Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The director of the School of Engineering has announced that PROFEL3 (Professional Elective 3) which is also known as ENGCADD (Engineering Computer Aided Drawing and Design) will not be a continuation of GRAPTWO (Graphics Two). That means that it will not be using the same software (Bentley Microstation V8). It will not be featuring advanced topics in using Microstation previously not taken in the first two subjects.

Thus students can take it without having taken GRAPONE and GRAPTWO. I guess it will concentrate more on technical drawing than familiarization with the software.

That means that my cousin and the new ECE shiftee, Regino, can take it this first term. Tentatively, David will be teaching ENGCADD, while I will be teaching GRAPONE.

In other news, the new six-hour (but still three-unit) schedule for Mathematical Methods 1 will be implemented this first term. That means that instead of meeting twice a week for one and a half hours each, MM1 will now meet for four times a week at one and a half hours each. Tentatively I saw that all the schedules had the classes meeting every weekday except Wednesday.

This will not mean that the coverage will be increased. It just means that there will be more time for practice problems and classroom exercises to hone the students in all the topics involved. That also means that it does not translate to more teaching hours for the teacher. It just formalized the tutorial sessions the students ask for to learn the solving techniques better.

Much like Graphics One and Two, which, although it is a three hour a week subject, is only listed as one-unit in the students' subject list. This is because it is held in the computer lab, and the students spend more time with hands-on activities than listening to the teacher give a lecture. At least, that's how I did it two terms ago.

Moving on, the Freshmen Orientation is already in the week before classes start (third week of May) but according to Ronnie none of the potential sponsors that we have given request letters to have responded. This is a surprise considering that for the Open Campus and College Fun Day, several companies consented.

Somehow we've looking at the problem being that there are no students in the sponsorship committee. They are all on their summer vacations. They were the ones who could devote the time and resources into inquiring with the nearby commercial establishments, while the faculty in charge just supervised.

It is difficult to harness the students when they aren't around everyday, and have to make an extra effort just to go to school.