President Armand meets with H. E. Mr. Pham Gia Khiem, Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam
President Jean-Louis Armand met with H. E. Mr. Pham Gia Khiem (right), Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam and other senior officials on 20 March 2002. Receiving visiting AIT President in Ha Noi, the Deputy Prime Minister praised AIT for its international standard programmes which have made valuable contributions through the training of highly skilled workers in Viet Nam.
Visiting AIT
Zhejiang University
A Delegation from Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China, visited AIT on 27 March and met with Prof. Mario T. Tabucanon, Provost, Prof. H. N. Phien, Dean of School of Advanced Technologies (SAT); and Dr. Ziaoyong Chen.
At the contract signing ceremony held on 18 March, Prof. Worsak
Kanok-Nukulchai (second from left), Project Team Leader and Dean of the
School of Civil Engineering, representing the AIT President, is seen exchanging
contract documents with Mr. Karsten Holm (second from right), DANCED Chief
Technical Advisor.
Visiting AIT
Post-Graduate Institute of Management (PIM)
On 19 March, Prof. G. Nanayakkara, Director of Post-Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) and Mr. Lalith Weerathunge, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Education, and Member of the Board of Management, PIM, Sri Lanka, visited AIT to explore possible collaboration between PIM and AIT. The collaboration will mainly focus on SOM's Masters, Split P.h.D programs, as well, as faculty exchange and joint collaboration.
SERD Faculties receive Appointment and Award
SERD Faculty, Dr. Ajit P. Annachhatre, Associate Professor, Urban Environmental Engineering Program (UEEM), was recently appointed member of the RESB (Re/Views in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology) advisory board by Piet Lens, Editor in Chief.
At the panel are from left: Dr. Shrinivas Rao, SAWG Chairman; Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dean of School of Civil Engineering (SCE); Prof. Mario T. Tabucanon, Provost; Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President; Prof. H. N. Phien, Dean of School of Advanced Technologies (SAT); Prof.
Update on SAT Program Coordinators
The School of Advanced Technologies announces changes and update in the 2002
program coordinatorships.
SAT would also like to thank Dr. Kiyoshi Honda (STAR) and Dr. Kazi M. Ahmed (TC) for their outstanding leaderships as Program Coordinators for STAR and TC Programs respectively over the past years, and at the same time congratulate and welcome Prof.
Play School/Child Center holds exhibition of children's projects
The AIT Play School/Child Center held in 22 March an exhibition of children's projects. A picture gallery of the event below shows pictures tell more than a thousand words.
System Specification: Satellite - Superbird B-2 (Ku band) 162E
Data format - MPEG2 DVB+IP data
Data rate - 3.06 Mbps
Backup link - Internet (AIT-NECTEC-NII-SINET-Tokyo Tech)
NSTDA and AIT to launch a pilot tele-lecture project
A pilot tele-lecture project in microelectronics will be launched, based on the agreements between Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and between NSTDA and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The test program transmitted from Tokyo Tech via Superbird B-2 satellite was received at AIT on 22 March.