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AIT LEADERSHIP 2 AITBoardofTrustees 2 SeniorManagement 3 Chairman’sMessage 4 President’sMessage 5

AIT OVERVIEW 6 AITFacts 7 InstitutionalHighlights 8 NewFundraisingCampaign 20 New AlumniAffairsOffice 21 AwardsandRecognition 22 Alumni,FormerFaculty 22 Students 23 Faculty 24 AIT professor leads team to “Excellent Research Award for Year 2010” from Thailand Research Fund (TRF) 25

AIT AT A GLANCE 26 ProjectsataGlance 26 StudentsandAlumniataGlance 28 FacultyataGlance 29

INTERNATIONAL REACH 30 InstituteMemberships 31 ErasmusMundusPrograms 32 AITConsulting 32 YunusCenteratAIT 33,70 CSRAsiaCenteratAIT 33,71 ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceonMillennium DevelopmentGoals(ARCMDG) 34,73 PartnerNetworking 34 VisitsandExchanges 35 InternationalConferencesandMeetings 36 AITPresidentIrandoustengagesSriLanka 36

FEATURE STORY 37 HRHistheFirstAITHallofFameInductee 37 AITHallofFame2010Inductees 39

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2010 42

ACADEMICS 42 AcademicQuality 42 AdmissionsandEnrolment,ManagementImprovements43 CareerCenter 44 LanguageCenter 44 FieldsofStudyandAcademicPrograms 45 SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology(SET) 46 SchoolofEnvironment,Resourcesand Develepment(SERD) 48 SchoolofManagement(SOM) 50

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 52 MostCitedinScopus 52 Top5AITResearcherswiththeHighestNumber- ofProjects 52 AITResearchStrategy2011-2015 53

SnapshotsofAITResearchin2010 54 1.PoliceEyes:PortableTrafficViolationsDetector 54 2.AutomatedTestEquipment 54 3.AirQualityandClimateImpactsofSwitching toNaturalGas-FueledPublicTransportation VehiclesinBangkok 55 4.EnergySecurityinDevelopingCountries:National andHouseholdlevelVulnerabilityandChallenges55

5.PavementSurfaceswithHigherSolarReflectivity 56 6.PhysicalModelforMonkeyCheeks 57 7.PhysicalHydraulicModelStudyoftheXayaburi HydroelectricProject 57

SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE SUPPLEMENT: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL

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8.EU-AsiaLinkProjectGenderandSustainable Development:NaturalResourceManagement, MigrationandMulti-localLivelihoods 58 9.SeismicVulnerabilityandRiskAssessmentof Dhaka,Chittagong,andSylhetCity 59 10.ConsumerJudgmentoftheQualityofFood: Doqualitylabelshelp? 59 11.PublicManagementExecutiveDevelopment Program(PMED)2010 60 12.TheImpactofTotalQualityManagementon SupplyChainManagementinThai AutomotiveIndustry 60 13.SEA-UEMAProject 61

StudentResearch 62 AITMaster’sThesisCompetition2010 63

EXTENSION, OUTREACH AND CENTERS 64 AITExtension 64

InternationalCenters 66 AITVietnam 66 AITInodenesia 68

ResearchandOutreachCenters 69 1.CenterofExcellenceonSustainableDevelopment inthecontextofClimateChange(CoESDCC) 69 2.YunusCenteratAIT 70 3.CSRAsiaatAIT 71 4.UnitedNationsAITOffice(UNAIT) 72 5.ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceon MillenniumDevelopmentGoals(ARCMDG) 73 6.AIT-UNEPRegionalResourceCentreforAsiaand thePacific(AIT-UNEPRRC.AP) 74 7.HABITECHCenter 75 8.AsianCenterforSoilImprovement andGeosynthetics(ACSIG) 76 9.RegionalNetworkOfficeforUrbanSafety(RNUS) 77 10.GeoinformaticsCenter 77 12.TheCenterofExcellencein Nanotechnology(CoEN) 78 11.WHOCollaboratingCenter 78 13.AsianRegionalProgrammeonEnvironmental Technology(ARRPET)PhaseII 79 14.ACECOMS 79 15.intERLab 80 16.GreaterMekongSubregionAcademicand ResearchNetwork(GMSARN): DevelopmentsandNetworkExpansion 82 13.WetlandsAlliance/PRAM 84 18.Prosper.net 86

FACULTY MEMBERS 87

AIT PARTNERS 92

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND AUDITOR’S REPORT 96

GLOSSARY 112

CONTENTS

2 AIT Annual Report 20�0 AIT LEADERSHIP

Chairman EmEritusH.E. Dr. Thanat Khoman FormerDeputyPrimeMinisterofThailandandFormerMinisterofForeignAffairs

ChairmanH.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag FormerMinisterofForeignAffairs,ThailandandAssistantSecretaryGeneralforAdministration,TheThaiRedCrossSociety

ViCE ChairpErsons

H.E. Professor J.B. Disanayaka AmbassadorofSriLankatoThailandProfessor Shinichiro Ohgaki ProfessorEmeritusoftheUniversityofTokyo,President,NationalInstituteforEnvironmentalStudies(NIES),Japan Mr. Jean-Pierre Verbiest CountryDirector,ThailandResidentMission,AsianDevelopmentBank

Board mEmBErsH.E. Mrs. You Ay AmbassadorofCambodiatoThailandH.E. Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty AmbassadorofIndiatoThailand H.E. Mr. Chung Hae-moon AmbassadoroftheRepublicofKoreatoThailandMr. Chaovalit Ekabut President,AITAlumniAssociation(ex-officio)Professor Hubert Gijzen DirectorofUNESCOinJakartaH.E. Mr. Mohammad Hatta AmbassadorofIndonesiatoThailandDr. Noeleen Heyzer Under-Secretary-GeneraloftheUnitedNationsandExecutiveSecretaryofESCAPDr. Tongchat Hongladaromp PresidentoftheUniversityCouncil,KingMongkut’sUniversityofTechnology(Thonburi)H.E. Mr. Kazi Imtiaz Hossain AmbassadorofBangladeshtoThailandProfessor Said Irandoust President(ex-officio)

H.E. Mr. Seiji Kojima AmbassadorofJapantoThailandH.E. Mrs. Linglingay F. Lacanlale AmbassadorofthePhilippinestoThailandProfessor Dr. Somkit Lertpaithoon ActingRector,ThammasatUniversityH.E. Mr. Gildas Le Lidec AmbassadorofFrancetoThailandH.E. Mr. Lennart Linnér AmbassadorofSwedentoThailandH. E. Mr. David Lipman Ambassador-HeadofDelegation,EuropeanCommissiontoThailandH.E. Ms. Sirpa Mäenpää AmbassadorofFinlandtoThailandH.E. Mr. Sohail Mahmood AmbassadorofPakistantoThailandH.E. Mrs. Katja Christina Nordgaard AmbassadorofNorwaytoThailand H.E. Mr. Ouan Phommachak AmbassadorofLaoPeople’sDemocraticRepublictoThailandDr. Chitriya Pinthong DeputyPermanentSecretary,MinistryofForeignAffairs,ThailandMr. Deepak Seth Chairman,HouseofPearlFashionLtd.,IndiaH.E. Mr. Naveen Prakash Jung Shah AmbassadorofNepaltoThialandH.E. Mr. Ngo Duc Thang AmbassadorofVietnamtoThailandH.E. Mr. Tjaco Theo van den Hout AmbassadoroftheNetherlandstoThailandKhunying Jada Wattanasiritham DirectorandExecutiveDirector,SiamCommercialBankPublicCo.,Ltd.Ms. Yang Xinyu DeputySecretary-GeneralofChinaScholarshipCouncil(CSC),PRofChinaDr. Sumate Yamnoon Secretary-GeneraloftheHigherEducation,CommissionofThailandProfessor Yongyuth Yuthavong FormerMinisterofScienceandTechnology,MinistryofScienceandTechnology,Thailand

Secretary to the BoardMrs.KulvimolWasuntiwongse

As of December, 2010

AIT BOARD OF TRUSTEES


SENIOR MANAGEMENT 20�0

PRESIDENT• ProfessorSaidIrandoust

VICE PRESIDENTS• ProfessorJoydeepDutta,AcademicAffairs(from1June2010)• ProfessorSudipK.Rakshit,Research• ProfessorWorsakKanok-Nukulchai,ResourceDevelopment

DEANS• DrBarbaraIgel,SchoolofManagement• DrNitinV.Afzulpurkar,SchoolofEngineering&Technology• DrWeerakornOngsakul,SchoolofEnvironment,Resources& Development

DIRECTORS• DrAmritBart,AITVietnam• DrSugiminPranoto,AITIndonesia(until 30April 2010)• MrNicoBarito,AITIndonesia(interim from 1 May 2010)• DrJonathanL.Shaw,AITExtension

• ProfessorKanchanaKanchanasut,InternetEducation&Research Laboratory(intERLab)• DrNaveedAnwar,AITConsulting• MrSanjeevJayasinghe,Fundraising• ProfessorJayantK.Routray,ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceon MillenniumDevelopmentGoalsbasedatAIT(until 31 July 2010)• DrSandroCalvani,ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceonMillennium DevelopmentGoalsbasedatAIT(from 1 September 2010)• ProfessorAjitP.Annachhatre,AIT-UnitedNationsOfficeatAIT• MrBorjeWallberg,YunusCenteratAIT(until 31 March 2010)• DrRiazRahmanKhan,YunusCenteratAIT(from 7 June 2010)• MsLeenaWokeck,CSR(CorporateSocialResponsibility)AsiaCenteratAIT• DrEvangelosAngelosAfendras,CenterforLearningInnovation&Quality (until 31 January 2010)• ProfessorGaborLouisHornyak,CenterforLearningInnovation&Quality (from 1 November 2010)• ProfessorDennesT.Bergado,UnifiedProgramsatAIT(from 15 April 2010)• DrNitinKumarTripathi,AcademicQualityAssuranceandAccreditationat AIT(until 1 June 2010)• MrNicholasInnes-Taylor,Co-DirectorforProfessionalProgramsatAIT• ProfessorRichardJ.Welford,Co-DirectorforProfessionalProgramsatAIT


� AIT Annual Report 20�0 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

T hebrainchildofoneofThailand’sgreatstatesmen,H.E.Mr.PoteSara-sin,andestablishedin1959byRoyalDecreeofHisMajestytheKingofThailand,theAsianInstituteofTechnologyhasalwaysbeenabold

exampleofacosmopolitanapproachtohighereducationinAsia.

Formorethanahalf-century,AIT’suniqueethoshascontributedtotheachieve-ment of peaceful integration and sustainable development in the region byspurringthevastpotentialofitspeoplewithadvancedlevelsofhigherlearn-ing.

HonoredwiththeMagsaysayAwardin1989andtheFriendshipOrderoftheGovernmentofVietnamin2006,theInstitutehasplayedasignificantroleindevelopinghumancapacity,therebycontributingtoAsia’sriseintheworld.

HerRoyalHighnessPrincessMahaChakriSirindhorn’sinductionintothenewAIT Hall of Fame in 2010 was an expression of the Institute’s profound ap-preciationforHerRoyalHighness’supportrenderedtotheAsianInstituteofTechnology.Indeed,thepermanentinductionintotheHallofFameofelevendeserving AIT alumni representing Pakistan,The Philippines, ChineseTaipei,IndonesiaandThailandwasawonderfultestamenttoAIT’senduringabilitytoinspirepeopletogreatness.

AIT’shistoricalmissiontookonaddedsignificancein2010,whentheInstituteembarkedonanewpathwiththesigningofthelandmarkCharteroftheAsianInstituteofTechnology.There-establishmentofAITasanInternationalInter-governmentalInstitutionofhigherlearningmarkedtheendofoneeraandthebeginningofanewone.

Signed by representatives of twelve countries and one international organi-zation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofThailand in Bangkok, the Charterreaffirmed AIT’s commitment to the continent. A signature development inAIT’shistory,theAITCharterof2010signaledourintenttorespondtotoday’scomplexrealitiesbypositioningAITattheheadofthequeueinresponsetothechallengesfacingAsiaandbeyondinthetwenty-firstcentury.

H.E. Dr. Tej BunnagChAIRMAN oF ThE BoARD oF TRuSTEES ASIAN INSTITuTE oF TEChNologY


Professor Said IrandoustPRESIDENTASIAN INSTITuTE oF TEChNologY

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

S incetheday itopeneditsdoors,theAsian InstituteofTechnologyhassoughttopushhigherlearningbeyondboundariesandintonewfron-tiers.ThisyearAITcontinueditshistoricaljourneybychallengingconven-

tionandembracinginnovativechangetoadvancequalityteaching,research,capacitybuildingandsocietal-outreachforthebenefitofAsiaandbeyond.

In2010,AITonceagainproudlyrealizeditsmissionto“todevelophighlyquali-fiedandcommittedprofessionalswhoplaya leadingrole intheregion’ssus-tainabledevelopmentanditsintegrationintotheglobaleconomy.”Itdidsobycreatingpartnershipsforlearningacrossgeographical,culturalandintellectuallines,discoveringandapplyingresearchfindingstorealworldproblems,pro-vidingprofessionaltrainingforpeoplefromNorthKoreatoAfricaandallpointsinbetween,andbyawarding805postgraduatedegrees, thesecondmost inAIT’shistory.

TheformaladoptionoftheNewAITChartertoreinstituteAITasaninternation-al intergovernmentalorganizationcappedoffayearofmemorableinitiativeswhichillustratedAIT’sforward-lookingagenda. Inparticular,theintroductionofanumberofnewprofessionaldegreeprogramssignifiedourdesiretoequipprofessionalswiththeskillsneededfortheevolvingworkplaceoftodayandforthechangingjobsoftomorrow.

Throughouttheyear,greatstridesweremadeacrosstheinstitutetorefineop-erations, enhance efficiencies, and to plan strategically for the future. It wassignificantthatevenagainstthebackdropofdecliningfinancialresourcesAITcontinuedtostrengthenthequality,relevanceandimpactofitswork,aswellasitsconnectiontoandinteractionwiththepeople,organizationsandgovern-mentsoftheregionandaroundtheworld.

AIT Centers such as theYunus Center at AIT, CSR Asia Center at AIT, ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceonMDGs,AIT-UnitedNationsEnvironmentPro-grammeRegionalResourceCenterforAsiaandPacific,CenterofExcellenceonSustainableDevelopmentintheContextofClimateChange,aswellasthepart-nerships with Regional Integrated Multi-hazardWarning System for Asia andAfrica(RIMES)andTélécomsSansFrontièresvalidatedourvisionandsolidifiedourpositiontotacklethemultiplechallengesfacingthecontinent.

Throughouttheyear, Icontinuedtobeimpressedtheinstitute’sfaculty,staff,studentsandalumni,whosenotableaccomplishmentsarehighlightedinthisAnnualReport2010.ItisthiscatalogueofsuccessthatexcitesmypassionforwhatliesaheadforallthoseconnectedtotheAsianInstituteofTechnology.

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H ometomanyoftheregion’stopexperts, the Asian Institute ofTechnology(AIT)isoneofAsia’s

leadinghigherlearninginstitutions.Situ-atedjustnorthofmetropolitanBangkok,AITfocusesonengineeringandtechnol-ogy, environmental resources and de-velopment, management and capacity-building.Morethananationaluniversity,AITisauniqueinternationalintergovern-mentalorganizationthatisregionallyfo-cused,globalinoutlookandcosmopoli-tanincharacter.

Founded in 1959, AIT fosters an ex-ceptional learning experience in amulticulturalenvironmentthatreach-esbeyondboundaries.Todayitcarriesout its mission …“to develop highlyqualified and committed profession-alswhoplaya leadingrole inthere-gion’s sustainable development andits integrationintotheglobalecono-my” … by supporting technologicalchangeandsustainabledevelopmentthroughrigorousacademics,research,capacitybuildingandoutreach.

AITengageswithpublicandprivatesectorpartnersthroughouttheregionand with some of the top universitiesand internationalorganizations in theworld.InadditiontoitsmaincampusinBangkok,Thailand,AIThasestablishedcentersinVietnamandIndonesia. ThemainAITcampusinThailandisa tremendous mosaic of nationalities,ethnicities and socioeconomic back-grounds. Diversity of students, staffand faculty members is a valued partof campus life and leads to levels of

AIT OVERVIEW


OVERVIEW

Students:2,300from50+countriesFaculty:120+from20+countriesAlumni: 18,000from85countriesPartners: 330Schools:3Research and Outreach Centers:15Research & Outreach Projects: 400Fields of Study: 32Research Staff:100+

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cross-cultural engagement and in-ternational experiences not foundatotheruniversitycampuses. AIT’s degree programs are pro-vided by its School of EngineeringandTechnology;SchoolofEnviron-ment,ResourcesandDevelopment;and School of Management. Stu-dentsbenefitfromchallengingaca-demic programs and exciting fac-ulty-student research projects. Allof these combine to make AIT thechoicefortalentedpeoplewhoare

intellectuallycurious,anddedicatedto advancing their lives through anexceptional higher learning experi-ence. In addition to offering degreecourses(bachelor,master’sanddoc-toral),AIToffersshortcourses/train-ingprogramsthroughAITExtension,andconsultancyservicesthroughAITConsultancy.AITalsohousesanum-berofresearchandoutreachcenters,such as the Center of Excellence inNanotechnology; ASEAN Regional

Center of Excellence on the MillenniumDevelopment Goals (ARCMDG); YunusCenteratAIT,establishedinpartnershipwithProfessorMuhammadYunus,recipi-ent of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize; CSRAsiaCenteratAIT;andtheCentreofEx-cellenceonSustainableDevelopmentintheContextofClimateChange(SDCC). AITishosttothe3RKH-Reduce,Re-use and Recycle Regional KnowledgeHub supported by the Asian Develop-ment Bank (ABD), UNEP and UNESCAP.AIT also hosts the AIT-UNEP RegionalResourceCentreforAsiaandthePacific(AIT-UNEP RRC.AP), a joint center withUNEP; the Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System for AsiaandAfrica(RIMES);andtheAsiaofficeofTélécomsSansFrontières. Throughitsfacultyfrommorethan20countries,itsstudentbodyfromover50countries and its 18,000 graduate-levelalumni from 85 countries, AIT producesglobalcitizensrootedintheperspectivesofAsia.Withpartnersallovertheworld,a five-decade-long history of academicexcellence, and an enduring reputationfor responding to emerging regionalandglobal challenges,AIT isadvancingnew understanding and applying prac-tical solutions across Asia, through itsknowledge hub in Thailand. Respond-ing to today’s reality with a progressiveNewCharter,AITispositionedasanidealplace to take on the new challenges ofthenewcentury.

AIT Facts

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JANUARY

AIT among founders of new Amata Science City

AITwasamongthefoundersofthenew“Amata Science City” in ChonBuri province’s Amata Nakorn In-dustrialEstate. It joinedanumberof leading higher education insti-tutionsandprivatesectorfirms inThailand in signing a Memoran-dum of Understanding (MoU) on7January2010.EightleadingThai-based universities and institutesand Amata Corporation PublicCompany Limited participated intheinitiativewhichissupportedbytheNationalScienceandTechnol-ogyDevelopmentAgency(NSTDA)in the form of Public-Private Part-nership(PPP).Dr.KhunyingKalayaSophonpanich, Minister of Sci-ence and Technology, Royal ThaiGovernment,andChairmanoftheSigning Ceremony described it asan“historic day” for the scientific,educational,andindustrialsectorsofThailand.

ARCMDG holds first advisory board meeting

The first Advisory Board meetingofASEANRegionalCenterofExcel-lenceonMillenniumDevelopmentGoals(ARCMDG)expresseditssat-isfactionontheprogressachievedby ARCMDG since its establish-ment. The Board also decided tofurthercollaborationwiththeCSRAsiaCenteratAIT,YunusCenteratAIT and AIT’s Center of ExcellenceonSustainableDevelopmentintheContextofClimateChange(SDCC)tocatalyzeandhelpachievementsof MDGs in the ASEAN Region. Itwas also decided that the AIT Ex-tension and the GeoinformaticsCenterwouldbemainpartnersforimplementing different trainingprograms. Mr. Apichai Sunchin-dah, Dato’ Dr. Ahamed bin Sipon,Dr.DonaldTambunan,Dr.FrancoisLoriot,Dr.GothomArya,Dr.HanifaMezoui,andMs.NanakoTsukahara(representedforMr.MinarPimple)attended the meeting. Prof. Jay-antK.Routray,Directorof theAR-CMDG, highlighted the activitiesundertakensofarbyARCMDG.

Consultants present their findings on higher education

External consultants Dr. MarkkuOksanen and Mr. Niclas Lindgrenpresented their interim findingson the scenario of higher educa-tion.Theystatedthatstudentmo-bilitynumbersareexpectedtoriseto7.2millionbytheyear2025andhalfofthesestudentswouldorigi-natefromChinaandIndia.Duringapresentation, they revealedthatone-thirdoftheglobalinvestmentin higher education is occurringin Asia, and that China and Indiahaveapoolof40millionstudents.Mr. Niclas Lindgren works as theManaging Director and SeniorManagementConsultantatCerionSolutionsLimited,andhasspecialexpertise on developing the pub-licsectorandthehighereducationsector,inparticularinScandinavia.Dr. Markku works for Poyry plc asadirectorresponsibleforbusinessdevelopment in Asia in the envi-ronment and water engineeringsector.

(Above) The Asian Institute of Technology joined a number of leading higher education institutions and private sector firms in Thailand in signing a memorandum of understanding (Mou) with Thailand’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Amata Corporation to establish the “Amata Science City” in Chon Buri province’s Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate.

(Below) Participants of the first Advisory Board meeting of ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on Millennium Development goals (ARCMDg).

Institutional Highlights


FEBRUARY

Indian Ambassador pays maiden visit to AIT

AmbassadoroftheRepublicof In-diatoThailand,H.E.Mr.PinakRan-janChakravarty,onhismaidenvisittoAIT,reaffirmedIndiansupporttotheInstitute.DuringaninteractionwithseniorAITmanagementaswellas members of the AIT-India TaskForce, the Ambassador revealedthatduringarecenteducationfairat Bangkok, almost 60 institutesfromIndiahadparticipated.Here-calledthatduringhisschooldays,many of his classmates were fromThailand. AIT President Prof. SaidIrandoust briefed the Ambassadoron issues related to AIT’s strategicdirection,apartfromissuesofout-sourcing and public-private part-nership.TheAmbassadorremarkedthat the Indian government wasalready outsourcing a significantnumber of service operations totheprivatesector,sincethepublicsectorwasunabletocopewiththevolumeofservices.

AIT demonstrates model of Monkey Cheek Project

The steering committee for“Mon-key Cheek Physical Model for Sa-nam Chai-Mahachai Canal Project:The King of Thailand’s Initiative,”expressed full satisfaction at thedemonstration project during avisit to AIT. Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul,Executive Chairperson of the ad-visory committee for the project,made his remarks work during ademonstration at the AIT outdoorlaboratory.AITPresidentProf.SaidIrandoust remarked that AIT wasproudtobepartofaprojectwhichis dear to His Majesty the King ofThailand.TheMonkeyCheekproj-ectinThailand’sMahachai-Sanam-chai Canals performs the functionofstoringfloodwatersintheupperareas, while at the same time re-leasingwaterintotheGulfofThai-landinrelationtothetidelevelsoftheseabyrelyingontheappropri-ateuseofgravityandpumpingsta-tions.

Germany assures AIT of support

Germany assured AIT of its support,while suggesting that new partner-shipmechanismsshouldbeexplored.H.E.Dr.HannsSchumacher,Ambassa-dorofGermanytoThailand,duringhisvisittoAIT,suggestedthatAITengageitself in establishing the ASEAN-Ger-man University or the Asian-GermanUniversity, which could be similar tothe Vietnam-German University thatwas established in 2008 at Ho ChiMinh City,Vietnam.The Ambassadorwas particularly interested in AIT’sinvolvement in capacity building inAfghanistan, and advised AIT to getintouchwiththeGermanembassyinAfghanistantoexplorepossiblepart-nerships. AIT involvement with vari-ous African countries, namely SouthAfrica, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ugandaintheareasofcapacitybuildingandhigher learning in science and tech-nology for development was alsodiscussed. H.E Dr. Schumacher alsoexpressed satisfaction at the currentDeutscher Akademischer AustauschDienst (DAAD) scholarships for stu-dentsfromCambodia,Laos,MyanmarandVietnamtoattendAIT.

INSTITUTIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

(Below) The Ambassador of the Republic of India to Thailand, h.E. Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty (third from left) was wel-comed to AIT by President Prof. Said Irandoust, Prof. S Rakshit, Mr. Kottaram Viswanathan Ramesh, advisor to President on Indian affairs, and other senior AIT officials.

(Above) Dr. Sutat Weesakul (extreme left) explains the details of the project as Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul, Dr. Mukand Singh Babel and Prof. Said Irandoust review the AIT Monkey Cheek Project simulation model.

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MARCH

CSR Asia Center at AIT launched

The Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)AsiaCenteratAITwas formallylaunched at a grand function orga-nizedat theForeignCorrespondents’ClubofThailandinBangkok.AITPresi-dentProf.SaidIrandoustsignedafor-malagreementwithChairmanofCSRAsia, Dr. Richard Welford, for the es-tablishmentofthisCenterinthepres-enceofH.E.Mr.KasitPiromya,MinisterofForeignAffairsofThailand.TheRe-port:“Corporate Social ResponsibilityinThailand” was also released in thepresence of the Foreign Minister ofThailand.TheCenterisajointventurepartnership between the Asian Insti-tuteofTechnology(AIT)andCSRAsia.ThenewcenterissituatedonthemainAITcampusinPathumthani,Thailand.ThenewCenter,whichwillfocusitsre-search,training,andconsultancyworkonThailandandtheGreaterMekongSub-region, is the first-of-its-kind forCSR Asia. The tie-up with an institu-tionofhigherlearninglikeAITbringstheuniqueopportunityto launchanExecutiveMaster’sdegreeinCSR.

EHMF to install Micro Hydro Solar Hybrid System

The EBARA Hatakeyama Memo-rialFund(EHMF),JapansignedanMoAwithAITfortheinstallationofa Micro Hydro – Solar Hybrid Sys-tematAIT’sEnergyPark.AnEHMFdelegation, led by Mr. ShotaroKuryu,ManagingExecutiveOfficerfor Fluid Machinery and SystemsCompany, EBARA Corporation,visitedAIT tosigntheagreement.MicroHydro–SolarHybridSystemisamicrohydrogeneratingsystemusing a standardized agriculturalpumpasaturbine.Thesystemwillbeinstalledalongwiththeexistingenergy generation system at AIT.Theequipment,anditsinstallationand operation will be funded byEHMF.

ADB Vice President compliments AIT Strategy 2013

Dr.BinduN.Lohani,VicePresident,Asia Development Bank (ADB)

complimentedAITforitsStrategy2013 by stating that a strategyhelpsinclearingwhathetermedas“goal congestion” within orga-nizations.HealsoappreciatedAITPresident Prof. Said Irandoust forthe regular interactions and ex-changeof ideasbeingorganizedat AIT. An AIT alumnus, havingreceived his Doctoral Degree inEnvironmentalEngineering(Envi-ronmentalTechnology and Man-agement)fromAITin1977,Dr.Lo-hanialsodeliveredanextramurallectureoncampus.Hestatedthatthe shift from the public to theprivate sector implies that newjobs and skills like public-privatepartnership (PPP) specialists andprivate sector development spe-cialistswillbeindemandandre-placeearlier jobs likeagriculturalcredit specialists and agrono-mists.He identified riskmanage-ment specialists, climate changespecialists, regional cooperationspecialists, resettlement special-ists, environmental safeguardspecialists, results managementspecialists and webmasters asemergingjobs.


The MoA signing with EhMF was attended by Prof. Worsak Ka-nok-Nukulchai, Vice President for Resource Development; Prof. S. Kumar; Dr. Abdul Salam; Dr. Jai govind Singh; Dr. Charles o.P. Marpuang; Dr. Vo Ngoc Dieu and Dr. Tripta Thakur from the energy field of study; Dr. Pritam K. Shrestha, head-External Relations and Communications office (ERCo); and Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Director, Fundraising. AIT President Said Irandoust signed on behalf of AIT.

Dr. Bindu N. lohani, Vice President, Administration and Finance, Asia Development Bank (ADB).

(Above) From left, h.E. Mr. Kasit Piromya, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand; h.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag, Chair-man of the Board of Trustees, AIT; Prof. Said Irandoust, President, AIT.

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APRIL

Five AIT students volunteer for Télécoms Sans Frontières roster

FiveAITstudentsjoinedthevolun-teer forceofTélécomsSansFron-tières (TSF) after completion oftheTSFthree-daytrainingsched-ule.The training included hands-on sessions on mobile satellitedevices, WiFi, GPS and mapping,apartfrominformationonadmin-istration, finances and communi-cationsforemergencyoperations.The training camp ended with asimulation exercise. The Asia-Pa-cificbaseofTSFislocatedatAIT‘smaincampusinThailand.AITstu-dentsworkedwithTSFindisasterreliefoperations inManila,whichwas affected by Tropical StormKetsana,andatTuguegarao,Phil-ippines, which was affected byTyphoonParma inOctober2009.They also participated in a reliefoperation in Pakistan followinganearthquakethat impactedthecountryinNovember2008.

University Pierre et Marie Curie interested in AIT

France’sUniversityPierreetMarieCu-rie (UPMC), Paris evinced interest incollaborating with AIT, particularly inoffering joint courses at the Master’slevel.Dr.GilbertBéréziat,VicePresidentfor International Relations of UPMC,whowasaccompaniedbyDr. IsabelleLimon-Boulez, Researcher in NaturalSciencesatUPMC,revealedthatUPMChad created 15 International Master’sand three international Bachelor’sprograms. The offerings are currentlytargetedtowardsEuropeanandNorthAmerican markets and UPMC is seek-ing to diversity towards South andSouth-East Asia. UPMC is particularlykeen to explore partnerships in thefield of medical imaging and medicalrobotics.Receivingthedelegates,Prof.Sudip K. Rakshit, Vice President (Re-search), remarked that AIT has a veryactive mechatronics field of study.UPMC and AIT could synergize theirenergies in the field of medical engi-neering, he told the delegation whileadding that AIT was already workingwith many European institutions andencouraging mobility among faculty,studentsandstaff.

AIT Mathivation Center’s training seminar in Cambodia

131 teachers and students fromeight provinces in Cambodia par-ticipated in a“Training Seminar onEducational and EntrepreneurshipResourcefulness,” organized at Khe-marak University in Phnom Penh,Cambodia by the AIT MathivationCenter. The seminar followed a re-quest by Dr. Chan Roath, Presidentof the Cambodian MathematicalSociety and Director of the Scien-tific Research Department at theCambodian Ministry of Education,YouthandSports.OrganizedbyMr.FaridNolen,visitingfellowatAIT,theseminarwasoneamongmanyintheseries of workshops organized bythe AIT Mathivation Center. Earliera workshop was held for teachersof Ruamrudee International School(RIS)ontheuseofstorytelling,meta-phors,experientiallearningandphi-losophy of life and communicationstyle as pedagogical tools to makemathematics and science educa-tioninteresting.AteachingtrainingworkshopwasalsoorganizedatSa-vannakhetUniversityinLaoPDR.


(Above) Five students from the Asian Institute of Technology joined the volunteer force of Télécoms Sans Frontière (TSF) after completion of the TSF training schedule. The five students included Aadit Shrestha, a researcher at Remote Sensing and geographical Information Systems from Nepal; Mr. hung ling and Ms. Ei Ei Khin, both students at Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM) from Myanmar; Mr. Clinton John Smith, a student at DPMM from South Africa, and Mr. Furqan Ali Shaikh, a student of Information & Communications Technologies from Pakistan. They successfully completed the training course run by TSF at the AIT campus.

Dr. gilbert Béréziat, Vice President for International Relations of uPMC.


MAY

IROST signs agreement with AIT on climate change technologies

The Iranian Research Organizationfor Science andTechnology (IROST),along with other partners signeda contract with AIT on a host on is-suesincludingidentifyingearlystagegreentechnologies,reducinggreen-housegasemissions,andconductingeconomic assessment of the impactof climate change. The agreementwas signed by the President of AIT,Prof.SaidIrandoustwithProf.AbbasTaeb,President,IROST;Dr.MahmoudMolanejad, Director, IOR-ARC.RCSTT;andMr.MohammadPanahifar,Gen-eralManager,MIM.ThecontractwassignedinthepresenceofH.E.MrMa-jid Bizmark, Ambassador of Iran toThailand and Mr. Homayoun Rous-taei Khoshkebijari, Counsellor andDeputyHeadofMission.H.E.Mr.Ma-jidBizmarkexpressedhopethatthecontract with AIT would help bringresearchersfromIranandAITtogeth-er. The ambassador also remarkedthatAITwasareputedinstitution intheregionandthatitiswellacceptedbytheIranianGovernment.

