LRT-1 train (PNA photo by Ben Briones)
MANILA – The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) and Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) are looking to create new railway engineering courses and programs starting this upcoming school year to develop the country’s railway industry through education.
In a statement Thursday, the LRMC -- the operator and maintenance provider of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) -- bared its planned partnership 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.
The LRMC facilities will serve as a laboratory for a five-month internship program beginning School Year 2022-2023.
“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 looking at how innovation and technology can be applied in research projects to be undertaken by students and faculty to address challenges or gaps in the transportation sector.
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, said the collaboration has been a long-standing plan of the LRMC following the government’s push for several transportation projects. (PNA)
