ChEckBoard 2025 Comes Back to Help ChE Students Lock In

Behind each manufacturing plant is a student who has managed to live a lifetime filled with vapor-liquid diagrams, countless formulas of unit processes, and an ambition to make these calculations reflect in real-world conditions. For an aspiring chemical engineer, the scope and weight of the responsibility and qualifications is daunting.

Enter the Chemical Engineering Licensure Exams or ChELE, a three-day grueling set of exams that covers the entire four or five years of engineering education. Spread over three days, the topics covered include Physical and Chemical Principles, Chemical Engineering Principles, and General Engineering. 

The standardized test, overseen and managed by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), acts as the gateway to a student’s professional career. Luckily, just before the November ChELE, a set of seminars and talks, more popularly known as the Chemical Engineering Licensure Exam Primer (ChEckBoard), is also making a return to assist students.

ChEckBoard 2025: Locked In

Spearheaded by the University of the Philippines-Diliman-based Academic League of Chemical Engineering Students Inc. (UP ALCHEMES), ChEckBoard 2025 will continue its 16th year within the walls of the UP Diliman campus. The face-to-face event will be held on October 18, exactly a month before the November 19-21 ChELE, at the Marine Science Institute.

Opting to tap into its younger bases, this year’s theme is aptly named Locked In. The event will help students focus and concentrate on the exams through a series of seminars targeted towards recently graduated students. Speakers from across the country, including PRC, will guide students and answer their questions regarding the technical details of the exam.

A slew of endorsements from UP-based offices have also strengthened the event’s credibility. UP President Angelo Jimenez promoted the event as bearing the ideals of UP: “rigorous preparation, the relentless pursuit of excellence, and the responsibility to serve the nation with our skills and knowledge.” 

Last year’s ChEckBoard helped students get a glimpse of the possible pathways to take after being licensed. Speakers from research institutes and the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods network helped students understand the potential roles they can assume once they pursue the academe or industry.

Testimonials from last year’s ChEckBoard participants have solidified confidence in the event’s rigor and benefits. These participants, now registered chemical engineers, helped them feel less alone and more empowered.

The PRC speakers last year also gave tips and tricks for the participants, which may have given them an edge over other students. Partnered review centers also gave a complete curriculum list for the students, which thoroughly explained the scope of the ChELE.

A glimpse of last year’s event helps set the tone for the different avenues that ChEckBoard 2025: Locked In will improve, including speakers, tips and tricks, and seminar-like talks.

This year will be no different. Notable this time around is the inclusion of topnotcher speakers across the country, reflecting a strong drive to inspire more chemical engineer aspirants. Beyond the scope of academics, the event will also seek to relax its participants through lighthearted games, merchandise, and a plethora of prizes that may prove useful for the ChELE.

Partnered institutions include famed review centers 10RC and the Auxesis Review Center, known for producing many ChELE passers. Varied organizations within UP and sister Chemical Engineering organizations outside the campus have also expressed support for the event.

If you’re still on the fence, a more in-depth look at the event can be seen in this link here.

So stock up on unit process formulae, and brush up on those vapor-liquid equilibrium diagrams. Familiarize yourself with steam tables once more, and trace those lines in your psychrometric charts. To increase your chances, you might as well join the event through the link here. ●