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List of Mapúa University people

List of Mapúa University people

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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty associated with Mapúa University (formerly the Mapúa Institute of Technology) located in Intramuros, Manila and Makati in the Philippines.

Academe

Architecture

  • Gerardo Magat - architect and educator; garnered the highest score in the history of Philippine architecture board examination, 98%
  • Pablo Antonio - National Artist for Architecture[22]
  • Lor Calma - architect and builder[23]
  • Cesar Concio - architect and educator; Gold Medal of Merit awardee from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA and 1969 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awardee; former Dean Emeritus of the Mapua Institute of Technology[24]
  • William Coscolluela (1997) - architect and recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit award from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA;[24] awarded BCI Asia Top Ten Architects in the Philippines; founder of W.V. Coscolluela and Associates; projects include RCBC Plaza, Zuellig Building, Philam Life Tower, Robinsons Galleria, SM City North EDSA, and Discovery Shores Boracay
  • Paulino Lim (1998) - architect and recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit award from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA[24]
  • Rogelio Villarosa (1997) - architect and recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit award from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA;[24] founder of R.Villarosa Architects; awarded BCI Asia Top Ten Architects in the Philippines; projects include The Gramercy Towers at Century City, Soho Central, and Hamilo Coast
  • Gabino DeLeon (1995), Edilberto Florentino (2002), Froilan Hong (1992), and Jaime Marquez (1997) - architects and recipients of the Outstanding Architect of the Year award from the Professional Regulation Commission PRC[24]
  • Manuel Go - architect and builder of commercial landmarks
  • Felipe Mendoza - 1982 UAP first LIKHA and Gold Medal awardee; 1976 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awardee; recipient of the 1982 PRC Outstanding Architect of the Year award[25]
  • Jose Mañosa - architect and builder, one of the famed Mañosa brothers
  • Armand Commandante, and Josefina Ramos[26] - architects and educators
  • Willie Yu - architect and builder;[27] co-founder of G&W Architects; awarded BCI Asia Top Ten Architects in the Philippines,
  • Aquiles Caesar Paredes - architect, legislator, educator; committee member to revise the National Building Code; co-founder of the Architecture Advocacy International Foundation; voted the 1991 Outstanding Architect of the Year by the PRC[24]

Business and industry

  • Diosdado Banatao, BSEE - founder of S3 Graphics, Ltd.; considered the "Bill Gates of the Philippines" [28]
  • Antonio Abacan, Jr., BSBA - President of Metrobank[29]
  • Arnel B. Aranas, BSMIE - President of American Standard Philippines[30]
  • Oscar Biason, BSMIE - President and CEO of Bankard, Inc.[31]
  • Ricardo Buencamino, BSEE - Executive Vice President of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and Director of Meralco Industrial Engineering Corp. (MIESCor)[32]
  • Rudyardo Bunda, BSBA - Chief Operating Officer of the Union Bank of the Philippines[33]
  • Nilo S. Cruz, BSMIE - President of Hewlett-Packard Philippines [30]
  • Felizardo dela Merced, BSEE/BSECE - President of Asian Media Development Group and AZ Communications[34]
  • Amaury Gutierrez, BSME - former President of Caltex Philippines[35]
  • Roberto Huang, BSME - President of San Miguel Brewery Inc.[36]
  • Elenita Go, BSEE - General manager at SMC Global Power Holdings Corporation
  • Edilberto Palisoc, BSCE - General Manager of D.M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI), one of the largest construction companies in the Philippines[37]
  • Rodolfo Quiambao, BSCE - President and CEO of Rudell and Associates; cited as one of the 50 Outstanding Asian-Americans in Business in the USA[38]
  • Eliseo Santiago, BSME - President of Pilipinas Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Corporation[39]
  • Alfonso Supetran, BSChE - founder of ACS Manufacturing Corporation[40]
  • Jimmy T. Tang, BSEE - President of the AVESCO Group of Companies; member of the Metrobank Board of Trustees[41]
  • Jacinto Tan Uy, BSChE - President and founder of the Moldex Realty Inc., property developers [42]
  • Oscar de Venecia, BSCE - Chief Executive Officer of Basic Consolidated[43]
  • Augusto Villaluna, BSEM - Senior Vice President of Lepanto Mining Corp and Outstanding Mining Engineer of the Year awardee [44]
  • Norman Rabaýa, BSEnt - prominent investor and CEO of the Rabaýa Group.[45][46]
  • Manuel Villar, Jr., HS - businessman; founder of Camella & Palmera Homes, which built over a hundred thousand low- to medium-cost homes [47]
  • Angelito Villanueva, BSBA - BancNet Chairman of the Board[48]
  • Alfredo Yao - founder of Zesto Corporation, manufacturer of Zest-O fruit drinks and other corporations, including the manufacturers of Beam toothpaste and Quickchow instant noodles[49]
  • Manuel Bonoan, Juanito Ferrer and Romulo del Rosario - former National Presidents of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE)[50]
  • Gregorio Sadora (1979), Luis Mendoza (1980), Salvador Dulog (1981), Calixto Duria (1982), Hilario Gaerlan (1984), Meleusipo Fonorella (1988), Rafael Florentino (1989), Willington Tan (1990), Fernando Dumuk (1991), Benjamin Carbonell (1994), Gregorio Garces (1997) and Amador Calado (1998) - former National Presidents of the Institute Integrated Electrical Engineers IIEE[51]
  • Armando Pascual (1981), Julio Abarquez (1983), Arnaldo Baldonado (1984), Antonio Herrera (1986), Danilo Bulanadi (1990), Augusto Soliman (1994), Gerardo Hernandez (1996), Sergio Balolong (1998), Roberto Lozada (2002), and Danilo Hernandez (2004) - former National Presidents of the Philippine Society of Mechanical Engineers (PSME)[52]
  • Angel Lazaro, Jr. - former National President of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)[53]
  • Rosauro Calupitan, Conrado Hernandez, Severo Santiago, Fortunato Perlas, Rogelio Ramos, and Joel Marciano - former National Presidents of the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers of the Philippines [54]
  • Jose Saret - President of the Philippine Society of Mining Engineers[55]
  • Bayani Fernando, BSME - founder of BF Corporation
  • Edward Ray T. Mago, BSCE (1985) - 2022 President, PICE-USA Chapter International Charter I-11 of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE)[50]
  • Alfonso U. Lim, BSME - President of Limketkai Sons, Inc., Cagayan de Oro

