FEATI University | |
Former Names: | Far Eastern Aeronautics School |
Established: | 1946 |
Type: | Private, non-sectarian |
President: | Adolfo Jesus R. Gopez |
Motto: | Latin: Ars Scientia Manus |
Motto Lang: | la |
Location: | Helios St., Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines |
Pushpin Map: | Philippines City of Manila#Metro Manila#Luzon mainland#Philippines |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Manila##Location in Metro Manila##Location in Luzon##Location in the Philippines |
Colors: | Blue and yellow |
Sports Nickname: | Seahawks |
FEATI University (Far Eastern Air Transport Incorporated University) is a private non-sectarian co-educational higher education institution with a Catholic orientation established in 1946 in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. FEATI was formerly known as the Far Eastern School of Aeronautics.
Salvador Araneta with his wife Victoria Lopez de Araneta founded the Far Eastern Air Transport Incorporated (FEATI), the first airline in the Philippines flying the Iloilo-Manila-Hong Kong route.[1]
The Aranetas decided to close the airline but adopted its name as part of a school they established on March 6, 1946, and named it the FEATI Institute of Technology. The educational institution focused on the fields of engineering and technology. The school was granted university status by the Department of Education in 1959 with Victoria Lopez de Araneta as the first president of FEATI University.[1]
The FEATI University currently occupies as a 5ha campus.
The university's Graduate School offers postgraduate degrees that includes Master of Arts major in College Teaching, Master of Arts major in Educational Administration and Supervision and Master of Science in Management Engineering. The following are the colleges of FEATI University:
Fernando Ocampo Sr.’s Paterno Building built in 1929 at the foot of MacArthur Bridge in Santa Cruz and was inspired from Art Deco and Missino Revival architectures . It had a symmetrical rectangular plan with a clean and simple character in design, having blocks of windows organized in a series of regular bays. Two passageways were emphasized by canopies and plain art deco treatment over the second-level windows and on the raised pediments.[2]
The FEATI University maintains an athletics program.
In the '07 Nike Summer League, the Seahawks Men's Basketball team succeeded in making it into the quarter-finals but was defeated by more experienced sides De La Salle University- Manila on June 4, 2007. In September 2009, FEATI co-founded the Interscholastic Athletic Association (ISAA) along with other member-schools Manila Adventist Medical Center and Colleges, FEU-East Asia College, Manila Doctors College, La Consolacion College Manila, Philippine Women’s University, Lyceum of the Philippines University and Southville International School and College.