Agreement means students, faculty from Taiwan

AIT and the National Yulin University of Science & Technology in Taiwan signed an open-ended agreement to collaborate on 21 July 2006. The agreement means a secondment of a faculty member from a Taiwanese university, beginning as early as the August semester. Additionally, as many as 10 doctoral students who are currently faculty members of Taiwanese universities could come to AIT on scholarships paid in part by their universities and Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.

AIT and National Yulin University of Science & Technology will discuss the concept of a dual doctoral program. And the institutions are tentatively planning a symposium later this year to discuss joint research projects that would receive Taiwanese funding.

AIT Vice President for External Relations Prof. Vilas Wuwongse and National Yulin University President Tsong-Ming Lin signed the agreement.

National Yulin University was founded in 1991 and has 9,000 students, 3,000 of which are at the graduate level. It was recently ranked the No. 2 science and technology university in Taiwan and the No. 1 teaching university by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.

Also present at the ceremony were: Dr. Dau-Chung Wang, director of the Office of International Affairs of National Yulin University; Mr. James Chang, executive assistant to the representative head of Cultural Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Thailand; Prof. Peter Haddawy, AIT vice president for academic affairs; Dr. Voratas Kachitvichyanukul of the School of Engineering and Technology; Dr. Joydeep Dutta of SET; and Mrs. Hnin Aye Lwin, Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal and Mr. Ralf Kircher of the External Relations and Communications Office.