Entertainment

  • FPJ "Da King" Fernando Poe Jr. - actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and politician.
  • Renato "Compañero" Cayetano, HS - lawyer, former senator, and media personality[56]
  • Ricky Davao, BSMIE - movie, television and stage actor; 1987 URIAN, Best Actor and 1989 FAMAS, Best Supporting Actor awardee[57]
  • Joshua Dionisio, BSIE - GMA 7's teen star and known as Barbie Forteza's love team
  • Joseph Ejercito Estrada, HS - FAMAS Hall of Fame awardee; former Mayor, Senator and President of the Philippines[58]
  • Augusto "Chiquito" Pangan, HS - popular comedian and 1984 FAMAS Best Actor awardee[59]
  • Jerome Ponce - cast member of the hit Philippine daytime series Be Careful With My Heart[60]
  • Ariel Ureta, HS - popular radio and television host, director, and comedian

Government and military service

Politics

Science and technology

  • Arturo Alcaraz, BSMining - expert on geothermal energy; recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (Asia's version of the Nobel Prize) in 1982; born in Manila
  • Diosdado Banatao, BSEE[65] - his contributions to the computer industry include the first single-chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator while at Commodore in 1976; the first single-chip MicroVAX for Digital Equipment; the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and trans-receiver chip; got 3Com into the Ethernet PC add-in card business while at Seeq Technology in the early 1980s; the first system logic chip set for the PC-XT and the PC-AT in 1985; and the first enhanced graphics adapter chip set; he was honored by the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University with a Doctorate Honoris Causa; born in Iguig, Cagayan
  • Leon Chua, BSEE - former Department Chair, University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering; first recipient of the 2005 Gustav Kirchhoff Award, the highest IEEE Technical Field Award, for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems; recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2000, the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize in 1972, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize in 1978, the Frederick Emmons Award in 1974, and the M. E. Van Valkenhurg Award in 1995 and 1998; holder of 7 US patents and 8 honorary doctorates; recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the top 15 most-cited authors in all fields of engineering from 1991-2001
  • Severino Gervacio, BSME - recipient of the 1981 Outstanding Young Scientist Award given by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), and the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Division of Mathematical Sciences given by the National Research Council of the Philippines in recognition of his outstanding achievements in pioneering research in graph theory[66]
  • Blandino Go, BSMetE - metallurgist in the aerospace industry; pioneering work on rapidly solidified dispersion strengthened aluminum alloys for high-temperature creep deformation resistance[67] His other research on superplasticity allowed the rapid deployment of super-plastic forming of aluminum[68] and titanium into production in the aerospace industry earlier than expected.
  • Antonio Mateo, BSEE - multi-awarded inventor with over 50 patents under his name; acknowledged and cited by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization; winner in the 27th International Exhibit of Inventions in Switzerland
  • Salvador Umotoy, BSEE - Engineering Director at Applied Materials Inc. Sta. Clara, California, USA and holder of 32 US patents in silicon wafer production and research [69]

