HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn honors AIT

HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn honors AIT
AIT President Said Irandoust was honored by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the research exhibition organized by the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA). At an elaborate ceremony, HRH Sirindhorn bestowed a token of appreciation to the Asian Institute of Technology for its contribution to the annual event.
The exhibition was organised on November 25-26, 2009 at the CRMA campus where President Irandoust welcomed HRH Princess Sirindhorn and briefed her about the research conducted at AIT. Later, he was bestowed a souvenir by Her Royal Highness.The exhibition is aimed at displaying research activities undertaken by CRMA students and faculty and the collaborative research undertaken between CRMA and other institutions. A total of eight displays were installed by AIT at the exhibition. The displays included field sensor network applications, real time image acquisition from the Annapuruna
Range in the Himalayas for aircraft operation, and from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for quick response to disasters, a project by Dr. Kiyoshi Honda, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Technology (SET).Other AIT displays included posters on “Membrane Hybrid System for removal of PFOS and PFOA in industrial wastewater: Application of concentrional adsorbents and nanoparticles”; “Risk Management Program and Technology Application of Hazardous Substances at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA) and Military Bases: In Case of Trinitrotoluene (TNT)”; “Risk Management Program and Technology Application of Hazardous Substances at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA) and Military Bases: In Case of Heavy Metal (Pb, Cu, Zn)”, “E.coli and salmonella flow analysis with health risk assessment in urbanized vegetable farmland system”; “Airline Route Monitoring for Mountain”, “Real-Time Monitoring System using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”;
and “GPU for Remote Sensing : Massively-Parallel Data Processing”.

The AIT delegation was led by Prof. Said Irandoust, and comprised of Dr. Kiysohi Honda, Mr. Apichon Witayangkurn (Master’s student from Information Management), Mr. Narong Surinkul and Miss Waraporn Jiamjitrpanich (doctoral students from Environmental Engineering and Management).