Suvarnabhumi: Getting to and from AIT
When the Suvarnabhumi International Airport opens on 28 September 2006, members of the AIT community will have to make some adjustments when planning their air travel. The trip to the new airport takes at least an hour, and the cost of transportation is substantially higher.
SET welcomes visiting senior lecturer
School of Engineering and Technology welcomes Dr. Udupi Sripati (right), currently a senior lecturer of Electronics and Communication, Communication Department, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, as a visiting senior lecturer in Microelectronics for one semester from August 2006 to December 2006. He is seconded to AIT by the government of India.
Visiting faculty joins Water Engineering and Management
The Water Engineering and Management field of study at the School of Engineering and Technology announces the assignment of Dr. Hirokazu Ikeda (right) as a visiting associate professor from Utsunomiya University, Japan, for the August 2006 semester.
Malaysian university offers graduate assistantship, research officer schemes
The University Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, offers postgraduate studies to interested AIT students with graduate assistanceship and research officer schemes.
A presentation on the University Teknologi Petronas and interview of the interested students will take place on 8 September 2006 at 9 a.m. at AIT Conference Center.
AIT Research Update Issue 3 is now available
Issue 3 of the AIT Research Update (June to July 2006) is now available online. Please browse through the publications page of the Sponsored and Contracted Projects Unit Web site: https://oldweb.ait.ac.th/scpu/Publication.
Language Center organizes English courses for August semester
For those among the August 2006 intake, English courses will be held from 28 August to 24 November 2006. To check your English test score and to find out which class to attend, see http://www.
ITServ conducts maintenance
ITServ will conduct a needed software upgrade on one of its main network pieces of equipment from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, 28 August 2006. This upgrade will address problems encountered with multicast video streams at AIT. During that period, no network access at all will be provided to all academic buildings.
AIT Library offers new trial database
AIT Library announced that EbookLibrary (EBL) is now available for AIT community as a trial database until 15 September 2006.
Ebook Library is an ebook lending platform developed by Ebooks Corporation in collaboration with leading university and research libraries and with academic publishers.
Job vacancies
Vacancies available at Wetlands International
Wetlands International has currently two vacancies in the Africa Office in Dakar, Senegal: Project Development Officer - Project Coordinator
Interested persons please apply before 4 September 2006. See for both vacancies
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Indian workshop advocates solid waste management
A workshop held in Chennai, India, suggested the solution to the problem of municipal solid waste management lies in source segregation, reports a 22 August 2006 story in The Hindu newspaper. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ann University, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and AIT. Prof.