DIGital Structures: My T-SHIRT Memories - Part 5 (ASEP Engagements)

This series of My T-Shirt Memories is related to ASEP or the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines. Read more on My T-Shirt Memories Part 1 & Part 2.

Struct-Whiz Challenge. Quiz contests are popular activities for students. The Struct-Whiz Challenge is ASEP's quiz contest to promote interest on structural engineering to the students. The team of ASEP members composed of Rannie Ison. Ariel Santos, Joseph Manalo and I conceptualized the quiz which we termed, "Struct-Whiz Challenge." The quiz is supposed to select a Structural Engineering Wizard among the contestants who will first take a written qualifying exam in the morning (to qualify, a cut-off score is specified) and then if selected, has to sit in an oral competition. The top 3 contestants are awarded. But to be a Struct-Wizard, the contestant are challenged to score at least 75% or more. In the seven editions of the quiz, no contestant has met the required minimum score to be a wizard. This shirt designed by Ariel Santos (Compliments of RI) is a souvenir of the last edition of the quiz. The lightning symbol is my idea; an inspiration from Harry Potter. When will the next "Struct-Whiz Challenge" be? Is there a wizard among the civil engineering students waiting to be judged as the 1st wizard of ASEP's Struct-Whiz Challenge?

Strict-Whiz Challenge

Creating your own T-Shirt Design is challenging. Some people like my son, Geof, have the talent to draw their own images. In my case, my skills and talent in creating original drawings is very limited. So I just capture existing images and combine them with texts to come up with an "original design."

Geof's City Design. The design shown was created by my son, Geoffrey when he was only six years old at Grade 1. He did a manual sketch of his idea of a city. I simply converted the sketch in digital form and added colors. Whoola! The design was used as the cover page of Proceedings of the 12th ASEP International Convention in 2007. ASEP T-shirts were also produced using Geof's design. Geof is now a college student taking Visual Communication at Ateneo de Manila University School of Fine Arts.

Cover Design of 12AIC Proceedings with Geof''s Design

Geof's City Design in an ASEP Shirt

ACEE2004 Earthquake Designs. I gave an idea to ASEP in 2004 (Engr. Rannie Ison was the president then) to organize an international conference where the advisory committee is composed of international experts and professors. The cocnept was accepted and the Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering or ACEE in 2004 was born. The founding advisers included Dr. Naveed Anwar and Prof. Pennung of AIT, Prof. Yamasaki of U. Tokyo, Prof. Kawashima of TIT, Dr. Solidum of PHIVOLCS and more. The ACEE has been continued by ASEP with cooperating institutions serving as hosts like AIT, TIT and NCREE. The latest or 7th ACEE was hosted by AIT on November 2018. The 9th ACEE will be hosted by NCREE at Taipei, Taiwan probably in 2022. I created the ACEE2004 designs below by simply capturing existing images and added my own text. The first design shows different translation of "Earthquake" in Japanese, Filipino, Spanish and French. The second design has the message,"Earthquakes don't kill, Faulty design buildings do!" The message emphasized the need to practice seismic design of structures in earthquake countries like the Philippines.

ACEE2004 - Earthquake in various languages

ACEE2004. Earthquakes dont' kill ...!

SHAKE T-Shirt. The final T-shirt is my own design for the ASEP SHAKE Conference held on November 2019. SHAKE means Smart TecHnologies and Advanced Knowledge in Earthquake Engineering. I remember holding a brain storming at Century Plaza Hotel on the next ASEP conference with a committee led by Engr. Rannie Ison and some ASEP members, Mac Mendoza, Ariel Santos, GG Garciano and more. And in that brainstorming session, "SHAKE" was born. All speakers to the conference were invited including colleagues and friends from Japan and NZ like Dr. Hazarika, Dr. Anil, Dr. Watanabe and Dr. Orense. To commemorate this 1st SHAKE Conference, I created my own design. I hope ASEP will continue to SHAKE the professional community with ground shaking and excellent conferences just like the ACEE.