Human Resource Development

To achieve the critical mass of RSEs to about 1000 PhD degree holders and even more for Master’s degree in the next seven years (2020), local scholarship is awarded to deserving Filipino engineering graduates and practitioners in order to improve the quality of engineering profession in the country. This exponential rise in the number of engineers with advanced degrees has it compounding effect on the value chain in the industry for economic growth as well as improving the quality of education in engineering departments of State Colleges and Universities. Providing MS and PhD scholarships is made possible through the local scholarship component of the ERDT Program.

In addition, other components of the human resource component include faculty development, visiting professor program, postdoctoral fellowship and research dissemination program for faculty advisers of ERDT scholars.