Student Union executive members elected
At the second General Assembly meeting of AIT Student Union held on 11 September 2006, the following students were elected as SU Executive members:
Vanthida Meungkhampeng of Lao PDR was elected as general secretary.
Job vacancies
Programme Specialist
Duration: 12 Months (October 2006-September 2007)
Duty Station: UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP ROAP) provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples in Asia and the Pacific to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
AITAA announces activities
AIT Prominent Alumni Lecture Series - The AIT Alumni Association (AITAA) and Alumni Relations Unit (ARU) will organize a Prominent Alumni Lecture Series in which an alumna of AIT will deliver a lecture on his/her expertise on 31 October 2006.
AITAA 35th Governing Board Meeting - AITAA Mother Chapter and AITAA Lao P.D.R. Chapter will jointly organize the 35th Governing Board Meeting (GBM) on 9-11 December 2006 in Vientiane, Lao.
Student Union second General Assembly meeting 11 September
The Student Union is organizing the second General Assembly Meeting on Monday, 11 September 2006, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Milton Bender Conference Room. Other GA members who still have not yet registered please register with the Student Union Office or send details to aitsu@ait.
SU election results reported
The Election Committee of AIT's Student Union announced the result of the general election held on 7 September 2006 for the position of vice president for the August 2006 semester. The election came out that Mr. R.M.U.S.K. Rathnayake (Udaya) from Sri Lanka was elected with 277 votes.
From left: Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Head-ERCO; Prof. Dr. Ahris Yaakup, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning; Dr. Ahmad Nazri B. Muhamad Ludin, Deputy Dean and Dr. Rafee Majid, Lecturer, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning and Master Students form UTM
Malaysia delegation explores collaboration
A delegation from Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia (UTM) visited AIT on 29 August 2006. The purpose of the visit was to learn more about AIT and to seek opportunities for collaboration with AIT in student/faculty exchanges, joint research projects and faculty and staff development through both degree programs and AIT Extension.
Conference calls for papers
The University Support to Environmental Planning and Management project (USEPAM http://www.usepam.ait.ac.th)
at Regional and Rural Development Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development will organize a regional conference on 'Environmental Planning and Management in Southeast Asian Countries' in Hanoi, Vietnam, during 6-8 March 2007.
The specific objectives of the conference are: 1) to facilitate the exchange of experiences gained in and lessons learned from regionally coordinated capacity building projects implemented for strengthening multidisciplinary curricula, outreach activities and applied research capacity in the area of environmental planning and management amongst academicians, policymakers, planners and international development agencies in the region who are carrying out same or similar projects; 2) to provide a forum to researchers as well as planners and policymakers for presenting results of and methodological experiences in research projects; for sharing lessons learned through implementation of environmental management policies; for discussing the policy implications of the findings of the research projects; and for seeking policy oriented research issues.
Library offers new trial database
McGraw-Hill Engineering Online: Digital Engineering Library is now available at the AIT Library as a trial database until 6 October 2006.
The Digital Engineering Library provides online access to more than 4,000 engineering articles from McGraw-Hill publications.
Job vacancies
Position: Sponsored and Contracted Projects Coordinator, AIT
Reference No. 026
Deadline of Application: 15 September 2006
(Open for internal applicants only)
The Research & Education Support Office seeks for its Sponsored & Contracted Projects Unit (SCPU), a Coordinator to provide administrative coordination and support to the Vice President-Research, Deans, Faculty and Staff in all aspects related to the conduct of externally sponsored and contracted research projects, as well as of outside professional activities (professional community service and personal consultancy) in accordance to Institute policy and procedures.
China embassy closes for a week
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Bangkok will close from 30 September 2006 until 8 October 2006.