Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) to develop and offer a one year year Professional Master’s program in Geoexploration and Petroleum Engineering (GEPG). The MOU was signed by Prof. Said Irandoust, President, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Dr. Phan Ngoc Trung, General Director of VPI on 15 June 2010.
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman will be conferred honorary doctorate degree by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The decision to confer the honor was taken at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of AIT at its meeting held on 8 June 2010.
Group T university of Belgium has offered a number of scholarships as part of its proposal to establish a master’s double degree program with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The partnership could include up to 12 one-year scholarships for AIT students to study at Group T.
CIRAD(Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement) and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) have reaffirmed their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and two Memorandum of Agreement’s (MOA’s). The agreements were signed by Dr. Jean-Chalres Maillard, Regional Director of CIRAD for Continental South East Asia and Prof. Said Irandoust, President, AIT.
Thailand’s beloved princess, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, has graciously consented to preside over “AIT Day 2010,†a first-of-its-kind event planned for 7 September 2010 to honor AIT’s alumni.
University of Economics and Business (UEB), Vietnam National University and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) today signed an agreement for the launch of a unified BBA-MBA program. The unified program, the first of its kind at the School of Management (SOM) at AIT will accept the first batch of students already enrolled at UEB from August.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has expressed its appreciation to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and has complimented its performance. This was conveyed by Mr. Chatri Moonstan, Senior Programme Office, Royal Norwegian Embassy during the annual consultation of the Norwegian MFA and AIT held on 9 June 2010. Mr. Chatri stated that the association of Norwegian government and AIT dates back to 1978 and that the cooperation is “very specialâ€.
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has proved to be an extremely positive “destination campus†for Ford Foundation fellows, and the AIT partnership with the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) is a demonstrated record of success. This was stated by Dr. Mary Zurbuchen, Director of the Asia and Russia Program for the Ford Foundation IFP, during an interaction at AIT on 8 June 2010.
An article jointly authored by Prof. Said Irandoust, President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Vikrom Kromadit, CEO of Amata Corporation, appeared in the newspaper “The Nation” on 4 June 2010. The article and its scanned copy is reproduced here.
Thirty-five students from different fields of study were
awarded prizes for academic excellence during the 113th
Graduation of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) held on 26 May
2010. The list of all award winners along with their program and name
of award is as follows:
Name
Program
Award
Thesis / Research Study / Coursework
School of
Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Mr. Justin Arnold Finch
Agribusiness Management
Mahadeo N. Salokhe Memorial Prize
Research Study: Perception of Young Educated Consumers Towards
Ready-to-Drink Milk Brands in Bangkok
Mr. Amandeep Singh Sangha
Thesis : Role of ICT in the agriculture sector: A study of
progressive farmers, Malwa region, Punjab, India
Ms. Hengodage Nirmalee Bhagya
Wijayalath
Agricultural Systems and Engineering
Y.Y. Kishida Prize
Thesis: Biological Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease Caused by
Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato with Candida ethanolica and
Enterobacter cloacae by Modifying Carbohydrate Source and Soil
PH
Mr. Keerthi Sri Senarathna Atapaththu
Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management
C. Kwei Lin Prize
Thesis: Evaluation of Adopted Best Management Practices in Shrimp
Farming in Sri Lanka, Using Life Cycle Assessment
Mr. Dinesh Rangana Gurusinghe
Energy
Yoshiro Takasaki Prize
Thesis: Saddle Node Bifurcation and Voltage Stability Analysis by
Particle Swarm Optimization
Mr. Agapol Pukprayura
Thesis: Optimal Under-voltage Load Shedding for Northeastern EGAT
System
Ms. Tanya Udom
Environmental Engineering and Management
Robert B. Banks Prize
Thesis: Pathogen Flow Analysis and Potential Health Risks due to
Greywater Reuse in Thailand
Ms. Kaushalya C. Wijekoon
Environmental Engineering and Management (with specialization in
Water and Wastewater Engineering)
Chongrak Polprasert Prize
Thesis: High Rate Thermophilic Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for
Wastewater Treatment
Mr. Sukrit Termsaithong
Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology
Hisamatsu Prize
Thesis: Evaluation of Postharvest Handling for Two Culinary Herbs:
Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) and Rocket Salad (Diplotaxis
tenuifolia)
Ms. Duangsamorn Jatupornpimol
Gender and Development Studies
Alastair M. North Prize
Thesis: State Response to Intimate Partner Violence in Thailand
