Cebu Technological University – Research

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Research and Development Center for Engineering Emerging Technologies (RDCEET)

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Dr. Jonathan C. Maglasang

RDE Center Director

Center Director, Research and Development Center for Engineering Emerging Technologies (RDCEET)

Dr. Jonathan Maglasang is a University Director and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cebu Technological University (CTU). As the University Director for University Grants Administration, Dr. Maglasang assists the University Vice-President for Research, Development, and Extension (VP-RDE) to rationalize the processing and implementation of grants financial support for research and development in the University. He is also engaged in promoting CTU as a national and international research collaborating center. Before joining CTU in August 2019, Dr. Maglasang was a faculty member since 1994, with various designations and functions, of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) in Iligan City.

Dr. Maglasang has advised and mentored several undergraduates, master’s, and doctoral students in their research work. He is a research collaborator for local and foreign-funded research projects. He obtained his MS and Ph.D. (Engineering) degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics (Aerospace Engineering) from Kyushu University, Japan in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his BS Mechanical Engineering degree from MSU-IIT in 1994.

His interests include performance enhancements of wind, gas, and hydraulic turbines, high-density renewable energy systems for small island communities, aerial, terrain, and underwater robotics, flapping, rotary, and fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), wing-in-surface effect (WISE) vehicles for rapid and efficient inter-island transportation, indigenous and hybrid rocket propulsion systems, data acquisitions systems and instrumentations, biomimetics, and other applied aeronautics and astronautics.