MANILA – The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) and Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) plan to implement new railway engineering courses and programs this upcoming academic year in order to advance the country’s railway industry through education.
On Thursday, the LRMC — the operator and maintenance provider of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) — revealed its planned collaboration with ADMU’s School of Science and Engineering to support the country’s “growing need for highly-skilled, competent, and world-class rail workforce.”
“The preliminary ADMU courses planned for the school year (SY) 2022-2023 include Course 1: Transportation and Society, Course 2: Principles of Railway Transportation, and Course 3: Railway Management and Engineering,” it said.
The first course will serve as an elective general course on transportation; the second course a technical industrial engineering course; and the third a major elective open to all computer engineering students taking the railway engineering track and those taking the minor program in railway engineering.
Beginning School Year 2022-2023, the LRMC facilities will serve as a laboratory for a five-month internship program.
“Students selected to undergo the internship program will gain exposure to railway maintenance and construction management, project management, and working in a corporate set-up,” it said.
The LRMC and ADMU are also studying how innovation and technology might be applied to research projects that students and faculty will conduct to address difficulties or gaps in the transportation industry.
According to LRMC President and CEO Juan Alfonso, who also sits as a member of the Advisory Board of the Ateneo Research Institute of Science and Engineering, the partnership has been a long-standing plan of the LRMC after the push for several transportation projects of the government.
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