Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
January 8, 2004, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon: STAR Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and Biogeographic Assessment for Coastal Zone Management', by Dr. Varis Ransibrahmanakul and Dr. Olaf Jensen, NOAA National Ocean Service, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, USA, at room E220.
All AITians are invited to attend the seminar.
January 12, 2004, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Seminar on 'Introduction to the Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, Wales, UK'. The seminar will be conducted by Dr. Le Chi Hieu, Project Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Venue will be announced at a later date
and interested persons are invited.
Abstract
The award-winning Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) forms part of
Cardiff University, which dates back to 1883 and is one of Britain's major
civic universities. The MEC is a designated Centre of Excellence in
Manufacturing Engineering under two different programs, the Centre of
Excellence for Industrial Collaboration Program managed by the WDA and the Regional Centres for Manufacturing Excellence Program funded by the DTI and the Welsh Assembly Government. Within the past five years, the Centre has secured over ?20M in Grants and contracts and has developed close working relations with some 25 major organizations and over 200 SMEs. Its track record of successful collaboration with industry has culminated in a number of major prizes and awards, including the DTI Secretary of State's first prize and the Queen's Anniversary prize.
In this presentation, key-advanced design and manufacturing technologies,
which have been applied at the MEC, will be introduced and outlined,
including Rapid Prototyping and Tooling, Reverse Engineering and Metrology, Laser Milling and Micro-engineering; and Biomedical Modelling and its Applications.
For further information contact: Assoc. Prof. Erik L.J. Bohez, DME/SAT, Tel. 02 524-5687. For further information please email: bohez@ait.ac.th
January 14-16, 2004: International Conference on 'Electric Supply Industry in Transition: Issues and Prospect for Asia' will be held at the AIT Conference Center.
The conference is co-organized by the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC, comprising of more than a dozen leading universities in the USA, including U.C. Berkeley), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and Asian Institute of Technology. The conference is coordinated by Professor Surapong Chirarattananon, SERD, AIT
The conference focus will be on 'Electricity Supply Industry in Transition': pertinent issues and prospects for Asia. The topic is timely as most of the utilities around the world, including developing nations, are changing the way they do businesses in electricity supply. A variety of people, power utilities, private power producers and academic institution, are expected to benefit from this conference.
A PDF file of the conference information can be downloaded at:
http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/ep/esi
For further information please email: olivier@ait.ac.th