By Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
Mr. Harry Kasuma Aliwarga (Kiwi Aliwarga), AIT alumnus who graduated with a Masters in Structural Engineering in 1995 and is CEO, UMG Group of Companies has agreed to support 24 credits and 4 semester’s registration fees Master scholarship to a Myanmar student enrolled in one of the selected programs in any of the AIT three schools for the August 2022 intake.
By Sarina Pradhan Thapa and Sirinapha Srinonil
November 16, 2021 – The subregional consultation workshop led by Professor Vilas Nitivattananon, Dean of School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), was organized today under the project entitled Integrated Assessment of SDGs using Earth Observation Technology for Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR).
The workshop was held virtually with more than 85 participants from 40 organizations attending the meeting.
By Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (GC) represented by Dr. Chaya Chandavasu, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, agreed to support THB 500,000 for scholarships and research in the Marine Plastics Abatement (MPA) program, School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD).
GC is Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical and refining business and a leading corporation in Asia-Pacific region.
By Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
Advanced Wireless Network Company Limited (AWN), subsidiary of Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS), has agreed to support five full Master’s scholarships in the amount of Thai Baht 5,000,000, (Thai Baht 1,000,000 per candidate per year) starting from the August 2022 intake to August 2026. The scholarships will be provided to AWN employees or AIT Thai students enrolled in any program in the School of Engineering & Technology (SET). On 14th January 2022, the Memorandum of Agreement was signed between Ms. Saichon Submakudom, Head of Public Relations Department, Advanced Wireless Network Company Limited (AWN), and Dr. Eden Y. Woon, President of AIT.
AWN, founded in 2005, is licensed by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to offer telecommunications services.
By AIT Extension
September 23, 2021 at the Thakhlong Municipality, where AIT is located in, a meeting was held between AIT and the Municipality officials led by Mr. Suthep Wongjang (the Municipality Mayor) on the ongoing collaborative project supported by the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities - Network (EPIC-N). A 4-members AIT Team was warmly welcomed by the Mayor himself and his team.
By Nitipol Kiravanich
November 25th, 2021 – Every year, December 10th marks a significant international event known as “16 Days of Activism,” a campaign that calls for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.
To join the call and commemorate this important event, a group of students at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) from the Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program has formed a club with a goal to create an inclusive society, starting at an institution near and dear to them – AIT.
With students living and studying in a multicultural environment, the club aimed to promote and heighten “inclusivity” as its goal, as well as envisioned to imprint on everyone the “gender lens” where an inequality or imbalance of power based on gender is visible in everyday life.
Office of Public Affairs
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Brunel University London (BUL) on 7 December 2021 signed an agreement to offer a new Dual Degree Master’s Program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence beginning in August 2022.Students of the new international program will spend one year at AIT in Thailand and another year at BUL in the United Kingdom, and earn two degrees by fulfilling all academic requirements of both institutions.
Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
Ms. Vorakarn Chatkaewvorakul, a Thai MBA student in the School of Management, received a Student Exchange Scholarship from BCPG Public Company Limited. This scholarship pays for half of her expenses during the exchange program at EDHEC Business School, France from 3 January 2022 to 5 May 2022.These scholarship exchange programs will give the opportunity to our Master’s students to broaden their international exposure for their further development in order to become responsible citizens of the world, through one-semester academic exchanges with globally recognized prestigious universities with whom AIT has agreements.
Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
A group of AIT Chinese Alumni in Thailand, led by Mr. Liu Chongming (SEC’93), presented to AIT President Dr. Eden Woon the third installment, in the amount of THB 200,000, towards their One Million Baht Student Exchange Scholarship Fund donation.
By Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
Dr. John D. Nelson, former Vice Chairman of the AIT Board of Trustees and Principal Engineer of Engineering Analytics, Inc., USA has donated USD 50,000 towards upgrading the Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory at the Geotechnical & Earth Resources Engineering (GTE), School of Engineering & Technology.