College of Engineering, Central Philippine University


The Central Philippine University College of Engineering, abbreviated as CPU COE, is one of the constituent colleges of Central Philippine University, a private university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1936 during the American presidency of Central, Harland F. Stuart, it is one of the oldest engineering schools in the Philippines founded by the Americans during the American colonization of the Philippines. It later changed its status to a full college when Central Philippine College became a university in 1953.
The college has been designated as a centers of development in chemical engineering, electrical engineering and electronics engineering by the Commission on Higher Education. The college is also the only Department of Science and Technology Engineering school, Heat Transfer Facility and Center for Civil Engineering Education for Western Visayas region.
The college has various research and auxiliary centers under its umbrella which includes the CPU Affiliated Renewable Energy Center and the CPU Philippine Center for Packaging Engineering and Technology, the first of its kind in the South East Asia The college collaborates since 2012 in the fields of Transportation and Structural engineering research with De la Salle University.
The college confers seven undergraduate degrees with two degrees, the Bachelor of Science in Packaging Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Software, both firsts in the Philippines.
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department and the facilities of the Packaging Testing Laboratory and the Packaging Technology Resource Center. It is backed by the Philippine Department of Science and Technology and the Packaging Institute of the Philippines.

Facilities

The college is housed in the 3,791.6 square meter 4-storey Engineering Building which houses college's classroom facilities and the auxiliary and extension CPU Affiliated Renewable Energy Center, a center funded by the Philippine Department of Energy and the university that covers the whole Western Visayas region area, and laboratory and research facilities of the programs of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electronics and communications engineering, electrical engineering, and the two pioneer programs in the country, the packaging engineering and software engineering. Later, a new floor was added to the structure which has now a total of four storeys.
A packaging testing center and laboratory facility which is the first of its kind in the Southeast Asian region, the CPU Philippine Center for Packaging Engineering – Packaging Engineering Laboratory, is located separately from the Engineering Building, but under the supervision and umbrella of the college's program of Packaging Engineering. The Center is backed by the Philippine- Department of Science and Technology, the industry's Packaging Institute of the Philippines and a private sector's packaging advocate, Systemat-PackEDGE.

Academic Programs

The college is the only Department of Science and Technology – Philippines School for Western Visayas and is accredited by Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities. It offers seven undergraduate programs through the college alone and graduate programs through the Central Philippine University School of Graduate Studies.

Notable alumni

People associated with the college are called Centralians. The college maintains its own alumni association subsequent to the Central Philippine University Alumni Association. Notable people of the college include: