Launching Ceremony of a New Project ‘Water Resources Management in the Mekong River Basin’!
Water Engineering and Management (WEM) program of AIT and Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII), Thailand organized a project kickoff meeting of ‘Water Resources Management in the Mekong River Basin’ at the Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII) Office in Bangkok on 30 September 2020. The project is supported by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) and USAID and jointly implemented by Water Engineering and Management and HII, Thailand. The aim of this kickoff [...]
Dean Trau addresses 2020 Global Smart Education Conference hosted by Beijing Normal University
Prof. Dieter Trau, Dean of the AIT School of Engineering and Technology and Director of AIT Entrepreneurship Center, delivered a special remark on August 23 on AIT's vision and work on bracing for the future of international universities at the closing ceremony of the 2020 Global Smart Education Conference hosted by Beijing Normal University’s Smart Learning Institute. AIT was the only strategic partner in Southeast Asia for the conference [...]
Prof. Sangam Shrestha edits special issue of Environmental Research
Professor Sangam Shrestha of the Water Engineering and Management program in the AIT School of Engineering and Technology collaborated with Dr. Linda Anne Stevenson of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Prof. Rajib Shaw (Keio University, Japan) and Prof. Juan Pulhin (UPLB, Philippines) as the Managing Guest Editor of a recent Special Issue of the journal Environmental Research. The July 2020 Special Issue on “Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability [...]
Prof. Manukid explains MCOT-ABU ROBOCON 2020 Robot Competition
Professor Manukid Parnichkun of the AIT School of Engineering and Technology, and Chair of the Academic Committee of the MCOT-ABU ROBOCON, explains the new normal and a major robot competition to be held this year which is open to students from AIT and other universities in Thailand. “MCOT-ABU ROBOCON” is the longest-standing robot competition in Thailand organized by MCOT (the TV Channel). This year marks the 19th Year Anniversary [...]
Drought Risk Management in South and South East Asia – Book edited by Dr. Indrajit Pal
Drought Risk Management in South and South East Asia, the book co-edited by Dr. Indrajit Pal - Faculty and Chair in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, has been published recently. The geo-climatic conditions of South and South-East Asian countries are diverse and vulnerable to multiple natural hazards such as drought. Drought evolves over months or even years, affects a large spatial extent [...]
KMUTNB joins AIT’s International Unified Bachelor’s-Master’s Degree Program
The College of Industrial Technology (CIT) of Thailand’s King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) joined the AIT International Unified Bachelor’s-Master’s Degree Program on 20 July 2020, signing a specific Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the AIT School of Engineering and Technology. The MoA was signed on behalf of the AIT President by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mongkol Ekpanyapong, Head of AIT’s Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and [...]