RIYADH, 18 July 2005 — Filipino master electricians or electrical engineers who have yet to earn their professional license from the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) are invited to attend review classes being conducted by the Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers chapter in Riyadh (IIEE-CRCSA)
The group holds review classes every Friday at Riyadh International School from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
“We are inviting interested electrical practitioners in the Central Region to attend the on-going review classes, which will end in October,” the chapter said in an e-mail. IIEE-CRCSA posted the highest number of passers during the last board examinations conducted by PRC officials at the Philippine Embassy in December.
Francisco Sigaya Jr., IIEE-CRCSA internal affairs vice president, said that the Alliance of Filipino Professionals in Riyadh (AFPR) met last week and agreed that each professional group would seek assistance from their national chapters in the Philippines to help raise the budget for this year’s board examination in Saudi Arabia.
AFPR is a newly formed organization of Filipino electrical, mechanical, and civil engineers, accountants and architects.
Sigaya said that AFPR leaders understand the current political and social problems the Philippines is facing but the group would still seek help from political leaders to provide money for the examination through their “pork barrel” allocations.
Last year’s examination in Riyadh and Alkhobar were funded from Senate President Franklin Drilon’s “pork barrel” share.
The expenses include the plane tickets and hotel bills of the examiners from the PRC.
For more information the contact persons are: Dan S. Cabasa at 05021-64907, Cedric Tagaylo at 05070-92301, Ed E. Bautista at 05078-69343, Francisco Sigaya at 05672-31558, or Rene A. Datuin at 050425-0187.
The same contact persons can also be reached by those who may want to join a one-day bowling tournament on Aug. 5 sponsored by IIEE-CRCSA.
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Meanwhile, an e-group, composed of electrical engineers based in Region 7 (Central Visayas) in the Philippines, is inviting electrical engineers in Saudi Arabia to subscribe to the [email protected].
Glenn Java, the incumbent IIEE Region 7 governor, said that the e-group aims to involve colleagues to share their ideas, updated information, and experiences “that will serve as a medium to all electrical engineers home and abroad.”
Once subscribed to the e-group, the member can retrieve a copy of The Pulse Annunciator, a monthly electronic magazine which features articles of Philippine-based and foreign-based Filipino professional electrical engineers.
“This will also enable them to harness their ability in pursuing innovative and competitive skills globally in the field of their profession,” Java said.
Dominico A. Amora, managing editor of the e-magazine, said that in electrical engineering practice, “fundamental rules and standards are needed to ensure safety to persons and properties from the hazards arising from the use, misuse, abuse and misapplication of electricity.
“That is the intent of the Electrical Code, the IEEE Recommended Practices and the IEC Design Guide, among others,” Amora added.
Amora, an awardee of the IIEE-Philippines in industry and engineering consultancy, is also the author of a series of books titled Electrical Design Practices in Industrial and Power Systems.
“Compliance to these rules or standards along with proper system maintenance will result to installations relatively free from hazards and these must be a work of a professional electrical engineers who understands the responsibility of providing mankind with safe environment in the whole lifetime of a building or industrial plant. Preaching and integrating these standards will therefore make the Filipino electrical engineers a truly world-class technocrat,” he said.