banner courses of the campus.”
DIVISION OF LABOR. SLSU-Hinunangan Research, Development and Extension (RDE) Director Wade Lim assigns components of the hazard and disaster assessment proposal to other RDE directors and unit heads. (L-R:) SLSU-Sogod Research Unit Head Dewoowoogen Baclayon, SLSU-Sogod Extension Unit Head Veronica Reoma, SLSU-Bontoc Planning Officer Gordon Opina, Wade Lim and SLSU-San Juan RDE Director Gary Garcia.
Researchers group themselves into teams to answer statistical exercises in the training-workshop in July 16-18, 2014.
SLSU participants with resource speaker Roberto Padua.
A streamer in the training in Cebu.
Computer Science and Information Technology instructor Rhoderick Malangsa discusses the generation of a simulation model before more than a dozen faculty members from different campuses at the training on September 26, 2014 held at SLSU-San Juan.
Participants from four other state universities listen to Dr. Roberto Padua in the training on Data Mining and Theory Building in October 3-5, 2014.