Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
July 30 - August 1, 2003: Workshop on 'On-line course delivery by VClass' will be offered by the Distributed Education Center (DEC). The workshop covers well-designed sets of exercises, hands on case studies, and experiments on the use of VClass to support teaching and on-line course offering. Interested AIT staff are advised to contact Khun Ann Pattama no later than July 21, 2003 at tel ext. 5718, 6613 or email: pattama@ait.ac.th
August 6 - September 16, 2003: A training course on 'Design and Construction on Bridges' will be organized by the Asian Center for Engineering Computations and Software (ACECOMS), SCE and will be held at AIT. Topics to be discussed are as follows: Steel Truss Bridges, Prestressed Bridges, Arch Bridges and Motorable Suspension Bridges.
The symposium speakers include: Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean SCE, AIT; Assoc. Prof. Pennung Warnitchai, Faculty of Structural Eng., AIT; Naveed Anwar, Associate Director, ACECOMS, SCE, AIT; Dr. Songkiat Matuyont, Engineering Advisor, CMJ Joint Venture Co., Ltd., Thailand; Buddhi Sharma, Manager, ACECOMS, SCE, AIT and an invited instructor from Nor Consultant Co., Ltd., Bangkok.
Registration fee is US$ 400 per person per topic The fee does not include the accommodation or travel expenses. Last day for registration is one week before the start of the topic. The duration for each topic will be about a week including 4-5 days training and 1-2 days field trip in Thailand. This is partly sponsored by Dept. of Road, Nepal and ADB.
For more information please visit: http://www.acecoms.ait.ac.th/tradetail.asp?SeminarID=36&SeminarMode;=current
Or contact: Mr. Buddhi S. Sharma, Manager, ACECOMS, AIT, Phone: 0 2524 5539 ext. 103, Fax: 0 2524 6059, email: buddhi@ait.ac.th
January 14-16, 2004: International Conference on 'Electric Supply Industry in Transition: Issues and Prospect for Asia' will be held at the AIT Conference Center.
The conference are co-organized by Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC, more than a dozen leading universities in the USA, including Berkeley), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and Asian Institute of Technology. The conference is coordinated by Professor Surapong Chirarattananon, SERD, AIT
The conference focus will be on 'Electricity Supply Industry in Transition': pertinent issues and prospects for Asia. The topic is timely as most of the utilities around the world, including developing nations, are changing the way they do businesses in electricity supply. A variety of people, power utilities, private power producers and academic institution, are expected to benefit from this conference.
A PDF file of the conference information can be downloaded at: http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/ep/esi. For further information please email: olivier@ait.ac.th
On December 15, 2003