On 23 April, Dr. Hyen-Suk Rhee, Director, Dr. Ki-Kwon Kim, Senior ICT Expert and Mr. James George Chacko, Programme Officer from Asian and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology for development (APCICT) UNESCAP visited AIT.  The purpose of the visit was to link and explore the possible collaboration of APCICT in various fields such as workshops, seminars, research and training especially focusing on to use ICT in socio-economic development through building the human and institutional capacity for ICT. During the meeting three areas of cooperation have emerged namely ICT for development, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Asia-Africa  Initiative.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.

On 24 April, the certification ceremony was held for the 5th batch of the AIT-Ansell Leadership Development Program at the AIT Conference Center. The graduates were 19 senior managers coming from Ansell's offices around the world. The leadership program, now entering its 6th consecutive year, is  coordinated by Dr. Sundar Venkatesh of SOM. Vice President, Academic Affairs, Professor Peter Haddawy, delivered the graduation speech and also presented the certificates to theparticipants.

On 23 April, Dr. Hyen-Suk Rhee, Director, Dr. Ki-Kwon Kim, Senior ICT Expert and Mr. James George Chacko, Programme Officer from Asian and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology for development (APCICT) UNESCAP visited AIT.  The purpose of the visit was to link and explore the possible collaboration of APCICT in various fields such as workshops, seminars, research and training especially focusing on to use ICT in socio-economic development through building the human and institutional capacity for ICT. During the meeting three areas of cooperation have emerged namely ICT for development, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Asia-Africa  Initiative.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.

1. Former AIT faculty member Professor Stephen Ogunlana, who is currently the Chair of the Construction Project Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK has informed us of the good news that the Construction Management and Economics Journal (voted the top journal in the construction management field since 1997) has three of the seven articles published in the April 2008 issue authored by AIT’s Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) students and former students.

On April 22 Dr. Manukid Parnichkun delivered a talk on Robotics Research at AIT to the ICT Industry Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce.  The talk was enthusiastically received with the Chamber members expressing their desire to follow up with a field trip to visit AIT to see the Robotics Lab and other ICT projects first hand.

On 21 April, a delegation of Philippine university presidents and managers / chairpersons of regional research consortia involved in agriculture and natural resources R&D visited the Institute as part of a study visit to Thailand for the Continuing Education Program of Agricultural Innovation Managers of the Philippines.

AIT recently played host to the Research Colloquium of UNEP Asia Pacific Regional University Consortium (RUC)  on Environment for Sustainable Development. The two-day event on April 24 - 25 attracted academics (above) from  Australia, America, China, and Japan.

AIT’s own Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, was recently invited by the Professor Sung Woo Lee, President of the  Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea to present a keynote lecture at the International Symposium Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea, organized at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 17 April 2008. The theme of the symposium was “The Next 20 years of Computational Structural Engineering”.  The symposium attracted more than 300 participants.