Emmanuel Gonzalez

Emmanuel A. Gonzalez
Born Makati, Philippines
Residence Philippines
Citizenship Filipino
Nationality Filipino
Fields Control engineering, Robotics, and Engineering management
Institutions Jardine Schindler Elevator Corporation
Alma mater De La Salle University Manila
Notable awards IEEE Education Society Student Leadership Award and IEEE Education Society Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award

Emmanuel A. Gonzalez, Ph.D. is an educator and engineer by profession. He is currently the Existing Installation Director of Jardine Schindler Elevator Corporation, a joint venture between Jardine Matheson and Schindler Group, and Director of Manila Operations in Engineers 4 Humanity.[1] He is a senior member and officer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP), and an associate member of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP)[2] under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).[3] He is a recipient of the IEEE Education Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award[4] in 2009 and the IEEE Education Society Student Leadership Award in 2010.[5] He was also featured in PinoyScientists tumblr 20 September 2013 entry.[6]

Early life

He was born in Makati and was raised in Manila, in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. He completed his secondary studies at Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati with a technical diploma in electronics technology. He then went to De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, for his college studies. There, he completed his BS degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, in 2003. Three years later, he earned an MS degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, with distinction, from the same university. He completed his PhD in Electronics and Communications Engineering from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines in 2014.

Education

Career in the academe

After passing the ECE Board Examinations in 2004,[7] he immediately went on to teach part-time as Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering under the College of Engineering at De La Salle University, Manila (DLSU). He handled courses in control engineering, electronic circuit analysis, computer programming, digital electronics, and electronic systems design to name a few. In 2005, he was promoted as Lecturer of the same department and handled courses in methods of research for ECE, ECE laws and ethics, microelectronics, VHDL, digital communications, and transmission lines and antennas and continued teaching other subjects until 2006. In 2007, he became a full-time faculty member of the same department having the Assistant Professor title, and handled courses in control engineering, numerical methods, discrete mathematics, and engineering mathematics. He also handled courses in graduate studies such as advanced feedback control systems and advanced mathematics for ECE.

He left the ECE Department by the end of December 2007 and in early 2008, he joined the Department of Computer Technology under the College of Computer Studies of De La Salle University, Manila as a part-time faculty with the title Assistant Professorial Lecturer—the part-time counterpart of the Assistant Professor rank. He taught courses on mobile robotics and control technology almost every year until at present, depending on the current demands of the students. He is also a member of the Center for Automation Research, a research arm under the same college.[8]

Aside from DLSU, he also joined the School of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology in Intramuros Manila also in early 2008 as a part-time faculty member. He taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in dynamical systems and control engineering, advanced electronics theory, advanced engineering mathematics, advanced linear control systems, digital control systems, robotics and mechatronics, and digital signal processing.

Career in the industry

E. A. Gonzalez presiding a meeting with colleagues in Switzerland in 2011.
E. A. Gonzalez having an open discussion with colleagues in Notwill, Switzerland in 2011.

In January 2008, Emmanuel joined Jardine Schindler Elevator Corporation in Makati City, Philippines, as the Technical Training Supervisor who has led to the establishment of a comprehensive learning and development program for all rank-and-file and supervisory employees of the company. He also set up a collaboration between Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati, and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to come up with a comprehensive on-the-job training program for potential technicians from technical vocational institutions. In 2009, he was tasked to lead a service operations portfolio as the Assistant Portfolio Manager and Service Leader. The position was later reclassified to Service Manager and he held the position until February 2012. In March 2012, he was assigned to lead the Technical Operations Department as head, being responsible for the overall technical operations and technical compliance of the entire Existing Installation Department. He led to the development and implementation of various programs focusing on reliability and rehabilitation engineering, quality management through improved predictive and preventive maintenance, introduction of condition-based maintenance, operational (product and employee) safety, processes improvement, and training and development. In June 2014, he became the Head of Service Operations, and in August 2015, he became the Existing Installation Director.[9]

Research and projects

An autonomous mobile olfactory robot designed by E. A. Gonzalez, et al., during their BS-ECE undergraduate thesis days.
Team SINAG group picture taken in Adelaide during the 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge.