534 students graduate

Five-hundred and thirty-four stu-dentsreceivedtheirdegreesatthe113thGraduationCeremonyoftheAsianInstituteofTechnologyon26May 2010.Thirty-one students re-ceiveddoctoraldegreeswhiletheothers received Master’s degrees.Delivering the commencementaddress during the morning ses-sion,H.E.Prof.J.B.Disanayaka,Am-bassador of Sri Lanka toThailand,welcomedthestudents“Fromthegrovesofacademetotheworldofreality.” The ambassador definedgraduationasalandmark,turningpoint in life. Delivering the com-mencement address during theafternoon session, Dr. Prasert Pa-tramai, Chairman, TEAM group ofcompanies,remarkedthatAIThadprovided him “adequate knowl-edgeforthedevelopmentanduseof technology for solving manykeyproblemsinAsia.”Analumnusof AIT, Dr. Prasert said AIT alumniare increasingly occupying keypositions within the Asia-Pacificregion.

Sweden’s Sida optimistic about continued partnership

Two senior officials of the SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCoopera-tionAgency(Sida)paidafact-findingvisit to AIT and expressed optimismthat existing partnerships betweenAITandSidashouldevolveandpros-perwell intothefuture.Mr.MagnusLindell, Assistant Director General,Head of Operations, Swedish Inter-national Development CooperationAgency (Sida), Stockholm and Prof.Anders Granlund, Counsellor, Direc-tor,SwedishEnvironmentSecretariatinAsia(SENSA),EmbassyofSweden,Bangkok visited AIT. Mr. Lindell in-formed that the next phase of Sida-AIT Cooperation would continueunderthenewformatofitsumbrellafundingprinciple.“Wecertainlylookforward to concluding evolvingformsofcooperationwithAIT,”Mag-nusLindellsaid,emphasizingwaysinwhichSida,throughitsextensivear-rayofglobalnetworks,couldassisttoattractpartnersforcooperationwithAIT. AIT’s formal cooperation withSidastartedin1988.

h.E. Prof. J.B. Disanayaka, Ambassador of Sri lanka to Thailand (left) delivering the graduation address during the morning ceremony of AIT’s 113th graduation.

(From left to right): Dr. Mousa M. Nazhad, Dr. Mahmoud Molanejad, Mr. homayoun Roustaei Khoshkebijari, Prof. Abbas Taeb, h.E. Mr. Majid Bizmark, Prof. Said Irandoust, Mr. Mohammad Panahifar, Prof. Sudip Rakshit and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal.



JUNE

UNDP views AIT as a ‘‘capacity building arm’’

The United Nations DevelopmentProgram(UNDP)wouldliketofurtherutilizeAITasan“implementingorca-pacitybuildingarm” intheregion.AUNDPdelegationledbyMr.NicholasRosellini, Deputy Assistant Adminis-trator and Deputy Regional Directorat the Regional Bureau for Asia andthePacificUNDP,evincedkeeninter-estinAIT,particularlyintheactivitiesof ASEAN Regional Center of Excel-lence for Millennium DevelopmentGoals (ARCMDG). UNDP is workingcloselywithARCMDGtoestablishtheMDGroadmapfortheASEANregion.Mr. Rosellini was also interested intheprojectsimplementedundertheWetlandAllianceProgram(WAP),Yu-nusCenteratAIT,andAITExtension.UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Regional Centre(APRC) is keen to engage AIT on itstraining and outreach programs. AITcanworkwithavailableUNDPdatabyconvertingandarchivingitinto“casestudies”. UNDP also expressed inter-estinAIT’sworkon“socialprotection”andofficialssaidhowtherecouldbesynergiesinthisimportantarea.

US Embassy Thailand, AIT discuss ‘creative possibilities’

Ms. Cynthia A. Griffin, CommercialCounselor, Embassy of the UnitedStates of America in Thailand, andMs. Jennie Ness, Regional Intellec-tualPropertyOfficer,USPatentandTrademark Office, Embassy of theUnited States of America in Thai-land,visitedAITtoexplorepossibili-ties for collaboration. AIT PresidentProf. Said Irandoust welcomed thedelegationandnotedhowtheem-bassy’s initiatives dovetail with theaspirations of the Asian Institute ofTechnology.RemindingtheofficialsofAmerica’sinstrumentalroleinthefoundingofAIT,andofitssignificantimpact on the historical develop-mentof the Institute, thepresidentenjoined the United States to joinAITagaininfullpartnership.Ms.Grif-finexplainedthattheUnitedStateswas working in close partnershipwiththeGovernmentofThailandtoassistthecountrytorealize itsgoalofachievinga“creativeeconomy.”

CIRAD inks partnerships with AIT

CIRAD (Centre de coopérationinternationale en rechercheagronomiquepour ledéveloppe-ment) and AIT, reaffirmed theirpartnershipbysigningaMOUandtwoMOA’s.Theagreementsweresigned by Dr. Jean-Chalres Mail-lard, Regional Director of CIRADfor Continental South East Asia,and Prof. Said Irandoust, Presi-dent.Thetwoinstitutionsdecidedto promote cooperation in jointresearchandacademicexchangesfocused on sustainable develop-ment.Theagreementsstatedthatthe two partners would jointlypromote education, research andoutreach cooperation by encour-agingdirectcontactandcoopera-tion between their departments,researchunitsandscientists.


Mr. Nicholas Rosellini, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director at the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific uNDP.

(Above) Dr.Jean-ChalresMaillard (fourth from left) is pictured with AIT President Said Irandoust (fifth from left) Prof. Sudip Kumar Rakshit, Vice President for Research; Prof. Joydeep Dutta, Vice President for Academic Af-fairs; Dr. Weerakorn ongsakul, Dean, School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD); Dr. Wenresti glino gallardo, Coordinator, Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM) Field of Study SERD; Dr. Sylvain Perret, Visiting Professor, and Mr. olivier Dréan, Coordinator of the French Cooperation and Advisor to the Administration also attended the ceremony.

(Above) Ms. Cynthia A. griffin, Commercial Counselor, Embassy of the united States of America in Thailand, and Ms. Jennie Ness, Regional Intellectual Property officer, uS Patent and Trademark office, Embassy of the united States of America in Thailand.

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JULY

U.S. Under Secretary Burns describes AIT as a “world class” institute

H.E. William J. Burns, Under Sec-retary for Political Affairs, UnitedStates, described AIT as “worldclass.” He stated this while deliver-ing a talk, “A Renewed U.S.-ThaiAlliance for the 21st Century” atChulalongkorn University. Whiledescribing his visit to Bangkokas“a part of a larger effort by theObama administration to enhanceand deepen our engagement inthe Asia-Pacific, and in particular,inSoutheastAsiaandwithASEAN,”thedistinguisheddiplomatmadeaspecial reference to U.S.-Thai Cre-ativePartnership.InthecontextofU.S.-Thai Creative Partnership, H.E.Burnsstatedthat“WesternDigital’swork with the world-class AsianInstituteofTechnologyinThailandtodevelopdegreeprogramsinIn-formation Technology is just oneexampleofthetypeofcooperationwewanttoexpandunderthisCre-ativePartnership.”

AIT ties up with Institute of Scientific Research, Boston College

AITsignedanMoAwiththeInstituteofScientificResearch(ISR),BostonCollege, USA to forge cooperativeresearch under the framework ofScintillationNetworkDecisionAid(SCINDA) research network. ISRand AIT will conduct regional re-search on geodynamics, real-timecorrections of Global PositioningSystem (GPS) signals from solarextremes,andsolarflaresinupperatmosphere. ISR’s SCINDA com-prises of high-precision GPS Basestation and Very High Frequency(VHF) receivers. SCINDA involvesover 40 institutions and is a net-workofgroundsensorsdevelopedtogeneratereal-timecommunica-tion outage maps and warningsfor satellite communication andGPS users. It ensures exchange ofionosphericdatarecordedbyeachinstitution as a part of collabora-tiveresearchactivities.

Timor Leste needs strong involvement of AIT: Minister

Minister of Agriculture and Fish-eries of Timor Leste, H.E. MarianoAssanamiSabino,calledforstronginvolvement of AIT, in a meetingofthecountry’sStrategicProgram2020 for Agricultural Growth andSustainable Food Security. TheMinisterstatedthisfollowingcon-sultative meetings held after thetwo-daynationalworkshopon“Re-viewofRiceCultivationSystemsinTimor Leste” held in Dili on June29-30, 2010.The Minister stressedtheneedforthepresenceofAITatthis meeting to assist in formulat-ingafive-yearplanofactivitiesforrice intensification. The two-daynational workshop was hosted bytheMAF(TimorLeste)inco-spon-sorshipwithGermanTechnicalCo-operation (GTZ), European Union(EU),andAIT.

The delegation of ISR included Mr. Stephen Jimenez of Air Force Research lab (AFRl) and Mr. Dean Anneser, Research Fellow. Dr. Rui Fernandes of university of Beira Interior (uBI), Portugal, and Dr. Durairaju Kumaran Raju of National university of Singapore (NuS) represented the two partner organizations of SCINDA. others who participated in the event included Dr. Noppadol Phien-wej, Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Technology (SET); Dr. Pritam Shrestha, head, External Relations and Communications office (ERCo); Dr. Nitin Kumar Triparthi, Coordinator of Remote Sensing and geographical Information Systems (RS/gIS) field of study at SET; Dr. Taravudh Tipdecho, Research Specialist, SET; Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Senior Program officer, ERCo and Mr. Sanit Arunpold, Doctoral Student at RS/gIS.

h.E. William J. Burns, under Secretary for Political Affairs, united States of America.



AUGUST

Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graces AIT booth at Science Fair

HerRoyalHighnessPrincessMahaChakriSirindhorngracedtheboothset up by AIT at the Science andTechnology Fair organized at theBitech Bang–Na Conference Cen-terinBangkok.Afterinauguratingthefair,HerRoyalHighnessvisitedtheAITboothwhereProf.AthapolNoonhom, Coordinator, Food En-gineeringandBioprocessTechnol-ogy field of study presented vari-ous research projects undertakenbytheSchoolofEnvironment,Re-sources and Development (SERD)and the School of EngineeringandTechnology(SET).Amongtheprojects at the display included“Production of Instant Rice Us-ing Combined Microwave-Fluid-ized Bed Drying” by Ms.JirapornSripinyowanich, and Mr.EkkapongCheevitsopon.SupervisedbyProf.Athapol Noonhom (SERD), theprojectisfundedbytheRoyalThaiGovernment.

French Ambassador signals continued commitment to AIT

Ambassador of France to ThailandH.E.GildasLeLidec,duringhismaid-envisittotheAsianInstituteofTech-nology (AIT), reaffirmed the com-mitment of France to sign the newAIT Charter.The French Delegation,includingMr.MauriceSiveton,Coun-selor for Regional Cooperation inSoutheastAsiaandhisAssistantMs.CécileFarau,touredtheAITcampus.Visiting Faculty, Prof. Noël Crespi,secondedbyTelecomSudParis(TSP)introducedAITstudentswhohadre-ceived scholarships from France topursueadualdegreeatTSP.Thedel-egation witnessed a demonstrationoftheCanalAVISTprojectatAIT’sin-tERLab,aswellasthedemonstrationthevirtualdentistryproject‘Haptics’that has been developed by theComputer Science and InformationManagement field of study in part-nership withThammasat University.Atsunamidemonstrationwasorga-nized at theWater Engineering andManagement (WEM) field of studybyDr.MukandSinghBabel.

Bhutan explores AIT Habi-tech’s sustainable building technology

H.E. Mr. Dorji Wangdi, Minister ofLabour and Human Resources,GovernmentofBhutan,expressedkeenness in using the buildingtechnology created by AIT’s Habi-tech Center in large constructionprojects in Bhutan. While visitingAIT, the Minister stated that AIT’sHabitech Center could positivelycontribute to and support capac-ity development of the construc-tionsectorinBhutan.TheMinisterwas accompanied by Mr. SangayDorjee,DirectorofDepartmentofOccupational Standards, and Mr.Kuenzang Dechen, Counsellor ofthe Embassy of Bhutan to Thai-land.Mr.GyanendraR.Sthapit,Co-ordinator of the Habitech Centeralso met Deputy Prime MinisterandMinisterofWorksandHumanSettlement of Bhutan, H.E.YesheyJimba, during the “Bhutan Con-struction Expo 2010” where AIT’sHabitechCenter’s technologywasshowcased.


her Royal highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graces the AIT booth.

(Below) Ambassador of France to Thailand h.E. gildas le lidec witnessing a tsunami simulation at the Water Engineering Management (WEM) laboratory.


SEPTEMBER

Israel for greater academic and industrial ties with AIT

His Excellency Mr. Itzhak Shoham,Ambassador of Israel to Thailand,evinced great interest in the newCharter of the Asian Institute ofTechnology (AIT), and stated thatIsraelwaslookingforwardtowardsgreater academic and industrialties with AIT. This was stated bytheambassadorduringhismaidenvisittoAITon14September2010.Theambassadorwasaccompaniedby Mr. Ilan Weitzman, First Secre-tary,andDeputyChiefofMission.Apart frommeetingseniorAITof-ficials,theambassadoralsovisitedthe ASEAN Regional Center of Ex-cellence on MDGs, Yunus CenteratAIT,AITConsulting,EnergyParkand the Center of Excellence inNanotechnology.

AITVN unveils new home at Can Tho University

Asian Institute of Technology inVietnam (AITVN) unveiled its new

AIT-Vietnam office and classroomfacilitieslocatedonthecampusoftheCanThoUniversity(CTU)on10September2010.Speakingontheoccasion, the AIT President Prof.Said Irandoust remarked that theeventwasatestimonyof17yearsof strong and sustained partner-ship between the Governmentof Vietnam and AIT. AIT and CTUsigned an agreement to facilitateefficientdeliveryofjointprogramsin education, research and otherservices for the region. Prof. SaidIrandoust, President AIT and Dr.Amrit Bart, Director of AIT inViet-nam participated in the openingceremonyheldatCanThoUniver-sityCampus.

‘We will act as ambassadors of AIT,’ Ethiopian Minister

H.E. Dr. Abera Deressa, State Min-ister, Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development (MoARD),Ethiopia,describedAITasaninsti-tutewhichfocusesonappropriate

technology and stated that Ethio-pia has benefitted a lot from thisinstitute.ParticipatinginaProfes-sional Development Program on“SustainableDevelopmentinRuralandAgriculturalPracticesusing ITApplications,”organizedbyAITEx-tension,theministerstatedthattheentire delegation of nine personswhobenefittedfromtheprogramwillactasambassadorsofAIT.TheState Minister remarked that AIThadprovidedhisteamwithpracti-cal examples of using technologyin rural development and agricul-ture. Complimenting AIT for host-ing and organizing the program,the Minister stated that the AITfocus on appropriate technologyfor developing countries provedtobeverybeneficialforthepartici-pants.H.E.Dr.AberarevealedthatEthiopia’s five-year plan is aimedatgrowthandtransformation,andthat the knowledge gained at AITwould help in planning.“Our col-laborationwithAITwillcontinueinthefuture,”theministeradded.

his Excellency Mr. Itzhak Shoham, Ambassador of Israel to Thailand.

(Above) AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust during the Mou signing ceremony at the Can Tho university in Vietnam.

(Above) Prof. Joydeep Dutta presenting a copy of the book “Fundamentals of Nano-technology” to h.E. Dr. Abera Deressa.



OCTOBER

Sri Lankan President assures AIT of support for satellite campus

AIT President Prof. Said IrandoustmetthePresidentofSriLanka,H.E.MahindaRajapakse,todiscusstheissue of establishment of an AITsatellitecampusinSriLanka.Inre-sponsetoAIT’sdesiretoestablishasatellite campus, the Governmentof Sri Lanka expressed its intentto provide land for this purpose.President Rajapakse expressedhis full support and endorsementto theproposal toestablisha full-fledged AIT campus in Sri Lanka.He assured AIT that the govern-mentwouldhelpinprovidinglandaswellasfacilitatetheprocess.TheSriLankangovernmentwouldalsohelpAITinattractingglobalinves-tors to participate in this venture.The AIT President, along with Mr.SanjeevJayasinghe,DirectorFund-raising,AIT,visitedSriLankaontheinvitationoftheDeputyMinisterofExternalAffairsofSriLanka,H.E.Mr.GitanjanaGunawardenatodiscusstheproposedAITsatellitecampus.

New Philippine Ambassador pledges to work with AIT

The Philippines’ new AmbassadortoThailand,H.E.Mrs.LinglingayF.Lacanlale,applaudedAIT’sempha-sis on developing quality gradu-ateswhomatchtheneedsofsoci-ety and the marketplace throughhighly flexible professional pro-grams,aswellasitsoverallempha-sis on practical and relevant skillsdevelopmentthroughitspedago-gyandcurricula.FourmonthsintoherdiplomaticpostingtoThailand,H.E.Mrs.LinglingayF.Lacanlalevis-itedtoAITon14October2010.Am-bassador Lacanlale was joined byembassy officials Ms. MariaTeresaL. Taguiang, Deputy Chief of Mis-sion, and Mrs. Princess UmandapTomas-Tayao, Third Secretary andViceConsul.“Wecanworkwithyouto make AIT better known in thePhillipines,” Ambassador Lacanlaletold President Irandoust. She ex-pressed particular interest in AIT’scutting-edge Disaster Prepared-

ness,MitigationandManagementProgram. “We must work hard tomake the Philippines more awareof these and other highly benefi-cialprogramsatAIT,”shestressed.

AIT takes lead at Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum 2010

AIT played a leading role at the2010 Asia-Pacific Climate ChangeAdaptationForumwhichwascon-vened at the United Nations Con-ference Centre in Bangkok on 21-22October2010.OrganizedbytheRegional Climate Change Knowl-edge Platform for Asia (Adapta-tionKnowledgePlatform)andtheAsia Pacific Adaptation Network(Adaptation Network), the eventbrought together more than 500participants from across the Asia-Pacific region, including govern-ment representatives, researchers,practitioners, NGOs, internationalorganizations, regional intergov-ernmental bodies, media and theprivatesector.


(left) h.E. Ambassador Mrs. linglingay F. lacanlale (center) also met with members of the Filipino community, comprised of stu-dents, staff and faculty members. She emphasized the Embassy’s commitment to serve the Filipinos in Thailand, quickly briefed them of positive changes in consular administration and encour-aged the community to provide regular feedback.

(Above) AIT played a leading role at the 2010 Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum (Forum 2010), which was convened at the united Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok on 21-22 october, 2010.


NOVEMBER

Pakistan seeks AIT’s help in reducing vulnerability

Pakistan’s Environment MinisterH.E. Mr. Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi-soughttheassistanceofAITinre-ducing vulnerability in Pakistan.He said the Government of Paki-stanwasanalyzingcausesofenvi-ronmentaldegradation,anditwaskeenthatAITshouldsuggestmea-sures to reducevulnerability fromnaturaldisasters.Theminister,whovisitedAITon11November2010,statedthatitwasagreathonortobeafoundingmemberofAITandwanted the engagement levelswith AIT to be scaled-up. H.E. Mr.Afridi was welcomed by Prof. Su-dip Kumar Rakshit, Vice Presidentfor Research, who elaborated onthepartnershipbetweenPakistanand AIT, and highlighted AIT’s ex-pertiseinthefieldofenvironment.TheministerwasaccompaniedbyH.E.Mr.SohailMahmood,Ambas-sadorofPakistantoThailand;andMr. Syed Zafar Ali Shah, Commer-cial Counselor, Embassy of Paki-stan,Thailand.

16 students awarded by Japanese Ambassador

SixteenstudentsofAITwereaward-edcertificatesbyH.E.Mr.SeijiKoji-ma,AmbassadorExtraordinaryandPlenipotentiary,EmbassyofJapan,atasimpleandelegantceremonyat AIT on 1 November 2010. H.E.Mr. Kojima remarked that he wasveryhappytovisittheAITcampus.“AITisverywidelyknowninJapan,”H.E.Mr.Kojimaadded.Theambas-sador was accompanied by Mr.MasatoOtaka,Minister;Mr.HiroshiTomita,FirstSecretaryandMr.To-moyukiSakairi,FirstSecretaryfromtheEmbassyofJapan.Theambas-sador also visited the AIT Confer-ence Center and the AIT library,twobuildingswhichweredonatedtoAITbytheGovernmentofJapan.Prof.SaidIrandoust,President,AIT,thankedtheGovernmentofJapanforthegrantofthescholarships.HeaddedthatJapanandPakistanarethe first countries to have signedandratifiedthenewAITCharter.

‘China Day’ at AIT celebrates growing Chinese student presence in Thailand

AIT welcomed nearly two-hundredChinese undergraduate studentsfrom six universities in Thailand tothe inaugural‘China Day’ at AIT. Or-ganizedby theChineseStudentAs-sociation of Thailand and AIT’s Stu-dentUnion,ChinaDay2010aimedtoincreaseChineseundergraduatestu-dents’ awareness of post-graduateopportunitiesatAIT,andtostrength-en friendship between Chinese stu-dents inThailand and cross-culturaltieswithAIT’s internationalcommu-nity comprised of over fifty nation-alities.TheeventwasinauguratedbyH.E. Mr. Guan Mu, Chinese Ambas-sador to Thailand, who termed thecountryasa“goodchoice”formanyChinese. The Chinese ambassadortoldAITPresidentProf.SaidIrandoustthat he believed AIT, with its highlymulticultural makeup, was also anideal school for young Chinese tostudy alongside students from Asia,EuropeandNorthAmerica.

h.E. Mr. guan Mu, Chinese Ambassador to Thailand, addressed close to 200 Chinese nationals gathered at AIT for China Day 2010.

(Right) h.E. Mr. Seiji Kojima Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan.

(Above) h.E. Mr. hameed ullah Jan Afridi Pakistan’s Environment Minister.



AIT builds its brand in Myanmar

WithplentifulopportunitiesexistingforAITinneighboringMyanmar,AITPresi-dentProf.SaidIrandoustledateamofAITofficialsonathree-daypromotionalvisittoThailand’sneighborwheretheymet with some of the country’s seniorhighereducationadministrators.Presi-dent Irandoust began the visit on De-cember2byattendingtheInternationalConferenceonScienceandEngineering(ICSE) 2010 organized by universitiesunder Myanmar’s Ministry of ScienceandTechnology(MOST).Prof.Irandoustdeliveredanopeningaddressinwhichhe highlighted the need for modernuniversitiestochange.

‘AIT is a marvelous institute,’ Pakistan Minister

“AIT has been a driving force and haditnotbeenforitscontribution,Iwouldnot be visiting AIT.”This was stated byH.E.Mr.MuhammadAzamKhanSwati,Federal Minister for Science and Tech-nology,Pakistan,duringhismaidenvisittoAITon8December2010.TheMinisterdescribedAITasa“marvelousinstitute,”

DECEMBER

andPakistanasa“longhaulpartner”ofAIT.H.E.SwatistatedthatPakistanwas lookingforwardtowardsanen-hancedpartnershipwithAIT,particu-larlyinofferingdualdegreecourses.TheMinisterwelcomedtheproposalofProf.SaidIrandoust,President,AIT,to establish an AIT satellite campusin Pakistan. He proposed students’and faculty exchanges between AITand COMSATS Institute of Informa-tionTechnology.TheMinistersoughtAIT’s expertise in helping Pakistancommercialize research and devel-opment activities. The Minister alsoaddressed members of the PakistanStudentsAssociation(PSA).

Eminent Pakistani scientist conferred honorary degree at AIT’s 114th Graduation

Two-hundred and twenty studentsfrom 20 countries and three conti-nents received graduate degrees atAIT’s114thGraduationCeremony,anoccasionwhichalsosawtheconfer-mentofthehonorarydegreeofDoc-tor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa)on Pakistan’s eminent scientist H.E.ProfessorAtta-Ur-Rahman.Mr.David

Hulse, The Ford Foundation Represen-tative, Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered theConvocation Address. Vietnamese stu-dentsrepresentedthelargestnumberofgraduatesbynationalitywith110,whileThaismadeupthesecondlargestgroupwith61,followedbyIndiaandNepal.U.S. State Department Advisor elaborates on Lower Mekong Initiative

Dr.Mari-VaughanJohnson,Environmen-tal and Energy Advisor in the UnitedStates Department of State, visited AITon16December2010,whereshehigh-lighted the new Lower Mekong Initia-tive(LMI),whichfocusesonthegrowingcooperationbetweentheUnitedStatesand the Lower Mekong countries ofCambodia, Laos,Thailand andVietnam.Dr. Johnson stated that United StatesSecretaryofStateMs.HillaryClintonandthe foreign ministers of the Lower Me-kongCountrieshaveagreedtoenhancecooperationintheareasofenvironment,health,education,andinfrastructurede-velopment. Dr. Johnson was accompa-niedbyMr.JacobSchultz,Environment,Science,Technology and Health OfficerattheU.S.EmbassyinBangkok.


AIT welcomed during its visit to Myanmar.

(left) Prof. Said Irandoust and Prof Atta-ur-Rahman at AIT’s 114th gradua-tion Ceremony.

(left) Prof. Joydeep Dutta, Vice President for Academic Affairs, welcomed Dr. Johnson and Mr. Schultz and mentioned that AIT is at the forefront of technology, development and education.

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D uring AIT’s memorable 51st AnniversarycelebrationinSeptember2010,allofthosepresentwitnessedthesoftlaunchoftheAIT

Endowment Fund Campaign, which was presidedover by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha ChakriSirindhornwhoisalsoanAITalumnaandhonoraryfacultymember.Theeventattracted352participantsranging from alumni, former faculty, AIT Board ofTrusteemembers,facultyandstaff,VIPmembersandhonoredguests.

AfterAIT’sfirst50years,theAITalumninetworkhasgrownsignificantlyandincreasinglyhasbecomeoneofAIT’smostvaluableassets.Toshowitsappreciation,AITinaugurateditsfirstever“AITHallofFame”duringthesameevent.AsidefromacceptingtheinvitationtobethefirstinducteeoftheAITHallofFame2010,HRHPrincessSirindhornpresentedHallofFametro-phiesto11othereminentalumniinductees.

“For Creative Global Leaders of Tomorrow”

Theyearsawthelaunchofthefirsteverfundraisingcampaignfortheinstitute.The7-yearCampaignfrom2010–2016 involvesan initialsilentphasefocusedon internal members. The public phase and latter

H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn encourages all who have benefited from AIT to support the AIT Endowment Fund Campaign.

partof theCampaignwill focusonphilanthropists,thecorporatesectorandfoundations.Thefirststepofthefundraisingstrategyistoincreasetheaware-nessandinvolvementofAITfamilymembers,includ-ingcurrentandformerfaculty,staffandalumni.

AsRoyalPatronoftheAITFundraisingCampaign,HRHPrincessSirindhornalsowitnessedthesoftlaunchoftheFriendsofAIT(FoAIT)Foundation,whichwases-tablishedwithHRHPrincessSirindhorn’sownprivateseeddonationof1millionBahtin2007.Incollabora-tionwithseniorandprominentAITalumni,workwasalsoundertakentoregistertheFriendsofAIT(FoAIT)Foundationasanon-profitorganization.

The Foundation will be the intermediary betweendonors and AIT. Through the proceeds from somedonors and the interest generated from the En-dowmentFundraisedbytheCampaign,twoobjec-tivescanbeachieved.First, tenworld-classvisitingscholarswillbeawardedeachyeartoconductjointresearch and collaborative teaching at AIT. Second,generous scholarships can be awarded to top stu-dentsfromallcornersoftheworldtostudyatAIT.

StartingonAITDay2010,alumniandfriendsofAITbegan to pledge substantial contributions towardstheCampaign.

New Fundraising Campaign

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In 2010, theAlumni Affairs Office (AAO)wasestablishedtoserveasthemainfocalpointfor individual alumni and the AIT Alumni

Association (AITAA), and to liaise between AIT,AITAA and its national/regional chapters in awidearrayofprograms, including socialactivi-ties,continuingeducationandprofessionalde-velopment,amongothers.

The new office will work to increase the effec-tiveness and regularity of alumni communi-cations through all possible communicationsmeans,suchaswebsite,periodicalsandalumnidirectory.Theofficewillalsoactivelycreatepart-nershipsbetweenAITandalumni,andbetweenalumniinareasofmutualinterest.

TheAAOwilltakearoleinfosteringinteractionbetweenthealumniandcurrentstudentsintheformof industrialmentorships, internshipsandjobopportunities.TheAITAlumniAffairsOfficewillhelpinconnecting,networkingandenrich-ingAITalumnianditspartnersinsupportingthestrategicgoalsoftheiralmamater.

New AIT Alumni Affairs Office

launched


Donations/Pledges received up to 31 December 2010

NAME AIT AFFILIATION COUNTRY

Seed Donation

HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Alumni, Hon. Faculty Thailand

Donation of 1 million Baht or more

DrSubinPinkayan AIT’61,Ex-Faculty Thailand

Mr.AshrafHabibullah FriendofAIT USA

Mr.KeeBookHee AIT’82 Malaysia

DrChainarongNaLampoon AIT’80 Thailand

Prof.Dr.SrisakdiCharmonmanFoundation AIT’61,Ex-Faculty Thailand

Dr.PrasertPataramai AIT’73 Thailand

Mr.PeerawatPremchun AIT’72 Thailand

TeamGroupofCompanies AlumniBusiness Thailand

60StaffofTeamGroupofCompanies AlumniGroup Thailand

Mr.Shih-YiGeorgeChen AIT’72 Taiwan

Mr.YenYiTseng AIT’73 Taiwan

Mr.CharoenJaturasil AIT’86 Thailand

TheFamilyofArthurandKatherineChiu Ex-Faculty USA

TheFamilyofDr.Za-ChiehMoh Ex-Faculty USA

Donation of 100,000 Baht or more

AITAATaiwanChapter AlumniGroup Taiwan

Mr.QuaziHamidurRahman AIT’61 Bangladesh

Dr.SununtaSiengthai Faculty Thailand

Dr.RiazRahmanKhan Staff Bangladesh

Mr.TaweesakTrigola AIT’99 Thailand

Mr.SyedMonzurHusainBokhari AIT’76 Bangladesh

Mr.A.H.Md.MaqsoodSinha AIT’93 Bangladesh

Anonymous

Donation of less than 100,000 Baht

Mr.KhandakerMesbahUddinAhmed AIT’77 Bangladesh

Dr.B.H.W.Hadikusumo Faculty Indonesia

Mr.Md.KarimulHaqueTalukdar AIT’71 Bangladesh

ProfessorKi-DuKim AIT’87 Korea

ProfessorJ.S.Shim AIT’80 Korea

22 AIT Annual Report 20�0

• Ms. Kasemsri Hormchean,agraduateofEnvironmentalEngineering,1980,wasappointedastheGovernoroftheThailandInstituteofScientificandTechnologicalResearch(TISTR).PriortoservingasthenewTISTRGovernor,shewasDeputyGovernor(Operation1)ofIndustrialEstateAuthorityofThailand(I-EA-T),MinistryofIndustry.

• ApaperbyAITalumnusandfacultymemberProf. Stephen OgunlanaandhisstudentMr.Shamas-ur-RehmanToortitled“Ineffectiveleadership:Investigatingthenegativeattributesofleadersandorganizationalneutralizers”publishedinEngineering, Construction and Architectural ManagementwaschosenasanOutstandingPaperAwardWinnerattheLiteratiNetworkAwardsforExcellence2010.LastyearanotherpaperwhichProf.Ogunlanadevel-opedfromadoctoraldegreethesisatAITalsoreceivedthesameaward.

• FormerseniorAITfacultycolleagueProf. Ram M. Shrestha’sresearchprojecttitled“IntegratedAssessmentModelforDevelopingCountriesandAnalysisofMitigationOptionsandSustainableDevelopmentOpportunities,”whichwasjointlyimplementedbythreeinstitutionslocatedinthreedifferentcountries-AIT,Thailand,IndianInstituteofManagement(IIM),Ahmedabad,IndiaandEnergyResearchInstitute(ERI),China-during2005-2008,withthefundingsupportofAsia-PacificNetwork forGlobalChangeResearch(APN),JapanwasrecentlyselectedbytheBoardofReviewersofAPNtobe“Outstanding.”TheAITcomponentoftheprojectwassupervisedbyjointlybyProf.ShresthaandAITfacultymemberProf.S.KumarfromtheEnergyfieldofstudy,SchoolofEnvironment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD).ThisrecognitionfurtherenhancesthereputationofAITintheareaofclimatechangeandsustainabledevelopmentresearch.In2010,Prof.ShresthaservedasVisitingProfessorattheGraduateSchoolofInternationalDevelopmentandCooperation,HiroshimaUniversity,Japan.