Mr. Binaya Pasakhala
Natural Resources Management
Tim Kendall Memorial Prize
Thesis: Assessing the Vulnerability of People’s Livelihood in
Far-Western Nepal: Implications on Adaptation to Climate Change
Ms. Merina Lohani Sitoula
Thesis: An Assessment of Foreign Land Acquisition Processes in Four
GMS Countries: Case Studies of Impacts on Livelihoods in Cambodia
and Lao PDR
Mr. Ma Tien Chuong
Pulp and Paper Technology
James A. Linen III Memorial Prize
Thesis: Effects of Process and Wet End Variables on Alum-Cationic
Rosin Sizing & Comparisons with Pac-Cationic Rosin and AKD
Sizing
Mr. Young Sokphea
Regional and Rural Development Planning
James A. Linen III Memorial Prize
Thesis: Governance of Decentralized Commune Development Planning in
Cambodia: Case Studies of Commune Councils in Battambang
Province
Mr. Nurrohman Wijaya
Urban Environmental Management
John A. Hrones Prize
Thesis: An Assessment of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions
Related to Urban Residential Density in A Developing City: A Case Study
of Bandung City, Indonesia
Mr. Dinesh Rangana Gurusinghe
Most Outstanding Graduate in SERD
AIT Alumni Association Prize
Thesis: Saddle Node Bifurcation and Voltage Stability Analysis by
Particle Swarm Optimization
Ms. Hengodage Nirmalee Bhagya Wijayalath
Most Outstanding Women Graduates in SERD
Yoh Kurosawa Prize
Thesis: Biological Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease Caused by
Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato with Candida ethanolica and
Enterobacter cloacae by Modifying Carbohydrate Source and Soil PH
Ms. Tanya Udom
Thesis: Pathogen Flow Analysis and Potential Health Risks due to
Greywater Reuse in Thailand
Ms. Merina Lohani Sitoula
Thesis: An Assessment of Foreign Land Acquisition Processes in Four
GMS Countries: Case Studies of Impacts on Livelihoods in Cambodia and
Lao PDR
School of Management (SOM)
Mr. Avishek Chakravarti
Business Administration
Tim Kendall Memorial Prize
Coursework only
Mr. Vivek Krishna Chandrakasan
Most Outstanding Graduate in SOM
AIT Alumni Association Prize
Project: Financial Risk Management : Theories, Models and
Practices
Ms. Prakriti Paudel
SOM
Shoichiro Toyoda Prize
Coursework only
School of Engineering and Technology
(SET)
Mr. Ekarin Supataratarn
Computer Science
Hisamatsu Prize
Thesis: Objective Outcome Scoring in a Dental Surgical Simulator
Mr. Patipol Treerojporn
Information Management
James A. Linen III Memorial Prize
Research Study: Auditory Displays of Data for Dual Tasks: Design and
Evaluation for a Vehicle Operator in a Factory Environment
Mr. Pandhapon Sombuntham
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Tim Kendall Memorial Prize
Thesis: PSO Algorithms for Generalized Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing
Problems with Pickup and Delivery Requests
Ms. Thawanporn Suthamviwat
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Yoshiro Takasaki Prize
Thesis: Enhancing a Design by Customer for Multi-Color Nested
Pattern Products
Mr. Apisit Aroonnual
Mechatronics
Werner von Siemens Excellence Award
Thesis: Vision-Based Automatic Hovering Control of a Small-Scale
Unmanned Helicopter
Mr. Sarayut Amornwongpeeti
Microelectronics
Infineon Prize
Thesis: A Fourth-order Cascaded Multi-bit Delta-Sigma Modulator with
Interstage Feedback Paths
Ms. J Elaine J. Layug
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
John A. Hrones Prize
Thesis: Development of a Low Cost Bathymetric Mapping System for
Tsunami Inundation Modeling
Mr. Nawat Luangviriyasaeng
Telecommunications
Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Prize
Thesis: Resource Allocation in Cellular Relay Networks Using Network
Coding
Mr. Laddu Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe
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Best Thesis in TC and ICT
A B Sharma Memorial Prize
Thesis: Analysis of Cooperative Relay Communication with Cognitive
Radio, Physical Layer Network Coding and MIMO
Mr. Suneth Namal Karunarathna
Information & Communication Technologies
Aoyagi Prize
Thesis: Technology Challenges for Context Aware Multimedia
Services
Mr. Truong Ngoc Quy
Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Management
Mahesh Varma Prize
Thesis: Current Practices of Public Private Partnership in
Low-Income Housing Development in Vietnam
Mr. Panupong Dangyeunyong
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Chin Fung Kee Prize
Thesis: Evaluation of Low Resistivity HC-Bearing Formation
Mr. Rojit Shahi
Structural Engineering
Wen Jei Yang Prize
Thesis: Effective Modeling of Shear Walls in High Rise Buildings for
Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analysis
Mr. Ajay Khatri Chettri
Transportation Engineering
Barbara and John Hugh Jones Prize
Thesis: The Development of Land-Use and Transportation Integrated
Model for Urban Sustainability Evaluation
Mr. Bikesh Shrestha
Water Engineering and Management
Chainarong Na Lamphun Prize
Thesis: Impact of Biofuel Production on Hydrology: A Case Study of
Khlong Phlo Watershed in Thailand
Mr. Laddu Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe
Most Outstanding Graduate in SET
AIT Alumni Association Prize
Thesis: Analysis of Cooperative Relay Communication with Cognitive
Radio, Physical Layer Network Coding and MIMO
Ms. J Elaine J. Layug
Most Outstanding Woman Graduate in SET
Hiromichi Seya Prize
Thesis: Development of a Low Cost Bathymetric Mapping System for
Tsunami Inundation Modeling