Visit of Professor Dasgupta from Columbia University
On 21 January 2008, AIT President Said Irandoust met with Professor Gautam Dasgupta, who was invited by Dean Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai and Dr. Joydeep Dutta to deliver a lecture at AIT, and also explore possible partnerships. Professor Dasgupta who is from School of Civil Engineering, at ColumbiaUniversity, has lots of new ideas on launching innovative programs which are unique in areas such as intelligent infrastructure and security engineering, both covering interesting areas such as disaster control and mitigation by engineering tools. Professor Dasgupta declared his willingness to work with AIT colleagues in introducing new programs and interested faculty and staff are invited to contact Dean Worsak or Dr. Dutta.
AIT President Irandoust stresses the importance in conceptualizing new ideas and introducing programs that are unique and which will not compete or are offered by other national universities. Because of the cost structure of AIT, the Institute can not compete based on our prices, and can only do so through new thinking and quality, which requires that AIT move and respond fast. In planning new activities the institute must not only look inwards and at our existing resources but more importantly try and focus on the needs of our stakeholders and the market and design programs accordingly. What we lack in terms of internal resources and competencies can be complemented by our partners and through AIT's strong and extensive networks and linkages.
