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Dr. Andres Winston C. Oreta

Full Professor

Educational Background

Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering
Nagoya University

Andres Winston C. Oreta is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering Division) of De La Salle University (DLSU), Manila, Philippines. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering (1994) and Master of Engineering (1991) from Nagoya University (Japan) and BS Civil Engineering from the University of the Philippines (1983). He was a former chair of the CE Dept. (1994-1997), Engineering Graduate Studies Director (1997-1999) and GCOE Quality Assurance Office Director (2015-2016). He was awarded as the winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) 2023 for the senior category by the Philippine Association of Engineering Schools (PAES) and ASEP Outstanding Achievement Awardee (AOAA) for Structural Engineering Education given by the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. (ASEP) in 2021. He was the 2014 DLSU Awardee, St. Benilde Romancon Pillar of Lasallian Excellence Award in Teaching and Winner-Outstanding Teacher, Lasallian Excellence Awards 2009 -Students’ Search for Outstanding Teachers (SSOT).

His publications are on system identification, artificial neural network applications, concrete engineering, disaster risk reduction and engineering education. He has published papers in ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ACI Materials Journal, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Computers and Concrete, Engineering Structures, Journal on Advanced Concrete Technology. His Google Scholar h-index is 18.

He is a life member of PICE (LNM), Fellow of the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP) and Chair of the Philippine Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). He is a regular member of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), life member of the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) and founding member of the Philippine Academic Society on Climate & Disaster Risk (PASCDR).

Research Interest