• Prof. Dr. Ir. Djoko Santoso,AITalumnus,wasappointedasDirector-GeneraloftheHigherEducationMinistryofNationalEducation,GovernmentoftheRepublicofIndonesia.

• Mr. Narongchai Prompraingchai,AITalumnus fromtheSchoolofManagement,wasappointedasAdvisor toThailand’sDeputyInteriorMinisterThavornSenniam.Mr.Narongchaialsoownsaverywell-knowncompany,Nara-iphandCompanyLimited,whichprovidesThaihandicraftstocustomersdomesticallyandinternationally.

• DistinguishedalumnusDr. Prasarn TrairatvorakulwasappointedasthenewGovernoroftheBankofThailand.Priortohisappointment,Dr.PrasarnwasthePresidentoftheKasikornbankinThailand.

• AITalumnaMs. Panita Kambhu Na AyutthayawasappointedasthePermanentSecretaryintheMinistryofSocialDevelopmentandHumanSecurity,RoyalThaiGovernment.Previouslysheheldhigh-levelpositionsasDirectorGeneralof theDepartmentofSocialDevelopmentandWelfareand Inspector-Generalof theMinistryofSocialDevelopmentandHumanSecurityinThailand.

• Dr. Bui Cach Tuyen(EV,1992),AITalumnus,becameDeputyMinister,MinistryofNaturalResourcesandEnviron-mentofVietnamon24thSeptember2010.ThisappointmentwasbasedonthePrimeMinisterofVietnam’sinstruc-tion.HealsoheldthepositionofGeneralDirectoroftheVietnamEnvironmentAdministration.

• Prof. Somchai Wongwises (Energy, 1984), AIT alumnus, was judged as Outstanding Lecturer 2009 in the fieldofScienceandTechnologybytheCouncilofUniversityFacultySenateofThailand(CUFST).HewasawardedasOutstandingLecturerattheCUFST’sAnnualConference2010“HigherEducationSystemReform: Is itadream?”whichwaspresidedoverbyPrimeMinisterofThailand,H.E.Mr.AbhisitVejjajiva,whodeliveredaspeciallectureon“HigherEducationReformUndertheAtmosphereofPoliticalReform.”

Alumni & Former Faculty

Awards and Recognition


• The University of the Cordilleras, Philippines, inaugurated distinguished AIT alumnus Prof. Ricardo P. Pama asPresidentonNovember26,2010.HewasalsoinductedintoAIT’sinauguralHallofFamein2010.Prof.PamahadaverydistinguishedandsuccessfulacademicandadministrativecareeratAIT,holdingpositionsasProfessor,VicePresidentforDevelopment,andVicePresidentforAcademicAffairs,priortohisreturntothePhilippines.

• Mr. Muhammad Waseem Ashraf,HigherEducationCommissionscholarfromPakistaninthemicroelectronicspro-gram,andPhDadviseeofDr.NitinAfzulpurkar,Dean,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology,wonthebestpaperawardattheInternationalConferenceonElectrical,Electronics,Computer,TelecommunicationsandInformationTechnology(ECTI)2010ConferenceheldinChiangMai,Thailand,on19-21May2010.Thepaperco-authoredbyS.Tayyaba,N.Afzulpurkar,T.Lomas,A.Tuantranont,A.Nisar,andE.L.J.Bohezwastitled“Design,AnalysisandFabrica-tionofMEMS-basedSiliconMicroneedlesforBio-MedicalApplications.”Atotalof272papersfromallaroundtheworldwereacceptedforpresentationattheECTICON2010andthepaperwonthebestpaperawardunderthetrack“CircuitsandSystems.”Hewasalsochosenasthefinalistfor2010SLAS(SocietyforLaboratoryAutomationandscreening)YoungScientistAward.Thepapertitled“StructuralandMicrofluidicAnalysisofMEMSBasedOut-Of-PlaneHollowSiliconMicroneedleArrayforDrugDelivery”wasselectedbytheawardcommitteeofIEEECASE2010asALAYoungScientistAwardFinalist.CASE2010washeldinToronto,Canadaon21-24August.Thepapersauthorswere:MuhammadWaseemAshraf,ShahzadiTayyaba,NitinAfzulpurkar,NisarAsim,ErikBohez,andAdisornTuatranont.Mr.MuhammadWaseemAshrafalsowonBestYoungScientistAwardatIEEECASE2010inToronto.

• Mr. Nayana D.P. Dehigama,aSchoolofManagement(SOM)doctoralstudentwontheThirdAsia-PacificYoungEn-

trepreneurAward.Theawardswereannouncedatthe24thConferenceoftheConfederationofAsiaPacificCham-bersofCommerceandIndustry(CACCI),whichconcludedon7July2010atColombo,SriLanka.Mr.DehigamaistheChairman-cum-ManagingDirectorofEpicLankaGroupandispursuinghisdoctorateatAITintheDoctorinBusi-nessManagement(DBA)programunderthesupervisionofDr.BarbaraIgel,Dean,SchoolofManagement(SOM).DBAisadoctoralprogramforseniorprofessionalmanagersandadministrators.

• AjointpaperwrittenbyDr. Assadej Vanichchinchai(SOMPh.D,2009)andDr.BarbaraIgel,Dean,SOMandadvisortoDr.Assadej,receivedtheoutstandingpaperawardfromEmerald.Thepaperwastitled“TQMandSCM:SimilaritiesandDifferences.”ItwasfirstpublishedintheTQMJournalandwaspickedbyEmeraldfortheprestigiousaward.Dr.AssadejwasalsoawardedwiththeprestigiousNationalDIPConsultantAwardforhiswork.BesidestheEmeraldandDIPawardsDr.AssadejhasreceivedanumberofnationalandinternationalrecognitionsforhisoutstandingworkinthefieldofProductivityImprovementinSmallandMediumEnterpriseinThailand.

• Mr. Ghaffar Ali,adoctoralstudentfromtheUrbanEnvironmentalManagementfieldofstudy,SERD,andaPakistanHigherEducationCommissionscholar,publishedabooktitledGreenWastetoRenewableEnergyandBusinessbyLambertAcademicPublishing(LAP)GmbH&Co.KGandLicensors,Germany.Thisbookwasbasedonhismaster’sresearchworkon“SolidWasteManagementPracticesofTalaadThai(thelargestopenmarketinThailand).AITfac-ultymembersDr.VilasNitivattananonandDr.L.A.S.RanjithPererawereco-authors.

Students

AwARDS AND RECOGNITION

2� AIT Annual Report 20�0

• ApaperwrittenbyProf. Jayant K RoutrayandhisdoctoralstudentMd.MustafaSaroartitled“In-situadapta-tionagainstsealevelriseinBangladesh:doesawarenessmatter?”wasawarded“BestPaper“bytheEmeraldPublicationGroupataweb-basedconferenceon“Climate2009/KLIMA2009”heldon2-6November2009atHamburginGermany.ThispaperisoneoftheproductsofMr.Saroar’songoingdoctoralthesisresearchon“AdaptationwithvulnerabilitytoclimatechangeinducedsealevelriseincoastalBangladesh.”

• AbookbyDr. Ram C. Bhujel,SeniorResearchScientistandAffiliatedFacultyintheAquacultureandAquaticResourcesManagement(AARM)fieldofstudy,SchoolofEnvironment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD),titled“StatisticsforAquaculture”wasathebest-sellingbookinitsfield.ThebookwaspublishedbyWiley-Black-well.

• Dr. Rajendra P. Shrestha,FacultyandCoordinatorintheNaturalResourcesManagementfieldofstudy,SchoolofEnvironment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD),wasawardedtheAsianScientificAwardbytheWorldAs-sociationofSoilandWaterConservation,forhisscientificachievementsinhisstudiesonunderstandinglandandhumandimensionsinthecontextofdegradationassessment,landusechanges,andlandmanagementencompassingtheareaofsoilandwaterconservationinSouthandSoutheastAsia.

• Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, facultymemberandCoordinator,RemoteSensingandGISfieldofstudy,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology,wasappointedMemberoftheInternationalAdvisoryBoard,SymposiumonGeoinformatics(ISG)fortwoyearsbytheInstitutionofSurveyors,Malaysia.

• Dr. Kyung-Ho Park, Assistant Professor, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering field of study,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology(SET),pennedtwopaperspublishedbyElsevierthatwerelistedinthetoptencitedpapersinthejournalsTunnelingandUndergroundSpaceTechnologyandInternationalJournalofRockMechanicsandMiningSciences.

• Prof. Gajendra Singh,formerAITVicePresidentforAcademicAffairs,hasbeenelectedasthePresidentoftheIndianSocietyofAgriculturalEngineers(ISAE)fortwoyears(2010-2012).

• ApaperbyDr. Abha Mishra,aSeniorResearchSpecialistbasedattheAgricultureSystemEngineering(ASE)fieldofstudy,SERD,wasawardedthebestpaperawardtitledAdeliAwardforherpaper“StudyingRiceRootPlasticityunderVaryingWaterRegimesandSoilMicrobialDensityUsingSystemofRiceIntensification(SRI)WaterManagementPrinciple”attheFirstInternationalConferenceofSoilsandRootsEngineeringRelationshipheldinArdebil,Iran,24-26June.

• Dr. Sangam Shrestha,AssistantProfessor,WaterEngineeringandManagement(WEM),SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology(SET),co-authoredthechapter“Promotingwiseuseofwater:Applicationofeconomicinstru-ments”whichwaspublishedintheIGESWhitePaperIII:“SustainableConsumptionandProductionintheAsia-PacificRegion:EffectiveResponsesinaResourceConstrainedWorld.”ThisIGESWhitePaperIIIwaslaunchedattheISAP2010inYokohama,Japan.

• Prof. Dennes T. Bergado,fromtheGeotechnicalandGeo-environmentalEngineeringfieldofstudy,SET,wasselected as Editor-in-Chief of the LowlandTechnology International Journal starting September 2010.ThisjournalistheofficialpublicationoftheInternationalAssociationofLowlandTechnologybasedinJapan.ThejournalispublishedbytheInstituteofLowlandandMarineResearchbasedatSagaUniversityinJapan.

• Dr. Peeyush Soni,AdjunctFacultyintheAgriculturalSystemsEngineering(ASE)fieldofstudy,SchoolofEn-vironment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD),wasselectedfortheprestigiousAMASHIN-NORINSHAAAAEYoungResearcherAward.ThisawardwasjointlyestablishedbytheShin-NorinshaCo.Ltd.andtheAsianAsso-ciationforAgriculturalEngineering(AAAE)in2004torecognizeandhonoryoungresearcherswithoutstand-

Faculty

Awards and Recognition


ingcontributionstoadvancementoftheAgriculturalEngineeringprofessionthroughteachingandresearch.Hereceivedthisawardduringthe11thInternationalAgriculturalEngineeringConference,Shanghai,China,on16-20September2010.Theawardcitationsaid:“TheAMASHIN-NORINSHAAAAEYoungResearcherAward–2010ispresentedtoDr.PeeyushSoni,inrecognitionofhisoutstandingcontributionstotheadvancementofAgriculturalEngineeringprofession.”

• Prof. Joydeep Dutta,VicePresidentforAcademicAffairsandDirectoroftheAITCenterofExcellenceonNan-otechnology, along with Prof. Louis G. Hornyak, on their Introduction to Nanoscience (see p. 78) textbookco-authoredwithProf.J.Tibbals,H.F.andProf.Rao,A.K.,werecitedasoneoftheleadingreferencesforacon-sultativeworkshoporganizedbytheAsianandPacificCentreforTransferofTechnology(APCTT)underthetopic“InnovationinNanotechnology:AnAsia-PacificPerspective”.Theaimoftheworkshopwastopromoteinnovationinnanotechnology.

• Dr Rajendra P. Shrestha,AssociateProfessorofNaturalResourcesManagementFieldofStudy,SERD,pub-lishedabooktitledLandUse,ClimateChangeandBiodiversityModeling:PerspectivesandApplications,whichisexpectedtobepublishedinMarch2011byIGI-Global.

• Prof. Ram M. Shrestha,publishedabooktitledLowCarbonSocietyVision2030–Thailand.ThispublicationisanoutcomeofresearchcollaborationbetweenAIT;SirindhornInternationalInstituteofTechnology(SIIT),Thailand;NationalInstituteofEnvironmentalStudies(NIES),Japan;KyotoUniversity,Japan;andMizhuoInfor-mationandResearchInstitute,Japan.Thepublicationwasreleasedon17-18November2010.

AwARDS AND RECOGNITION

D r. Pennung Warnitchai, Coordinator ofStructural Engineering, School of Engi-neeringandTechnology(SET),ledateam

ofresearchersfromsixuniversitiesandtwogovern-ment agencies inThailand in winning the“Excel-lentResearchAwardforYear2010”fromtheThai-landResearchFund(TRF).Dr.Pennung’steamwonforits“EarthquakeDisasterMitigation”project.Theawardfor2010waspresentedon28January2011ataceremonyinBangkok,Thailand.

“Earthquake Disaster Mitigation” was one of 12winning projects funded and administered bytheThailandResearchFund.AccordingtoTRF,the

AIT professor leads team to “Excellent Research Award for Year 20�0” from Thailand Research Fund (TRF)

twelvewinnersareallappliedresearchstudiesofpracticalbenefittoThailand.

The “Earthquake Disaster Mitigation” project,which was initiated by the National EarthquakeCommitteeandhasbeensupportedbyTRFsince2002,consistsofseveralsub-projects.Itsmainob-jectiveistostudy,survey,andobtainanddevelopuseful knowledge that will benefit the country’soverallearthquakedisasterpreparednessefforts.


ReseaRch (66)

capacity Building and tRaining pRojects (103)

confeRences / seminaRs / symposia (2)

otheR pRojects (3)

pRoject Based academic pRogRams (8)

Initiated Projects in 20�0

ait extension (81)

institute-wide (10)

inteRlaB (4)

seRd (40)

seRd-set (1)

set (42)

som (4)

40 4 10

AIT Projects at a Glance

Project Numbers and Budget 200�-20�0

ProjectBudget

No.ofOngoingProjests

0

250

500

750

1,000

1,250

1,500

1,750

2,000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

997

1,411

1,668

1,9021,817

1,739

229

386 438 463 458 456

Project Budget is identified in millions (‘000,000) Thai Baht.


Completed Projects in 20�0

Ongoing Projects in 20�0

ReseaRch (88)


confeRenes / seminaRs / symposia (4)

otheR pRojects (6)


ait extension (57)

institute-wide (3)

inteRlaB (7)

seRd (59)

set (62)

som (4)

ReseaRch (208)


confeRenes / seminaRs / symposia (10)

otheR pRojects (13)


ait extension (98)

institute-wide (15)

inteRlaB (13)

seRd (132)

seRd-set (1)

set (144)

som (20)

208

161

10 13 31

98 15 13

144

20

423 1 132

AIT PROjECTS AT A GLANCE


Students (January) Students (August)

southeast asia and the pacific (1797)

south & west asia (416)

east & centRal asia (89)

noRth ameRica (14)

euRope (43)

afRica (26)

austRalia (3)

otheRs (1)

male (1601)

female (788)

southeast asia and the pacific (1552)

south & west asia (404)

east & centRal asia (72)

noRth ameRica (10)

euRope (40)

afRica (24)

austRalia (2)

otheRs (1)

male (1346)

female (759)

Alumni

dBa (1)

d.eng. (483)

d.tech.sc. (223)

diploma (322)

p.m.eng (15)

m.a.B.m. (11)

m.eng. (9,098)

m.eng. (professional) (199)

m.sc. (4,448)

m.sc. (professional) (13)

mBa (2,132)

mBa (executive) (571)

mBa dual degree (47)

professional master’s(10)

ph.d. (276)

set (8,578)

seRd (6,421)

som (2,850)

female (4,679)

male (13,170)

AIT Students and Alumni at a Glance

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AIT Faculty at a Glance

20�0 Faculty Figures

AIT Annual Report 20�0

Faculty

FacultyHeadcount Faculty

Strength in FTE*

Students1Student-to-

Faculty (FTE) Ratio Annual Average

School of Engineering and Technology

Full-timeFaculty2 42.92 42.92

VisitingFaculty3 9.25 4.63

AdjunctFaculty 38.83 9.71

Total 91.00 57.25 934.25 16.32

School of Environment, Resources and Development

Full-timeFaculty 35.83 35.83

VisitingFaculty 8.83 4.42


Total 57.42 43.44 668.75 15.40

School of Management




Total 32.58 17.35 636.00 36.65

Asian Institute of Technology




Total 181.00 118.04 2,239.00 18.97

*Faculty strength is expressed in full-time equivalent (FTE) using the following factors: 1.00 for full-time and regular faculty members, 0.50 for short-term Visiting Faculty; and 0.25 for Adjunct Faculty. 1Eight (on average) special students were excluded, thus the slight discrepancy with the overall number of students presented on p.28. 2Includes Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Instructors, and long-term Visiting Faculty (with ≥ 1 year appointments).3Short-term Visiting Faculty (with < 1 year appointments).

�0 AIT Annual Report 20�0 AIT’S REACH

The Asian Institute of Technology is a pro-foundly international institute of higherlearningservingAsiaandbeyond.Itdoessoin partnership with governments and theiragencies, state universities, research institu-tions, international development agencies,foundationsandthepublicandprivatesec-tors. Additionally, the Institute continues todevelop and foster academic and researchlinkageswithAsian,EuropeanandAmericaninstitutionsforstudentandfacultyexchangeprograms.Allofthesecontributetotheinter-nationalcharacteristicsoftheInstitute–notjust in terms of the number of nationalitiesrepresentedonthegoverningboard,andintheInstitute’sfaculty,staff,andstudents,butalso by virtue of the rich international per-spectivessharedandtaughtintheclassroomandexperiencedinthefield.

In2009,theInstitutecontinueditspartnershipprograms with the Royal Thai Government,theSwedishInternationalDevelopmentCo-operationAgency(Sida),theGovernmentofNorway (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the Go-vernment of Japan, Government of France,the Netherlands Government, the CanadianInternational Development Agency (CIDA),andtheAustrianDevelopmentAgency(ADA).

Please turn to Page 77 for a comprehensive list of AIT partners.

Seychelles

Timor-Leste


The Asian Institute of Technology isa profoundly international instituteof higher learning serving Asia andbeyond.Itdoessoinpartnershipwithgovernmentsandtheiragencies,stateuniversities, research institutions,international development agencies,foundations and the public andprivate sectors. Additionally, theInstitute continues to developand foster academic and researchlinkages with Asian, European andAmericaninstitutionsforstudentandfaculty exchange programs. All ofthese contribute to the internationalcharacteristicsoftheInstitute–notjustintermsofthenumberofnationalitiesrepresented on the governing board,andintheInstitute’sfaculty,staff,andstudents, but also by virtue of therichinternationalperspectivessharedand taught in the classroom andexperiencedinthefield.

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Continued on page 32.


Institute Memberships 2010

AIT has institutional membership in the following organizations:

• ASAIHL, The Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning

• AUAP, Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific

• American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand

• British Chamber of Commerce Thailand

• Thai - Swedish Chamber of Commerce

• IIE, Institute of International Education

AIT is an active member of Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan Universities (SATU) Presidents’ Forum.

AIT, as founding member, has hosted the Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network (GMSARN).

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An overview of AIT’s engagements during the year


programs which AIT is part of to five. AIT joined theMAHEVAandEMMAEastconsortiums.MAHEVAcon-sistsof11universities from10Asiancountriesand9universitiesfrom7Europeancountries.Theprojectiscoordinated by the Montpellier 2 University, France.EMMA East (Lot 12) involves 13 East Asian partnersfrom5countries,and5Europeanpartnersfrom5Eu-ropean countries. The University of Nice-Sophia An-tipolis, France is the coordinating partner university.Incontrasttotheotherthreeconsortiums,therecenttwoemphasizemobilityfromAsiatoEuropeonly.AIThas a vision of becoming a leading global universitycenteredinAsia,andthelinkageswithErasmusMun-dus programs have fostered a trajectory of progresstowardsrealizingthisgoal.AIT’seducationisdefinedbyitsrigoranddifferentiatedbyitsdistinctiverelevantprogramstailoredtotheneedsoftheregion.Ontheother hand, students are also able to leverage AIT’sstrong linkages with top foreign universities to dojoint and double degree programs. Entrepreneuriallyinclinedstudentsmayspendasemesterortwoatpart-neruniversitiesinEuropeforexchanges.Studentqual-itycontinuedtoriseandengagementwithAITalumniwasfurtherdeepened.Arecentstudyrevealedthattheover 17,500 AIT alumni from more than 80 countriescurrentlyresidein108countriesandterritoriesaroundtheworld.ItmeansthatAITgraduatesarelivinghighlyinternationallivesandarereallyworldcitizens.

AIT Consulting

AITConsultingwasoneofseveral initiativesthisyeardesigned to enhance the application and spread ofAIT’sknowledgeandtodevelopcloserlinkswithvari-oussectorsofsocietyatlarge.EstablishedinJuly2010,AITConsulting’sobjectiveistoprovideintegratedsup-porttovariouspartnersandclientsfortheirdevelop-mentneeds,andforprojectscoveringthebroadareasof technology, engineering, environment, develop-ment and management. To meet these objectives,AIT Consulting utilizes the extensive expertise andresources available from the various schools, centersand laboratories within AIT, as well as those drawnfrom thousands of highly qualified and experiencedAIT alumni and from hundreds of AIT’s partner insti-tutionsandorganizations.Thededicatedteamofpro-fessionalsatAITConsultingensuresthatthesupportandservicesprovidedtoitsclientsarewellintegratedanddeliveredwith thehighestqualitywithin the re-quiredtimeframe.Sinceitsinception,AITConsultinghassecuredfiveprojects,inThailand,Philippinesandin Bangladesh. Proposals for several more projectshavealsobeensubmitted.AITConsultingisespecially

Additionally, the Institute continues to develop andfosteracademicandresearchlinkageswithAsian,Eu-ropeanandAmericaninstitutionsforstudentandfac-ultyexchangeprograms.Allofthesecontributetotheinternationalcharacteristicsof the Institute–not justintermsofthenumberofnationalitiesrepresentedonthegoverningboard,andintheInstitute’sfaculty,staff,andstudents,butalsobyvirtueoftherichinternation-alperspectivessharedandtaughtintheclassroomandexperiencedinthefield.

OneoftheinstitutionalhighlightsoftheyearwasthesigningoftheNewAITCharteron25August2010.Alandmark development in the 51-year-history of AIT,theNewChartermakesAITthefirstinstitutionofhigh-erlearningofitskindtobegrantedinternationalinter-governmentalstatus.AtaformalceremonyheldattheMinistryofForeignAffairsofThailand,Bangkok,twelvegovernments and one international organizationnamely,Thailand,Seychelles,Cambodia,Japan,SriLan-ka,Nepal,Pakistan,Sweden,Timor-Leste,Bangladesh,thePhilippines,India,andtheUnitedNationsDevelop-ment Fund forWomen (UNIFEM), signed the Charter.Several other countries have agreed to sign the newCharter.Withthenewstatus,AITwillbeabletooper-atemoreeffectivelyandtobetterserveThailand, theregion and beyond. It will also enhance cooperationwith other new partners and stakeholders in higherlearning,researchandhumanresourcedevelopment.

The year 2010 was a very historic and active year forAIT.ItwasoneofstrengthenedpartnershipprogramswiththeRoyalThaiGovernment,SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency(Sida),Governmentof Norway (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Govern-ment of Japan. AIT also continued partnerships withthe Government of France, the Netherlands Govern-ment,theCanadianInternationalDevelopmentAgen-cy(CIDA)andtheAustrianDevelopmentAgency(ADA).Throughitscontinuedpartnerships,AITwasprivilegedto enjoy high levels of support, and was fortunateenoughtomakesignificantcontributionsinfurtheringthe development agenda of these governments andgovernmentagenciesintheregionthroughhighlevelhumanresourcedevelopmentprograms,aswellatthecontinuingeducationlevel,andthroughdevelopmentandresearchprojects.

Erasmus Mundus Programs

2010 was an exhilarating year for AIT as the InstitutebecameamemberoftwoadditionalErasmusMundusconsortia, bringing the number of Erasmus Mundus


INTERNATIONAL REACH

focusedonmeetingtheneedsofthescienceandtech-nologysector,aswellasthoseofNGOs,developmentagencies, thecorporatesectorandpublicsector.Theinter-governmental status of AIT is ideally suited forAITConsultingtohandleprojectsand issuesofbotharegionalandinternationalnature.Furthermore,theinternationalacademicandresearchcultureatAITen-suresthattheoutputofAITConsulting’sservicesandsupportisunbiased,independentandobjective.

Yunus Center at AIT

Duringtheyear2010theYunusCenteratAITfocusedonpromotingandraisingawarenessoftheideasandconceptsofsocialbusiness.Itdidsothroughorienta-tionsessions,briefcourses,workshopsandmeetings.TheCenterintendstoencouragebusinessestosetupasocialbusinesslabinthefuturewiththegoaloffa-cilitatingactualexamplesofsocialbusinesses.In2010,theCenterpromotedthedevelopmentanddissemina-tionofinnovativemodelsforpovertyreductionunderthreemainfocusareas:educationforsocialbusiness,actionresearchandknowledgedissemination.

CSR Asia Center at AIT

TheCSRAsiaCenteratAITwasofficially launched inMarch2010.ThedemandforCSRexpertiseisclear,andthe Center has already contracted research and con-sulting engagements within the region. Apart fromdelivering several one-day trainings, working withAPEC on Public-Private Partnerships for building di-saster resilienceandwithanumberofcompanies toadviseonCSRstrategydevelopment,theCenteralsoworkedonaresearchprojectontheroleforbusinessinclimatechangeadaptation.

The Center also engaged some businesses in the re-gionandbeyondthroughfocusgroupdialoguesandinterviewstobetterunderstandcurrentbarrierslimit-ingtheengagementoftheprivatesectorwithclimatechangeadaptation,andtoidentifyinnovativebusinessapproaches that create business value while help-ing economies, societies, and communities adapt toa changing climate.The results of this project (whichwillbecompletedinearly2011)areexpectedtopro-vide a basis for exploring future collaboration oppor-tunitieswith theCenteronSustainableDevelopmentin the Context of Climate Change (SDCC) at AIT. TheCenter also collaborated with the AIT-United NationsEnvironmentProgrammeRegionalResourceCenterforAsiaandthePacific(AIT-UNEPRRC.AP)andorganizedasideeventattheClimateChangeAdaptationPlatformForum in October 2010. It also worked with UNEP toorganize a business roundtable meeting on“ClimateBenefitsfromAcceleratedPhase-outofOzoneDeplet-ingSubstances.”HavingestablishedastrongdemandfrombusinessesinThailandandbeyondforexecutiveeducation programs in CSR, the Center has engagedwith the AIT’s deans and faculty from the School ofManagement (SOM) and the School of Environment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD)toexploremodali-ties for launching a professional master’s program inCSRatAIT incollaborationwithbothSOMandSERD.TheCenterbelievesthat thiswillbeagreatopportu-nity forAIT to furtherstrengthen itsprofile indrivingsustainabledevelopmentintheregionandeducating“creative global leaders for tomorrow”. As the role ofAsianbusinessesandsupplychains inglobalmarketscontinuestogrow,thiswillbeanopportunity forAITtoworkbothwiththeprivatesectorandwithuniversi-tiesfromotherpartsoftheworldwhoarelookingforpartners inAsiatocollaborateonmainstreamingCSRthroughexecutiveeducation.

The dedicated team of professionals at AIT Consulting ensure that the support and services provided to its clients are well integrated and delivered with the highest quality.

(left) Members of the AIT Board of Trust-ees, including h.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag, Chair-man, and special dignitaries witnessed the opening of the AIT Consulting office.


ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on Millennium Development Goals (ARCMDG)OnSeptember1,Dr.SandroCalvanijoinedasDirectoroftheASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceonMillen-nium Development Goals (ARCMDG). Prior to joiningARCMDG, Dr. Calvani served as Director of the UnitedNations Interregional Crime and Justice Research In-stitute (UNICRI), based inTurin, Italy with programsinallcontinents.Beforebe-ing appointed to UNICRI,Dr.CalvaniwastheDirectorof the United Nations Pro-gram on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) Office in Colom-biafrom2004-2007.Dr.Cal-vani has significant experi-ence across a wide rangeofsocial issues,particularlyin the fields of humanitar-ian aid, conflict resolution,convergenceofemergingthreatsinhumansecurityandsocialeconomyappliedtoruraldevelopment.Someofthecompletedactivitiesin2010includedorganizinga10-daytrainingon“GenderMainstreamingandEqualitywithFocusonMDGs”;participationinthe6thMDGRe-gionalRoundTableConferenceheldinVietnam;atwo-dayworkshopon“MDGsAnalysisandOperationalIndi-catorsforGenderMainstreamingandEquality”;andfirstAdvisoryBoardMeetingoftheCenter,whichtookplaceon20January2010.OtherCenteractivitiesincluded:Aseminar-cum-studytourprogramon“ProjectMonitor-ing and Evaluation with Focus on Poverty ReductionandMDGs”(SupportedbytheUnitedNationsDevelop-mentProgram(UNDP)ofBangladesh);CapacityBuild-ing for Poverty Reduction Strategies, Government ofIndia(PhaseI),CapacityBuildingforPovertyReductionStrategies, Government of India (Phase II);Training on“StrategicPlanningandManagementofDevelopmentPrograms/ProjectswithfocusonPovertyReductionandMDGs,”“GenderMainstreamingandEqualitywithFocusonMDGs”;participationintheInternationalConferenceonLanguage,EducationandtheMillenniumDevelop-mentGoals;presentationofKeynoteAddressonMDGsattheASEANIntegrationMinisterialConferenceon19October 2010, and at the ASEAN-UN MDG WorkshopduringDecember2010.

Partner NetworkingNetworking is integral to AIT’s research, outreach andcapacity development activities. AIT complements itsown internal network by reaching out to partner in-stitutions that share similar objectives. In 2010, AIT

also undertook the development of partnerships thatstrengthened its ties to a number of universities bothinacademicprogrammingandinprojectcollaboration.ThroughapartnershipwithUNESCO-IHEandothersixpartnerinstitutes,AITsuccessfullylaunchedanewpost-doctoralfellowshipprogramonClimateChangeAdap-tationintheMekongRiverbasin(ProACC).ThePRoACCprogram started with an inception workshop in Delft,Netherlands26-29April2010.Eightpost-docsarework-inginthisprogram,twoofwhomarefromAIT.Itisex-

Network-ing is integral to AIT’s research, outreach and capacity development activities.

pectedthattheeightindividualpost-doctoralresearchprojects will be developed in close collaboration withkey stakeholder groups from the Mekong River Basin.Thus,besidescarryingoutresearch,thescientificfind-ingswillinformthedevelopmentandimplementationof better policies in the field of climate change adap-tation. Inaddition,thecapacitybuildingaspectofthispost-doctoralprogramwassignificant,asallpost-doc-toral fellows come from the region and are hosted bylocal/regionalknowledgeinstitutes.Thiswillstrengthenregionalcooperationfurther.Thepost-doctoralfellowswillcontinuetoworkonrelatedtopicsintheregionaf-tertheprogramisfinished.

SomeofthepartnerinstitutionsofAIT(includingthosewithwhomAIThasstudentexchangeandordualdegreeprograms)are:UniversityofBalochistan(UOB),Pakistan;Balochistan University of Engineering andTechnology(BUETK), Pakistan; Helsinski University of Technology;Telecom & Management Sud Paris, France; Seoul Na-tional University, South Korea; Universitat PolitecnicadeCatalunya,Spain;UNU-IAS,Japan;ChubuUniversity,Japan; University of Tokyo, Japan; Tohoku University,Japan;OchanumizuUniversity,Japan;ThammasatUni-versity, Thailand; Vishwakarma School of InternationalStudies (VSIS), Pune, India; NationalTaiwan University;Yuan Ze University, Taiwan; Andalas University, Indo-nesia;UniversityofGaza-Madah,Indonesia;StockholmUniversity,Sweden;UniversityofBoras,Sweden; Inter-national University ofVietnam; South Asia Institute ofTechnologyandManagement(SAITM),SriLanka;AsianUniversity,Thailand;NSTDA,Thailand;ChulabhornRe-search InstituteandMahidolUniversity,Thailand;Tsin-


huaUniversity,China;YunanUniversity,China;PokharaUniversity, Nepal; Kathmandu University, Nepal; ITC,InternationalInstituteforGeo-informationScienceandEarthObservation–theNetherlands;UNESCO-IHE,theNetherlands; University of Nice, France; CIRAD, France(providingfacultysecondment);AIT-NCCRNorthSouthCooperation,Switzerland:AITandUNESCOInternation-alResearchandTrainingCentreforRuralEducation(IN-RULED),China;StateBureauofSurveyingandMapping(SBSM)ChinaEuropeanUnion;UNorganizationssuchasUNEP,UNESCO,UNESCAP,andAPCTT.