Sports

  • Emilio Achacoso - member of the 1960 Olympic team for basketball
  • Carlos Badion - member of the 1956 and 1960 Olympic teams; MVP of the 1960 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship; Philippine Basketball Hall of Fame awardee[70]
  • Joel Banal, BSMIE - former basketball coach of the Mapua Cardinals-NCAA champion teams of 1991 and 1992, and Ateneo Blue Eagles, the UAAP champion team of 2002[71]
  • Edilberto Bonus - former President of the Philippine Amateur Swimming Association; former MIT math professor and coach of the Mapua Swimming team, which holds the NCAA record for most number of seniors championships; 1951 Asian Games bronze medalist
  • Fortunato "Atoy" Co, BSChE - Philippine Basketball Association PBA's 1979 MVP awardee; member of the 1972 Olympic team, the 1973 Asian Basketball Conference champion team, the legendary Crispa Redmanizers, the PBA's Hall of Fame and 25 All-Time Greatest Players; present Head Coach of the Mapua Cardinals Basketball team
  • Henry Dagmil - member of the 2008 Philippine Olympic team for track and field; 2005 South East Asian Games gold medalist and record holder in the long jump event[72]
  • Freddie Hubalde, Philippine Basketball Association's 1977 Most Valuable Player awardee; member of the legendary Crispa Redmanizers; one of the PBA's 25 All-Time Greatest Players[73]
  • Leandro "Leo" Isaac, BSMIE - former Philippine Basketball Association player; captain of the 1980 Mapua Cardinals NCAA Championship team; former coach of the Arellano University Chiefs and the Mapua Cardinals senior basketball teams; current head coach of Red Bull Barako in the PBA[74]
  • Perfecto Mendiola - former President of the Philippine Amateur Judo Association; 1956 National Judo champion; member of the 1955 Philippine team to the 1st World Judo Championships[75]
  • Renato Naranja - member of the 1972 Olympic team for chess
  • Alvin "The Captain" Patrimonio, BSCE - four-time MVP awardee of the Philippine Basketball Association PBA (1991, 1993, 1994 and 1997); member of several Philippine national basketball teams; one of the PBA's 25 All-Time Greatest Players
  • Simeon Toribio - member of the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympic teams; Olympic bronze medalist in the high jump event at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; many-time Asian Games gold medalist; recipient of the 1930 Helms World Trophy for being Asia's greatest athlete[76]
  • Emmanuel "Sonny" Sugatan, BSCE - 18 times representative of the Philippines in Bowling from 1976 to 1985; 7th in Bowling World Cup 1977 in Tolworth, England; SEA games gold medalist; 1978 Asian games bronze medalist in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Eugene Torre, BSBA - Asia's first chess Grand Master; Philippine Sports Hall of Fame awardee; member of the 1972 Olympic team for chess[77]
  • Miguel White - member of the 1936 Olympic team; Olympic bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 1936 Berlin Olympics[76]
  • Israel Catacutan, Benito "Benny" Cheng, Virgilio "Bong" Dela Cruz, Paolo Hubalde, Menardo Jubinal, Rudolph Kutch, Eric Leaño, Romulo Mamaril, Jose Ma. “Jay” Mendoza, Kevin Ramas, Ricardo "Bruise Brother" Relosa, Johnny Revilla, Reuben Dela Rosa, Omanzie Rodriguez, Victor Sanchez, Gerardo "Jack" Santiago, Rodolfo "Rudy" Soriano, Mark Telan, Japeth Aguilar, Edgardo Topacio, Ercito "Chito" Victolero - other former Mapua Cardinals who eventually played in the Philippine Basketball Association PBA[78][79]

Others

  • Norma Riezza-Benzon - Executive Director of a Filipino Disaster Relief Task Force; one of the first community volunteers who responded to the pleas of evacuees by delivering food to affected areas in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the US in 2006; Dorothy F. Caram Commitment to Leadership Awardee and Gawad Geny Lopez Bayaning Pilipino Awardee [80]
  • Scout Paulo Cabrera Madriñan - Scoutmaster and member of the Philippine delegation to the fateful 11th World Boy Scout Jamboree of 1963; a street in Roxas District of Quezon City was named in his honor.
  • Archimedes Trajano - human rights victim and martyr of the Martial Law dictatorship[81]
  • Sister Ma. Aida Vasquez, OSB, BSChE - environmental activist[82]

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