Central Philippine University - College of Engineering 3.15

The Central Philippine University College of Engineering, abbreviated as COE, it is one of the constituent colleges of Central Philippine University, a private university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1936 during the American presidency of Central, Harland F. Stuart, it is one of the oldest engineering schools in the Philippines founded by the Americans during the American colonization of the Philippines. It later changed its status to a full college when Central Philippine College became a university in 1953.The college has been designated as a Centers of Development in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering by the Commission on Higher Education (the only engineering school in the Western Visayas region and one of the few in the country with Center of Development designation). The college is also the only Department of Science and Technology (Philippines) (DOST) Engineering school, Heat Transfer Facility and Center for Civil Engineering Education for Western Visayas region.