Enrico “ Eric C. Nera, BSMetE ‘83
Eric is a Technical Consultant at Nasaco International Inc. handling the Asia-Pacific and Australia. In 2006, Eric joined a group of UP 49ers alumni to form Minercon International Inc., an engineering consultancy firm which caters to the mining and metals industry.
In 2002, he was the first metallurgical engineer in the Philippines to be a certified ASEAN Engineer, a registry which was managed by the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations and subsequently became the first Filipino metallurgical APEC Engineer. He was the President of the Society of the Metallurgical Engineers of the Philippines; the Philippine Technological Council, and chairman of the Governing Board of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations.
A founding member of the UP Cherubim and Seraphim Choir, Eric was the recipient of the UPAE Professional Degree Award in Metallurgical Engineering as well as the Professional Regulation Commission’s Most Outstanding Professional of the Year in Metallurgical Engineering.