Ait.newsletter.october.2014
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The document summarizes events at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in October 2014. It describes the AIT Welcome Show where students from 14 countries competed in performances. Nepal won both the solo and group song competitions, while Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka won other categories. The document also discusses expanded cooperation between AIT and universities in Pakistan, Thailand, and Japan through donations, scholarships, and meetings between officials. It profiles an AIT alumna from Afghanistan who was killed while working as a journalist and recognizes an AIT alumnus who was appointed Director-General of the Department of Highways in Thailand.
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- 1. 1OCTOBER 2014 Asian Institute of Technology OCTOBER 2014 F or scores of students arriving at the Asian Insti- tute of Technology (AIT), the Welcome Show is their first ‘real’ taste of their campus life ahead. Internationality and diversity add to the pomp, pageant- ry and grandeur of this signature event which is quintes- sentially “AIT.” On19September2014,asthecurtainsrolled,teamsfrom 14 countries displayed their talents and competed for honours. A highlight this year was student performances from Bangkok University and Thammasat University. Pageantry, pomp and grandeur mark AIT Welcome Show INSIDE ISSUE.. . Recent News / Happenings at AIT..................................................2 Library Modernization / Scholarships / Donations..........................3 People............................................................................................4 Photo Gallery..................................................................................5, 6 Backpage.......................................................................................6 Eight hours of rigorous performances later, the re- sults were announced with Nepal winning both the solo and group song competitions. Myanmar won the group dance, Thailand won the talent competi- tion, while the team from Sri Lanka was the winner in drama. Mr. Antonio P. Jegillos Jr. of Philippines and Ms. Sharon Soe of Myanmar were crowned as Mr. and Ms. AIT respectively. See photo gallery on p.5 >>>
- 2. 2OCTOBER 2014 RECENT NEWS / HAPPENINGS AT AIT AIT delegation with HEC Chairman (center). Prof. Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman of the Higher Education Commis- sion (HEC) of Pakistan, has expressed a desire to expand ties with AIT, and offered to host a visit by theAIT President for strategic dis- cussions. He was speaking at a high-level meeting on 19 September 2014 hosted by the Pakistan Embassy in Bangkok. AIT President Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai was joined at the meeting by Professor Emeritus Dr. Sahas Bunditkul, Chairman of the Executive Commit- tee. Prof. Mukhtar added that he was proud to be an honorary member of the AITAlumni Association. H.E. Dr. Sohail Khan, Ambassador of Pakistan to Thailand stated thatAIT was among the few fully rec- ognized international universities in Pakistan. Earlier, during a visit- ing to AIT, the Ambassador interacted with students of the World Bank-funded Water Resources and Irrigation Technology Manage- ment Program. Pakistan Higher Education Commission Chairman discusses expanded cooperation 160 undergraduate students welcomed at AIT A batch of 160 stu- dents, a majority of them from part- ner institutes in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Nepal, were welcomed at the Orientation Day program for under- graduate students organized at the Undergraduate students at AIT Orientation. Something for everyone: President Worsak’s interview in the Bangkok Post AIT President Worsak Kanok- Nukulchai was interviewed by Thailand’s Bang- kok Post news- paper. Based on the interview, a feature article was published in the Life section of the newspa- per on September 3. Titled “Something for everyone,” the article was written by Bangkok Post’s Senior Writer, Yvonne Bohwongprasert. The article can be read at this link: http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/in- terview/430220/something-for-everyone AIT Conference Center on 1 September 2014. The largest cohort of 100 undergraduate students came from the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine, Sri Lanka. Fifty students from MCCi, Myanmar, and three from Nepal Education Foundation – Consortium of Colleges, Ne- pal (NEF-CCN), were the other students who entered the third year of studies at AIT, after having completed their first two years in their home countries. Seven fresh students also joined the first year of undergraduate programs, including four girls (two from Bangladesh, one from Nepal, and one from China), and three boys from Bhutan. H.E. Dr. Sohail Khan (left) with Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai
- 3. 3OCTOBER 2014 LIBRARY MODERNIZATION / SCHOLARSHIPS / DONATIONS EJEC offers scholarship for study at AIT Eight-Japan Engineering Con- sultants Inc (EJEC) has offered a scholarship for a student to pursue a Master’s degree at AIT. This was formalized at the sign- ing of a Memorandum of Un- derstanding (MoU) and Memo- randum of Agreement (MoA) between EJEC and AIT on 9 September 2014. AIT Alumni Club at KMUTT donates 500,000 THB TheAITAlumni Club at King Mong- kut’s University of Technology Thon- buri (KMUTT), led by Dr. Tongchat Hongladaromp, KMUTT Board Chair, on 12 September 2014 present- ed a donation of 0.5 million Baht to AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok- Nukulchai for the renovation and modernization of the AIT Library. AIT delegation at KMUTT. Mitsubishi Rayon donates 1 million Yen to AGS Mitsubishi Rayon has donated 1 million Yen as support for the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) Asia at AIT. The donation was made during a visit of senior officials of Mitsubishi Rayon to AIT on 4 September 2014. The delegation included Mr. Takahiro Ikeda, Director of Board and Managing Executive Officer, Aqua Business Block, Purchasing and Logistics Department; and Mr. Tsutomu Yuri, Director, Global Business Development, Aqua Division. Mr. Ikeda also proposed that they could also send one of their employees to study at AIT — an offer that was welcomed by the AIT President, Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai and Vice President Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto. Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai (left) and Mr. Takahiro Ikeda. EJEC delegation at AIT. The agreement was signed by Dr. Ryoji Isoyama, Executive Director, EJEC, and Prof. Worsak Kanok- Nukulchai, President, AIT. The scholarship will be granted to a Prof. Worsak thanked the AIT Alumni at KMUTT, and presented details of theAIT Library modernization project that will see the flood-damaged facility become a central campus learning space and interactive commu- nity center. Biggest post-flood books gift from AAPG AIT received its biggest post-flood li- brary donation with the arrival of 800 boxes of periodicals from the Ameri- can Association of Petroleum Geolo- gists (AAPG). The shipment arrived from theAAPG atAITlast month, and the 128 titles cover 1200 linear feet of shelving. Coordinating the acceptance was the Coordinator,AIT Library, Ms. Pranee Kiriyanant, and Dr. Pham Huy Giao of School of Engineering and Technology (SET). Dr. Giao thanked AIT alumna, Dr. Peangta Satarugsa of Khon Kaen University; and Dr. Jon Blickwede and Dr. Martin Cassidy, Chairman andVice-Chairman of Publication Pipeline Committee ofAAPG for the donation. LIBRARY MODERNIZATION student enrolled in either Struc- tural Engineering or the Disas- The AAPG collection. ter Preparedness Mitigation and Management (DPMM) program.