Theyear2010wassignificantas itmarkedthebegin-ningofthenextfiftyyearstowardsAIT’scentennial.AITcelebratedits51stAnniversaryoverathree-dayperiodduring6-8thSeptember,welcomingbacktothecam-pus its alumni, former senior administrators, formerfacultymembers,partnersandfriendsofAIT.OnSep-tember6,approximately70formerfaculty,alumniandcurrent faculty and staff members participated at theBrainstormingSessionheldonthetopic“Implementa-tionofSatelliteModelforAIT”.ThediscussionscoveredkeyareasofconstructinganAITsatellitemodelengage-ment,andfocusedonfindingthewaysandmeanstomakethisstrategyarealitywhileatthesametimemain-tainingthequalityofeducation. TherewasageneralconsensusforAITtoimplementthestrategy.HerRoyalHighness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presidedoverthemaineventofthe3-daycelebrationsonSep-tember7.HerRoyalHighness’presenceattheAITDay2010celebrationsmarkedyetanothermanifestationofthe Royal Patronage which AIT has been fortunate toreceiveovertheyears.Itwasalsoasignofthecontinu-ingsupportgivenbytheRoyalFamilytothisregionalmulticultural institution of higher learning, dedicatedtothesustainabledevelopmentoftheregionandbe-yond.MembersoftheAITBoardofTrustees,ExecutiveCommittee,andotherdignitariesattendedtheeventsonthatday,whichincludedthelaunchofthe7-yearEn-dowment Fund, inauguration of the AIT Hall of Fame,and viewing of the exhibits of AIT’s Centers of Excel-lence.

Visits and Exchanges

Ashasbeenthecaseeveryyear,2010 also saw numerous ex-changes and visits between AITand its existing and prospectivepartners. Senior administrators,faculty members and staff trav-elledtovariouscountriesinrela-tion to collaborative academic,research and administrativeactivities and to attend confer-ences.TheInstitutealsoreceivedVIPvisitorsfromvariouspartners,

someofwhomwere:H.E.Mr.MuhammadAzamKhanSwati, Minister for Science and Technology, Pakistan;H.E. Mr. Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Minister of Environ-ment Pakistan; H.E. Mr. Dorji Wangdi, Minister of La-bour and Human Resources of Bhutan; H.E. Dr. AberaDeressa,StateMinister,MinistryofAgricultureandRu-ral Development Ethiopia; Mr. Sher Mohammad JamiZada,DeputyMinisterofEconomy,IslamicRepublicofAfghanistan;Dr.Mari-VaughanJohnson,EnvironmentalandEnergyAdvisorintheUnitedStatesDepartmentofState;Dr.GerardMatheron,PresidentManagingDirec-torofCIRAD(Centredecoopération internationaleenrechercheagronomiquepour ledéveloppement); Mr.Magnus Lindell, Assistant Director General, Head ofOperations,SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCoop-erationAgency(Sida);Mr.PeterBuri,DeputyDirectoroftheSoutheastAsiaandPacificEschborn,Germany;Dr.Joseph Mook, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)ProgramManagerforThailand,Brunei,Cambodia,Indo-nesia,Laos,Malaysia,Myanmar,andPhilippinesbasedinWashingtonD.C.USA;Dr.MaryZurbuchen,Directorof the Asia and Russia Program for the Ford Founda-tionIFP;Ms.KristaSlade,ExecutiveDirector,AsiaPacific,CASE(CouncilofAdvancementandSupportofEduca-tion); Ambassador Curtis S. Chin, former US ExecutiveDirectortotheAsianDevelopmentBank(ADB);Ms.Ji-wanPravaLama,DirectorGeneral,DepartmentofFoodTechnologyandQualityControl(DFTQC),GovernmentofNepal;Dr.AmaniMohamedElkhatimAbdAllah,Aca-demicCoordinator,PublicHealthInstitute,FederalMin-istryofHealth,Sudan;Ms.CynthiaA.Griffin,CommercialCounselor,EmbassyoftheUnitedStatesofAmericainThailand; Mr.Troy Fields,Thailand, Managing Director,SchlumbergerOverseasS.A;Mr.ShotaroKuryu,Manag-ingExecutiveOfficer forFluidMachineryandSystemsCompany, EBARA Corporation; Prof. Hamlet Isaxanli(Isayev), Founder President of Khazar University, Azer-baijan; Prof. Phung Xuan Nha, President, University ofEconomicsandBusiness(UEB),Vietnam;Prof.Yeong-BinYang,President,YunTechUniversityofScienceandTech-nology(YunTech),Taiwan;Prof.KesharJungBaral,ViceChancellorofPokharaUniversity,Nepal;Prof.Shamsu-deenO.O.Amali,ViceChancellorNasawaraStateUniver-sity(NSUK),Nigeria;Prof.AbbasTaeb,President,IROST

2010 also saw numerous exchanges and visits between AIT and its existing and prospective partners from vari-ous countries.

INTERNATIONAL REACH

(left) united States govern-ment and u.S. Embassy, Thai-land officials visited AIT.


Iranian Research Organization for Science and Tech-nology(IROST).Delegationscameand/orwenttothefollowing countries – Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangla-desh,Belgium,Bhutan,Cambodia,Canada,China,Ethi-opia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Japan,Kazakhstan,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Italy,LaosPDR,Malaysia,Maldives,Myanmar,Nepal,Nigeria,NorthKorea,Norway,Pakistan,Portugal,Romania,Singapore,South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden,Switzerland,Taiwan,Thailand,theNetherlands,thePhil-ippines,TimorLeste,UK,USA,Vietnam,

International Conferences and Meetings In 2010 AIT hosted a large number of major interna-tional conferences, seminars, meetings, and researchworkshops. These channels provide AIT with the op-portunity todisseminate the resultsof itswork.Someoftheseeventsarenotedhere:NationalWorkshopon“Low carbon technology innovation and diffusion inThaimanufacturingsectors”,January28;Talkon“CareerPlanningandConflictResolution”February3;Apresen-tation on“World Bank Information Resources andTheWorld Bank Role in Infrastructure Development” Feb-ruary9;Apresentation“BridgingtheGap”ontheinter-national mobility project funded by Erasmus Mundus,February10;SeminarandArtExhibitionon“Illegal,tem-poraryandprecariousstatesofbeing-migration”Feb-ruary15-28;Talkon“Asia2020:ADB’sStrategicAgendaand its People Strategy” March 1; Seminars on“Intel-lectualPropertyRights: ImperativeinNanotechnologyDevelopment”March2andMarch9;“SeventhICT-AsiaSeminar” March 15-16; Workshop on “Global Naviga-tionSatelliteSystem(GNSS)”March15-17;“2ndTrainingSeminaronEducationalandEntrepreneurialResource-fulness”March27-28;Seminaron“UnderstandingMul-tidisciplinaryDesign&OptimizationforSystemDesignand Development” March 30;Training on“Energy Effi-ciencyusingRETScreen”April5;RegionalWorkshopon“UnderstandingtheAgriculturalTransitioninAsia”April23;“WorldEnvironmentDay2010PhotoCompetition”May 27; World Environment Day 2010 Celebrations,June4;Seminaron“Theroleofeducationinpovertyre-duction-acasestudyofPRAM”June10;“InternationalWorkshoponGender,EconomicIntegration,andCross-border Road Infrastructure Development: Poverty andMobilityintheContextofAsia”June11-12;Seminaron“TSV-based3DICResearchActivitiesattheGeorgiaTechComputer-AidedDesign(GTCAD)Laboratory”June18;Workshopon“ProfessionalDevelopmentNeedsAssess-ment(PDNA)”July6-9;Results-BasedManagementFa-miliarizationWorkshop“3rdInternationalJointStudentSeminaronCivilInfrastructures”July29;Trainingcourseon“CSR Essentials” August 23; Inception workshop on“Area-WideIntegratedPestManagementofFruitFliesinSouth and Southeast Asian Countries” September 1-3;

Speciallectureon“GeoinformaticsforDisasterManage-ment”September10;Seminaron“Biomedicalapplica-tionsofbacterialcelluloseandself-assemblednanogels”September10;Seminaronthe“Useofsocialmediaforpromoting the Institute” September 14; Workshop on“InterpersonalSkillsforProfessionalDevelopment”Sep-tember15;“NanotechnologyForumatAIT”September23; Special lecture on“Beyond CMOSTechnology andEvolutionaryArchitectures”October12;“TheAsia-PacificClimateChangeAdaptationForum(AdaptationForum2010)” October 21-22; Talk on “Personal EffectivenessinaChangingWorld”October27;“DistanceEducationWorkshop” October 25-27; Regional Forum “BuildingPartnerships for ImplementingRenewableEnergyandEnergy Efficiency Projects in the Mekong Region” Oc-tober26-27;Talkon“NanoSafety:Safety ImplicationofNanoSilver”November1;Lecture,“Anoverviewofme-dia technologies and the Internet in Asia” November11-12;Talkon“Optics Industry”November25;TrainingWorkshop“Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management ofFruitFliesinSouthandSEAsia”December7-14;AnIn-ternationalConferenceon“InnovationsinFoodandBio-processTechnology”December7-9;Talkon“PlasmonicsandMetamaterialsforBiosensing”December17.

President Irandoust engages Sri LankaIn 2010, AIT President Said Irandoust was the specialConvocationSpeakeratPokharaUniversityinNepal.InNepal, the president held discussions with the Honor-ablePrimeMinisterofNepal.DuringtheyearAITPresi-dentalsometwiththePresidentofSriLanka,H.E.Ma-hindaRajapaksa,todiscusstheissueofestablishmentofanAITsatellitecampusinSriLanka.PresidentRajapaksaexpressedhisfullsupportandendorsementtothepro-posaltoestablishafull-fledgedAITcampusinSriLanka.PresidentRajapaksaassuredAITthatSriLanka’sgovern-mentwouldhelpinprovidinglandaswellasfacilitatetheprocess.HesaidSriLankawouldalsohelpAITinat-tractingglobalinvestorstoparticipateinthisventure.

INTERNATIONAL REACH

AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust with Sri lanka President h.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa (right).


FEATURE STORY

H er Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn ofThailand became the firsteverinducteeintothenewHallOfFameoftheAsianInstituteofTechnology(AIT)on 7 September 2010 at a glittering AIT Day 2010 ceremony organized to com-

memoratethe51stAnniversaryoftheInstitute.

HRHthePrincesswasofficiallyinductedbyH.E.Dr.TejBunnag,formerForeignMinisterofThailandandChairmanoftheBoardofTrusteesofAIT,(pictured above) whopresentedHRHtheinauguralAITHallofFameTrophy.

Acceptingthehonor,HRHPrincessMahaChakriSirindhornremarkedthatshewas“honoredandflattered to accept the invitation of the panel of judges, chaired by former AIT President Prof.AlastairNorth,tobethefirstHallofFameinducteeattheAsianInstituteofTechnology.”

HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is the first AIT Hall of Fame Inductee

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Awarded numerous honors in her career, thedesignationmarkedthefirsttimeHRHhasbeeninductedintoanyeducationalinstitute’sHallofFame.TheAITHallofFamerecognizesandper-manently honours the accomplishments andcontributions of its senior alumni and otherswhohavebroughtprideandinspirationtotheirprofessions,societyandtheiralmamater.HerRoyalHighnessPrincessMahaChakriSirind-horn’sinductionintoAIT’sHallofFameisanex-pressionoftheInstitute’sprofoundappreciationforHerRoyalHighness’supportandassistancerendered to the Asian Institute of Technology,DrTejsaid.

HerRoyalHighnesswascitedforhermanyyearsofoutstandingsupporttoAITthroughnumerousen-deavors including donations, support of technol-ogyeducationandimplementationoftechnologyindevelopingregions,andpromotingtheInstituteasacenteroftechnologyandeducation.PresidentofAIT,Prof.SaidIrandoustsaid:“AITtakesgreathonourandprivilegeininductingHerRoyalHighnessasthefirstevermemberoftheAITHallof Fame along with some of our other outstand-ingalumni.ItisindeedahappymomentwhenAITlooksatitsformerstudentsandtakesprideintheirachievementsandalsoremindsouralumnithatwedonotforgetthemoncetheyleaveAIT.”

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Hall of Fame 2010her royal highness princess maha Chakri sirindhorn, thailand

HerRoyalHighnessPrincessMahaChakriSirindhornattendedAITin1984tostudyat theAsianRegionalRemoteSensingTrainingCentre.ApplyingHerAITclass-roomexperiencetopractice,HerRoyalHighnessappliedremotesensingtech-nologytolanduseandlandcovermapprojectforNarathiwatProvince,southernThailand.HerRoyalHighnesshassupportedAIT throughnumerousendeavorsincluding donations, support of technology education and implementation oftechnologyindevelopingregions,andpromotingAITasacenteroftechnologyandeducation.

T hailand’sbelovedPrincessMahaChakriSirindhornheadedastellargroupofelevenotherAITalumniasHallofFame2010inducteesfromThailand,Pakistan,ChineseTaipei, IndonesiaandthePhilippines(pictured on pp. 40, 41).TheAITalumniinductedintheAITHallofFamein2010

fortheiroutstandingcareerachievements,includedformerThaiMinisterofForeignAffairs,Dr.SubinPinkayan,Thailand;thefounderofoneofThailand’soriginalinternetrelatedcompanies,Prof.Dr.SrisakdiCharmonman,Thailand;formerPresidentofBangkokMassTransitSystemPublicCo.Ltd.,Prof.AnatArbhabhirama,Thailand;founder of the Petroleum Authority ofThailand, Dr.Tongchat Hongladaromp,Thailand; co-founder ofTEAMGroup,Dr.PrasertPatramai,Thailand; formerThailandSupremeCommanderoftheRoyalThaiArmedForces,GeneralDr.BoonsrangNiumpradit,Thailand;thepresidentoftwodifferentuniversitiesinthePhilippines,Prof.RicardoPalabricaPama,thePhilippines;formerministerandchairofcouncilsandcommissionsonhighereduca-tionandresearchinPakistan,Dr.ShamsuddinM.Qureshi,Pakistan;formerMinisterofTransportationandCom-munications,ChineseTaipei,Mr.Shih-YiGeorgeChen,ChineseTaipei,formerPresidentoftheTaiwan’sengineer-ingfirmRSEA,Mr.YenYiTseng,ChineseTaipei;andformerDirectorGeneralofHigherEducationforIndonesia’sMinistryofNationalEducation,Prof.DjokoSantoso,Indonesia.

Front row, center: Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.Back row, from left: Mr. Shih-Yi George Chen; Dr. Prasert Patramai; Prof. Ricardo P. Pama; Prof. Anat Arbhabhirama; Dr. Subin Pinkayan; Prof. Said Irandoust, President of AIT; H.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of AIT; Prof. Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman; Dr. Tongchat Hongladaromp; Dr. Shamsuddin M. Qureshi; Mr. Yen Yi Tseng; General Dr. Boonsrang Niumpradit; and Prof. Djoko Santoso.

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Dr. Srisakdi obtained his M. Eng. In hydraulic engineer-ingfromAITin1961,andPh.D.fromGeorgiaInstituteofTechnology.HehadasuccessfulacademiccareerinNorthAmericaandThailand.HewasthefounderofoneofThai-land’soriginalinternetrelatedcompanies.Thus,Dr.Srisak-dihasbeencalledAsianComputerManoftheYear,FatherofThaiInternet,andFatherofThaiELearning.

prof. anat arbhabhirama, thailand

Dr. Anat completed his M.Eng.Inhydraulicengineeringat AIT in 1962, and his Ph.D.at Colorado State University.He had an outstanding aca-demiccareeratAITfinishingas Professor and Vice Presi-dentforAcademicAffairs.Dr.Anatlaterservedinboththepublic and private sectors,holding ministerial positionsand serving as the Governorof PTT Public Co. Ltd., andPresidentofBangkokMassTransitSystemPublicCo.Ltd.

Dr. Tongchat completedhis M. Eng. In StructuralEngineering at AIT in1962,andPh.D.atNorth-western University. Dr.Tongchat taught at AITbefore entering publicservice as the Governorof the Expressway andRapid Transit Author-ity ofThailand and laterfounding the PetroleumAuthority of Thailand,presently known as PTT Public Co. Ltd. Dr.Tongchathascounseled,promotedandsupportedAIT,andcur-rentlyservesonAIT’sBoardofTrustees.

Prof. Pama obtained his M.Eng. in Structural Engineer-ingfromAITin1964andPh.D.fromQueensCollegeUni-versityofSt.Andrews,Scotland.Prof.Pamahadasuc-cessfulacademicandadministrativecareerfinishingasProfessor,Vice President for Development (1978-1992)andVicePresidentforAcademicAffairs(1992-1996)allatAITandlatermovedontobecomethePresidentoftwodifferentuniversitiesinthePhilippines.

Dr.QureshicompletedhisM.Eng.inStructuralEngi-neeringatAITin1965,andPh.D.attheUniversityofSheffield.HetaughtatSindhUniversityandlaterwasappointedasViceChairofPakistanScienceFounda-tion.HelaterdevelopedMehranUniversityofEngi-neering andTechnology, and became its foundingVice Chancellor. Later, Dr. Qureshi was appointedseveral ministerial posts and chaired councils andcommissionsonhighereducationandresearch.

dr. tongchat hongladaromp, thailand

prof. ricardo palabrica pama, the philippines

prof. srisakdi Charmonman, thailand

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dr. subin pinkayan, thailand

Dr.SubinfollowedhisM.Eng.in hydraulic engineering atAIT in 1961 with a Ph.D. atColoradoStateUniversity,andreturned to AIT as a facultymember. Dr. Subin has had awell-rounded high-achieve-ment career in education,government service and pri-

vatesectorinwhichhewasapioneerforIndependentPow-erProducer(IPP)inThailand,andhascontinuallysupportedAITthroughouthiscareer.

dr. shamsuddin m. Qureshi, pakistan


ProfessorSantosoreceivedM.Sc.InComputerSci-encefromAITin1982,andhisDoktorIlmuTeknik,fromtheInstitutTeknologiBandung.HehasbeenteachingatITBsince1978,andhasachievedsig-nificantsuccessinacademics,universityadminis-trationandpublicpolicyinhighereducation.HewastheRectorofITBoverJanuary2005-10.SinceJune2010,ProfessorSantosohasheldthepostoftheDirectorGeneralofHigherEducationforIndo-nesia’sMinistryofNationalEducation.

dr. prasert patramai, thailand

Dr. Prasert obtained his M. Eng. andD.Eng.inWaterResourceEngineeringatAIT,andhassincemadesignificantcon-tributions to the development of Asiathrough consulting work and profes-sional leadership.Heco-foundedTEAMConsulting Engineering and Manage-mentCo.Ltd.in1978andhasledTEAMConsultingtobecometheTEAMGroupthat comprises 13 affiliated companiesthat have been involved in over 1,200projectsthroughoutAsia.

mr. shih-Yi George Chen, Chinese taipei

Since completing his M.Eng. in Community& Regional Development at AIT in 1972, Mr.Chenhasbeenanintegralcontributorinthedevelopment of Chinese Taipei. He workedonmanykeyinfrastructureprojectsinTaiwanandalsotaughthighwayplanninganddesign.HelaterrosetotheministerialrankintheMin-istryofTransportationandCommunications.Throughouthiscareer,

Mr.Chenhasworkedtoimprovethepracticeofengineeringandsatisfytheregion’sneedsintransportationpolicy,planningandimple-mentation.

Mr. Tseng obtained M.Eng. inCommunity & Regional Devel-opment,asthefirstof120engi-neers who attended AIT underthe sponsorship of the RetiredServicemenEngineeringAgency(``RSEA’’) of Chinese Taipei. Mr.Tseng became Chief Engineerand Vice President, was subse-quentlybeingelevatedtoPresi-dent (1991-99). During his ten-ureattheAgency,Mr.TsengledRSEAtobelistedamongsttheworld’stop500rankedbytheEngineeringNewsRecordmagazine.

GeneralBoonsrangobtainedhisD.Eng.InStructuralEngineer-ingatAITin1978.HeservedtheRoyalThaiArmyindifferentcapacities,includingtheDirectorsoftheStrategicResearchIn-stituteandNationalDefenseCollege.During2000-01,GeneralBoonsranghadtheresponsibilityforcommandingover8,000peacekeepersfrom36countriesintheUnitedNationsTransi-tionalAdministrationof theEastTimorPeaceKeepingForce.Hecompletedhismilitarycareerin2008astheSupremeCom-manderoftheRoyalThaiArmedForces.

mr. Yen Yi tseng, Chinese taipei

dr. Boonsrang niumpradit, thailand

prof. djoko santoso, indonesia

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Academics

• Student Advisee Distribution In response to complaints received from students

regarding the availability of faculty advisors, a listoffacultyandthenumberoftheiradviseesaswellastheirProgramCommitteemembershipwerere-viewed. The statistics on the number of doctoralstudentsperfaculty,whichin2010wasasmanyas15 or more. Senior faculty members generally re-ceivedmoreadviseesthanjuniorones.

TheissuewasbroughttotheAcademicSenatetoallowmorefacultycolleaguestoparticipateinthediscussion and to come up with ideas on how tomaintain quality and balance in terms of sharingin the number of student advisees. Immediatelyafterthereview,therewasadecreaseinthenum-berofadviseesforseniorfacultymembersandanincreaseinthenumberofadviseesforjuniorfacultymembers.

• Grade Analysis.AstatisticalanalysisofAITgradesfrom2006to2010wasconductedduringtheyeartovalidatethecontentionthattherehasbeengradeinflation in some fields and programs of study. Asummary of findings has been provided to theAcademic Senate and feedback was received.ThedirectoroftheCenterforLearningandInnovationQuality(CLIQ)undertookareviewofthisissue.

• Reinvigorating the Policies Guiding Profession-al and Executive Master Programs.ATaskForceonProfessional/ExecutiveMasterProgramswases-tablishedbytheVicePresidentforAcademicAffairs(VPAA)inAugust2010toformulatepoliciesonAITProfessionalandExecutivePrograms.Apolicyandprocedure (P&P) on Professor of Practice, whichaimstobringtotheInstitutehighlyqualifiedpro-fessionals from the industry was finalized by theTask Force under deliberation in the AcademicSenate.TheTaskForceisnowworkingonhavingacomprehensive Academic Requirements and Pro-ceduresfortheProfessional/ExecutivePrograms.

• Mapping of Fields/Programs of Study and Actual Degrees of Enrolled Students.UsingtheStudentInformationSystemdatabase,amappingoffields/programsofstudyagainstthepreferredandactualdegrees of enrolled students was undertaken inJune2010.ThedatawaspreparedforeachSchool.Disseminated primarily as a guide in processingapplications,themappingwasinitiatedtocontrolvariances in the undergraduate backgrounds andeducationofincomingstudents.Thiswasdonetoensurethattheyhaveadequateeducationalfoun-dation to pursue their chosen field/program ofstudyatAIT.

Academic Quality

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2010


ACADEMICS

• Application Processing.Thetotalnumberofappli-cationsreceivedin2010totaled2,191.Thismarksaslightreductioncomparedto2009,when2,534ap-plicationswerereceived.AITissued1,867offersin2010comparedto1,900in2009.Incomingstudentenrolmentnumbered918in2010ascomparedto969in2009.Apersemestertallyofthedataispre-sentedinthetablebelow.

Total Number January August (All Locations) 2010 2010

Semester Semester

ApplicationsReceived 426 1,707

OffersProcessed 283 1,528

ConfirmedStudents 159 714

EnrolledStudents 135 707

System to ensure that automatic checks are builtin the invoicing system have begun. Professionalaccounting support was discussed with Financeto ensure that all invoices issued to students andfinancial sponsors meet accounting standards.TheadministrationofscholarshipprogramsunderAgreementsorMoUswithAIT’sdonorpartnerswasalsoreviewed.

• Automation of Academic Records.Softcopiesofgradesheetsandacademicrecordsfrom1979on-wardsarenowarchiveddigitally.Notonlydidthisfreeupphysicalstorage, italsoeradicatedrisksofdataloss.

• Online Clearance System. They system was de-veloped to facilitate the clearance of graduatingstudents from the different academic and admin-istrative units of the Institute. It was deployed totheconcernedunitsfortestingandfeedbackshavebeenreceived.Itsfinalversionwillbeintegratedinanother system –‘Online Graduation Application’.InitialimplementationisexpectedinJune2011.

• Online Graduation Application System.Thesys-tem was conceived in 2010 to provide studentswith complete information on all graduation re-quirements and activities.The system will enableautomatic checking of a student’s academic re-cords and will confirm if academic requirementsandEnglishproficiencyassessmentsaremet.Onlythose who fulfill the requirements would be abletoseethegraduationguidelinesandfilloutonlinegraduation forms. Moreover, the system will pro-ducegraduationreportsrequiredbyRegistrytofa-cilitatethegraduationofstudents.Thesystemisitsfinalstageofdevelopment.InitialimplementationisexpectedinJune2011.

• Application Tracking System. A new initiativewas launched by theVice President for AcademicAffairs in September 2010 to develop a trackingsystemforapplications.ThesystemisintendedtoexpeditetheprocessingofapplicationsandofferswithallconcernedwithAITadmissions–Schools,FieldsofStudy,andfacultyatlarge.Thesystemwillemployamechanismthatwouldenablereal-timestatus check of applications.The development ofthe system was undertaken with Netlink, AIT’s ITservicesprovider.ThesystemisexpectedtobefullyoperationalintimefortheAugust2011admissionperiod.

• Enhanced Invoicing Mechanism. Measures wereunderwaytoimprovetheinvoicingoftuition/reg-istrationfeesandmonthlyaccommodationbillsofstudents.ModificationsintheStudentInformation

Admissions and Enrolment, Management Improvements


I nternshipsarereal-worldworkexperienceswherestu-dents take on temporary roles in order to apply aca-demic knowledge in a work setting, solidify a career

choice,developprofessionalnetworksandgainexperiencetomakeonemarketable.

In2010,theCareerCenteratAITimproveditsservicesbyaddinganInternshipDesk.TheDeskOfficerassistsstudentsineverystageoftheinternshipprocessfromplanning,toresearching internship options, to outlining the process,andhowtomakethemostofaninternshipexperience.

TheCareerCenternowhaslinkagestomorethan100cor-porate partners providing internships. Moves have beenundertaken to network directly with federation of indus-triesandthedifferentchambersofcommerce.

With this service, corporate partners are given access toshorttermandcosteffectivetalentswhocancontributetostrategicinitiatives.Theyareaidedinaddressingbusinesschallenges through the preparation of case studies; andgivenanopportunitytoidentifytalentsforfuturehires.Stu-dentsmeanwhilegainfirst-handexperienceinaparticularindustry/organization;aregivenampleopportunitytoin-

novateandchallenge ideas imbibedinclassrooms;andareassistedinbeingmorereceptivetomarketneeds.

Career Center

Language Center

W hile the AIT Language Center’s (LC) services in2010 included French, German and Thai lan-guagecoursesfortheAITcommunityaswellas

specialworkshopsforstudentsonwritinguptheirthesesand proposals, the center’s main activities were teachingacademicwritingandtesting.Therewere425studentsreg-istered per semester in English academic writing coursesduring 2010. These students attended an average of 25hours per course and together clocked 19,798 contacthoursoverthetwosemesters.

TestinghasalsobecomeamajoroccupationfortheCenter:in2010theLCtested971applicantsusingthein-houseAITEnglishEntryTest;585oftheseweretestedatAITThailand,313inVietnam,andtherestin10differentAsiancountries.Addedtothis,over1,500AITstudentsin2010tooktheAITAcademicWritingTesttowardfulfillingAIT’sgraduationre-quirements.

InMaytheLanguageCenterwelcomedMr.TylorBurrowsasanewteacher.Mr.BurrowsdevelopedanewcoursefordoctoralstudentsforwhichhewrotethecoursetextWrit-ingResearchArticlesforPublication.Thiscoursewenton-

line inDecember. (The link to this book is at the language Center website: click on Writing Services.)

Reaching out to AIT partners, the Language Center alsoconductedthreeBridgingProgramsin2010–onefortheAugustintakeandtwofortheMekongRiverCommissionJunior Riparian Professionals, which garnered 3 millionbahtintuition.

Studentsmeanwhilegainfirst-handexperience ina par-ticularindustry/organization;aregivenampleopportunitytoinnovateandchallengeideasimbibedinclassrooms;andareassistedinbeingmorereceptivetomarketneeds.


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CIVIL & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING GROUP • Construction,Engineering&Infrastructure Management • Geotechnical&GeoenvironmentalEngineering • StructuralEngineering • TransportationEngineering • WaterEngineering&Management

INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GROUP • Industrial&ManufacturingEngineering • Mechatronics • Microelectronics • Nanotechnology

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS GROUP • ComputerScience • InformationManagement • RemoteSensing&GeographicInformationSystems • Telecommunications

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS • OffshoreTechnology&Management • Information&CommunicationsTechnologies • DisasterPreparedness,Mitigation&Management • GeosystemExploration&PetroleumGeoengineering • Gender,TransportationandDevelopment

• Full-timeMBAProgramwithspecializationsinFinance,HumanResourcesManagement,Marketing,TechnologyManagement,Entrepre-neurship,Strategy,PublicManagement

• Full-timeMBASpecialization:CSR,SustainableBusiness

• ExecutiveMBAProgramsinBangkokandVietnam • EMBAinBangkok,EMBA-HumanResources Management(EMBA-HRM) • Dual Degree Arrangements: Two degrees - AIT’s MBA degree and a specialized

degree from some of Europe’s premier business schools

• ExchangeProgramArrangementswithpartner institutionsinAsiaorEurope • DoctorofPhilosophy(PhD)Program • DoctorofBusinessAdministration(DBA)Programin

AITThailand,SriLanka,Vietnam,Taiwan,andIndia • ProfessionalMaster’sPrograminTechnologyMan-

agement(PMTM) • ProfessionalMaster’sPrograminCSR • ProfessionalMaster’sinEnergyBusiness

• AgriculturalSystems&Engineering • Aquaculture&AquaticResourcesManagement • Energy • EnvironmentalEngineering&Management • FoodEngineering&BioprocessTechnology • Gender&DevelopmentStudies • NaturalResourcesManagement • Pulp&PaperTechnology • Regional&RuralDevelopmentPlanning • UrbanEnvironmentalManagement

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS • Agri-BusinessManagement • DisasterPreparedness,Mitigation&Management • EnergyandEnvironment • EnergyBusinessManagement • GreaterMekongSub-region DevelopmentStudies

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

FIELDS OF STUDY & ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

• CivilandInfrastructureEngineering

• ElectronicsEngineering

• InformationandCommunication

Engineering

• Mechatronics

• TelecommunicationsEngineering

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS 2010


School of Engineering and Technology

T heSchoolofEngineeringandTechnologyatAITdevelopsleadersequippedwithexperience,andpracticewhoaredevotedtotheimplementation

andextensionofexistingtechnologyforthebenefitofhumanity. Engineering and technology are vital to ad-dressing basic human needs, poverty reduction, andthepromotionofsecureandsustainabledevelopmentin developing countries by bridging the “knowledgedivide”andpromotinginterculturaldialogueandcoop-eration.

SET’smissionis:“Todevelophighlyqualifiedengineersandtechnologistswhoplayleadingrolesinpromotingthe region’s industrial competitiveness and its integra-tionintotheglobaleconomy.”

In 2010, SET initiated new academic partnerships andcollaboratedwithreputed institutesaroundtheglobe.Apart from academic partnerships, SET’s focus was onresearchcollaborationandthepromotionoftheSchoolinAsiaandbeyond.

New Academic Programs

• Professional Master in Project Management: Theprogramwaslaunchedin2010inCanThoCity,Viet-nam.

• Undergraduate Programs in Civil and InfrastructureEngineering, Computer Science were launched in2010.

Partnerships and Joint Programs

In2010,SETsignedMemorandumofAgreement(MoA)with Fore School of Management (FSM), India. Its pur-poseistoenablecooperationbetweenAITandFSMtostrengthen the relationship between the two institu-tionsbydevelopingcollaboration invariousacademic,research, training, and faculty and staff developmentactivitiesonareasofmutualinterest.TheMoAistocon-duct a two-stage program for the Master’s of Science/Engineering in Information and Communication Tech-nology (M.Sc./M.Eng. in Information and Communica-tionTechnology, inwhichstudentswillcometoAIT inthefirststage.Theintentionoftheprogramisincreaseaccess forstudents to thebenefitsof internationalizedhigher education by allowing them to experience andbeexposedtotheteaching,researchandacademiclifeof both institutions with international curricula taughtbyworldclassfacultyandscientists.

