AIT Extension have the following programs scheduled:- A course on implementing of ERP application and management from 21April to 2 May 2008 for participants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lankafor a total budget of 382,800.- The 2nd AIT-ACIAR (Australian Centre for InternationalAgricultural Research) professional development program on deliveringquality extension services from 28 April to 9 May 2008.  This ACIAR-financedprogram for participants from ACIAR’s Smallholder Agribusiness DevelopmentInitiative (SADI), Indonesia has a total budget of Baht 1,197,419.- ACIAR also sponsors a professional development program onagribusiness development and management from 28 April to 10 May 2008 forparticipants from ACIAR’s Smallholder Agribusiness Development Initiative(SADI) and from Jember University, Indonesia.

The Structural Engineering Laboratory of the School of Engineering & Technology is proud to announce two new projects set to run until next year. The first, led by Dr Sun Sayamipuk, Senior Laboratory Supervisor, is from the PBL Group Co Ltd worth 240,000 Baht requesting the installation and inspection of the creep of high strength concrete in main columns in the Asian Center construction project in South Sathorn Road, Bangkok.

On 24 April, AIT received the visit of a delegation from the University of Montpellier 2, France. The visitors included Professor Jacques Rivire, Vice Rector for international relations, Professor Claude Dupuis, Emeritus Professor and Coordinator for Franco-Thai relationships, and Professor Jacqueline Raymond, International Relations Officer at the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier.

On 24 April, the certification ceremony was held for the 5th batch of the AIT-Ansell Leadership Development Program at the AIT Conference Center. The graduates were 19 senior managers coming from Ansell's offices around the world. The leadership program, now entering its 6th consecutive year, is  coordinated by Dr. Sundar Venkatesh of SOM. Vice President, Academic Affairs, Professor Peter Haddawy, delivered the graduation speech and also presented the certificates to theparticipants.

On 23 April, Dr. Hyen-Suk Rhee, Director, Dr. Ki-Kwon Kim, Senior ICT Expert and Mr. James George Chacko, Programme Officer from Asian and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology for development (APCICT) UNESCAP visited AIT.  The purpose of the visit was to link and explore the possible collaboration of APCICT in various fields such as workshops, seminars, research and training especially focusing on to use ICT in socio-economic development through building the human and institutional capacity for ICT. During the meeting three areas of cooperation have emerged namely ICT for development, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Asia-Africa  Initiative.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.

On 24 April, the certification ceremony was held for the 5th batch of the AIT-Ansell Leadership Development Program at the AIT Conference Center. The graduates were 19 senior managers coming from Ansell's offices around the world. The leadership program, now entering its 6th consecutive year, is  coordinated by Dr. Sundar Venkatesh of SOM. Vice President, Academic Affairs, Professor Peter Haddawy, delivered the graduation speech and also presented the certificates to theparticipants.

On 23 April, Dr. Hyen-Suk Rhee, Director, Dr. Ki-Kwon Kim, Senior ICT Expert and Mr. James George Chacko, Programme Officer from Asian and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology for development (APCICT) UNESCAP visited AIT.  The purpose of the visit was to link and explore the possible collaboration of APCICT in various fields such as workshops, seminars, research and training especially focusing on to use ICT in socio-economic development through building the human and institutional capacity for ICT. During the meeting three areas of cooperation have emerged namely ICT for development, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Asia-Africa  Initiative.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.