During Emm's stay in the ECE Department from 2004 to 2007, he was involved in various research projects mainly on feedback control systems, cellular automata, and combinatorial optimization. In particular, together with his undergraduate students, he developed the single-ant sequential variation of the ant colony optimization (ACO) metaheuristic. This was tested through the tuning of a proportional-integral-derivative PID controller for a small-scale microhydropower plant inside one of the mechanical engineering laboraties at DLSU. He also created an improved cellular automata model to simulate forest fires, which was presented both in the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST)[10] 29th Annual Scientific Meeting, and the 9th Science and Technology Congress in DLSU. Together with the late Prof. Aliento V. Estalilla, he helped develop a simple numerical technique in computing for the maximum singular value, spectral norm, and spectral radius of matrices, which was then presented in the 10th Osaka University—De La Salle University Academic Research Workshop. Both also conjectured an algorithm in determining the modulus of the dominant eigenvalue of an arbitrary square matrix, which was then presented in the 3rd International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM) in Manila. In 2006, he was assigned as a faculty adviser under electronics technology which focused in the design, simulation, construction and development of the Philippine first solar-powered race car named SINAG, and which competed in the 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge and ended up in the 11th place.[11]

With Emm's involvement in the College of Computer Studies in DLSU and School of EE-ECE-COE in Mapua, Emm's researches focused on fractional calculus and fractional-order control systems, especially on the development of various methods in the design of robust feedback control systems and the development of analog fractional-order differentiators.

Currently, Emm is engaged in researches with colleagues from the Institute of Control and Informatization of Production Processes in Technical University of Kosice in Slovakia, the Robotics Lab of the Charles III University of Madrid in Spain, the Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic, the Alpha Control Lab at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, the Research and Development Office of the Technological Institute of the Philippines in Quezon City, Philippines, the School of EECE in Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, the College of Computer Studies and Gokongwei College of Engineering in De La Salle University Manila, Philippines. Research collaborations are on the design of analog and digital fractional-order electronic circuits, design of various control methodologies for fractional-order systems, safety risk assessment and evaluation using fuzzy sets, and budget allocation problems in operations research.[12][13]

Current research interests

From left to right: Dr. Felicito S. Caluyo (Dean of the School of ECCE in Mapua Institute of Technology), Francis Cagatin (BS-ECE Mapua Institute of Technology, MSc University of Iceland, Intramuros), Emmanuel A. Gonzalez, and John Paul B. Rodriguez (BS-ECE of De La Salle University, Manila)

Selected publications

Volunteer fire fighting and community service

New Market Merchants Fire Prevention Unit induction in Manila.
Preparation for the APVFBI Fire Safety Awareness Month Parade. Taken in front of Apollo Engine, 2009
After a fire incident in Navotas, Philippines, in the new year of 2011.

During his college years, he joined the New Market Merchants Fire Prevention Unit as a probationary volunteer fire fighter. In 2003, he became a full-fledged regular volunteer fire fighter of the fire unit and also became a member of the Association of Philippine Volunteer Fire Brigades, Inc. (APVFBI)[14] which is based in Malate, Manila, Philippines. Between 2004 and 2007, he became active in the Educator's Group (Public Education Division) who helped out in providing free fire safety and fire suppression seminars in private and local government communities around Metro Manila, as well as pre-schools, universities, colleges, and other educational institutions.

In October 2013, he initiated together with colleagues and co-members of the IEEE in the Philippines, the Engineers 4 Humanity Project[15] and is currently Director of Manila Operations. The primary objective of this project is to come up with technical and technological solutions to help victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the central part of the Philippines in their recovery and rehabilitation stages, and to support other non-government organizations. The entire project is technically sponsored by the IEEE Education Society.

References

  1. ↑ "Engineers 4 Humanity". Wordpress. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ "National Research Council of the Philippines Web Page". Department of Science and Technology. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Department of Science and Technology Web Page". Department of Science and Technology. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ "IEEE Education Soiety Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award". IEEE Education Society. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  5. ↑ "IEEE Education Society Student Leadership Award". IEEE Education Society. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  6. ↑ "PinoyScientists tumblr 20 Sep 2012 Entry". tumblr. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ "April 2004 Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) Licensure Examination Results [A-L]". BSECE.COM. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Center for Automation Research". De La Salle University, Manila. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ "LinkedIn - Emmanuel A. Gonzalez". LinkedIn. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ "National Academy of Science and Technology Web Page.". NAST. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  11. ↑ "SINAG - The First Philippine Solar-Powered Race Car". De La Salle University, Manila. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Conceptual Design of a Selectable Fractional-Order Differentiator for Industrial Applications (Fractional Calculus & Applications, Springer)". Springer. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Practical Infrared Thermography for Lift System Maintenance--A CBM Approach to Promote Lift Energy Efficiency (DLSU Congress 2014)" (PDF). De La Salle University, Manila. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Association of Philippine Volunteer Fire Brigades, Inc. Web Site". APVFBI. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Engineers 4 Humanity". Wordpress. Retrieved December 16, 2013.

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