AMemorandumofUnderstanding(MOU)wassignedwiththeVietnamPetroleumInstitute(VPI)todevelopandofferaoneyearProfessionalMaster’sprograminGeoexplorationand Petroleum Engineering (GEPG).The two institutes willprovide international training, education and research toPetro Vietnam and other interested parties.They will alsoparticipateingraduateeducation,shortcoursesandtrain-ingaswellasjointresearchandwillenhancecollaborationin education and research in oil and gas exploration andproductionbetweenthetwoinstitutes.

AMemorandumofUnderstanding(MoU)wassignedwithHongDucUniversitytoestablishacomprehensivecollabo-rationinInternationalhighereducationandresearchaswellascapacitybuildingbetweenthetwoinstitutes.Thescopeof the MOU includes undergraduate and graduate educa-tion,aswellasconductofshortcoursesandtrainingpro-grams.Thetwopartnersshallconductjointresearchforthedevelopment of science and technology and submit jointproposals. A student, faculty and staff exchange programshallalsobefacilitated.

AMemorandumofAgreement(MoA)wasalsosignedwiththe Institute of Scientific Research (ISR), Boston College,USA.This MoA will enable AIT and ISR to cooperate in re-search under the framework of SCINDA research networkwithmanyinstitutionsworldwide.Asofnow,therearemorethan40institutionsinthisnetwork.ISR,BostonCollegehasestablished the SCINDA receiving station in the RemoteSensing and GIS field of study, which includes a high pre-cision Global Positioning System Base stationandVHFreceivers.

In 2010 a Memoran-dum of Understand-ing(MoU)wassignedwiththeSkydoorPte.,Limited. The deal isintendedtohelpcre-ate the Skydoor en-vironment to beused by uni-versities andother institutes ofhigher learning to en-hance skills in computerand digital imaging environ-ments. The two partners will alsopromote creativity in computer anddigital imaging and drive developing



ACADEMICS

nationstowardsaknowledge-basedeconomy.TheMoUincludesscopetotocreatealaboratorytospearheadre-search incuttingedgecomputergraphics.SkydoorwillhaveapresenceatAIT,andwillbetheseatofanumberof activities including running computer and manage-mentinternshipprograms.

AMemorandumofUnderstanding(MoU)wassignedbe-tweenAITandtheKoreaInstituteofConstructionTech-nology(KICT),SouthKorea.Itwillenablecollaborationinresearch,development,andconsultancystudiesaswellas the exchange of scientific and technical knowledge,andthepromotionofprogramsofmutualbenefitsuchasexchangesoffacultymembersandstaff,undertakingcollaborativeresearch.

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed withChiangMaiUniversity(CMU)onIntegratedBachelorandMasterPrograminGeoinformaticsEngineering.Thisjointprogramis5-yearsinduration.Studentsstudythefirst3yearsattheChiangMaiUniversityandnext2yearsatAIT.AITandCMUfacultywilljointlyteachandguidestudentsduringthefinalthreeyearsoftheprogram.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signedwith the Indian Institute of InformationTechnology Al-lahabadIndiaforUGandPG.A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signedwithEpicLankaGroup,SriLankafortrainingSriLankanprofessionalsandtoMastersdegreeinTelecommunica-

tion technology man-agement, Informationsecurity, Banking Se-curity and Nanotech-nology

Positioning and Branding

In2010,SETproduceda comprehensive pro-motions strategy withclear outputs identi-fied.Akitconsistingofattractive brochures,DVD,postersandflashdrive wrist-bands wasdeveloped as stan-dardpromotionmate-rial. The target coun-triesforpromotionsin

2010wereBhutan,China, India, Indonesia,Myanmar,Ne-pal,Pakistan,SriLanka,ThailandandVietnam.

In 2010, SET participated in an educational exhibition inBhutanandalsovisitedthekeygovernmentorganizationsfor possible collaboration. The Department of Adult andHigherEducation(DAHE),MinistryofEducationandAITareexpectedtosignMoUandMoAtoencourageBhutanesestudentstochooseAIT.

InIndia,SETtargetedNorth-EastIndiaandsawanincreaseinthenumberofapplicationsfromthatpartofcountry.SETfaculty also undertook student recruitment promotionstripstootherpartsof India.ThroughouttheyearSETad-vertizedinThailandthroughEnglishandThainewspapers,studenthandbooksandmagazines.

Notable Achievements

The final official results received from Thailand ResearchFund concluded that out of the 9 engineering and tech-nologicalclustersthatAITparticipatedin,4rankedamongthetopwithan‘excellent’ ratingof5.FromtheSchoolofEngineering and Technology, these were as follows: Civil and Infrastructure Engineering group, Information and Com-munications group, Industrial Systems Engineering group.

Excellence and Relevance in Education Research and Outreach

Gaining International accreditation for the School’s pro-gramswasatoppriorityactivityin2010.TheSchoolbeganworkonpreparingaself-studydocument.Aninternationalexpertpanelwillbeformedinthefirstsemesterof2011toevaluateSET’sacademicofferings.

Key Results

In2010,thetotalnumberofstudentsinSETwasapproxi-mately966,includingUndergraduatestudents.In2010,thetotalnumberofstudentswhograduatedwas320.In2010,SET had 35 full-time faculty members, 56 adjunct facultymembersand18secondedvisitingfacultymembers.

SEThadapproximately40sponsoredresearchprojects in2010andtotalbudgetofapproximately83.82millionThaiBaht.Recoverycostsandoverheadwasapproximately14.8million Baht. Cost control measures contributed to SETgeneratingasurplus,afterthe40percentallocationtoAIT,whichamounted20.53millionBaht.


T he School of Environment, Resources andDevelopment (SERD) responds to the Asianregion’sneedsbymobilizingandenhancing

capacities for socially, economically and environ-mentally sound development in partnership withthepublicandprivatesectors.Closelyalignedtothewider institutional strategy, SERD ensures that theethos of Creativity, Relevance and Connectednessservestheteaching,learning,researchandsocietalneedsoftheregionanddevelopingcountries.

SERD’s mission is to achieve sustainable develop-ment,povertyalleviationandlivelihoodsbyadopt-ing an interdisciplinary approach to teaching andappliedresearchthatintegratesnewknowledgeintechnologyandthesocialsciences.

This year, SERD initiated new academic programswhichincludedthelaunchofnewdegreeprogramsandpartnershipswithseveraluniversitiesinthere-gion. The provision of five scholarships from Thai-land’s Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI) to theEnvironmentalTechnologyandManagement(ETM)program in August 2010 was a notable example.Somekeyacademicdevelopmentsincludedthefol-lowing:

New Academic Programs

• TheProfessionalMaster’sinEnvironmentalEngi-neeringManagement(PM-EEM)waslaunchedinMay2010inVietnam.

• A Professional Master’s Degree Program in En-ergy Business Management (PM-EBM) jointlyagreedwithSOMandisplannedtobelaunchedintheMay2011semester.

• AMasterDegreePrograminClimateChangeandSustainableDevelopment(CCSD)isbeingdevel-oped and proposed to be launched in August2011semester.

Partnerships and Joint Programs

• Aone-yearProfessionalMaster’s inUrbanMan-agement (P-UM), which is a joint-program be-tween the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT),AITVietnam,andHoChiMinhCityUniversityof

School of Environment, Resources and Development


Architecture(HCMUARC), isplannedtobeofferedinJanuary2011.

• Agri-business Management (ABM) has partneredwiththeSamHigginbottomInstituteofAgriculture,TechnologyandSciences(SHIATS),India,tocreatea Unified Bachelor and Master program, which isplannedinMay2011.

• An MOU between SERD and Kalinga Institute ofIndustrialTechnology(KIIT)wassignedforcollabo-ration in various academic, research, training andfacultyandstaffdevelopmentactivitiesofmutualinterest.Thisbeganwith46KIITstudentsregisteredintheInter-Semester2010andplanstosendanoth-er60KIITstudentsinJanuary2011.MOUbetweenAITandIT-BHU,NIES,NLU,PVPandUCLaredraftedandunderprocess.

• MOUinitiatedwiththeUniversityofVeterinaryandAnimalSciences;Lahore,GlobalMaster’sinDevel-opment Practice Programs, Colombia University,USA.

• MOUinitiatedwiththeInternationalCentreforAd-vancedResearchonGlobalChanges,VietnamandDepartment of Food Science and Quality Control,MinistryOFAgricultureandCooperatives,Nepal.

Promotionalandbrandingactivitieswerealsoaprior-ityfortheSchoolthisyear,startingwithpromotionaltripstoanumberofThaiuniversitieswhichaimedtoexplorefurthercollaborations.VisitstotargetcountriessuchasBhutan,China,Indonesia,Malaysia,Myanmar,Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam were takenduring the course of year, reaping several promisingpartnershipswithstateuniversities.

Key Results

A total of 296 students were enrolled in the January,Inter-SemandAugust2010semesters,and249SERDstudents graduated in May and December 2010.Theschoolconsistsof35full-timeand28visiting/adjunctfaculty representing17countries.A totalof36spon-sored research projects were initiated in January-De-cember 2010 with a total budget of approximatelyBaht 98.93 million (overhead of more than Baht 8.95million). Cost control measures contributed to theSchoolgeneratingasurplusofBaht12.19million,afterAIToverheadallocationof40%.

ACADEMICS


T heSchoolofManagement(SOM)isoneoftheAsianregion’sleadersinmanagementeducationandresearch.SOMprovidesex-

ceptionalindividualswithasupportiveenviron-mentinwhichtheycandeveloptheirskillsandaptitudes, helping them to reach their profes-sional goals and to serve the interests of coun-triesintheAsia-Pacificregion.TheSchool’scorestrength lies in tailoring entrepreneurship andleadershipeducationtomatch localneeds,andin expanding Asian entrepreneurship conceptstootherregions.

TheacademicprogramsoftheSchoolarehighlyregarded, winning awards for their internation-alityandrankinghighly intheregion.TheMBAprogramwasrankednumber8inAsiabywww.bestmba.org. The School has continuously di-versifiedtomatchtheneedsof themarket.Be-sides itsacademicMBAandPhDprograms, theSchoolalsorunshighlysuccessfulExecutiveMBA(EMBA), and Doctor of Business Administration(DBA) and Professional Masters Programs. TheSchoolisdedicatedtoproducingmanagerswhocan drive their organizations to prosperity andprofitability without compromising ethics andsocialresponsibility.

In2010,theSchoolwascomprisedof13full-timefacultymembersand34adjunct/visitingfacultymembers from 14 countries. With an increas-ing diversity in its student and faculty bodies,theSchoolofManagementhasbeenabletore-cruitstudentsfromdiverseregionsoftheworld.During the year SOM welcomed 36 exchangestudents from Asian and European partners inFrance,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,RepublicofKorea,Denmark,India,PakistanandLithuania.

SOMcontinuedtobuildandstrengthenitslink-ageswiththeprofessionsbydevelopingstrate-gic partnerships with both public and privatesectors through its executive development andresearchprojects.Managers fromthecorporatesectorwereinvitedasguestspeakerstoprovidebetter insight to the SOM students. SOM stu-dents also undertook field visits to various cor-porations to see first hand the implementationbusinessknowledge.

School of Management


ACADEMICS

SOM Introduced New Specialization in Sustainable Business

Realizingthefactthatbusinessasusualisnotthewayforwardandthataradicalrethinkingofbusi-nessisnecessary,SOMhasintroducedanewareaofspecializationintheMBAprograminthefieldofSustainableBusiness.Thisnewareawillcoverissues as to how organizations should rethinktheir business strategy in which issues such asglobalwarming,greenhousegasemissionsandotherenvironmentalandsocietal issueswill im-pactbusinessgreatly.

New Professional Master’s Programs

SOM is working jointly with other AIT Schools,UnitsandAITExtensiontodevelopnewaProfes-sionalMastersprogram.Thenewprogramsare:

• ProfessionalMastersinBankingandFinance,tobelaunchedjointlywithAITExtension.

• ProfessionalMastersinEnergyBusinessMan-agement,JointlywithSchoolofEnvironmentResourcesandDevelopment.

• Professional Masters in Corporate Social Re-sponsibility, Jointly with CSR Asia Center inAIT.

The Professional Master’s programs are shorter,1-yeardurationprograms,forprofessionalsseek-ing to enhance their skills. These programs areintendedforprofessionalswhoarelookingtoex-tendtheirknowledgeinaparticularfield.TheseprogramsareinterdisciplinaryanddrawupontherichresourcesofvariousAITunitsandSchools.

EABIS Golden Project

In 2010, SOM participated in the EABIS GoldenProject. This project aims to be the largest re-searchprojectinthefieldofenvironmental,socialandgovernancechallengesinbusiness.SOMalsopartneredwithDHLThailandtoresearchandde-velopcasestudiesinCSRandSustainability.SOMlookstopartnerwithothercompanies infutureforthisproject.SOMisalsoamemberofEABIS.


Research and Development

A sitmovesintothefuture,theAsianInstituteofTechnologywillneedtoadjusttorapidanddynamicchang-esimpactingitsresearchanddevelopmentwork.Whilethenumberofresearchprojectsandrelatedfund-inghasnearlydoubledsince2005,overthelasttwoyearsthisincreaseleveledoff.Thiswasattributableto

asmallertotalnumberofresearchfacultyandstaff,theclosingdownofsomemajorlong-termprojects,andtothechangingdemandsandmodeofoperationofanumberofexternalfundingagencies.

Inlightofthischangingenvironment,in2010AITbeganworkonitsnewAITResearchStrategy,whichisdesignedtolastforthenextfiveyears.TheStrategywillbebasedonfourprinciples,namely:ResearchFocus,ResearchQual-ity,ResearchCollaborationandResearchResourceMobilization.TheworkplanswilluseaResultsBasedManage-ment(RBM)approachtoguideoutcomes,measurableoutputs,andkeyperformanceindicators.ThefocusofAITresearchanddevelopmentfallsundertheumbrellaareaof“SustainableDevelopmentinthecontextofClimateChange(SDCC)”withfiveidentifiedthematicareasunderitspurview.

DuringtheyearconsiderableworkwasdonetoidentifynicheareasofresearchanddevelopmentforwhichAITcould be recognized as a global front runner. AIT will create stronger inter-disciplinary teams who are able tonetworkeffectivelybothwithinAITandwithexternalpartners.Byconcentratingonspecificareassupportedbyacriticalmassofexpertise,AITwillpursuelargeresearchprojectsthatwillalsocontributetothedevelopmentofkeycampusinfrastructure.Throughitscontinuedworkwithpublicandprivatesectorstakeholders,AITservestheregionandbeyondasakeyplatformforinnovativeresearchanddevelopment.

1. On the acceptability of arguments and its fun-damental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games (Cit-ed 549 time(s))

1995;ArtificialIntelligence;Dung,P.M.2. Direct solid-liquid separation using hollow fi-

ber membrane in an activated sludge aeration tank (Cited 261 time(s))

1989;WaterScienceandTechnology;Yamamoto,K.,Hiasa,M.,Mahmood,T.,Matsuo,T.

3. Developments in industrially important thermostable enzymes: A review (Cited 181 time(s))

Research

Top 5 AIT Researchers with the Highest Number of Projects. (Top individual / group principal investigators (PI) for research, development and training projects)

Name No. of Projects as PI No. of Projects as PI and Group PI

KanchanaKanchanasut 48 49

S.Kumar 11 27

MukandS.Babel 22 25

C.Visvanathan 21 24

SudipKRakshit 19 23

KunnaweeKanitpong 18 22

2003; Bioresource Technology; Haki, G.D. , Rak-shit,S.K.

4. An abstract, argumentation-theoretic ap-proach to default reasoning (Cited 141 time(s))

1997; Artificial Intelligence; Bondarenko, A. ,Dung,P.M.,Kowalski,R.A.,Toni,F.

5. Membrane separation bioreactors for waste-water treatment (Cited 136 time(s))

2000; Critical Reviews in Environmental Scienceand Technology; Visvanathan, C. , Ben Aim, R. ,Parameshwaran,K.

Most Cited in SCOPUS



AIT Research Strategy 20��-20��

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

D uringtheyear,effortswerecenteredondevel-opingtheAIT’sstrategicplanonresearch.ThenewdocumenttobecalledAIT Research Strat-

egy (2011–2015)setsouttheresearchtrajectoryoftheInstitute for the next five years and beyond, and willserve as the basis for a concerted research proposalprogramandbudget.

The AIT Research Strategy will enhance collaborativeresearch with partners from government agencies,development agencies, universities, research institu-tionsandtheprivatesector.TheStrategyaimstocre-atepowerfulnewsynergiesamongthedeeppoolsofresearch talent at AIT. It seeks to impart the Institutewithastrongcompetitiveedge,andpositionitasasig-nificantplayerinAsia.

TheResearchStrategyhingesonfollowingprinciples:research focus; research quality; quality of researchcollaboration;andresourcemobilizationforresearch.Toachieveinternalcohesiveness,aswellastoprovideclarity for external stakeholders, individual projectsand activities are further clustered into five thematicareas:VulnerabilityandDisasterRiskReduction;WaterandLandResourcesManagementforSustainablePro-ductionandConsumption;UrbanandRuralQualityofLife and Sustainabil- ity; Low Carbon

Cleaner Produc-tionTechnolo-

gies andMan-

agement; and Business and Innovation Models fora Green Economy. It should be noted that these fivethematic focuses are not mutually exclusive. A majorsourceofAIT’scomparativeadvantageisthatittakesa holistic view of the complex processes that affectpeople’slives.Manyofthethematicclusterscutacross,or complement, two or more of the other themes,therebyyieldingsignificantoverlaporinteractionandaninterconnectednessofproblemsandsolutions.Thethematic research areas aim to stimulate the forma-tionofteamsthatmergeknowledge,experienceandnetworks.This approach will allow centralizing somesupport functions to research activities, and aims atdiversifyingresearchteamstomakebetteruseofthewidthofexperienceatAIT.

Ontheindustrialfront,AITcontinuedwithitsprofes-sionalaswellasregularstudyprogramsandothercol-laborativeresearchprograms,suchasthosewithWest-ern Digital, Siam Cement Group, Electricity Vietnam,EVN-Telecom,NipponKoeiCo.Ltd.,andAdvanceAgroPublic Company Limited, amongst many others. Theinstitutealsocontinuedpartnershipswiththeprivatesector. Notable examples included: Innotech SportsManagement; Sodexo; Netlink (to provide AIT will allIT professional services, including the operation andmaintenance of hardware/software required duringthecontractperiodoffiveyears);andSkydoorPteLim-ited(topromotecreativityincomputeranddigitalim-agingandtocreatealaboratorytospearheadresearchin cutting-edge computer graphics). AIT also signed

agreements for conducting joint academic pro-grams and research with private academic

institutions,forexample, inIndiaandSri Lanka. The CSR Asia Center at

AIT also brought a number ofjointactivitiesbetweenAIT

and the private sectorandindustry.



Intheincreasinglycompetitiveharddiskdriveindus-try, all manufacturers need to aggressively developtheirproductstosurvive.Notonlymusttheyinvestinresearch and development of products themeselves;but also in advanced automation technology to usethenewequipmentinmanufacturingprocessestoim-provecycletime,productivityandflexibilityofthepro-ductionsystem.AutomatedTestOperation(ATO)foundatthebackendareaofdiskdrivemanufacturingisoneoftheoperationsthatmakesuseofadvancedautoma-tiontestequipmentandtechnologytocreatemoreef-ficiencyandeffectiveness.ATOisacomplexoperationthatisdifficultforplanning,monitoringandforecast-ing.Itcannotquicklymanageaproductionsystemtocompensateforexternaldemandsandinternaldistur-bances.The modeling of manufacturing systems canbeusedasarepresentationofcomplexsystemslikeanautomatedtestoperation.Themanufacturingmodelsareusedasatoolformonitoring,forecastingandcon-trollingofarepresentedsystem.Inthisresearch,softcomputing solutions were developed by using artifi-cialneuralnetworks,integratingwithanotherartificialtooltosimulateautomatedtestequipmentmodelstosolvethecomplexityofdiskdrivetestoperation.

Automobile accidents incur an extremely heavy toll onhumanlivesandsociety.Theyalsohavegreatimpactontheeconomy.AccordingtotheWorldBank,theeconomicimpact of automobile accidents in Thailand is a loss ofmorethan200billionbahtperyear.Manyaccidentscouldbe prevented if drivers obeyed traffic regulations. Thisresearchstudyisdesignedasaportablesystemcapableof automatically detecting traffic violations and eithersendingalettertowarnthedriver,andtherebyinformingnearby authorities, or automatically issuing traffic viola-tiontickets.Thesystemiscomposedofanembeddedsys-tem,aradarsystem,avideocamerasystem,aGPSsystem,andaWIFIcommunicationdevicepackagedasaportablesystem.The radar system is used to check for speedingvehicles,whilethevideoprocessingalgorithmisusedinconjunctionwithradarmeasurementtoreducefalseposi-tiveerrorsintheradarmeasurementandtodetectvehi-clescrossinglaneboundaries.Byenhancingourabilitytodetectandpreventtrafficviolations,theproposedsystemhasthepotentialofeconomicbenefitsthroughloweredhealthcarecostsandhigherproductivitybyreducingac-cidentrates.

Portable Traffic Violations DetectorAutomated Test Equipment

Dr. Mongkol EkpanyapongSchool of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Nitin AfzulpurkarSchool of Engineering and Technology

POLICE EYES:

O verallduringtheperiodJanuary-December2010therewereatotalof449sponsoredandcontract-edprojectsconductedbythefacultyandstaffatAIT’sSchoolofEngineeringandTechnology(SET),SchoolofEnvironment,ResourcesandDevelopment(SERD),SchoolofManagement(SOM),aswellas

atAITExtension,IntERLab,andnumerousotherInstitute-wideprojectsandcenters.Thetotalnumberpublica-tionsforthesameperiodstoodat691fromacrossAIT.Thefollowing(below)arebriefsnapshotsofresearchconductedatAITin2010.FulldetailsofallresearchconductedatAITin2010canbefoundinAIT Research An-nual Report 2010.

Snapshots of AIT Research in 2010



AITandSilpakornUniversitycooperatedinthisprojectBothworkedwiththeRoyalThaiGovernmenttoassessthemultipleimpactsofthefuel-switchingonairquality,climate,humanhealthandeconomicwithaparticularfocusonswitchingtoCompressedNaturalGas(CNG)inthepublictransportationsystemintheBangkokMetro-politanRegion(BMR)asacasestudy.

The study presented two scenarios projected to 2015and2025,whereinaswitchtousingCNGandadvancedvehicletechnologiesforpublictransportvehiclesintheBMRwaskey.Thesescenarioswerecomparedtocurrentmodel(business-as-usual).

Methods included surveying of the situation andplannedprograms,emissioninventoryforairpollutantsandclimate-forcingforcersagentsforthebaseyearof2009 and emisison projection projected to 2015 and2025throughusingtheInternationalVehicleEmission(IVE),andsimulationofambientairqualitybya3Ddis-persionairqualitymodel,theComprehensiveAirQual-ityModelwithextensions(CAMx).

The potential financial benefits from the emission re-ductionswerepreliminarilyassessed.Afeasibilitystudywas also implemented using the Certified EmissionReductions (CERs) based on the Clean DevelopmentMechanism(CDM)projectapproachtoexplorepoten-tialfinancialbenefitsfromtheemissionreductions.

Substantialreductionsofbothairpollutants(COPM10,CO, VOC, VOC evaporative, and NOx and PM10) andclimate forcing forcersagents (CO2, N2O, CH4, VOC,VOCevaporative,NOx,BlackCarbonandOrganicCar-bonparticles)wouldbeachieved inbothscenariosascompared to the business as usual, which justify theco-benefitsgainedfromtheswitch.Theresultsrevealedrelativelysmallreductionsinambientconcentrationsofbothairpollutantsandclimateforcingagents.ThroughCertified Emission Reductions (CERs) trading, it is alsopossibletogainabout2.22,158,809and2.92,882,906millionUS$/year,foryears2015and2025respectively.

Arelativelyhighinvestmentisnecessarytosupporttheswitch, such as engine modification and new engine

Air Quality and Climate Impacts of Switching to Natural Gas-Fueled Public Transportation Vehicles in Bangkok

Energy Security in Developing Countries: National and Household level vulnerability and challenges

The challenges posed by potential supply disrup-tionsandhighpricerisesoffossilfuelstotheeconomicgrowtharecommontobothdevelopinganddevelopedcountries.Energysecurity,definedbyTheWorldEnergyAssessment Report, as “the continuous availability ofenergyinvariedformsinsufficientquantitiesatreason-ableprices”maywell reflectdevelopedcountries’per-spectives,butdoesnotadequatelycapturetheenergysecuritydimensions facedbydevelopingcountries,asthereareseveraladditionaldimensionsthatareuniquetodevelopingcountries.TheGNESD,throughitsmem-bercenters,hasbeenanalyzingenergysecurityissues,bothfromthenationalandhouseholdsectorperspec-tives,fromdevelopingcountries’perspectives.

Thecharacteristics-intermsofthenatureofenergyse-curityissuesofdevelopingcountries,vulnerabilityandthreatsatnationalandathouseholdlevel,andpoliciesandmeasuresinthesecountriestoaddresstheenergysecurity-weretheobjectivesofthisresearch.

As an important dimension of energy security, easyavailabilityofreasonableamountofclean/modernen-ergy isconsideredabasicnecessitytoreducepovertyandimprovethelivingstandards.(Eg.energypoliciesofIndiaandSouthAfrica.)Thefollowingfactorsaremainlyidentified behind the vulnerability and the threats toenergysecurity:

• Growingrelianceonimportedenergyasmostcountriesrelyonimportedenergy.Energypricerisecould,there-fore,haveacripplingeffectontheeconomyandoveralldevelopmentformostcountriesunderthestudy.Also,countrieshaveinitiatedseveralkindsofprogramstore-ducetheimpactofimportedenergy,includingreplace-mentofpetroleumproductsbybiofuelspromotionofrenewableenergy,andenergyefficiency.

• Primary energy source diversification.The diversifica-tion of primary energy supply (Shannon Weiner in-dex) shows improvements during the recent past inThailand,Brazil,Tunisia, IndiaandSouthAfrica,andiscomparable to OECD countries. In electricity genera-

Prof. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh, Dr.Eng.School of Environment, Resources and DevelopmentRattapon Onchang, Dr.Techn.DepartmentofEnvironmentalScienceFacultyofScience,SilpakornUniversity

technology,whichmustbestudiedfurtherbytheRoyalThai Government. Possible health benefits associatedwith the air pollutants reduction could further be ex-ploredintermsofmorbidityandmortalityreductionofthepopulationinBMR.

Prof. R. Shreshta, Prof. S. KumarSchool of Environment, Resources and Development


tionsector,however,manycountriesdependtoalargeextentonasinglesource[SouthAfrica(coal>0%],Tu-nisia(naturalgas>88%),Senegal(thermal>90%),Bra-zil (hydro>70%),Kenya (hydro>50%)and India (coal>50%)].

• Energydemandandsupply.Theenergydemandinde-velopingcountriesislikelytoincreasesubstantiallyinthecourseoftheirdevelopment,anditsuseisalsotomoveuptheenergyladder.So,thesourcesofprimaryenergy used are likely to shift from predominance oftraditionaluseofbiomasstothatofmoderncommer-cial energy (fossil fuels and modern use of biomass).Several countries in South America have relativelyabundantenergyresources.However,lackofaccesstoandregional(provincial)disparityofcleanerandcon-venient energy use appears to a large extent due toinadequateenergypoliciesorpolicyfailures.

• Relianceonnon-marketedsourcesofenergy.Substan-tial fraction of the population and industries in thecountriesunderthestudyrelyonnon-marketedsourc-esofenergy(e.g.collectedbiomass)andthishighde-pendenceislikelytocontinueforaforeseeablefuture.Theenergysupplyproblemiscompoundedbythefastdecreasingforestresourcesinmanycountries.

• Investment in energy sector. Considerable amount ofinvestmentwouldberequiredforresourceexploration,infrastructure development (generation, supply anddistributionsystems)andsupplyofmoderncommer-cialenergy.Asinvestmentbygovernmentalonewouldnot be able to fulfill the required investment, severalcountries have adopted policies to attract private in-vestment.

The energy security-related vulnerabilities and threatsinthehouseholdsectorinthecountriesunderthestudyhavethefollowingcharacteristics:

• Energycosts:Energycostsformasignificantshareoftotal household expenditure (especially low incomehouseholds’) in many developing countries (about20% in South Africa andThailand, and up to 40% inKenya).Thusanysignificantriseinenergypricescouldhaveseriousadverseeffectsonthepoorfamilies.

• Energyaccess.Therealsoexistsbig inequity inmanydeveloping countries in terms of access to modernand safe energy between the poor and rich.Thoughaccess to electricity is very high in some countries(Thailand,Tunisia,Argentina,Brazil),inothersthelevelofelectrificationislow(inKenya,accesstoelectricityin households is about 15%, while only about 8% ofhouseholdshaveaccesstoLPGsupply).

• Lackofareliableandsustainablesupplyofenergyim-pactsthequalityofenergyservicesprovidedtohouse-holds.Insomecountries,theresidentialsectorhasthehighestshareofthenationalenergyconsumption(Ke-nyaat77%)

• Dependencyonbiomass.Biomassenergyuseremainshighinmostdevelopingcountries,especiallythoseinthelowincomecategory.Thehouseholdsectoristhemajoruserofbiomass.Incountrieswhereoptionsoth-erthanbiomassareeithernotavailableornotafford-able, ensuring sustainable supply of biomass energypresentsamajorenergysecuritychallenge.

Countriesunderthestudyhaveformulatedpoliciesandinitiatedmeasurestoaddressthethreatstoenergyse-curity through country specific programs. (Eg. promo-tionofrenewables,energyefficiency,privatesectorin-vestment,developingregionalcooperation,developingstrategicreserves.)

Centers Participating in the Energy Security Study

Africa:The African Energy Policy Research Network/Foun-dation for Woodstove Dissemination (AFREPREN), Kenya; Energy Research Center (ERC), South Africa; Mediterranean Renewable Energy Centre (MEDREC), Tunisia; Environmen-tal Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM), Senegal.

Asia: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand; The En-ergy and Resources Institute (TERI), India.

South America: Janeiro and CENBIo at the university of Sao Paolo in conjunction, Brazil; The Institute for Energy Economics at Bariloche Foundation (FB), Argentina.

Thecompletereportsofeachcentreandthesynthesisreportisavailableatwww.gnesd.org.

Bangkok, likemanycitiesintheworld,encounterssig-nificantlyincreasingchallengesofhighertemperatures

Pavement surfaces with higher solar reflectivity

Dr. Kunnawee KanitpongSchool of Engineering and Technology



TheMonkeyCheekprojectintheMahachaiSanamchaicanalsperformsthefunctionofstoringfloodwatersintheupperareas,whileatthesametimereleasingwa-terintotheGulfofThailandinrelationtothetidelevelsoftheseabyrelyingontheappropriateuseofgravityandpumpingstations.Theprojectcomprisesconstruc-

Physical Model for Monkey Cheeks

Dr. Sutat WeesakulSchool of Engineering and Technology

tionofregulatorsandpumpingstationincanals,whichyield considerable benefits without requiring hugeinvestments. It canbe linkedwith theMonkeyCheekprojectinthelowerThaChinRivertoformanintegrat-edsystemforefficientfloodalleviationinBangkok.

Dr.SutatWeesakulisPrincipalInvestigatoroftheproj-ect. AIT has been rendering its service towards thestudy, which is apart of the overall project to be car-riedoutbyHydroandAgroInformaticsInstitute(HAII)for the Chaipattana Foundation. H.R.H. Princess MahaChakri Sirindhorn is the executive chairperson of theChaipattanaFoundation.

AIThasbeenresponsibleforconstructingthephysicalmodel and performing the function of storing floodwaternotonlyintheupperareas,butalsointhepondsdonatedbylocalpeopleandthegolfcourse.Themainobjective is to provide the appropriate procedure foroperatingallregulatorsandpumpingstationssothattheyareinharmonywithnaturalconditions.

The Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power Project will be con-structed across the lower Mekong River mainstreamjustupstreamofBaanPakNeundistrictinthenorthernprovinceofXayaburi,Lao,PDR.

Fromrighttoleftabutment,thedamconstructioncon-sistsofthefollowingmaincomponentsandstructures:

• A navigation system placed at the extreme rightabutment and partially cut into the right bankslope.

• Anoverflowspillway,equippedwithten(10)radialgateseach19mwideand21mhigh,withupstreamanddownstreamstoplogsandassociatedcranes.

