Dear Butch,
Yep, it is Efren Abaya. And he indeed was one of the handful
summa-cum-laude of UPEE. Ever heard of another summa-cum-laude
named Llames? circa late 70s-early 80's I had a pleasure of talking to
one of his batchmates. This guy was so good that even if he did not
attend classes, he would derive the necessary equations from stock
knowledge and be the first to leave the exam room. I hear he is
now in the US working for some AI-Robotics research company.
Ambo
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Butch Landingin wrote:
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > I once had the pleasure of being a student of UP PhD guy named Dr. Abaya.
>
> Was this Efren Abaya? Wasn't he one of only a handful of summa-cum-laude grads the
> UP EE dept. ever had? IIRC, I had him as a teacher too, just when he got back
> from his post-doc in Stanford? MIT? (one of his accomplishments was he finished
> his masters and PhD in 3 years so he did 1 more year of post-doc work because
> he had a 4-year scholarship, I think), and his class (EE71) was pretty
> memorable to me because it was probably the only uno I ever got in that dang dept.
> ever...
>
> > He was teaching at that time Digital Communications and one occasion he
> > was teaching directly off the ORIGINAL 1940s(?) paper by Nyquist (Nyquist
> > Theorem). This made a big impression on me because this was the only
> > time in my whole college life that somebody went to the pain of getting
> > the ORIGINAL research paper instead of relying on the "usual" books.
>
> This way of using the ORIGINAL SOURCES is very much in the tradition of the really
>good
> american universities. I had the unique opportunity about two years ago to sit-in
> (more like snuck-in ;^)) a Harvard physics introductory class for non-physics majors
> and the prof read parts of "Newton's Principia" (he had the facsimile displayed on
>the
> overhead projector) as they were discussing Newton's Law of Gravity.
>
> He also shared some of his personal slides when he visited Cambridge University
> in England where Newton became the Lucasian professor there (same prof. chair
>Stephen
> Hawking is holding now). He also talked about the gossip and intrigues among
>Newton's
> fellow scientists in Cambridge during Newton's time... Imagine a physics class where
>you
> talk about Newton as a 'real' person (its just that he died a longtime ago) -- it
> just makes physics more "alive"...
>
> Even cooler, as a demo of Newton's 3rd Law, he put a stool on on a RadioFlyer wagon
>and
> sat on the stool with a fire extinguisher in his hand (one of those portable CO2
>types).
> At the end of his lecture, he turned on the fire extinguisher and literally zoomed
> out of the room while his assistant opened the door just in time for him to exit
>out...
> a very clear and graphic demonstration of action and reaction :^)
>
> Butch Landingin
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