On 7 November 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust along with AIT News and Media Specialist, Mr. Shawn Kelly, met with Mr. S. Roy, Founder, CEO and Editor of the ASEAN Affairs quarterly magazine www.aseanaffairs.com which has just launched its first issue of the magazine.

Thailand’s Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the ASEAN Foundation http://www.aseanfoundation.org have joined forces to offer ten master’s degree scholarships worth a total of Baht 9,706,000 (US$ 303,312) for ASEAN nationals to study at the post graduate institute located in Pathumthani, Thailand.

HE Mr. Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thailand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (left), presents a 500,000 baht contribution from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to AIT President Said Irandoust, who accepts on behalf of the Asia-Africa Initiative, AIT. Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has presented a financial contribution of 500,000 baht to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) […]

From left: Mr. Re Tou, Dr. William V. Bleisch, China Director Program (holding an AIT Extension training catalogue), Mr. Ou Jia, Ms. Monica Gary, Executive Director, TBF, and Mr. Li Jia. By Tenzin Rabgyal AIT Extension was please to welcome recently a delegation representing America’s The Bridge Fund (TBF), a non-profit and non-political organization registered […]

The AIT Community is pleased to welcome Professor Ake Faldt to AIT. Professor Faldt is currently a Professor of Chalmers University of Technology and will be engaged at AIT as a Visiting Professor in the Microelectronics field of study, School of Engineering and Technology, until December 2007. During his appointment, Professor Faldt will be teaching […]

On 1 November 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust took part in the inaugural meeting of the School of Engineering and Technology (SET) Board, under the chairmanship of distinguished AIT alumnus, Dr. Tongchat Hongladarom, who is also a member of the AIT Board of Trustees and serves as Chairman of the University Council, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi.

At the Academic Senate held on 31 October 2007 it was announced that Professor Jayant K. Routray was elected as AIT Faculty Representative along with the other representatives, namely Professor Kazi M. Ahmed, Dr. Oleg Shipin, Dr. Manukid Parnichkun, Dr. Sylvain Perret and Dr. Amararatne Yakupitiyage.

An evening of Iranian music was held on the November 5th at AIT, which was jointly organized by the AIT-Golden Jubilee Fundraising campaign and the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Thailand. The performance was by the “Dang Shoo Band”, which is regarded as a top-rated band in Iran.

Congratulations to Dr. Nitin Afzulpurkar, Associate Dean for Promotion, School of Engineering and Technology (SET), who received an invitation from Professor Teresa Zeilinska from the Warsaw University of Technology, which is a member of the European Master on Advanced Robotics (EMARO) Erasmus Mundus consortium, for AIT to be one of their partners.

AIT President Said Irandoust on 30 October 2007 met with Professor Chongrak Polprasert and Dr. Kim Oanh and was briefed on their recent visit to Ching Shiu University, Taiwan to discuss cooperation on dioxin analysis. Dioxin analysis is a part of the activities within the AIT-SINTEF  “Hazardous Chemical Management”, which involves Thailand and Vietnam.