Siemens executives visit focuses on water technologies
From left, Christian Metzger, Mirka Wilderer and H. Jagannath Rao, all from Siemens, listen to Prof. Ajit P. Annachhatre explain a student's waste-water experiment.
Executives from Siemens in Munich , Germany , visited AIT on 16 February to research drinking- and waste-water technologies in Southeast Asia .
Mirka Wilderer and Christian Metzger from the company's strategies office in Germany , and H. Jagannath Rao, a vice president from the company's Singapore office, met with Prof. Ajit P. Annachhatre, School of Environment , Resources and Development.
The delegation is touring Southeast Asia with an aim to assess the market potential and possible obstacles - social, political, economic, technological - related to drinking water and wastewater. As the coordinator for the Sida-funded Asian Regional Research Programme on Environmental Technology (ARRPET), which deals with wastewater research, Prof. Ajit gave a brief presentation on 'Water Technologies in Asia and the Challenges Ahead' and also held discussions on how AIT and Siemens could collaborate in future in the field on water technologies.
Such a collaboration, Prof. Ajit said, would include projects, training or research with Siemens.
'This could be a long-lasting collaboration,' he said.
Siemens is a global leader in electrical engineering and electronics. The company has 461,000 employees working to develop and manufacture products, design and install complex systems and projects and tailor a wide range of services for individual requirements for customers in 190 countries. The company is active in the areas of information and communications, automation and control, power, transportation, medical, and lighting.