- 4. 4OCTOBER 2014 PEOPLE AIT offers its condolences and salu- tations to its brave alumna Palwasha Tokhy Meranzai who was killed amidst tragic circumstances in Balkh province in Afghanistan. It was in May 2014 that Palwasha graduated with a Master’s in Regional and Rural Development and Planning (RRDP) from AIT’s School of Environment, Resources and Develop- Ms. Siwaporn Tangwanichagapong (left) and Ms. Phyoe Thet Khaing. AIT salutes its brave alumna Palwasha Tokhy Meranzai If you have been wondering about the sudden appear- ance of strategically placed cages in front of your favourite food haunts at AIT, then look no further. Two AIT students have been instru- mental in champi- ‘Eco Heroes’ champion waste segregation projectAIT alumnus is new Director-General of Department of Highways, Thailand Mr. Chusak Gaywee Mr. Chusak Gaywee, President of AITAlumniAssociation (Thailand), has been appointed as the new Director General of the Department of Highways, Thailand. Mr. Chusak asumes his position from 1 October 2014. His appointment was approved by the Council of Ministers, Royal Thai Government, in its meeting held on 23 September 2014. Mr. Chusak Gaywee received his Master’s in Engineering in Structural Engineering and Construction from AIT in 1982. Mr. Chusak is the fifth AIT alumnus to hold this position. The previous four AIT alumni who held this position include: Mr. Sathien Vongvichien (1986- 1990); Dr. Srisook Chandrangsu (1997 – 2000); Mr. Thurdsakdi Sedthamanop (2002 – 2005); and Mr. Nikorn Boonsri (2007 – 2008). Dr. Srisook was also President of AITAA (Thailand). Scanned image from AIT’s 121st Batch Book. oning a more efficient way of waste segregation. Two students, Ms. Phyoe Thet Khaing, and Ms. Siwaporn Tang- wanichagapong, have been working together towards a three-fold target — focus on waste segregation, generating income for low- paid workers at AIT, and reducing the volume of landfill waste at the dumping station. “In the month of August, we collected 90 ki- lograms of packaging waste, and this yielded 700 THB for two of AIT’s cleaning staff,” Phyoe says. Their initiative is one segment of a larger project “Greening AIT Campus Initiative” led by Prof. C Visvanathan, Interim Dean, School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD). ment (SERD). Palwasha was working with Bayan Radio Station in Mazar-i- Sharif in Afghanistan. She is the fifth Afghan and seventh journal- ist to be killed in Afghanistan this year. News stories report that she was stabbed by an assassin who later fled. Palwasha was one of the seven female AIT alumni from Afghanistan.
- 5. 5OCTOBER 2014 PHOTO GALLERY AIT Welcome Show: 19 September 2014
- 6. 6OCTOBER 2014 Editor: Bajinder Pal Singh [email protected] Designer: Nadhika Mendhaka Photos: Paitoon Tinnapong Tejas Tamobhid Patnaik Fawad Najam S. Hariadi Imawan Cover photo: Tejas Tamobhid Patnaik For feedback, contact Media and Communications Unit at AIT [email protected] PHOTO GALLERY / BACKPAGE News You Can Use Google reveals most searched-for universities Follow AIT at • Facebook www.facebook.com/aitasia • YouTube www.youtube.com/aitasia • Twitter www.twitter.com/aitasia • Google+ https://plus.google.com/113705895909660110340/posts • LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=17195 • Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/aitasia “This ranking of online searches is very different from the tradi- tional map of the global powerhouses of higher education.There is a strong interest in online courses, rather than traditional campus- based universities, says Google. The top search worldwide is for the University of Phoenix, a US- based, for-profit university, with many online courses. Read the entire article at this link: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29240959 45 volunteers donate blood at AIT Blood Donation Camp