The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Undersecretary for Planning and Information Management Service Maria Catalina E. Cabral has bagged this year’s Professional Regulation Commission’s Outstanding Professional of the Year in the Field of Civil Engineering.
The “Outstanding Professional of the Year Award” is the highest award bestowed by the Commission upon a professional as recommended by his/her peers for having sufficiently demonstrated professional competence of the highest degree and conducted himself/herself with integrity in the exercise of his/her profession; meaningfully participated in professional activities through the professional organization; significantly contributed to the advancement of the profession; and sincerely and effectively discharged personal and professional social responsibility through meaningful; contribution/participation in socio-related activities.
Undersecretary Cabral, who exemplifies women in infrastructure, is the first female rank-and-file employee who has reached the level of Undersecretary in the hierarchy of officials in the DPWH, and first female highest leader of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) who took the role as National President from 2017 to 2018.
Cabral has three (3) Masters Degrees and two (2) Doctorate Degrees in the field of Business Management, Economics and Public Administration.
She is also the current National President of the Road Engineering Association of the Philippines (REAP); a registered ASEAN Engineer and has been conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organization and an active member of the American Society for Civil Engineers-Philippine Group.
Awarding ceremony today, November 15, 2021 at 1PM shall be live streamed through PRC official Facebook.