Students’ Photo Competition and Photo Gallery Exhibit Last Friday, on the evening of April 4th, the main atrium of the AIT Center was the conspicuous locale for a photo exhibit that was the culmination of a month-long photo competition for the students of AIT.In what was a true display of cooperation and organization between the Student Union (SU) Campus and Environment Committee and the office of the VP Academic Affairs, the temporary photo gallery shone a worthy spotlight on many newly discovered photographic talents evident on campus.

by Kim Escobin

The AIT Conference Center on 27-28 March 2008 was once again the venue for the much anticipated AIT Career Fair, a bi-annual on-campus event organized by the Career Center that matches AIT graduates with corporate recruiters from Thailand and around the region.

A CSO-CGIAR (Civil Society Organization – Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research) funded project Linking Thai Jasmine Rice farmers with markets using participatory action research for sustainability of rain-fed lowland rice-based system of Northeast Thailand will organize an  Inception Workshop on 27 March 2008 at Milton Bender Auditorium at 9:00a.m.  AIT is partnering with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) as CGAIR partner center and with a local Thai NGO, Thai Education Foundation (TEF).This project aims to enhance the productivity of Jasmine Rice Production System through participatory action research trials using Farmer’s Field Schools (FFS) approach.

To be held at the AIT Conference Center starting at 9:00 a.m., the following 26 companies have signed up for the two-day Career Fair on 27-28 March 2008:

 

1. Bouygues Thai Ltd.  http://www.bouyguesasia.com/

2. Worley Parsons Thailand Ltd.

Mr. Max Meyer, Dipl Bau Ing ETH. SIA, VSL Technical Centre Asia/Australia, will conduct a seminar on SEGMENTAL CONSTRUCTION FOR BRIDGES & FLYOVERS -From Concept over Design and Detailing to Construction of State-of-the-Art Pre-stressed Concrete Bridges in Urban Areas, on Wednesday, 26 March 2008, from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in room N-240, Academic Building.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the NGO Section of the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), will  host on 24-25 March 2008 the event called ASEAN Regional Roundtable on "Promotion and Achievement of Millenium Development Goals through Education and Outreach".

The ASEAN Roundtable aims to create awareness and bring together high level decision makers, experts, policy makers and representatives from civil society to deliberate on the challenges South East Asian countries face in achieving the eight Millenium Development  Goals (MDG). Participants to the Roundtable will generate strategies aiming at improving and expanding capacity of institutions and professionals to cope with the MDG challenges.

On 17 March 2008, Khunying Kasama Vorawan na Ayudhaya (third from left), Secretary General, Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), Ministry of Education; Prof. Viroon Tungcharoen (fourth from left), Rector, Srinakharinwirot University (SWU); and Prof.

The AIT team in traditional Afghani robes.The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) took a major step forward today (11 March 2008) with its plan to assist the development of higher education in Afghanistan, inaugurating a branch office at Balkh University (BU) to manage its recently signed US$ 1.5 million University Partnership Program to assist the Faculty of Engineering at Balkh University.

AIT's Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab) will organize a 5-day Network Monitoring and Management Workshop on 11 - 15 March 2008 at intERLab Training Center with the support of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) (http://www.

The Asian Institute of Technology and SPAR Mechatronics Co., Ltd will conduct a New Small 5-axis CNC Machine for Educational and Industrial Training Seminar to be held at the AIT Conference Center on 05 March 2008, 8:30 a.m.

Introduction

The seminar will introduce the small 5- axis CNC training machine tool developed jointly by Spar Company and AIT with support from the Royal Thai Government.