Communitas 2010 Issue for PDF File.pmd - University of San Agustin

June 2010 NEWS
Outstanding engineer addresses 2010 graduates
ENGINEER Jeffrey
Mijares, a 2001
Outstanding Chemical
Engineer Awardee,
addressed and inspired
the nearly one
thousand and five
hundred Augustinian
2010 graduates last
March.
Mijares finished his
B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from the
College of Engineering
and Architecture, then
College of Technology,
at the University of
San Agustin. At
present, he is the
manager of the
Corporate
Environmental
Management and
Safety Group, and the Ethanol
Project Team Leader of the
Roxol Bioenergy Corporation,
both of Roxas Holdings, Inc.—
the biggest sugar manufacturer
in the Philippines.
Concurrently, he is Pollution
Control Officer III of Central
Azucarera Don Pedro in Luzon.
This outstanding engineer is
also one of the recipients of the
Ten Outstanding Pollution
Control Officers (TOPCO)
Award in 1998. He is engaged in
various undertakings related to
his profession. He has served as
member of the Board of
Examiners in Chemical
Engineering and the Philippine
Association of Professional
Regulatory Boards at the
Professional Regulation
Engr. Mijares with Father President Raul M. Marchan O.S.A.
Commission, from 2006 to the
present.
Mijares has likewise served as
a member of the DENR
Pollution Adjudication Board
from 2003 to the present. He
had been president of the
Pollution Control Association
of the Philippines, Inc. for two
administrative years, from 2001-
2003. He has been chair of the
Sugar Industry Environment
Committee and the Committee
on Environment of the
Federation of Philippine
Industries.
Engineer Mijares has traveled
to various places in Asia, North
and South America, and Europe
in an on-going effort to enhance
his skills and knowledge in his
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chosen field. He has likewise
delivered talks, sharing his
learning with his colleagues and
countrymen.
The commencement speaker
opened his speech by challenging
the graduates through the
following question: “After you
leave your comfort zone within
the walls of the university…, will
your new life as a college
graduate (be) a constant struggle
for survival or will it be a walk
in the park?” He ended it by
giving them hope, saying: “Your
journey to follow your dreams
had just begun. Keep holding
unto it. It will take a little
while, but for as long as you
know where you are going, you
will surely get there.” (UCRP)