Location (during time of takeover)
School/Institution
| Undergrad | University of the Philippines Diliman Civil Engineering |
|---|---|
| Masters | University of Delaware Civil Engineering |
| PhD | University of Twente Civil Engineering |
Featured on July 28, 2024
For the final week of July, meet Pinoy Scientist and coastal engineer Paterno “Jowi” Miranda IV. He is taking up his PhD jointly with Deltares and the University of Twente, Netherlands under the Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics in Marine and Coastal Waters with Engineering Solutions (SEDIMARE) project.
Jowi completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, graduating Cum Laude. He spent some time at AMH Philippines as a Design Engineer, then at GHD PTY LTD as a Coastal Engineer. In 2020, under the Fulbright Scholarship, he moved to Delaware, USA to take up his Master of Civil Engineering at the University of Delaware, studying sand-mud transport in estuarine environments and modeling wave-sediment-structure interactions. This latter work led to the co-development of the numerical model CSHORE.
He currently working on his PhD in Civil Engineering simultaneously at Deltares and the University of Twente. Jowi is currently a part of the SEDIMARE project, and his PhD research explores the modeling of mixed (sand-mud) sediments. Since 2022, he has been a coastal engineering consultant around the Philippines, such as in Manila Bay, Cebu, Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Palawan, and more. He also taught at UP Diliman, De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas.
Some fun facts about Jowi:
- His real name is Paterno S. Miranda IV but his nickname is Jowi. “Jowi” did not come from “Paterno” but was made up by his Mom based on his Dad’s name, “Jojo”.
- He was introduced to coastal engineering because Typhoon Haiyan 2013 happened right before his undergraduate thesis proposal semester. It was a conscious decision to pursue a field that is very relevant to the Philippines but has very few practicing professionals (in the Philippines).
- He is a coastal engineer but he does not know how to swim (only know how to wade through shallow water).
