UST POSTED a near perfect mark in the Electrical Engineering (EE) licensure examinations, even as it placed first among schools for the fifth consecutive year in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) board last October.
In the EE board, 63 of 64 (98.44 per cent passing rate) Thomasian examinees passed. The rating placed second among schools with 10 or more examinees. Only St. Louis College of Tuguegarao and University of the Philippines-Diliman had better passing rates. Both registered perfect scores, but had only less than 20 examinees.
In addition, Jeffrey Ang placed eighth with a grade of 92.45 per cent.
EE department chair Engr. Jerome Amon said the department is more than pleased with the result.
However, Amon said UST should have registered a perfect score. The lone casualty happened to be an applicant who missed the exam due to illness. He explained that the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) based the results on the number of Thomasians who applied to take the exam, and not on the number that actually took it.
Amon said the department will request the Board of Electrical Engineering Examiners of the PRC to reconsider the result.
In the ME board, 61 of 68 (89.71 per cent passing rate) UST graduates passed the exam, improving last year’s 84.93 per cent passing rate.
ME department chair Engr. Nelson Pasamonte said the failures could be attributed to lack of preparation on the part of the UST examinees. He said some of those who failed were already working and unable to focus well on their review.
Francis Go, recipient of the 2002 Rector’s Academic Award, placed fifth with 85.40 per cent. Go was also a recipient of the 2002 Bank of the Philippine Islands Science Award for outstanding research in science and technology.
In the Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) board exams, the University maintained the top ranking in the 100 or more examinees category.
Despite sliding from a 93.55 percent passing rate last year, UST registered a respectable 78.18 per cent passing rate compared with the national passing rate of 39 per cent. Eighty-six out of 110 Thomasian examinees passed.
In the Civil Engineering (CE) licensure exams, the University stayed in second spot with 61 of its 69 examinees passing (88.40 percent).
On the other hand, 32 Thomasians hurdled the Chemical Engineering (ChE) licensure exams last month.
As of press time, the UST ChE department still did not have total number of Thomasian examinees based on the official PRC result.
The national passing rates for EE, ME, CE, and ChE were 46. 78 per cent, 41.12 per cent, 35.12 per cent, and 38.98 per cent, respectively.
Meanwhile, a Thomasian placed second in the Interior Design licensure exams last month.
Michelle Kathrine Cu See had a grade of 81.55 per cent to lead the batch of 20 new Thomasian interior desingners.
In addition, UST also improved its passing rate from last year’s 55.42 per cent to the current 62.50 per cent passing rate as 20 out of 32 Thomasians passed.
The national passing rate was 51.11 per cent.
