Aura C. Matias, BSIE 1982, MSIE 1989, PhDIE 1996
AWARDS
• 2018 Phi Kappa Phi Excellence Award for STEM, 85th Founding Anniversary Recognition, 2019
• 2015 The Outstanding Science Administrator Award (Dioscoro L. Umali Medal), National Science & Technology Week, July 2015.
• 2010 Top 100 Outstanding Engineers of the Century, U.P. Alumni Engineers (UPAE), May 28, 2010
• 2007 Outstanding Professional Awardee for Engineering & Technoloy, U.P. Alumni Association (UPAA), June 23, 2007
• 2007 Outstanding Engineering Professor (Confucian Award), UPERDFI, April 22, 2007
• 2006 Achievement Award for Engineering Research, National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), March 2007
• “Effectivity Award (Pinakamagaling Magturo)”, 2007 Industrial Engineering Days: Taking IE UP, ESC, 20007
• 2006 Outstanding Industrial Engineering Professor, “Alay sa Inhinyero”, U.P.Engineering Society, August 25, 2006
• 2004 The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS), TOWNS Foundation, Inc., October 28, 2004
• 2004 Outstanding Industrial Engineering Professor, “Alay sa Inhinyero”, U.P.Engineering Society, August 27, 2004
• 2003 Outstanding Faculty Researcher, UPERDFI, April 27, 2003
• 2002 Gawad Chanselor Awardee, Pinakamahusay na Guro sa Gawaing Ekstensyion, February 2002
EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS
• National Academy of Science & Technology (NAST) Department of Science & Technology (DOST)
MEMBER-AT-LARGE, Execom August 2019 – July 2021
ACADEMICIAN Since July 2011
• Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UPD
PROFESSOR 12 01 January 2015 – present, CHAIRMAN November 2004 – July 31 2010
• Philippine Learning Center for Environment and Social Sustainability, U.P. National Engineering Center
CENTER DIRECTOR June 2018 – July 2020, PROGRAM LEADER June 2015 – May 2018
• Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs UP System
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE 01 June 2019 – 31 December 2020
• UP System Academic Assessment and Development Committee UP System
MEMBER AT LARGE September 2015 – December 2022
AUN-QA ASSESSOR January 2015 – present
• Task Force to Facilitate the Implementation of RA 11106 (An Act Declaring the Filipino Sign Language ..) – AO No. PDLC 19-57 -UP System, MEMBER Sept 2019-Junr 2020
• Ad Hoc Committee on Enhancement of the iAADS: iAADS+UPD, CHAIRPERSON Jan 2019 – Dec 2020
• Appointments, Promotions and Fellowship Committee (APFC) UPD, MEMBER, S&T CLUSTER 02 June 2017- 31 December 2020
• UC Committee on Academic Programs & Policies UPD MEMBER 01 (2016 – 2022), CHAIRMAN (Sept 2011- Dec 2015)
• UC Committee on Finance UPD, MEMBER 31 January 2020-30 January 2023
• UPD Supply Chain Covid-19 Task Force UPD: DEPLOY PROJECT LEADER (Sept 2020 – Dec 2020), TEAM LEADER (Mar 2020-May 2020)
• Task Force on the Proposed Master of Technology Entreprenuership Faculty of Management and Development Studies UPOU , FACULTY AFFILIATE Aug 2020– ul 2021; Aug 2019-Jul 2020
• Technical Working Group UP Alabang & @LAB University of the Philippines System, CHAIRPERSON 2016 – present
• Infrastructure Bids and Awards Committee University of the Philippines Diliman
• College Committee on Energy Engineering Program College of Engineering, 2004 – present
• College Committee on Environmental Engineering Program, UPCOE, 2016 – present
• Technical Panel for Engineering, Technology and Architecture (TPETA) CHED, MEMBER, TASK FORCE FOR 01 May 1996-present
• Member, Task Force for IE Program & Task Force for the Monitoring of COE/COD, CHED, 2004 – present
• Public Management Development Program (PMDP) Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), FACULTY ADVISER 15 September 2016 – present
• Muti-Sectoral Advisory Board (MSAB), 51st Engineer Brigade, AFP, CO-CHAIR 01 May 2015 – present
• The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA), Special Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
NAST PHILIPPINES REPRESENTATIVE 01 July 2017-present
• Philippine American Education Foundation, MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1 January 2017 – present
• UPERDFI: COUNCIL OF ADVISERS 01 August 2019-present, TREASURER 2017- 2019, SECRETARY & TREASURER 2016- 2017, VP FOR OPERATIONS 2010- 2016, MEMBER Since 1999
• Diliman Integrated Technical Consultancy, Inc. (DITCI), PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGERR, 2014 – present