March 2024

The UPLB Chemical Engineering Quiz Team bagged 2nd Runner Up in the 45th Inter-University Chemical Engineering Quiz Show (INTER-U), a sub-event of the Students’ National Chemical Engineering Conference (SNCEC) 2023, organized by the UP Chemical Engineering Society Inc., commonly known as UP KEM. This year’s INTER-U was held last January 21, 2024, at the MERALCO Multimedia Lecture Hall, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Building, UP Diliman, Quezon City, and was participated by 10 teams from 6 universities and colleges nationwide. Two teams represented UPLB, dubbed Team A and Team B, during the said event.

The University of the Philippines Los Baños Department of Chemical Engineering (UPLB DChE) was awarded as the second Top-Performing school in the recently conducted October 2023 Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination by the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) with an overall passing rate of 96.43% (27 passed out of 28 takers).