Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has joined hands with seven other organizations to establish the Asian Water Academy (AWA), which aims to emerge as a knowledge hub and experience-sharing platform on water-related issues in Asia. As the first such academy in the region, AWA aims to be a leader on water issues within the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
In the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake, Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Associate Professor, Water Engineering and Management (WEM), AIT School of Engineering and Technology, co-authored an article with Dr. Binaya Raj Shivakoti from the Institute for Global Environment Strategies (IGES) titled “Earthquake Reveals Need to Shake-up Water and Disaster Management.â€
A staff member of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Dang Anh Nguyet, has won the Marina van Damme award becoming the 13th woman to be honored by the University of Twente, The Netherlands. The award is named after Marina van Damme, who was the first female engineer to receive her doctorate from the University of Twente.
A seminar “learning by drawing” is being organized for children of the AIT community on 9 June 2015 at Room E117, School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) from 09:00-11:00 hours. Organized by students of the Disaster Preparedness Mitigation and Management (DPMM) field of study, children will be introduced to the topic on Earthquake and Earthquake Hazards through animated videos.
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is among the 10 educational institutes which will benefit from Microsoft’s “Student Advantage†scheme that allows students free usage of the Office 365 ProPlus package.
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While Nepal was grappling with the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, students from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) were among the first to reach and provide emergency communication services. As a part of the team of Télécoms Sans Frontière (TSF), AIT students rushed to Nepal on 28 April 2015, and immediately began conducting a needs assessment before launching emergency operations.
“Today is another milestone in our long collaboration,†said TEAM Group chief executive officer Dr. Prasert Patramai, praising a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between his firm and the Asian Institute of Technology that will enable numerous student internships and lucrative co-research.
Climate change is a reality that is having real consequences for the people of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states and the rest of the world. Rethinking our global development model, based on sound sustainability science principles, is an absolute necessity given that scientists are convinced that mankind has caused most of the planetary warming which has occurred over the last sixty years.
An eleven-country strong team of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has expressed their desire to expand their research links with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The 20-member strong delegation sought to learn about AIT’s activities in the field of agriculture, food production and sustainable development.