Physical Hydraulic Model Study of the Xayaburi Hydroelectric Project

Dr. Sutat WeesakulSchool of Engineering and Technology

duetotheurbanheatislandphenomenon.Usingtradi-tionalbuildingmaterialssuchasasphaltsandconcreteforroadsandotherinfrastructureisamongthekeyfac-torscausingtheairtemperatureinthecitytobehighercomparedtothatinsurroundingareas.Thisisduetotheabsorptionofthesolarradiationandhencetheradiationofexcessheatduringthedayandatnight.Increasesinthe pavement temperature causes the ambient tem-peraturetorise,whichinturnincreasesenergycostsforairconditioninganddamagesairqualityinthecity.Onewaytoaddressthisproblemistoprovidepavementsur-faceswithhighersolar reflectivityoralbedofor roads.Themeasurementofalbedoover106asphaltpavementsections and 43 concrete pavements sections acrossBangkok Metropolitan Area revealed that the albedoof both pavement types were quite low, i.e., less than0.10. This result indicates an opportunity to increasepavement’s albedo through various surface treatmentmethods. Examples of these methods include coatingwith grey or tan emulsion sealcoats, resurfacing withlighter colour chipseals, and overlying with concretewhite-topping.Thechoiceofmaterialsdeterminesalbe-doincrease,andmaterialswithlightershadescorrelateto the higher albedo and lower surface temperature.The lightestavailablewasshownto reducemaximumsurfacetemperatureby7to14degreesC.


• An intermediate block that separates the spillwayfromthepowerhousecomplexandhousesthepow-erhouseunloadinganderectionareasaswellaspartofthefishpassingfacilities.

• An intake-powerhouse complex with eight (8) Ka-plangeneratingunitsincludingallelectro-mechani-calandhydro-mechanicalauxiliaryequipmentandsystems. The intake-powerhouse complex also in-cludeseight(8)sandflushingoutletsandpartofthefishpassingfacilities.

• Afishladderfacilityforupstreamfishmigrationontheextremeleftabutment.

ThenormalheadwaterleveloftheProjectisestablishedatanelevationsof275m,followingthecriteriontolimittheraisingofthewaterlevelsatLuangPrabangduringflood conditions to accepatbel levels. The maximumpowerhouse outflow established through economicoptimizationis5,000m3/s,whilethespillwaycapacityisdesigneduptothePMFestimatedat47,500m3/s.

Inordertoascertainthemostcriticalhydraulicaspectsof the Project, a physical hydraulic model study wascommissionedattheAITHydraulicsLaboratorybytheProjectOwner,Ch.KarnchangPublicCompanyLimitedinanagreementdated15May2009.Thephysicalmod-elswerebuiltandinvestigatedfollowingthe“Specifica-tion for the Physical Hydraulic Model Studies of Xaya-buriHEPP” issuedbytheProjectEngineer,AF-ColencoLimitedonJanuary2009.

The links between gender, natural resource manage-ment and migration are becoming more visible inmany regions, particularly regarding their role in fos-

EU-Asia Link Project Gender and Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management, Migration and Multi-localLivelihoods

Dr. Bernadette P. Resurreccion School of Environment, Resources and Development

tering(orundermining)localformsofsustainablede-velopment.Theemergingbodyofliteratureontheim-pactsofinternalandinternationalmigrationprocesseshighlight the significance of gender and its intersec-tions with other social structures in natural resourcemanagement and sustainable livelihoods. The expe-riences of Europe and Southeast Asia provide someinterestingpointersforacomparisonofsimilaritiesaswellasdifferences.Policyresponsescanbenefitfromcross-culturallearning,aprocesswhichrequiresbridg-ingknowledgegapspertainingtothesefields.Thekeyactors inboth these regions, includinggovernments,practitionersandacademicsshare,aninterestinbridg-ingthesegapsofknowledgeinthepolicyfieldto(a)ensure gender equitable resource management, (b)minimise incidences of “distress entry” to migratorynetworks leading to exploitation and human rightsabuse, and (c) ensure protected migration practices,securityoflivelihoodsandsustainedformsoflocalde-velopment.

TheAsia-LinkProgectoffersanexcellentopportunitytofill thegapsofknowledgethroughenhancingthemutualintellectual,socialandeconomicco-operationbetweentheEUandSoutheastAsianregions.TheAsia-LinkprojectaimedtodeveloparangeofcollaborativeSouth-SouthandNorth-Southactivitiestostrengthencollective institutional capacity in higher educationinvolving programme and curriculum development,trainingandskills-transfer,anddisseminationthroughconferences, workshops. To this aim, the Institute ofSocial Studies (ISS), the Netherlands, Andalas Uni-versity, West Sumatra, Indonesia, the Asian ResearchCentreforMigration(ARCM)ofChulalongkornUniver-sity,Thailand, theAsian InstituteofTechnology (AIT),ThailandandBrightonUniversity,theUnitedKingdomcombinedforces.

Collaborative experiences in substantively significantcross-cutting fields of these 5 partners enriched thequality of the programme. They will jointly providevaluableexpertiseforfutureguidanceinthefollowingspecificareas:

1) The focus of the Asian-European network of aca-demic institutionswillbeontheenhancementofhuman resources in higher education to improveactivitiesinpolicyresearch,adviceandtrainingongender, natural resource management, migrationandsecurityoflivelihoods;

2) The collaboration addresses the intersections be-tweenthefollowingpolicyfields:genderandnatu-ral resource management, gender and migration,genderandsustainablelivelihoods;

3) Commitment and support from the partner aca-



Consumerscommonlyhaveaproblemwithcorrectlyassessing the quality of food produce. Recent foodscareshave lessenedtheconfidenceofconsumers inguessingfoodqualitybyvisuallyinspecting,touchingandsmellingfoodproduceatopenair“wet”markets.Yet, consumers can either rely on their own abilityto identifyqualityandselect thebestqualityorbestquality-price relationship or they can trust others, inparticular the retailer, the brand or a third party thatcertifiesorendorsestheproduct.Theseindirectorex-trinsic quality cues become more important. InThai-land,therearenowaseeminglymyriadqualitylabelsfrom different labeling authorities and organizations.Dotheyconvinceconsumersaboutthefoodquality?

On behalf of the UNFAO, we studied consumer qual-ity judgments using a decision-based method calledconjoint measurement. The rational for this methodisthat it isassumedthatrespondentsarenotabletorealistically estimate how important each attribute is

demic institutions will bridge the existing knowl-edgegapsandenhancetheroleofhighereduca-tioninpolicyresearch,trainingandadvice.

Theactivitiesinthisprojectareasfollows:1) Anexchangestudentprograminvolvingthe5part-

neruniversities.2) Workshopsheldinvariouspartneruniversitiesand

aninternationalconferenceintheHague.3)Jointpublicationsandextendednetworksbeyondtheprojectperiod.

AttheAsianInstituteofTechnology:1) 3Ph.DstudentsweresenttotheUniversityofBrigh-

ton,UK,InstituteofSocialStudies,theNetherlandsandAndalasUniversity,Sumatra,Indonesiafor2-3months;

2) 1 MSc student was sent to ARCM, ChulalongkornUniversity;

3) One migration workshop was held in November2010;

4) Fivepostgraduatestudentswerereceivedfrom3partneruniversities(AndalasUniversity,UniversityofBrighton,InstituteofSocialStudies).

This project is a part of the Comprehensive DisasterManagementProgramof theGovernmentofBangla-desh,whichwasfundedbyUNDP,DFID,andtheEuro-peanCommission.

TheimplementationofprogramactivitieswascarriedoutbyaninternationalconsultingteamconsistingofAsianDisasterPreparednessCenter,Asian InstituteofTechnology(AIT),NationalSocietyofEarthquakeTech-nology of Nepal, Oyo International Corporation, andseveral leading academic institutions of Bangladesh.

Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Dhaka, Chittagong, and Sylhet City

Dr. Pennung WarnitchaiSchool of Engineering and Technology

Consumer Judgment of the Quality of Food: Do quality labels help?

Dr. Rian Beise-ZeeSchool of Management

AIT was responsible for the seismic vulnerability andrisk assessment of three major cities—Dhaka, Chit-tagong,andSylhet. Inthisproject,detailed informa-tion about buildings, essential facilities, population,lifelines, and transportation networks were first col-lectedandacquiredfromseveralsources,andfieldsur-veysofmorethan20,000buildingswerecarriedout.Basedonthesecollecteddata,acomprehensivesetofGIS maps describing the existing conditions of thesecitieswerethendeveloped.Theseismicvulnerabilityofmorethan40representativebuildingtypeswasalsodetermined through the use of advanced numericalanalyses. Potentialeconomicandsocial losses inthethree cities from various possible earthquake scenar-ioswerefinallyestimatedusingaGIS-basedsoftwarepackage named“HAZUS”. The obtained results wereused for developing a national contingency plan forearthquakedisastermanagementofBangladesh.


ThePMEDProgramhasbeencommissionedtoAITbytheMinistryofInterior(withtheDamrongRajanupabResearch and Development Institute as the co-host)since 2009. This is a capacity building program forthe high-level personnel (i.e.,Vice Governors or PC 9

Public Management Executive Development Program (PMED) 2010

Dr. Sununta SiengthaiSchool of Management

TheautomotiveindustryinThailandcontinuestogrowatafastpace.Thailandhasthebiggestautomobileas-semblybase intheregion.Duetothis factThailand isknownas“theDetroitofAsia”.TheautomotiveindustryisvitalfortheThaieconomyandhencethereisneedtocontinuouslyimproveitsprocess.

InthisgrowingautomotivesectorofThailand,Dr.Barba-

The Impact of Total Quality Management on Supply Chain Management in Thai Automotive Industry

Dr. Barbara IgelSchool of Management

for them. Instead, just like real life they are asked tomakejudgmentsforproductbundleswhichimplicitlyrequiretrade-offdecisions.Conjointmeasurementas-sumesthateachproductevaluatedbyaconsumercanberepresentedbyanadditivecombinationofseparateutilitiesexistingfortheindividualattributelevels.

Themostimportantconclusionofthisstudyiscertain-lythatretailexertsastrongimpactontheperceptionoffoodquality.Weseeacleargenerationalshift.Whileolderconsumersputconsiderabletrustinwetmarketsandtrusttheirownabilitiestoevaluatethequalityoffoodmore.Mostlikely,youngerpeoplearemoreawareofchemicalcontaminationoffoodandreplaymoreonthequalitycommitmentofbrandsoffoodproducersandmassretailers.

The generational shift is heading towards moderntrade such as supermarkets.We also see, albeit on amuchlowerlevel,brandsasmoreandmoreimportanttrustagents.Incontrast,qualitycertificatesareonav-eragenotasubstituteforthetrustinretailandbrands.Onlyasmallsegmentofthemarketnoticescertificatesandassociatescertificateswithquality.Atbest,certifi-catesarecomplementary,perceivedasamodernele-mentoffoodtogetherwithbrandsandsupermarkets.Inthissensetheyhavealimitedcapacitytooffsetlowtrustinthefoodsupplychain.Insteadtheystrengthenandreinforcetheperceptionofmodernizationofthefoodsupplychain.

andhigher)oftheMinistry. Thereare3maingroupsofsubjects:(1)strategicmanagementforcompetitiveadvantageofthenation,(2)naturalresources,cultureandtourism,and(3)agendaforgoodgovernance.TheProgramalsorequirestheparticipantstoconductonepracticumprojecttoenhancetheirunderstandingandproblem-solvingskills.

In2010,therewerealtogether31participantsofwhich5 participants reported on strategic management is-sues;11 reportedonnatural resourcesmanagement;and 15 reported on Agenda for good governance.Findingsfromthe individualstudiesrevealedthatnomatter which areas of issues the Vice Governors arefaced with in terms of administrative dilemmas, thenecessaryconditionstoachievehigherlevelsofeffec-tivenessofprovincialadministrativegoalperformanceincludedthefollowing:(1)clearvisionandmissionwithactionplansalignedandkeyperformanceindicatorstomonitortheimplementationprocess;(2)participativemanagement; (3) social capital building; (4) develop-ingthecommunityorprovincialsociety’sreadinessforchange;(5)ensuringtheintegratedperformanceanddevelopingteamworkofallpartiesconcernedbytheprovincial governor; (6) the local government beingstrengthened.



SEA-UEMA Project

Prof. A. T. M Nurul Amin, Dr. Ranjit Perera,Dr. Edsel Sajor, Dr. Vilas Nitivattanon,Dr. Nowarat Coowanitwong, Dr. Kyoko Kusakabe

TheSoutheastAsiaUrbanEnvironmentalManagementApplications(SEA-UEMA)Projectwasasignaturepart-nership between AIT and the Canadian InternationalDevelopment Agency (CIDA). The CAN$ 9.48 millionCIDA-fundedproject lasted from1August2003–31August2010andimplementedworkin8countriesinSoutheastAsia.Theprojectimprovedimplementationand sharing of sound urban environmental manage-mentpoliciesandpracticesinthethreekeyurbanen-vironmentalsub-sectorsofwaterandsanitation,solidwaste,andairpollution.

Key Results

Gender equality was one of the crosscutting themesof the project. During the period of 2003-2008, theproject implemented activities under five compo-nents, namely: Graduate Education, Alumni Demon-strationProject,UEMSub-SectorNetworkandProfes-sional Support Program, Joint Action Research, andApplicationofResearchResultsandLessonsLearnedtowards achieving 4 outcomes and 4 output results.Duringtheextensionperiod(2009-2010), theprojectimplementedactivitiesunderfourcoreareas,namely:

FlagshipProjects,PolicyAdvocacy,LearningNetworksandTraining,andGraduateEducationtowardachiev-ing2outcomesand5outputresults.Genderequalityremainedasoneofthecross-cuttingthemes.

In total, the SEA-UEMA Project implemented the fol-lowing during the whole implementation period(2003-2010): thirty-one (31) Alumni DemonstrationProjects;twenty-six(26)JointActionResearch;four(4)PolicyAdvocacy;five(5)PilotProjects;andfive(5)Flag-ship Projects.The project also established 7 CountryNodes in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines,andsouthernVietnamandnorthernandcentralpartsofVietnam.The project provided 110 scholarships inSoutheastAsiancountriesforstudentstopursue,PhD,masters,diplomaandcertificatelevelprogramsatAIT.The project trained 1636 specialists, researchers, andpractitioners in various professional training coursesandgendertrainings.Theprojectestablished352part-nershipswithdifferentpartnersfrom8countriesdur-ingimplementationofitsactivities.

A total of 849 UEM experts, researchers, city manag-ers and practitioners became Regional UEM networkmembers,andatotalof21UEMpolicieswereput inthe action agenda of relevant government agencies.GenderequalitywasintegratedintomostactivitiesoftheSEA-UEMAProjectincludingplanning,implemen-tation,evaluation,andreporting.

The project recorded lessons learned, unexpectedresults, problems and challenges experienced overthe period of project implementation and how over-come those. All project results were disseminatedthrough dissemination meetings, websites, e-blogs,andthroughthedistributionofpublications.Theproj-ect published numerous publications including casestudies, monographs, policy briefs and proceedingsofmeetings,conferencesandpolicydialoguesandfo-rums.TheSEA-UEMAProjectalsoimplementedasus-tainabilitystrategy tosustain theprojectbeyondtheprojecttenure.

Through the implementation of the SEA-UEMA Proj-ect,AITmadeasignificantcontributiontoimprovingurbanenvironmentsinSoutheastAsia,anditremainscommitted to supporting environmental improve-mentsintheregion.

raIgel,AssociateProfessorandDeanofSchoolofMan-agement along with Dr. Assadej Vanichchinchai, PhDgraduateofSOM,AIT,didaresearchtoinvestigatetherelationshipsamongtotalqualitymanagementpractic-es(TQMP),supplychainmanagementpractices(SCMP)and firm’s supply performance (FSP). During research,basedonanextensive literaturereview,measurementinstruments forSCMP,TQMPandFSPweredevelopedandverifiedbyexperts,pilottestandvariousstatisticaltechniquestoensurereliabilityandvalidityinstructuralequationmodelingconstructs.Thehypothesizedmodelwastestedthroughapathanalysisandqualitativecasestudiesoftwolargefirst-tierautomotivesupplierswereconductedtoobtainmorein-depthinformation.There-sultsshowedthesetofSCMP,TQMPandFSPmeasuresarereliableandvalidforThailand’sautomotiveindustry.AndTQMPnotonlyhasadirectandsignificantpositiveimpactonSCMPandonFSP,butalsohasaindirectandsignificantpositiveimpactonFSPthroughSCMP.


STUDENT RESEARCH

SCHOOL/Field of DOCTORAL TOTALStudy (FoS) STUDENTS’ MASTER’S LEVEL RESEARCH MASTER’S DISSERTATIONS STUDENTS’ RESEARCH

Thesis Research Projects Internships Studies SET 23 187 59 64 7 317

CS/IM 6 13 10 23CEIM 3 17 42 59GTE 15 13 28IME 2 13 22 35MEC/MES 2 17 2 19RS/GIS 10 10STE 2 25 25TC 3 15 8 23TRE 2 8 10 18WEM 3 23 1 24ICT 17 15 32OTM 14 7 21

SERD 44 193 12 2 0 207

ASE 2 11 11AARM 5 15 1 16E 4 32 2 34EEM 7 26 26FEBT 3 32 2 34GDS 2 15 1 16NRM 9 15 1 16PPT 1 10 2 12RRDP 7 9 3 12UEM 4 23 23ABM 5 2 7

DPMM 6 6gTD 5 1 6

SOM 9 29 122 151TOTAL 76 391 101 188 7 687

SET School of Engineering and Technology

CS/IM ComputerScience/InformationManagement

CEIM Construction,EngineeringandInfrastructureManagement

GTE GeotechnicalandEarthResourcesEngineering

IME IndustrialandManufacturingEngineering

MEC/MES Mechatronics/MechatronicsRSGIS RemoteSensingand

GeographicInformationSystems

STE StructuralEngineeringTC Telecommunications

TRE TransportationEngineeringWEM WaterEngineeringand

ManagementICT Informationand CommunicationsTechnologiesOTM OffshoreTechnologyand

ManagementSERD School of Environment,

Resources and DevelopmentASE AgriculturalSystemsand

EngineeringAARM AquacultureandAquatic

ResourcesManagementE EnergyEEM EnvironmentalEngineering andManagement

FEBT FoodEngineeringand BioprocessTechnologyGDS GenderandDevelopment

StudiesNRM NaturalResourcesManagementPPT PulpandPaperTechnologyRRDP RegionalandRural DevelopmentPlanningUEM UrbanEnvironmental ManagementABM Agri-BusinessManagementDPMM DisasterPreparedness, MitigationandManagementGTD GreaterMekongSub-region DevelopmentStudiesSOM School of Management

A total of 76 Doctoral dissertations were completed at AIT in 2010. The total number of Master’s level student researches stood at 680, the breakdown of which is indicated in the table below.


AIT Master’s Thesis Competition 20�0


Ms. Kaushalya C. Wijekoon

“HighRateThermophilicAnaerobicMembraneBioreactorforWastewater

Treatment”

T he5thAITMaster’sThesisCompetitionwasheldon17May2010.Thereweresevencompetitioncategories(see below)andstudentswithexcellentgradesintheirthe-siswerenominatedtorepresenttheirrespectivefieldofstudy.Presentationswere

judgedaccordingtorelevance;originality;scientific/societycontribution;generalknowl-edgeofthefield;futurepotentialforinnovation;andpresentationskills.Atotalof55stu-dentsparticipatedinthecompetition.Therewere19judgesfromindustry,developmentalagencies,internationalorganizations,anduniversities.

The winners of the respective categories were the following:

Category Name / Title of Presentation Advisor

Resources Prof. Sudip K. Rakshit

Mr. Yadhu Nath Guragain

“Newpretreatmentmethodsforlignocellulosicresidueforsecond

generationbioethanolproduction”

Ms. May Phyo Aung

“DevelopmentofPost-TensionedPrecastConcreteBuildingSystemsfor

SeismicResistance”

Dr. Pennung Warnitchai

ICTMs. Sraddha Adhikari

“ContentDiscoveryUsingPeopleSocialPatterninPeer-to-PeerNetworks”

Dr. Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn

DevelopmentMs. Duangsamorn Jatupornpimol

“StateResponsetoIntimatePartnerViolenceinThailand”

Dr. Philippe Doneys

Information Systems

Mr. Sarayut Amornwongpeeti

“AFourth-OrderCascadedMulti-BitDelta-SigmaModulatorwithInterstage

FeedbackPaths”

Dr. Mongkol Eakpanyapong

Management

Mr. Pongthep Vichaikul

“DegreeofFamilyownershipandthefirmperformance,Astudyoflistedcompany

inThailand”

Dr. Sundar Venkatesh

Energy/Environment Prof. C. Visvanathan

Civil Engineering


AIT Extension

A s the continuing professional educa-tion center of AIT, AIT Extension hascontinued to enhance solid partner-

shipsthroughthedeliveryofshortcoursesforvarious capacity-building programs and initi-ating long-term initiatives with state govern-mentsandothersectors.In2010,AITExtensionhosted80specializedcapacity-buildingcours-escustomizedtotheprofessionaldevelopmentneeds of individuals and organizations fromthe Asian region and beyond. The office alsochartednewareasofexpertisethatcontributetocapacitydevelopmentacrosstheregion.

AITExtensiondeliveredonitscommitmenttobuildingstrongpartnershipsintheAsianregionthrough its presence in the new AIT Centersin various countries and its renewed partner-ships with state governments and ministries.TheCSRAsiaCenteratAIT,acollaborationwithHongKong-basedCSRAsia,startedactivitiesinJanuary2010.AITExtensionalsoworkedclose-lywiththeYunusCenterinitsinceptionphase.In2010,theAITExtensionCenterinNepalwasformalized with the establishment of its newofficeinKathmandu.Tocreateadirectlinkwithsub-nationallevelinstitutions,thepartnershipwiththeStateGovernmentofKarnatakainIn-diasawthelaunchofamulti-yearcollaborationbetweenAITExtensionandtheHealthDepart-mentofKarnatakaStatetoimplementcapacitybuildingprogramsinHospitalManagementtobeheldinThailand.

The year 2010 witnessed an increase in thenumberofparticipantsto

AIT’s custom-ized train-

ingprogramsforstategovernmentsandministe-riallevelinstitutionsacrosstheregion.Thesecondphaseof thePunjabResourceManagementPro-gram(PRMP),which isadministeredbytheGov-ernmentofthePunjab,waslaunchedwithupto200 participants identified to undertake coursesfunded through PRMP. The Faculty Training Pro-gramoftheHigherEducationCommissionofPak-istanwasconfirmed,withupto100participantsscheduled to attend one of three three-weekcourseseachyearfrom2011.

AITExtension,inpartnershipwiththeUnitedNa-tionsDevelopmentProgramme(UNDP)andNepalAdministrativeStaffCollege,carriedouttheLead-ership Development Program for the Ministry ofPeace and Reconstruction of Nepal to enhanceleadershipskills inrealizingchangetowardssus-tainable peace in the country. This 3-countrytraining program was conducted in Nepal,Thai-land and Aceh for up to 50 government officersandlocalpeacebuildingcommitteemembers.

For four consecutive months in 2010, AIT Exten-sionassistedinthecapacity-buildingprogramforstaff of the Ministry of Municipalities and PublicWorks of Iraq. This training program, funded byUNICEF,wasconductedinAITwithstudyvisitstodifferent provinces and institutions in Thailand.Around 120 participants were chosen to under-takethisprogramthat focusedonperformance-basedmanagementinmanpowerplanning,man-agementoftrainingcentersandimplementationoftrainingprograms.

The year 2010 also witnessed the expansion oftheAITExtension’sboundariesbeyondtrainingto

include institutional advisory services.This new initiative broughtin a new area of expertise fortheofficewiththeimplemen-tation of the Professional De-velopmentNeedsAssessment(PDNA)forkeyprojectofficersofIFADprojectsacross4coun-tries in Asia: Cambodia, India,Lao PDR and Vietnam. ThePDNA assessed the levels of

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(Above and right) Participants from Democratic People’s Re-public of Korea (DPRK) attend training program organized by AIT Extension in close col-laboration with united Na-tions Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (uN-ESCAP).

projectmanagementcapacityofkeyprojectstaffandidentifiedgapswherecapacitybuildinginter-ventions may be carried out. AIT Extension alsoconductedaseriesofTrainingNeedsAssessmentsfor the Management and Professional Develop-mentDepartmentofPakistanthatledtoprogramson institutional development for various govern-mentagenciesinthecountry.

InitiatedbytheDevelopmentManagementUnitofAITExtension,theTeachingCaseBankprojectwiththe Institute of Microfinance (InM), Bangladesh,waslaunchedtopromotetheuseoftheteachingcase method for microfinance and related devel-opmentpedagogy.ThisgroundbreakingprojectisalsoaimedatbuildingacasebankofhighqualityteachingcasesforAITandInMandcreatingaco-hortofteachingcasewritersacrosstheregion.

North Korea: Project Appraisal and Feasibility Study for Road Projects

As part of its commitment to the growing thereach of AIT in capacity development for theAsianregionandbeyond,AITExtensionconduct-edaProfessionalDevelopmentCourseonProjectAppraisalandFeasibilityStudyforRoadProjectsfor the Ministry of Land and Marine TransportandtheStateAcademyofSciences,Governmentof the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK).ThiscoursewasinitiatedattherequestoftheUnitedNationsEconomicandSocialCommis-sionforAsiaandthePacific(UNESCAP)toaddressthegapsandcapacityrequirementsofofficerstoundertakeprojectappraisalandfeasibilitystudiesforroaddevelopmentprojectsinNorthKorea.

Fourteenkeyofficers–unitheads,divisionchiefs,director-generals, deputy directors, consultantsandresearchers–attendedthefive-weekcourse,which equipped them with skills on project for-mulation,identificationofcostsandgains,finan-cialandeconomictoolsonprojectappraisalanddecision-making. The training also allowed par-ticipantstolinktheirappraisalswithEnvironmen-tal Impact Assessment reports to ensure soundenvironmental management in their projects. Italso introduced them to bottom-up systems ofdecision-making that is participatory and trans-parent.

AlltrainingmaterialsweretranslatedintoKoreantoensurethatthecontentsofthetrainingmod-uleswereunderstandabletotheparticipants.Alllecturesbyinternalresourcepersonsandexternalconsultantsweredonewiththehelpofaninter-preter. Although there were some communica-tion gaps, this did not discourage participantsfromsharingtheirviewsandexperiencesonroadconstructionwiththeresourcepersonsandstaffof thevarious roadprojects theyvisited inThai-land.

The training course was part of the financial as-sistanceofUNESCAPtotheDemocraticPeople’sRepublic of North Korea. It was the first courseconductedbyAITExtensionforNorthKorea.


Internationality

Engagement with international and regional institu-tions interested in or based in Vietnam is critical togrowingtheAITbrandandtoitsgrowthasaleadinginternational institution of higher learning.This year,AITVietnam (AITVN) engaged in a number of groupdiscussions, seminars, workshops and conferenceswhich linked and developed programs with variouspublic and private sector institutions including em-bassies (Belgium, U.S., Switzerland, Netherlands andSweden);EUplatforms;AsianDevelopmentBank;UNorganizations (FAO, UNDP); and private companies(Intel,V-CEM, EVN). AITVN’s participation at national,regional and international-level workshops led to in-teractions with SAEMEO-RETRAC, US-Vietnam Uni-versities,SustainabilityScience,ISFandManagementLearning and reputable universities including Salz-burg University- Austria, Clermont Graduate SchoolofManagement-France,andtheGraduateInstituteofGeneva-Switzerland.

Excellence and Relevance in Education Research and Outreach

WhenaskedwhatbringsthemtocooperatewithAIT-VN, organizations and individuals who partner withAITintraining,educationandresearchansweredfirstthat it was because of overall quality. Second, thirdandfourthresponseswereinternationality,relevanceandaffordability,respectively.

AlthoughAITVNpreviouslydidnothaveitsownaca-demic programs, it added value to School-led pro-grams by providing high-quality services that facili-tated operation of all academic programs. However,current plans include developing AITVN’s own aca-demicprogramsinselectedareas.

In2010,AITVNparticipatedintheIEC/ADRC/AITSen-atetopresentnewprogramson:InformationManage-ment inFinanceandBanking;Aqua-business;andProfession-al Master’s Program on Disas-ter Resiliency and HospitalityManagement.Atthemoment,theseprogramsareindemandandnootherorganizationsareproviding such programs inVietnam.

In collaboration with AIT Ex-tension, AITVN is developingAITVNasoneof thecountry’s

trainingcertificationnodesforprovidingtrainingsoftrainers(ToT).Thegoal istodevelopAITVNasahighqualitytrainingprogramcertificationhub.Todoso,ithasstartedtobuilditsowninstitutionalcapacityandwill be conductingToT for its own staff starting with1)trainingoffacilitators;2)trainingsoftrainersand;3)trainingofcertifiers.Thefirstin-housetrainingofAIT-VNstaffwasscheduledformid-April,2011.

Positioning and Branding

BrandingandpositioningisparticularlyimportantforAITVNintermsofincreasingawarenessofitsworkinthecountry.Thiswasachievedthisyearwithincreasedrecognition and increased visibility, despite the chal-lenges in communicating the brand at a nationallevel.AITVNwasknownasa“CenterofAIT” implyingasmallandminorcomponentofAIT.However,givenits broad scope and expanding operations, the deci-sionwasmadetochangethenamefrom“AITCenterinVietnam-AITCV”tosimply“AITinVietnam-AITVN.”Thischangedid,however,createsomeconfusionamongstpartnersandevenstaff.Therefore,strongeffortsweremade to clarify AITVN’s position and brand. AITVN’sbranding strategy involved attention to visual brandrepresentation at its offices, on vehicles and throughits website, stationary and curriculum. Improving itsimageandincreasingnamerecognitionwasalsocar-riedoutthrougharegularnewsletter,expertseminars,newspaperadvertising,andpublicceremonies.Development and Resources Management

Developing, expanding and managing resources in-cluded: identification of new partners and the main-tenanceofvaluedpartners;careandmanagementofpersonnelofAITVN;andimprovedadministrativeeffi-ciency.LastyearAITVNidentifiedaninvestor,potentiallocation,andproceededintheprocessofdevelopingmacro-plan,includingthebusinessplan.

AITVNRetreat:AITinVietnamheldasuccessfultwo-dayre-treatinDanangfromJanuary9 - 10 that was attended by43 staff members. Throughdialogues and discussions,progress was made on: 1)2016 Strategic Frameworkfor AITVN and; 2) Perfor-mance-based Evaluation andIncentive System. Since AITin Vietnam program officesaredispersedthroughoutthe

AIT Vietnam


country in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Cantho, DanangandVungTao, thiswasan importantopportunity formany staff members to meet each other for the firsttimeandtosocializeinAITandexperienceitsworkcul-ture.Theretreatcompletedastrengths,opportunities,weaknesses and threats (SWOT) stakeholder analysisandgeneratedideasfora5-yearstrategyforAITVN.

As Vietnam continues to experience rapid economicgrowth(7%in2009despitetherecentglobaleconom-iccrisis)thereisahighdemandforaknowledge-savvyworkforce, especially in the education and trainingsector.Highlyqualifiedstaffneedtobenurturedandre-trainedinordertostayrelevantandcompetitiveinthecurrentenvironment.Theimplementationofper-formance-basedevaluationandincentivesystemwasan important mechanism for retaining excellent per-formers,TheDirectorofAITExtensionwasalsoinvitedtoparticipateinthisdialogueandmadeanimportantcontribution to harmonizing the system of the mainAITcampusandAITVN.

Becauseofthestrategicdecisiontofocusmoreof itsdevelopment efforts in the heart of the Mekong re-gion, AITVN was invited by the People’s CommitteeandtheUniversityofCantho,CanThoCity.MinistryofEducationandTraining (InternationalOffice) to openanofficethere.TheaimistocreatevisibilityofAITVNactivitiesthroughaseriesofworkshops,promotionalseminarsandpersonalvisitstolocalprivateandgov-ernmentofficials.Moreover,AITVN’spresenceinCan-thoisseenasimportantparttheirowndevelopmentstrategy.AlargenumberofAIT’salumniinVietnamarebased in this region, so the move there can increaseAITvisibility.

AttheinvitationofthePeople’sCommittee(PC)ofCan-tho,AITVNcooperatedwiththeDepartmentofHomeAffairs(DOHA)-whichisresponsibleforHRdevelop-ment for the PC - to assess management capacity ofthoseinmanagementandleadershiproles.Atotalof32departmentsandbranchesparticipated inthisef-fortandoneoftheoutcomeswasaprioritizedlistofcapacity development training programs (long-termand short-term). Using the outcome of this assess-ment,DOHAisdesigningashort-mediumtermcapac-ity development proposal for the PC’s approval. TheroleofAITVNhasbeentoprovideassessmentexper-tise (instrument design, and data analysis) and pres-ent the outcomes to the relevant departments. ThisoutcomeprovidedtothePeople’sCommitteewithanimportant decision-making tool for human resourcecapacityimprovementofitsmanagementstaff.More-over,ithelpedAITtobetterunderstandoverallknowl-

edge and skill gaps among decision-makers of thePC.Thiswillinformworkindesigningcurriculumandprogramsthataredesignedanddeliveredinarelevantandtimelyfashion.

