Dr. M. Yahya Arwiyah, SH., MH. (PhD)

Dr. M. Yahya Arwiyah, SH., MH. was born on April 24 th, 1957. He holds a master of law fromUniversitas Sumatera Utara (University of North Sumatra), Medan, Indonesia in 2001 and received his doctorate degree from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesia University of Education) Bandung, Indonesia in 2009. Since 1987, he underwent a career as an attorney and lecturer. His career as an educator began in 1983 as a lecturer assistant in civics courses and principle of criminal law. In 1986, He taught at the Faculty of Civil Law, Universitas Samudra Langsa, Indonesia and joined Faculty of Law Civil and Marketing Services in UDIVLAT Telecommunication TELKOM Medan and Palembang, Indonesia in 1989. From 2007 until now, he became a lecturer at Telkom University and got promoted as Vice Rector for Student Affairs at Telkom University, Bandung, Indonesia. Along with his responsibilities as vice rector and lecturer, he is also the author of the daily newspaper “WASPADA” Medan and weekly newspaper “KPK POS” Medan. He is well published author in national and international research community. His research interests include law, human resource management, and small medium enterprises (SMEs).

Dr. Eusebio V. Angara (PHD)

Dr. Eusebio V. Angara is a well-accomplished gentleman hails from Casiguran, Aurora. He graduated Most Outstanding Pupil in elementary and Valedictorian in high school. As a PFM-COCOFED scholar, he acquired a drgree in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Central Luzon State University. He was awarded a Certificate of Professional Education from the University of the Philippines in Diliman being a recipient of the Philippine Developmental Scholarship Program. He took units in Master of Arts in Science Teaching as a Philippine Veterans Scholar and College Scholar also at the U.P. He took Master of Arts in Educational Management from the Institute for the Development of Educational Administrators at Xavier University and Ateneo de Cagayan in Cagayan de Oro City. Desiring to achieve more, he took a post-graduate course in Doctor of Philosophy, Development Science at the Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation at Hiroshima University in Japan through the Japan MONBUSHO Scholarship Program in 1998-2002.

His work experiences include: Science Teacher and then Science Area Chairman at St. Mary’s College, Quezon City (1987-1995); Director of ASCOT Graduate Program (2003-2004); Secretary for Pre-qualification, Bids and Awards Committee, ASCOT (1995-2005); Project Manager of Buhay na Tubig, an ASCOT-FUNDESO project (2004 to present); a Volunteer Service Overseas- Counterpart of ASCOT (2002 to present); Board Secretary/College Secretary of ASCOT (1995-2006); Presidential Assistant for Internal Development, ASCOT (2006); and College President, ASCOT, (2007 to present). He has attended and participated various training, seminars, and exposures here and abroad, the latest of which was his Foreign Academic Trip that visited New Zealand in June 2013; the Global Peace Convention in November to December 2012 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel in the State of Georgia, USA; the Educational Program benchmarking to strengthen the linkages and research program of the member institutions of the DC-SUC III-CIRPS in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in October 2012, and a lot more. Likewise, he has taken short course programs on leadership and management, and policy and planning

He is involved in various developmental projects of ASCOT such as the Aurora Biodiversity Conservation and Management Program and others. Moreover, he has published a book titled “Discover Science” (Grades I-VI) at Academe Publishing House, Published two research articles in international journals as well as seven abstracts published in international proceedings as single or co-author.

The College President of Aurora State College of Technology – Dr. EUSEBIO Villar ANGARA

Professor Dr. Mustafa Erdik (PhD)

Professor Dr. Mustafa Erdik did PhD in Civil Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States in 1975. He started his career as Staff Engineer at Walter P.Moore and Assoc., Houston, Texas, and worked in different prestigious organizations and universities as Visiting Scientist, Assist. Prof., Dept. of Civil Eng., Director, Earthquake Eng. Res. Center, Chairman, Dept. of Earthquake Eng. and presently working as Director, Boğaziçi University Kandilli Obdervatory Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.

Presently, he is involved in following academic and professional activities as Member Global Earthquake Model, Scientific Committee, Co-Director Earthquake Model Middle East, Member Global Earthquake Model, Scientific Committee, Member Executive Board, Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool, Member Editorial Board, Earthquake Engineering and Struct. Dynamics, Member Scientific and Technical Committee, IDNDR, UN , Member Editorial Board, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Member Editorial Board, European Earthquake Engineering, Chairman of Scientific Council, European Natural Disasters Training Center and Chairman Middle East and Mediterranean Regional Conference on Earthen and Low Strength Masonry Buildings in Seismic Areas, Turkey.

Dr. Mustafa Erdik has also been involved in research activities as he edited many books and published more than two hundreds studies as author and co-author. Beside that he has been invited for delivering guest lectures by different prestigious institutions from across the world. Few of them are U.S. Geological Survey, Golden Colorado, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; University of Cambridge, UK; ETH-Hönggerberg, Switzerland; University of Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; Roorke University, India; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; King Saud University, Saudi Arabia and University of Karlsruhe, Germany.