06 July 2009: 2nd Joint Student Seminar on Civil Infrastructures & Joint International Seminar on Civil Infrastructures


Organized by
School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
International Center for Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo, Japan
BK-21 Global Leaders in Construction Engineering, Korea University, Korea
Myongji University, Korea
King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand
National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Research Team for Maintenance Technology of Infrastructure, Konkuk University, Korea

Introduction
As our activities expand beyond the border, international collaboration becomes more and more important and to build up a good relationship during young school days will be of advantages in the future. Considering this, 1st joint student seminar was help in 2008 by universities from 3 countries.
With the success of the 1st seminar, the 2nd Joint Student Seminar on Civil Infrastructures and the Joint International Seminar on Civil Infrastructures will be organized. These seminars are planned and organized to foster international friendship and communication by universities from 5 countries (Thailand, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea and Taiwan).

Objective
1) to experience the organization of international seminar to graduate students
2) to improve the presentation skill of graduate students
3) to share the research information and friendships

Seminar Themes
The student seminar will include 1 invited lecture by faculty and more than 5 presentations by students from each country. The topics include all fields of civil infrastructures: Structural engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Water engineering, Transportation engineering, Construction material management, Earthquake disaster mitigation engineering, Remote sensing, Tunnel and dam engineering

For more information (paper and participation), please contact Dr. K.H. Park (E-mail: khpark@ait.ac.th).