INTERNATIONAL CENTERS

AITVN Facts (2010)• Current main offices in: Hanoi (headquarters),

Ho Chi Minh City (CMARD collaboration) andCantho(CTUcollaboration)

• Smallprogramoffices:DongNai,andVungTao• Totalnumberofstaff:63(90%Women)• Personnelcost:498,384or14.3%oftotalcost

AIT academic programs offered (in co-operation with Schools):• Environmental Engineering and Management

(EEM)• ExecutiveManagementofBusinessAdministra-

tion(eMBA)• International Executive Master’s in Business

Management(ieMBA)• DoctorateofBusinessAdministration(DBA)• ProjectManagementinConstruction(PM-PMC)• ProfessionalMaster’sinGeoExplorationandPe-

troleumGeo-engineering(PM-G&PG)• ProfessionalMaster’s inGeotechnicalEngineer-

ingandManagement(PM-GEM)• Professional Master’s in Industrial Engineering

andManagement(PM-IEM)

Areas of Professional short-course training offered:• EnvironmentandDevelopment(EDS)• BusinessandManagement(MBS)• EducationalManagement(EMS)• Industrial Technology & Information Manage-

ment(ITIMS)

Total Number of Professional short-course trainings completed in 2010: 112

EDS 23MBS 50EMS 20TIMS 19

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2010wasanimportantyearfortheformerAITCenterinIndonesia(AIT-CI).Alongwiththeestablishmentofthe New Charter of AIT, the 3-year collaboration be-tweenAsianInstituteofTechnologyandtheMinistryofPublicWorksofIndonesiaforAIT-CIcametoanendasofDecember201.This istobefollowedbytheof-ficialexpirationbyJune2011.

However, in respond to Indonesia’s vast demand forquality education with a strong international brand,AIT-CI decided to welcome 2011 with establishmentof“AIT-Indonesia”:aself-sufficientcampus,whichwillservebothdomesticandinternationalstudents.

Despitethechallengeinidentifyingitsnewbodymem-bers(whichinvitestheparticipationoftheMinistryofNationalEducationandtheMinistryofAgricultureandMinistryofPublicWorksofIndonesia),AITinIndone-siawillfocusonsettingupasalegalentity.Thisisin-tendedtoallowAITinIndonesiatoberegisteredandoperateunder theapplicable lawof thecountryandaccreditedtoconducthighereducationatalllevels.

GuidedbytheexistingrulesandregulationsofIndo-nesia, AIT’s interim director in charge of the start upof AIT-Indonesia has identified a reliable partnershipwithUniversitasJenderalAhmadYani(UNJANI),whichisan independentuniversitybelongingtothehighlyregardedKartikaEkaPaksifoundation.

The collaboration will be registered under the brandofAIT-Indonesia.TheMemorandumofUnderstandingbetweenAITandUNJANIhasbeenunderwayandwillbefinalizedbyearly2011.

PriortotheestablishmentoftheAIT-Indonesia,anin-terim secretariat of AIT-Indonesia was established atUNJANImaincampusinCimahi,WestJava.TheinterimsecretariatofAIT-Indonesiawill,induecourse,launcha series of training workshops for the local govern-mentsofIndonesiaandamanagementcourseforpri-vatesectoractors.Theactivitiesforprofessionallearn-ingwillbehostedinJakartawhilethecommongrouptrainingswillbeheldatKotaBaruParahyangan;acitywitheducationalinsightnominatedtoAIT-Indonesia’sheadquarters.

Accomplishments in 2010

DuringtheyearAIT-CI facilitatedavisitbydel-egates of the Government of Nepal to BandaAceh.Theprogram,whichwasjointlyconduct-ed with AIT-Extension, provided the NepalesegovernmentwithinsightsonAIT’simpactinthereconstructioneffortsinAceh,andAIT’smodali-ties for working closely with Ministry of PeaceandReconstructionofTheKingdomofNepal.

Toassistthepublictransportationsector,AIT-CIsuccessfullyconductedatrainingworkshoponRoad Management for the Directorate GeneralofLandTransportation,followedbyacompara-tivestudyvisittoBangkok.Anothersimilartrain-ingwasconductedoninlandwaterwaystrans-portationmanagement.

AIT-CIalsotookanactiveroleattheannualedu-cationexhibitioninIndonesia,whichprovidedapromotionalopportunityforthecentertoshareits proficiency with prospective students andothereducationalstakeholders.

AIT Indonesia


RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTERS

T he Centre of Excellence onSustainable Developmentin the Context of Climate

Change (CoESDCC)wasestablishedin September 2009 to support theAIT’s vision of responding to globalclimate change challenges throughconcerted trans-disciplinary effortsleading towards a more sustainablesociety.

SustainabledevelopmenthasalwaysbeencentraltoAIT’sresearchandde-velopmentefforts.AIT’sStrategicPlan2013 reflects this fact, and empha-sizes the consolidation of researcheffortstocreatearesearchnichethatwill harness the Institute’s range ofnetworks,experiencesandexpertise.ThegoalofCoESDCC is to consolidate the Institute’s research workandbroadenitsnetworksandpartnershipsbyprovid-ingaplatformtodiscussandlaunchsharedinitiatives.Itworkstopoolresourcestoeffectivelyaddressissuesand challenges in sustainable development and cli-matechangeinAsiaandbeyond.

In2010,CoESDCCcollaboratedinthejointAIT-FrenchNetwork Initiative targeting young researchers toworkonnewcollaborativeprojectsbasedonthegen-eral theme of“Sustainable development and climatechange”withafocusonthedevelopmentoftheASEANregionusingmultidisciplinaryapproaches.

Inasignificantdevelopment,CoESDCCwasengagedbytheUNEPRisoeCentre(URC),Denmark,astheRe-gional Center for its Technology Needs Assessment(TNA)projectinAsia,whichisbeingfundedbyGlobalEnvironment Facility (GEF) as a part of its worldwideefforttosupport35to45countrieswithintheframe-workoftheUNFCCC.Asaregionalcenter,CoESDCCservesasthefocalpointfortechnicalsupportandca-pacitybuildingfor14participantcountriesinAsiaandEasternEurope.

CoESDCCwasinvolvedinakeyprojecton“Thailand’sInstitutionalandPolicyLandscapeonClimateChangeMitigation”.Theprojectaimstoprovideanassessment

ofthegapsexistingbetweentheneedforeffectiveim-plementationofNationalStrategyonClimateChangepreparedbyRoyalThaiGovernmentandexistingsup-portfromallUNagencies,thegovernment’sownplans,andsupportfromotherinternationalnon-governmen-talagencies.UNEP,astheSecretariatfortheJointTeamon Climate Change, engaged AIT to conduct a thor-oughresearchstudy,maptheroleofstakeholders,andhelpUNagenciestofillinthesegaps.

CoESDCCintendstobe involvedintheSYKE-fundedproject on“Policy Learning in Mekong countries-Ne-pal.” CoE SDCC provides core support to develop theAITResearchStrategy2011–2015underthebroaderumbrella of sustainable development in the context of climate change with focus on the following:

Five thematic areas:

• Vulnerability and Disaster Reduction

• Water and land Resources Management for Sustainable Production and Consumption

• urban and Rural Quality of life and Sustainability

• low Carbon and Cleaner Production Technologies and Management

• Business and Innovation Models for A green Economy

Center of Excellence on Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change (CoE SDCC)


T heYunus Center at AIT is theresult of a collaborative effortbetween Nobel Laureate Pro-

fessorYunusandtheAsianInstituteofTechnology.The Center aims to con-tributetopovertyalleviationthroughthepromotionandraisingawarenessof the ideas and concepts of socialbusiness.Inthefirsthalfofthe2010,theCenterwasrunbytwoInterimDi-rectors in succession, while arrange-ments were made to hire a full timeDirector. A full time director, Dr. RiazKhan,tookoverinthesecondhalfoftheyear.

WorkshopsTheYunusCenterat AIT promoted social business atvarious venues.The Centermadeapresentation ataconferenceon ‘Building Partnerships for Implementing Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects in the Mekong Region (EEP Mekong)’ in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The Center was nominated as a panelist at a sessionon social business at the ‘Regional Social Enterprise Knowledge & Partnership Symposium: Social Enterprise for a Sustainable Future in Asia’inBangkok.TheCenteralsoattendedtheGlobalSocialBusinessSummit2010inWolfsburg, Germany, andThe Danone CommunitymeetinginFrance.AttheinvitationoftheCEOofHSBC,theCentermadeapresentationonsocialbusiness.Attheendoftheyear,theCenterwasinvitedtobeanob-serverattheThailandNationalHealthAssembly.

Student ResearchersThe Center hosted three students from Sweden,Ms. Michaela Wahlberg and Ms. Cecilia Sauma, fromSödertörnUniversityCollege,andMr.AlanZabihifromChalmersUniversity.Theyworkedonissuesrelatedtosocialdevelopment.Mr.AuduIdiGuga,adoctoralstu-dentatAIT,incooperationwiththeCenter,carriedoutapilotstudyonthepossibilityofgrowingmushroomonricestrawasanincomegeneratingactivityforfarm-ersinVietnam.

Outreach

An important part of the Center’s activities is to net-work with other organizations that are involved insocial development activities. Therefore, in 2010 theCenterhaddiscussionswithAsoka,BetagroCorpora-tion,Changefusion,DuangPrateepFoundation,BritishCouncil, Schneider Electric, National Health Commis-sion,ThammasatBusinessSchool,PDA,andDatacon-sult. The Center visited projects in Laos, BangladeshandThailand.InBangladesh,socialbusinessesvisitedincludedthoseofGrameenDanoneandGrameenGCEye Care hospital. The Center also visited the socialventureoperationsofBetagroCorporationinLopBuri,Thailand.Amongtheactivitiespresentedwasavillagedevelopment bank, an ideal school kitchen initiativeand improved cassava plantation. The Center visitedthe KlongToey area of Bangkok to see the activitiesoftheDuangPrateepFoundation.TheDuangPrateepFoundationworkswiththeurbanpoorinKlongToeyandhasbeenactiveinprimaryeducation,andspecialneeds education.The Center was an observer at theconsultative process on health issues carried out bythe National Health Commission in Prae Province inThailand.

Yunus Center at AIT



T heCSRAsiaCenteratAIT(CSRACA)isajointventure partnership

betweentheAsianInstituteofTechnology(AIT)andCSRAsia, the leading providerof information, training,research and consultancyservices on sustainable de-velopment practices andcorporate social responsi-bility(CSR)inAsia.Itbringstogether the strengths ofthetwofoundingorganiza-tionsinpursuitofitsvisionofadynamic,competitivebusinessenvironmentinAsia,inwhichtheprivatesec-torisequippedtodevelopandimplementinnovativesolutionsforthechallengingissuesofsustainablede-velopmentinastrategicandeffectivemanner.

TheCSRAsiaCenteratAITwasestablishedin2009andstarteditsoperationswiththehireofafull-timedirec-torinJanuary2010.ThemissionoftheCSRAsiaCenteratAITistoadvancethedevelopmentandimplementa-tionofeffectiveandinnovativesustainabilitysolutionsandCSRstrategiesforandbybusiness;andtofacilitatethedevelopmentofsupportiveframeworkconditionsfor corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustain-abledevelopment.

Key activities in 2010:

Four one-day training courses• Building Partnerships with Business for Develop-

ment:To support development agencies (Interna-tionalOrganisations,NGOs,andgovernmentagen-cies)tobebetterpreparedtoworkwithcompaniesonpartnershipsforsustainabledevelopment.

• Investing for Impact: On approaches, lessonslearned,casestudies,andengagingemployees inthe whole process while the second part focusedonmonitoringandevaluationandmeasuring.

• CSR Essentials: A highly practical course to getparticipants started on CSR. After examining theemerging CSR agenda it outlined core issues andpracticaltoolsforeffectiveimplementationofCSR.

• ISO 26000: Designed to help companies integratetheguidanceintotheirmanagementsystemsandoperations by examining the necessary systemsandstructures,performancereviewsandcommu-nicationrequired.

Inaddition,theCSRACAconducted a numberofconsultancyprojectssupporting companiesin the development ofCSRstrategiesandpoli-cies, including bench-marking, gap analysis,stakeholder engage-ment,andworkshops.

Trackingtheneedsandaspirations of stake-holdersandtheprivate

sector,theCenterconductedresearchworkonissueslinked to the role of the private sector in sustainabledevelopment:FromgeneralresearchonCSRpracticesinThailand,toalargerresearchandengagementproj-ectfundedbytheSwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency(Sida)onharnessingtheinnova-tivecapacityof theprivatesector forclimatechangeadaptationinSouthandSoutheastAsia.

TheCSRACAcollaboratedwithUNEPtoorganizeanIn-dustryRoundtableinthemarginsofthe22ndMeetingofthePartiestotheMontrealProtocolinBangkok.It was engaged with outreach and network buildingactivities with businesses and their stakeholders inThailand, the Mekong region, and beyond. It soughtto explore linkages and collaboration opportunitieswithorganizationsandnetworksinthefieldtomaxi-mizeimpacttowardsitsmission.Anditcontributedtovarious events and meetings in its pursuit to furtherknowledge development about strategic approachestoCSRandthegenerationofcapacityforsustainablebusinesspracticesandpartnershipswithbusinessfordevelopment.

AsCSRisonlyslowlybeingintegratedintothecurricu-laofMBAsandothermanagementanddevelopmentqualifications in Asia and globally, many executivestaskedwithaCSRportfoliodonothaveformaltrain-ingandspecialisedexpertisetodeliveronmeaningfulCSRprogrammeslinkedtocorebusinessstrategies.AkeyfocusfortheCenterwasthedevelopmentofaPro-fessionalMaster’sDegreeprograminCSR.Inpartner-shipwithCSRAsia,deliveredthroughAIT’sSchoolofManagement,andcoordinatedbytheCSRACA,AITispioneeringaflexibleexecutivestyleprofessionalMas-ter’sdegreeinCSRtorespondtothiscapacitygap.ThefirstoftheeightintensivemodulesthatcomprisethetaughtpartoftheprogramwillbedeliveredatAITinSeptember2011.

CSR Asia Center at AIT


T heUnitedNationsAITOffice (UNAIT)success-fullydevelopedandestablishedcontactswithseveral UN agencies in 2010. These activities

included collaborative projects, training programs,studentexchangesandworkshops.WithUNESCO-IHEDelft,TheNetherlands,adoubledegreeprogramonenvironmental technologies for sustainable develop-ment (DD-ETSuD) was successfully established, andstudentsareexpectedtoenroll intheprogramstart-ingfromAugust2011.ThedualMaster’sdegreepro-gramonUrbanWaterEngineeringandManagement(UWEM) continued to attract students for the thirdconsecutive year. Furthermore, an Erasmus MundusDoctoral program on Environmental Technologiesfor Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments (ETe-CoS3) funded by the European Union has also beenestablished and was in its second year of operation.TwoMaster’sstudents fromAITsecuredscholarshipsfrom the ETeCOS3 program for conducting researchatUNESCO-IHEDelft,TheNetherlandsandUniversitàdegilStudidiCassino,Italy.

IIn 2010, the UNAIT Office also held a workshop onManagement of Heavy Metal Discharges from aban-donedcoalminesandcoalashdumpsites.Research-ers and policy experts from France, Philippines, andThailand participated in the workshop.Two researchprojectsareinprogresswithfundingfromUPaRFandSDCC/AIT-France network. Several projects are un-der consideration for funding including applicationsfor USAID, GEO. Several initiatives with UN agencieswere also undertaken by AIT faculty including: the4th Batch of E-learning Program on Integrated Wa-ter Resource Management, funded by UNU-INWEHandparticipants;theRegionalWaterVirtualLearningCenter (WVLC), part of the ProSPER.Net Joint Projecton Integrating Sustainability in Business School Cur-ricula,UNU-IAS,undertheguidanceofEducationforSustainable Development (EfSD) Programme of theUNU-IAS,whichistheSecretariatofthePromotionofSustainabilityinPostgraduateEducationandResearchNetwork(ProSPER.NET),andtheE-learningCourseonRenewableEnergyandEnergyPolicyfundedbyUNES-CO,Jakarta.Inordertofurtherstreamlinethecoopera-tionbetweenAITandUNEP,bothmutuallyagreedtoestablishaDeputyDirectorposition.

United Nations AIT Office (UNAIT)


Followingitscreation in2008,ARCMDGfocusedonthegrowingdemandfortrainingongoodpracticesto accelerate the attainment of MDGs in Asia and

elsewhere and convened several training courses andstudyvisitsforfieldandgovernmentofficials,inparticularonMDGGoalNo.1,eradicationofextremepovertyandhunger; MDG Goal No. 3, gender equality and women’sempowerment;MDGGoalNo.7,environmentalsustain-ability; and Goal No 8, global partnership for develop-ment.

Later,numerouspartnerscontributedtheirviewsonop-portunities for cooperation with ARCMDG. During theyears consultation took place with 240 people from UNbodies, universities, government offices, NGOs, press,private sector, and embassies.The review process high-lightedthefactthatAITimplementsoutstandingappliedresearch activities through its Research and OutreachCenters and its Schools. It was therefore suggested thatAIT should develop a concise concept note on its workplan to contribute to the attainment of MDGs, and itshouldconductadonors’forumtoconsultwithpartnersonsuchaworkplan.Anewinternationalmagazineonde-velopmentpolicieswassuggestedtofacilitateknowledgemanagement and information sharing among develop-mentpractitioners.ARCMDGwouldinitiatesuchnewac-tivitiesinearly2011.

ARCMDGwasalsoencouragedtostrengthen its facilita-tion role for international policy-making on MDGs. In2010, ARCMDG officials attended major conferences onMDGs policy making, at which AIT’s contributions wereinvited.

“Localizing MDGs, empowering people, putting goals into actions”

Highlights• Italian Dr. Sandro Calvani became Director of the ASEAN

Regional Center of Excellence on Millennium DevelopmentGoals(MDGs)atAITon1September2010.Dr.CalvanijoinedAIT after 30 years of international public service with inter-nationalNGOsandUNprogrammesasaseniormanager,di-rector and director general at various duty stations on fourcontinents(1980-2010).

• ASEAN Third Initiative for ASEAN Integration DevelopmentCooperationForum(IDCF-3):BuildingStrategicPartnershipstowardsNarrowingtheDevelopmentGapinCLMVon19Oc-tober2010,inJakartawherehedeliveredakeynotespeechonMDGspoliciesintheregion.Attheconference,ARCMDGwas invited to become a member of the working group topreparesuchanASEANMDGreporttobepublishedforthefirsttimeinSeptember2011.

• The“Regional Workshop towards the ASEAN Statistical Re-port on the Millennium Development Goals” was attendedbynationalMDGsauthoritiesfromASEAN.TheworkshopwasorganizedwiththeassistanceoftheEU-ASEANStatisticalCa-pacityBuilding(EASCAB)Programme.

• Over400participantsgatheredinBangkokfora“Language,Education and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”conference co-organized and sponsored by the ARCMDG.H.E.AbhisitVejjajiva,PrimeMinisterofThailand,inauguratedtheeventwhichfeaturedkeynotespeakerProfessorSuzanneRomainefromOxfordUniversity.Prof.J.K.RoutrayofARCMDGrepresented AIT as a member of the Conference SteeringCommittee and was coordinator of the track 4 activities on“LanguageandSustainableDevelopment”,whichwaslargelytheresponsibilityofAITfacultymembers.Thesub-themesofthistrackwereLanguageandAchievementsofDevelopmentGoals(ModeratorDr.M.M.Ahmad,AIT);Tradition,EthnicityandCulture(ModeratorDr.RaquelCastilo);EmpowermentofIndigenousCommunities(ModeratorDr.EllenAHerda);Sus-tainable Development (Moderator Dr. Jonathan Shaw, AIT);LinguisticandCulturalConsiderations(ModeratorMatthew,Laszewski, AIT); and Education andTraining for SustainableDevelopment(ModeratorProf.J.K.Routray,AIT).

• TheARCMDGDirectorattendedthe“InternationalConferenceonSecurityandSolidarityinEurope,”inOlbia.HeaddressedtheparticipantsonthesubjectofmigrationandMDGs.

• From 29 November - 2 December, the ARCMDG Directorparticipated in the“World Economic Forum Summit on theGlobalAgenda”inDubaiasaguestoftheUAEGovernmentand had meetings with executives of the African Develop-ment Bank, OPIC (US Government Agency which supportsprivate sector investment in developing countries), GlobalGovernance Solutions, Millennium Promise, the MIT Sense-ableLaboratory,JICAandPAHOtoconsultonpossibilitiesforcooperationwithARCMDGandotherAITinitiatives.

• On8December,upontheinvitationofUNDP,ARCMDGpar-ticipated in a UN Brainstorming Meeting on the proposedsubjectsfortheUNHumanDevelopmentReportin2010.

• In the last quarter of 2010, ARCMDG obtained UNDP andASEANagreementandsupport toorganizeamajorconsul-tation of UN and ASEAN senior officials on“The Road MaptowardstheAttainmentofMDGs”,whichwasscheduledforJanuary2011.

ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on Millenium Development Goals (ARCMDG)


I nitsfirst20years,theRegionalResourceCentreforAsiaandthePacific(RRC.AP)hasundertakendra-maticchangesinitsworkingpanorama.Emerging

fromanarrowfocusongeographicalinformationsys-temsandremotesensingtoassistcountriesinSouth-east Asia, the Global Resource Information Database(GRID-Bangkok)facilitythatwasestablishedbyUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme(UNEP)AssessmentDivision,hasevolvedintoabroadlyfocusedtechnicalCentrethatservescountriesinAsiaandthePacific.RRC.AP responds to the region’s needs for capacitybuilding in science, assessment, policy tools, emerg-ingenvironmentalissues,knowledgeandinformationdissemination, and pilot projects for demonstrationand replication. RRC.AP is structured into four majorcomponents corresponding to the type of supportthattheyprovide:Regional,Network,KnowledgeandInstitutional.

2010 HighlightsAsia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum:Over 550 policymakers, scientists, development ex-perts, and representatives from Asia-Pacific govern-mentsandbilateralandmultilateraldonorsgatheredinBangkokon21-22October2010fortheAsia-PacificClimateChangeAdaptationForum2010.Thefirstdayfocused on general approaches and large-scale fi-nancingofclimatechangeadaptation,whilethesec-ond day concentratedon details concerningadaptation governance,mainstreaming adapta-tion into developmentplanning,andtheimpor-tanceofeffectiveknowl-edge management. Theparticipants debated oncritical issues on how tobest approach climatechange adaptation andhowtointegrateadapta-tionintodevelopment.World Environment Day:ThethemeforWorldEn-vironmentDay2010was“ManySpecies.OnePlan-et. One Future.” On thisoccasion, AIT-UNEP RRC.

AP, together with several partners/sponsors, carriedoutvariousactivitiestoraiseandenhanceawarenessofpressingenvironmentalissues,includingpreventingbiodiversitylossinsupportoftheInternationalYearofBiodiversityin2010.AvideomessagefromMr.AchimSteiner,UNEPExecutiveDirector,highlightedtheeventheldattheAITConferenceCenteron4June.

11thAnnualMeetingoftheCollaborativeActionNet-work (CAN): The CAN held its 11th Annual Meetingon20October2010.AIT-UNEPRRC.AP’sCANpartnersand donors from Central Asia, South Asia, SoutheastAsia, Northeast Asia, andThe Pacific, as well as otherinternationalrelevantorganizationsandexpertswerepresent. The meeting followed-up on the 10th CANAnnual Meeting and discussed strategic partnershipsandinitiativeswithregardstoatmosphericresources.RegionalcontributionstotheupcomingRio+20EarthSummitwerealsoexplored.

Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Meetingon Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia(EANET):TheIntergovernmentalMeeting(IG12)ontheAcidDepositionMonitoringNetworkinEastAsiahelditsTwelfthSessioninNiigata,Japanon23-24Novem-ber2010.ThesessionapprovedDecision1/IG12whichadopted the“Instrument for Strengthening the AcidDepositionMonitoringNetwork inEastAsia (EANET)”and decided on the operational date of the instru-ment.

AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (AIT-UNEP RRC.AP)



Projects Completed

• Knowledge City Police Sub-Station: This project consists of the con-structionofPolicesub-stationlocatedjustoutsideofAsianInstituteof Technology, Pathumthani Thailand. This Police substation willbeserving3institutionsAsianInstituteofTechnology,ThammasatUniversityofRangsitandNationalSciencePark.HabitechCenterde-signedandconstructedusinginterlockingbricktechnologydevel-opedatitscenter.

• Construction of Primary Schools in Myanmar: Thisprojectconsistsoftheconstructionof5Primaryschoolsin5remotevillagesofDeltaareasinMyanmar.ThisprojectissupportedbyOxfam-Novibandim-plementedbySitaguBuddhistMissionaryCenter,Myanmar.Thein-terlocking-brickstechnologydevelopedbyHabitechCenterofSET,AIT was used to construct the schools. Habitech Center providedtechnicalsupportbyprovidingequipmentstoproduceinterlockingbricks and conducted Trainings on Production and Effective Con-structionwithInterlockingbricksonsites.

• Child-Friendly Primary Schools for Cyclone Nurgis victim Children of Myanmar: With the partnership with UNICEF Myanmar, HabitechCenter, as a consultant, played a vital role to build Child FriendlyPrimarySchoolsin35remotevillagesofDeltaareasinAyeyarwadyandYangon Division of Myanmar.The interlocking-bricks technol-ogydevelopedbyHabitechCenterofSET,AITwasusedtoconstructtheschoolsHabitechCenterprovidedequipmentstoproducesoil-cementinterlockingbricksandconductedtrainingson“ProductionofInterlockingBricks”and“EffectiveConstructionwithInterlockingBricks”onsites.Atotalof10PrimarySchoolsbuiltinthefirstphase(2009)and25PrimarySchoolsbuiltinthesecondphase(Jan-June2010).

Habitech Center

Habitechisaresearchanddevelopmentcenterestablishedin1989intheHumanSettlementDevelopmentProgramofAIT.Habitech’sultimategoalistoseekalternativetechnicalandenvironmentalsolutionsinthedevelopmentofhumansettlements.

Technology Transfer

• Technology Transfer to Myanmar:Inordertoconstructchild-friendlyschoolsinremoteCycloneNargisaffectedareasofDelta,Myanmar,HabitechCenterhassuppliedthroughitsMyanmarCenter,ManualBrickPressesandHydraulicBrickPressestoUNICEFMyanmar.Resultofthistechnologytransfer,atotalof45ChildfriendlyPri-marySchoolswerebuilt.

• Technology Transfer to Bhutan: For last 2 and half years, Habitech Center has provided more than 25 privateentrepreneurswithManualBrickPresses,Micro-concreteRoofingTilesworkstations,HydraulicTestingPressesandpaddlemixersandoneconcretemixer.Sinceinterlockingsoil-cementbricksaregettingverypopularinBhutan,moreandmoreentrepreneursarecomingforward.So,HabitechBhutanCenterisalreadyestablishedinBhutan.

• Technology Transfer to Bangladesh:WiththesuccessfulimplementationoftheconstructionofPrimaryschoolsinMyanmar,UNICEFBangladeshalsorequestedforthesupplyofManualBrickPressesandHydraulicbrickPressestoconstructPrimarySchoolsinBangladesh.Sofar,equipmentsarealreadyprovidedtoUNICEFBangladesh,buttheimplementationworkisstillpending.

Knowledge City, Pathumthai, ThailandPoliceSub-Station

PrimaryschoolinMyanmar

PrimarySchoolsforCycloneNargisvictimsinMyanmar


T heAsianCenterforSoilImprovementandGeo-synthetics(ACSIG)consolidateditscurrentsoil/ground improvement related activities in the

Soil Engineering Program, liaised with other Centersrelevant toACSIG,andactedasacatalyst for thead-vancement of soil/ground improvement techniques.The Center continued to spearhead effective utiliza-tion of geosynthetics for environmental preservationandtomitigateexistinggeotechnicalproblemsinAsiaandthePacificthroughcompetent,updatedandsus-tainableeducation,researchandoutreachactivities.

In 2010, ACSIG brought numerous QA/QC testing forgeosyntheticproductsfrombothThailand-basedand

Asian Center for Soil Improvement and Geosynthetics (ACSIG)

Trainings, Seminars and Exhibitions

TheMinisterwasaccompaniedbyMr.SangayDorjee,DirectorofDepartmentofOccupationalStandards,andMr.KuenzangDechen,CounselorofEmbassyofBhutantoThailand.

• H.E. Mr. Tsering Dorji, Ambassador of Bhutan toThailand,AustraliaandSingaporeaccompaniedbyhiswifemadeaninformalvisittoHabitechCenterto learn about the interlocking Brick technology,which has been so popular in Bhutan for the lasttwoandahalfyears.TheCoordinatorofHabitechCenter made presentation on Habitech BuildingTechnology to H.E. Mr. Tsering Dorji. (14 August2010).

• H.E.Mr.DorjiWangdi,MinisterofLaborandHumanResources, Government of Bhutan, has expressedkeennessinusingthebuildingtechnologycreatedbyHabitechCenteroftheAsianInstituteofTechnol-ogy(AIT),inlargeconstructionprojectsinBhutan.While visiting AIT on 7 August 2010, the Ministerstated that AIT’s Habitech Center could positivelycontribute and support capacity development intheconstructionsectorofBhutan.

• UNICEF Seminar / Workshop (2-4 August 2010):

Habitech Center was invited by UNICEF as a spe-cialguestspeakertopresent its technologyat theSeminar/WorkshoporganizedfortheUNICEFstaffs,which was attended by the UNICEF staffs of morethan15countries.

• Exhibition of Habitech Building Technology atConstruction Expo-2010, Bhutan (2–6 June 2010):Habitech Center was invited by Bhutan Chamberof Commerce and Industry to exhibit its technol-ogyattheConstructionExpo-2010.Theexhibitionstallwasvisitedbyveryhighlevelofficialsaswellasmorethan100PrivateandPublicentrepreneurs.

• Presentation on Habitech Building System wasmadetodecision-makersfromUNHabitat(Nepal),DirectorGeneralofDepartmentofBuilding,Hous-ing and Urban Development, representative fromUrban Development through Local Efforts (GTZ)andmanyseniorengineersandarchitectsofNepal.

international geosynthetics companies. The courseGeosynthetic Engineering Design (CE71.55) was alsocarriedoutintheACSIGlaboratory.ACSIGhasservedastheheadquartersoftheInternationalGeosyntheticsSociety–ThailandChapter(IGS-Thailand)sinceitses-tablishmentin2002.ACSIGpublished2issuesofnews-lettersforbothIGS-Thailand(JuneandDecember2010issues)andtheSoutheastAsianGeotechnicalSocietyorSEAGS(FebruaryandAugust2010issues).

PartofACSIG’sannualoutreachactivitiesinvolvedtheorganizationofsymposiumsandshorttrainingcours-es.Thus,the“InternationalSymposiumandExhibitiononGeotechnicalandGeosyntheticsEngineering:Chal-



T he Regional Network Office for Urban Safety(RNUS)isacollaborativecenterjointlyoperatedby the School of Engineering andTechnology

(SET),AIT,andtheInternationalCenterforUrbanSafe-ty Engineering (ICUS), Institute of Industrial Science,UniversityofTokyo.RNUSwasfoundedin2002topro-moteresearchandeducationalactivitiesforimprovingurbansafetyanddisasterpreventioninAsiancountriesby promoting collaborative research with various or-ganizationsinareasofurbansafetyengineering.

In 2010, RNUS organized two big seminars on geo-spatial technologies for environment and disastermanagement and the water resources managementasfollows:On27thNovember2010,ahalfdaysympo-sium on the“Forefront and Challenges of Geospatial

Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS)

I n 2010, the Geoinformatics Center (GIC) of AITformallybeganoperatingastheProjectManager(undertheauspicesoftheInternationalCharterfor

Emergency Satellite Observations and Rapid SatelliteDataAnalysis) toprovidecriticalsupport in responseand post-disaster recovery operations. GIC took re-sponsibilityastheProjectManagerforworkconcern-ing the Sumatra tsunami in Indonesia in October,2010.

