“Earthquake engineering is going through a ground-shaking,” renowned President and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc., American Mr. Ashraf Habibullah told a large crowd of structural engineering experts in Thailand as he introduced a one-day seminar titled “The theory and practice of Performance-Based Design: The Future of Earthquake Engineering.”

“Earthquake engineering is going through a ground-shaking,” renowned President and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc., American Mr. Ashraf Habibullah told a large crowd of structural engineering experts in Thailand as he introduced a one-day seminar titled “The theory and practice of Performance-Based Design: The Future of Earthquake Engineering.”

An environmental protection project planned for Thailand by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and World Wide Fund (WWF) Thailand valued at US$ 980,000 has been approved for funding by Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Group Corporate Sustainability (UK).

Sixty-three students hailing from 16 countries across Asia, Africa and South America graduated at the Inter Semester Graduation ceremony organized on 30 July 2014.

The second and final regional workshop on groundwater management offered a set of recommendations for select Asian cities. Organized at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 24-25 July 2014, the workshop titled “Enhancing the groundwater management capacity in Asian cities through the development and application of groundwater sustainability index in the context of global change” focussed on sharing the outputs and reports of application of groundwater sustainability index.

The Asian Institute of Technology will partner with the Government of France to stage an international scientific conference next year in Thailand, as a prelude to the COP 21 World Forum on Climate Change to be held in December 2015 in Paris, France.

A large group of 59 students and two faculty members from nine campuses of India’s United Group of Institutions (UGI) attended a two-week Summer Education Camp at AIT last week that underscored the institute’s solid connection with India.

Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has approved a budget of 119,153,000 Thai Baht from ‘the Central Budget for Cases of Emergency and Necessity’ for the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). This approval will cover 49 His Majesty The King Scholarships, 25 Her Majesty The Queen Scholarships, 26 Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) Scholarships and 200 Royal Thai Government (RTG) Fellowships for the year 2014.

The Asian Institute of Technology has been selected as the lead organizer for the 10th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS) to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 1- 4 July 2015.

Dear Members of AIT Community,

It gives me great pleasure to inform the AIT Community that the AIT Board of Trustees at its meeting held on 17 July 2014 has appointed Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai as the President of AIT for a term of
four years.