This year the Geoinformatics Center successfully im-plementedtheASEANCooperationProjectonUtiliza-tionofSatellite ImagesforDisasterRiskReduction inThailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Philippines and Myan-mar.Thisprojectisaimedatcapacitybuildinginpro-cessingandutilizationofsatellitedataindisasterman-agement intherespectivecountries.TheprojectwasimplementedincollaborationwiththeAsianDisasterReduction Center (ADRC), Japan.The GeoinformaticsCenter also took up nine small-scale projects, called“mini-projects”, inBhutan, Indonesia,LaoPDR,Nepal,Sri Lanka,Thailand andVietnam.The main objective

Geoinformatics Center

HisExcellencySeniorMinisterofCambodia,ImChhunLim,at-tendedtheseminarinPhnomPenhorganizedundertheASEANCooperationProjectinPhnomPenh.

lenges and Opportunities on Climate Change” washeldon7to-8December2010,immediatelyfollowedbytheone-dayshortcourseon“GeosyntheticsAppli-cationsandCaseHistories”on9December2010.BothactivitieswereheldinBangkok,Thailand.TheSympo-siumattracted115participantswhoincludedguests,

speakers, session chairs, sponsors and exhibitors. Atotalof17internationalanddomestic(Thailand)com-panies sponsored the event, which included 13 ex-hibitors.TheSymposiumproceedingswerecomprisedof 41 papers. 48 participants registered for the ShortCourse.

TechnologiesforEnvironmentalandDisasterManage-ment in Southeast Asia” was held in Bangkok whichattracted 8 distinguished speakers, from both Japanand Thailand. Approximately 140 participants joinedthesymposium:40%fromuniversities;40%fromgov-ernments;and20%fromtheprivatesectorandothersectors.

On 29th January 2011, half day symposium on the“Forefront and Challenges of Water Resources Man-agement in Southeast Asia” took place in Bangkok.Thiseventsaw6distinguishedspeakers,fromThailandand the United States in the field of water resourcesmanagement fromboththeacademicfieldandgov-ernment.Theeventattractedmorethantwohundredapplicants.

oftheprojectwastobuildindividualandinstitutionalcapacities in applications of remote sensing and GIS.Disasters,aswellasenvironmentandclimatechangerelatedissuesintheabovementionedcountries,wereaddressesthroughtheprojectwithsponsorshipfromthe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ja-pan.


T he Center of Excellence In Nanotechnology(CoEN), supported jointly by the NationalNanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) of the

National Science and Technology DevelopmentAgency (NSTDA) ofThailand and the Asian InstituteofTechnology (AIT), is located on the AIT campus inthe Outreach Building.The CoEN was established on25 May 2006 and its state-of-the-art laboratory wasofficially inaugurated on the 8 September 2009.Thegraduate program in nanotechnology at AIT waslaunched in August 2009 and is designed to pushforward knowledge-based industries of the 21stcentury.

Current researchactivitiesat theCoENfocusondye-sensitizedsolarcells,piezotronicdevices,gassensors,bio-diagnostic tools, environmental mitigationthrough visible light photocatalysis, self-organizationof nanoparticles, and layer-by-layer growth fromcolloidal particles, amongst others. The center’sresearchers carry out cutting-edge cross-disciplinaryresearch.

Key results

Twenty peer reviewed journal and internationalconference papers were published in 2010.Fundamentals of Nanotechnology a publication co-authored by our Visiting Professor Gabor L. HornyakfromColoradoSchoolofMinesandProf.JoydeepDutta,DirectorofCoEN,wasacclaimedasoneoftheworld’sOutstanding Academic Titles for 2009 by “Choice:CurrentReviewsforAcademicLibraries”,apublicationof the Association of College and Research Libraries,

The Center of Excellence In Nanotechnology (CoEN)

andaDivisionoftheAmericanLibraryAssociation.

TheCenterofExcellenceinNanotechnologyorganizedmany events in 2010. On 23 September 2010 aNanotechnology forum was organized at AIT. Prof.Sirirurg Songsivilai (Executive Director, NANOTEC);Dr.MeyyaMeyyappan,ChiefScientist forExplorationTechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, USA; Prof.HeinrichHofmann,Director,TheERUSurfaceCoatingand Particle Engineering (SPERU), Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland;Prof. Joydeep Dutta, Vice President for AcademicAffairs (AIT), and Prof. Gabor (Louis) Hornyak of AITparticipatedinthisforum.TheCenterofExcellenceinNanotechnology was actively involved in designingand conceptualizing the Nanotechnology Pavilion atthe National Science and Technology Fair 2010 heldin August 2010 at Bangkok International Trade andExhibitionCenter(BITEC),Bang-na,Bangkok.

T he Center continued its operation to performbasicandappliedresearchoncommunity(ru-ral,peri-urbanandurban)drinkingwatersup-

ply, waste disposal, wastewater use, water resourcesdevelopment, soilandairpollution in relation tohu-manhealth.Activities include researchonhealth im-pactassessment,healthriskassessmentandenviron-mentalmanagement forhealthriskreductionandtoprovidetechnicalguidanceandconsultingtoWHO,its

WHO Collaborating Center

MemberStatesanddevelopmentpartners.TheCentercontinued to educate and train engineers, scientistsand health professionals in the field of environmen-talhealth,relatedtodrinkingwatersupplyandwastedisposal, water management and wastewater use,andother relatedareas.Workon introductionofWa-terSafetyPlansintotheAITcurriculawasalsocarriedthroughout2010.

HRHPrincessMahaChakriSirindhornreceivesacopyofFundamentals in NanotechnologyattheNationalScienceandTechnologyFair2010.



Asian Regional Programme on Environmental Technology (ARRPET) Phase II

T heSwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooper-ationAgency(Sida)-fundedprojectonAsianRe-gionalProgrammeonEnvironmentalTechnolo-

gy(ARRPET)PhaseIIconcludedon31December2010.The ARRPET project was a networking-type, researchprojectcoordinatedbytheAsianInstituteofTechnol-ogy. The project successfully established a networkof researchers from 18 national research institutionsfrom8AsiancountriessuchasChina,India,Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,SriLanka,ThailandandVietnam.Theprojectyieldedsubstantialcapacitybuildingoftheresearchersinvolved,asevidencedbyover500publi-cations in international refereed journals and confer-encesandnumerouspopulararticles.Theprojectheldover 100 seminars, training programs, conferencesandworkshopsforresearchersandpolicyexpertsforestablishingpolicy initiatives forenvironmentalpres-

Asian Center for Engineering Computations and Software (ACECOMS)

In 2010, the Asian Center for EngineeringComputationsandSoftware(ACECOMS)conducteda wide range of activities including seminars,

workshops, and research and consulting projects, aswellasworkingonsoftwaredevelopment.

Several new projects were initiated and completedin various countries including Thailand, PhilippinesandBangladesh,incollaborationwithreputablelocalengineeringcompanies.Projectsrangedfromdamageinvestigations tonewstructuraldesignsofbuildingsforearthquakeresistance.

ervation. Links with industry were also establishedthrough pilot-scale investigations on the processesdevelopedthroughARRPETresearch.Severalspin-offprojects and activities were also established. FurtherdetailsofARRPETresearchactivitiescanbefoundonprojectwebsite, http://www.arrpet.ait.ac.th.

The project was coordinated by Prof. Ajit P. Annachha-tre and dealt with environmental issues in Asia such as Wastewater Treatment and Management (Principal In-vestigator: Prof. Ajit P. Annachhatre); Solid Waste land-fill Management in Asia (Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Visvanathan); Improving Air Quality in Asian Developing Countries (Principal Investigator: Prof. Nguyen Thi Kim oanh); and Industrial and hazardous Waste Treatment and Management (Principal Investigator: Prof. Ajit P. An-nachhatre).

ACECOMS conducted trainings and seminars inseveral countries including Myanmar, Philippines,Pakistan,SriLankaandThailand.Participantsrangedfrom professional engineers and public officials toacademics. ACECOMS also organized the 3rd AsiaConference on Earthquake Engineering (ACEE) 2010jointlywiththeAssociationofStructuralEngineersofthePhilippines,Inc.(ASEP),atBangkok.Thailand.


T he Internet Education and ResearchLaboratory (intERLab) spearheadednumerous trainings and workshops to

fulfill its commitment to human resource de-velopmentinthefieldofICT,specificallyutiliza-tionofthe internet ineducationandresearch.As a research center for internet applications,intERLab partnered with like-minded institu-tions in researchactivities, specificallyCarTalkand DUMBONET-III. intERLab also furtheredthedevelopmentandscopeofitse-educationfacilities by providing workshops on distanceeducation and modifying VClass according toneeds and local requirements. Follow-up proj-ectsandactivitieswerealsoarrangedtoutilizetheknowledgeandlearningacquiredthroughthepreparatoryworkshops.

Research

Car Talk

intERLabcontinuedtoconductitsresearchactivitiesinVehicularNetworkingaswellasinDisasterEmergencyNetworking.InVehicularNetworkingresearch,IntER-Lab received a one-year grant from the National Sci-ence and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)to conduct a research titled “Epidemic Protocol forCarTalk”. In March and December 2010, atThailandScience Park, IntERLab demonstrated its vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) net-working prototypes which utilize cutting-edge tech-nologies including Disruption Tolerance Networking(DTN),EpidemicProtocol,andSo-cialNetworkingforVehicles.Since2009, intERLab, along with otherinstitutions, has collaborated in theso-called “Car Talk” research groupsteered by NECTEC’s IntelligentTransportation Systems (ITS)cluster to produce inter-vehiclecommunication systems whichhave the capabilities to warnvehicledriversofpotentialdan-gerswhiledriving.

Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab)

DUMBONET-III

The research team of intERLab put together Disrup-tionToleranceNetworking(DTN),MobileAdHocNet-work (MANET), and Social Networking technologiestocreateathirdinnovativerevisionofitswell-knownDigital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband OLSR Network,dubbedDUMBONET-III.WiththegeneroussupportoftheThaiNetworkInformationCenter(THNIC)founda-tion,IntERLabre- searchers demonstrated theDUMBONE T- III frameworkattheKhaoYai

National Park, Thailand, inMarch 2010. The technicaldemonstration was a partof the Thailand NetworkingGroup(THNG)1stCamp,and

also included a technologytraining workshop to familiar-

izetraineesandrescuevol-unteersonhowtodeployandutilizethemultimediainformationdisseminationcapabilities of DUMBO-NET-III during large-scalenaturaldisasteremergen-cies.


e-education

UniChannel Project

UniChannelisacost-effectivee-learningplatformdesignedandimplementedbyintERLabtoenablelarge-scalesharingandarchivingofteachingandlearning resources among Thai universities andinstitutes of education, through the National Re-search and Education Network (NREN) infrastructurenamely UniNet. Using ordinary computer hardware,togetherwithintERLab’sowndistancelearningappli-cationknowasVClass,theplatformprovidesalow-costsystemsetupwithoutcompromisingonperformanceandflexibility. Sharedcontentsuchasvideolecturescanbedeliveredinreal-timeandschedule-modeus-ing two popular high definition video formats: DVTSandH.264onbothIPV4andIPV6technology.

Telemedicine

Atelemedicineworkshoptitled“StrengtheningeffortsofTele-medicinebydeploymentofCanalAVISTAppli-cationamongTEIN3Communities“,wasorganizedbyintERLabtoexplorethemajorhindrancesforstrength-eningtele-medicineande-healthinitiativesintheAsia-Pacificregion.TheworkshopwasjointlyhostedbyNe-palResearchandEducationNetwork(NREN)andAsianInstituteofTechnology(AIT)andwasbroadcastedtoall TEIN3 members. Remote participants from sevenmember countries were able to receive high-defini-tionvideopresentationsofmedicalteleconsultationsbetweenKathmanduModelHospitalinNepalandPra-mongkutHospitalinThailandviaCanalAVISTdeliveryplatform.TheworkshopclearlydemonstratedtheuseofCanalAVISTasakeyapplicationtoenableregionalcollaborationontelemedicine,whichcouldleadtothesustainabledevelopmentoflearningenvironmentsforresearchandeducationinthee-healtharea.

Distance Education Workshop

intERLab organized a three-day workshop on Dis-tanceEducation(DE)thatprovidedacomprehensiveoverviewofdistancelearningconceptsandtechnolo-

gies.Experts inthefieldofDEwerebothinvitedandremotely joined the workshop to provide up-to-dateinformationonexistingandfuturetechnologiesinDE.ParticipantsfromfivedifferentcountriesweregivenanopportunitytoworkonintERLab’sowndistancelearn-ingapplicationthroughVClasstrainingsessions.

TrainingsintERLab trainings provided technical informationandupdatedknowledgetoitsparticipantsintheAsiaPacificregion.intERLabmaintainedcollaborationwithitspartnersinordertobringinexpertsfromtechnicalfields and provide up-to-date information in variousworkshoptopics.AmongitspartnersareTrans-EurasiaInformationNetwork3(TEIN3)Project,DeliveryofAd-vancedNetworkTechnologytoEurope(DANTE),Net-work Startup Resource Center (NSRC) - University ofOregon,AsiaPacificAdvancedNetworkJapan(APAN-JP),ThaiNetwork InformationCenter (THNIC),CISCOSystems, China Education and Research Network(CERNET),TOTPublicCompanyLimitedThailand,andAsiaPacificNetworkInformationCenter(APNIC).

WorkshopswereheldontimelytopicsofnecessitytoTEIN3networkmemberssuchas: InternetResourcesManagement,IPv6,MPLSNetworkDesignandDeploy-ment,DistanceEducation,andMulticastHands-On.AspartofitsgrowingICThumanresourcedevelopmentobjective,inDecember2010intERLabpartneredwiththeRoyalUniversityofBhutantoholda10-daywork-shopforitstechnicalteamthroughahands-onwork-shopVoIP:AsteriskandAnalogPBXIntegration.


T he14thJointMeetingoftheGMSARNBoardandCouncilofAdvisorswasheldinLuangPrabang,Lao PDR on 17 November 2010. The meeting

broughttogetherrectors,vicerectors,vicepresidentsandauthorizedrepresentativesfromsixteenGMSARNBoard Member institutions along with council of ad-visors and observers. Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai,VicePresidentforResourceDevelopment,AIT,andDr.Weerakorn Ongsakul, Dean of the School of Environ-ment, Resources and Development, and GMSARNSecretaryGeneralattendedthemeeting.EstablishinganewGMSARNFoundation;developmentofGMSARNResearchandEducationProjects,includingtheGreat-er Mekong Subregion Academic Research NetworkProject (GMSEENet Project) and the Greater MekongSubregion Development Studies Programs Project(GMS DSP Project); and the GMSARN journal applica-tionforimpactfactorsweretheprimaryoutcomesofthemeeting.Thailand’sChulalongkornUniversitywasalsowelcomedasanewAssociateGMSARNMember.gMSARN now comprises a total of sixteen members and associate members.

Thismeetingwasheldpriortothe5thGMSARNInter-national Conference 2010, which is a multi-discipli-narily conference. The Conference in Luang PrabangonNovember17-19saw122abstractsubmissionsoutofwhich93chosenpresentationsweredefended.140academicsattendedtheconference.

TheBoardMeetingandConferencewerebothfeaturedinLaos’nationalnewspapertheVientiane Times.LuangPrabang Provincial Deputy Governor, Mr. KhamkanChanthavisoukwasinvitedtoopentheConference.

The14thJointMeetingofGMSARNBoardMembersandCouncilofAdviserswashostedbytheNationalUniver-sityofLaos.The5thGMSARNInternationalConferencewasorganizedbyGMSARNandco-organizedbyAsianInstitute of Technology, National University of Laos,SouphannouvongUniversity,UbonRajathaniUniversity,

Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN): Developments and Network Expansion FundedbytheRoyalThaiGovernment

NakhonPhanomUniversityandKhonKaenUniversity.

The6thGMSARNInternationalConferenceisplannedon16-18November2011atUdonThani,Thailandandco-organizedbyGMSARN,KhonKaenUniversity,UbonRajathaneeUniversityandtheAsianInstituteofTech-nology.

GMSARN Research and Development Projects

ResearchandEducationProjectsunderGMSARNcon-tinued to strengthen the sixteen-member universitynetworkthroughout2010.

Greater Mekong Subregion Academic Research Network (GMSEENet) Project

As one of the premier Research and Education Proj-ectsOchestratedbyGMSARN,theGMSEENetworkingteamintroducedanddemonstrateddevelopmentsoftheestablishedplatform.Theteamimprovedtheexist-ingplatformtolaunchanovelnetworkofdatabasesinEnergyandEnvironmentamongstthefifteenpremierinstitutes within GMSARN. An online demonstrationwasheldduringtheBoardMeeting2010.Currently there are Six Nodes classified as“Develop-ment Group A” in the node development phase.Thecoordinatorsofthefivenodesarecurrentlyuploadinginformation to the network.The six Nodes are: AsianInstitute of Technology, Royal University of PhnomPenh,NakhonPhanomUniversity,UbonRajathaniUni-versity, Hanoi University of Science and Technologyand Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. TheNodesin“DevelopmentGroupB”areNationalUniver-sityofLaos,MekongRiverCommissionandKunmingUniversityofScienceandTechnology.Therestof theNodesbelongto“DevelopmentGroupC”.

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C).Thecriteriaforclassificationarebasedon:

1. Levelsofcommunicationmadethroughconversa-tions,meetings,e-mails,telephoneconversations,faxandvariousothermeans.

2. EstablishmentofGMSEENetCoordinator.

3. Status of contract. Signed, in the process of sign-ing,pendingresponse.

4. AmountofuploadsontheNodeDigitalLibrary.

5. AmountofchangesmadetotheNodeWebPortal.

Greater Mekong Subregion Development Studies (GMS DS) Programs

Under the guidance of Dr. Kyoko Kusakabe, GMS DSProgramsintroducedjointstudyprogramswhichareintended to maximize and strengthen GMSARN pro-gramsfocusedonspecificproblemsintheGreaterMe-kongSubregion(GMS.

Currently there is a need to improve the academicquality of facilies in the region. Development is stillverymuchunevenacrosstheregion.Thereisalsoanincrease in common, regional-specific problems thatrequire interdisciplinary and cross-border coopera-

tioninresearchanddevelopment.TheaimsoftheDe-velopmentStudiesProgramarethefollowing.

1. TheJointDegreeProgramisinvolvedwithinnovat-ingnewapproachesandmethodologiesalongwithfindingsolutionstoemergingregionalproblemsbyexperimentingwithnewacademiccoursesthatex-ploretheseproblems.

2. Italsoaimstoincubate/pilotnewacademiccoursesto identify new areas of study that would bettersuitetheneedsoftheregion.

During thepastyear,GMSDSProgramswereable todevelopnine coursesandmobilize scholarships fromtheGovernmentofJapanandtheMinistryofForeignAffairs,Thailandforat leastthreestudentsfromLaos,CambodiaandVietnam.Thisissettogrowduringtheforthcomingyears.

In2010,therewereconstructivediscussionstoexplorepossibilities for exchange programs with other mem-berinstitutesthathavebeendevelopedorinitiatedontheirownaccord.

A GMS Certificate leading to a Master’s Degree Pro-gramistobeofferedwithacreditwaveringschemeinthepipeline.Fundingsourcesare beingexploredtoexecutethesedevelopments.

Front Row: Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Vice President for Resource Development, AIT, (seventh from right) and Dr. Weerakorn ongsakul, Dean of the School of Environment, Resources and Development, and gMSARN Secretary general (fourth from right).


The Wetlands Alliance 2010

T hisyeartheWetlandsAlliancedeepeneditsen-gagementintheMekongRiverregion.TheAl-liance has over 45 partners, and AIT, together

with the three other regional partners - CORIN-Asia,WorldFish and WWF - supported local partners incoastalandinlandareasinCambodia,LaoPDR,Thai-land and Vietnam. The Alliance Secretariat, which ishostedbyAIT,oversawabudgetofUS$2milliondur-ing2010.

Since the inception of the Alliance, students havebeenencouragedtodevelopresearchtopicswithlo-calpartnersandcommunitieswhichaddressresearch-able issues of relevance to those communities. Overtheyearsanumberofstudentsfromtheregion(pri-marily from AIT) and beyond, such as Europe, haveundertaken research within the Alliance framework.In2010,atotalof9students(allfromAIT)undertookMastersandPhDresearchfortheirdissertations.

Through the research support the Alliance provides,AIT students are encouraged to view their thesis re-search as something that goes beyond the writtenthesisreportthatwillbecataloguedintheinstitute’slibrary.TheyareencouragedtodirectlyengagewithAlliancelocalpartnerstoaddressissuesofconcernofAlliance beneficiaries and to make their research re-sultsvaluableandusabletotheselocalcommunities.Anexamplewas“AnAssessmentofVulnerability&Ad-aptationofaFishingCommunitytothelowestwaterlevelinMekongRiverinStungTrengRamsarSite,Cam-bodia,”whichisanongoingresearchthatcontributestotheassessmentoflocalcommunities’capacitiestoadapttoclimatechange.

AnotherareaofAIT’sengagementwithAlliancepart-nerswasinthedevelopmentofsustainablefinancingstrategies and mechanisms for improving access tofinancialcapitalforsmall,householdandcommunity-levelbusinessdevelopment.

Inordertosucceed,oneofthechallengesistobringachangeofattitudestoitspartners.ForAlliancepart-ners,justasmanyotheraidorganizations,givinghasbeenthemainapproachtoliftpeopleoutofpoverty,whilemoremarket-orientedapproaches,suchaslend-ing,areviewedwithacertaindegreeofresistanceandskepticism.This is a change that the Alliance cannotforce,but isencouragingthroughdialogueandcon-sultationstoestablishamutualunderstanding.AITis

doingthisbyemphasizingthatactivitiesshouldalwaysaimforsocialandeconomicsustainability.Throughitsinvolvement,AITencouragesactivitiesthatreducede-pendencies and seeks to avoid Alliance partners be-comingpermanentdistributorsofaid.Inotherwords,instead of giving fish to communities, the Allianceprovidestrainingonhowtousefishinggear,andthenlendsthemthemoneytobuyit.AITaccompanieslocalpartners in the process of building sustainable com-munitiesandhasconductedaseriesofconsultationswithregionalandlocalpartnersinCambodia,VietnamandThailand.

Poverty Reduction and Agricultural Management (PRAM)

During2010,theprofessionalBachelordegreeinPov-ertyReductionandAgriculturalManagement(PRAM),an in-service training programme supported by AITtogetherwithThaiandLaopartners,saw34studentsundertake over 100 projects that address poverty in


remotevillagesinLaoPDR.

InOctober,membersofProSPER.Netparticipatedinaworkshop in Savannakhet, Lao PDR, which aimed toidentifymechanismstoimprovepostgraduatecurricu-laamongProSPER.Netmemberssothatcurriculacanbe influenced and guided by the agenda and needsoftheregion’spoorergroups.Afollowupisplannedwhich will focus on documenting the PRAM processforwiderdissemination.

InNovember,AITPresidentProf.SaidIrandoustvisitedoneof thevillageswherePRAMstudentsundertookprojects(LamtuayTangway,LaoPDR)toseehowedu-cationalsuccessisnotonlymeasuredbywrittenexams,butbythestudents’abilitytoactuallyreducepoverty.Theenthusedstudentstalkedabouttheirprojectsandthesuccesstheywerehavingindirectlyhelpingsomevery poor people, and showed how education canmotive people and accelerate development directly.Examples included simple aquaculture techniques

whichprovidedapoorfamilywithmuchneededad-ditional protein and a combined animal vaccinationandmicro-biogasprojectprovidingimprovedanimalhealthandcheapenergy.Thisuniqueandinnovativeapproach to education has now sparked interest inother countries, such as Cambodia, Philippines, Ma-laysia,Vietnam,MyanmarandThailand.

InLaos,muchfocusisontheTechnicalServiceCenter(TSC), and the PRAM has made a real impact in de-velopingthefunctionalityandsustainabilityoftheseCentersnationwide.IndiscussionswithH.E.SittahengRasaphone, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry(MAF),LaoPDR,itwasagreedthatAITandMAFwouldcooperatetosecurefundingforexpandingthePRAMin Laos, initially focusing on ensuring 200 graduatesfortheTSCsinthepoorestregionsofSouthernLaos.

MoreinformationabouttheWetlandsAlliancecanbefoundatwww.wetlandsalliance.organddetailsaboutPRAMatwww.pramlaos.org.

(Below) A group interview on how communities cope with their livelihood strate-gies to changing environ-mental conditions. (left) The AIT team provides feed-back on enhancing back-yard fish farming.


Social Business and Global Compact Teaching ResourcesProSPER.NetBusinessSchoolsJointProjectonIntegrationofSocialBusinessandUNGlobalCompactPrinciplesinBusinessEducation

A ITcontinuedtobetheleadpartneralongwithYonsei University, South Korea, UniversitySainsMalaysia,Malaysia,andUniversitasGad-

jahMadah,IndonesiainthedevelopmentofProSPER.Net(PromotionofSustainabilityinPostgraduateEdu-cation and Research); a post-graduate sustainability-related teaching curriculum initiative sponsored byJapan’sMinistryofEnvironmentviatheUnitedNationsUniversityInstituteofAdvancedStudies.

Inwhatwasonlythesecondyearoftheprogram,theuniversitypartnerswerekeycontributors inresearch-ing and publishing eleven social business cases. Theteaching cases ranged from indigenous businessestopics,includinganonlinecraftbusinessinIndonesia,abioticcoffeefarming initiative inLaosandabiscuitmanufacturerinSouthKorea,tocorporatesocialbusi-nessactivitiesofHewlettPackardinChina,PepsicointhePhilippinesandDHLSupply-ChaininThailand.Thiswassubsequentlyenhancedbyacomplementarycon-tributionfromtheAITSchoolofManagement,where-byDr.AlanMarshallandDr.DavidFergusonprovided

eachcasewithteachingnotesandpresentationslidesforusebytheexpandingtwenty-oneaffiliatememberbaseandothersasopensourcematerialsintheirpost-graduate business teaching curriculum.The CSR AsiaCenteratAITwasalsocommissionedtoprovidefouradditional,shortUNGlobalCompactcasescontainingcorresponding curriculum outlines and teaching aidpacks for use in classroom environments. This year’sactivitieswerepulledtogether inasmall symposiumofthepartnersconductedatAITinApril2010.

AIT’s School of Management intends to develop onthis success and take the principal investigator leadrolein2011,withanemphasisonfacilitatinganevenbroader participation of the growing membershipbase towards developing more cases around climatechangeandbiodiversity.Pilotingexperientiallearning,and supporting a teaching experience training anddevelopment workshop format to further enable theembedding of sustainability themes within businessteachingcurriculumsacrossAsia,arealsoplanned.

(Top left) Manufactured products by a Social Business Case in South Korea – “We CAN Cookies.” (Bottom left) local arts and crafts sold through one of the Social Business Cases in Malaysia - “EVElYN.” (Right) Socially and ecologically responsible coffee bean farm-ing in a Social Business Case from laos – “Bolaven Farms.”

Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research


EMERITUS PROFESSORS

A.S. BalasubramaniamB.Sc.,CeylonUniv.,SriLanka;Ph.D.,CambridgeUniv.,U.K.

Peter EdwardsB.Sc.,LiverpoolUniv.,U.K.;Ph.D.,Univ.ofTexas,U.S.A.

John Hugh JonesB.S.,M.S.,Univ.ofCalifornia,U.S.A.

Pisidhi KarasudhiB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.;M.Eng.,Chulalongkorn-SEATOGraduateSchoolofEngineering,Thailand;Ph.D.,NorthwesternUniv.,U.S.A.

The Institute is deeply gratefulthat Her Royal Highness PrincessMaha Chakri Sirindhorn has seenfit to share her expertise and ex-perience with faculty, staff andstudents, as an Honorary FacultyMember.Inthissingularposition,Her Royal Highness is associatedwiththeRemoteSensingandGeo-graphicInformationSystemsFieldofStudy.

HONORARY FACULTY

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Nitin V. Afzulpurkar B.Eng.,Univ.ofPoona,India;Ph.D.,Univ.ofCanterbury,NewZealandAssociateProfessor,MechatronicsandMicroelectronicsFieldsofStudyandDean,SchoolofEngineeringandTech-nologyandDirector,UndergraduatePrograms

Mokbul Morshed AhmadB.Sc,M.Sc.,DhakaUniv.,Bangladesh;M.Sc.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,Univ.ofDurham,U.K.AssociateProfessor,Regional&RuralDevelopmentPlanningFieldofStudyandAssociateDeanforAcademicAf-fairs,SchoolofEnvironment,Resourc-esandDevelopment

Kazi Mohiuddin AhmedM.Sc.,Inst.ofCommunications,Lenin-grad,USSR;Ph.D.,Univ.ofNewcastle,AustraliaProfessor,TelecommunicationsFieldofStudy

Anil Kumar AnalDoctorofVeterinaryMedicine,Univ.ofAgriculture,Pakistan;M.Sc,Ph.D,AIT,Thailand;AssistantProfessor,FoodEngineer-

ing&BioprocessTechnologyFieldofStudyandAssociateDeanforRe-search&Outreach,SchoolofEnviron-ment,Resources&Development

Ajit P. AnnachhatreB.Tech.,Ph.D.,IndianInst.ofTech.,Kanpur,IndiaProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudyandDirector,AIT-UnitedNationsOffice

Mukand S. BabelB.Eng.,RajasthanAgr.Univ.,India;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,WaterEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Yuosre F. BadirB.Sc.,Univ.ofGaryounis,Libya;M.Sc.,Univ.ofPutraMalaysia,Malaysia;M.Sc.,SwissFederalInst.ofTech.,SwitzerlandAssistantProfessor,SchoolofManage-ment

Rian Beise-ZeeDipl.,Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen;Ph.D.,TechnicalUniv.ofBerlin,Ger-manyAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,Ph.D.ProgramSchoolofManagement

FACULTY MEMBERS


Dennes T. BergadoB.S.C.E.,MindanaoStateUniv.,Philip-pines;M.Eng.,AIT,ThailandPh.D.,UtahStateUniv.,U.S.A.Professor,Geotechnical&Geoenviron-mentalEngineeringFieldofStudyandDirector,UnifiedPrograms

Shashank BhartiB.Sc.,VikramUniversity,India;PostGraduateDiploma,IndianInstituteofTechnology,India;Ph.D.,TechnicalUniversityofLodz,PolandVisitingFaculty,Pulp&PaperTechnol-ogyFieldofStudy

Erik L. J. BohezB.Eng.,HighTech.Inst.St.Antonius,Ghent,BelgiumM.Eng.,StateUniv.ofGhent,BelgiumAssociateProfessor,IndustrialEngi-neering&Management,andDesign&ManufacturingEngineeringFieldsofStudy

Chotchai CharoenngamB.Eng.,KingMongkut’sInst.ofTech.,Thonburi,Thailand;M.S.,Univ.ofKan-sas;Ph.D.,Univ.ofTexas,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,Construction,Engineering&InfrastructureManage-mentFieldofStudy

Gregory L.F. ChiuB.S.C.E.,UniversityofWashington,Washington,USA,M.Sc.,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,StanfordUniversity,California,U.S.A.VisitingAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,OffshoreTechnology&ManagementFieldofStudy

Roberto ClementeB.S.A.E.,Univ.ofthePhilippinesatLosBaños,Philippines;M.S.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,McGillUniv.,CanadaAssociateProfessor,WaterEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Supasith ChonglertthamB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;MBAFinance,TulaneUniversity,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,UniversityofHawaii,Manoa,U.S.A.

SeniorInstructor,SchoolofManage-ment

Roland CochardB.S.(Hons.),JamesCookUniv.ofNorthQueensland,Australia;PostGraduateCertificate,Univ.ofNeuchatel,Swit-zerland;Ph.D,InstituteofGeobotany,FederalInstituteofTechnology,SwitzerlandAssistantProfessorandCoordinator,NaturalResourcesManagementFieldofStudy

Matthew M. Dailey B.S.,M.S.,NorthCarolinaStateUniv.,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,Univ.ofCalifornia,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,Coordinator,ComputerScienceandInformationManagementFieldsofStudyandCo-ordinator,UndergraduateProgram

Nicholas J. DimmittB.A.,M.A.,SanFranciscoStateUniv.,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,Univ.ofSouthernCalifor-nia,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,SchoolofMan-agementCoordinator,EMBA-Bangkokhehasbeenteachingduringthefirstmonthsofthesemester,Ithinkhecanstillbeincludedinthislist

Philippe DoneysB.A.,Univ.ofToronto,Canada;M.A.,Univ.ofLondon,England;Ph.D.,Institutd’EtudesPolitiquesdeParis,FranceAssistantProfessor,Gender&Devel-opmentStudiesFieldofStudy

Raphael DubozM.A.;UniversityofMarseille,France;M.A.UniversityofParis6,France;Ph.D.,UniversityofLittoralCoted’Opale,FranceVisitingAssistantProfessorComputerScience&InformationManagementFieldsofStudy

Phan Minh DungM.Sc.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofTech.,Dresden,Germany

Professor,ComputerScienceandInformationManagementFieldsofStudy

Joydeep DuttaB.Sc.,St.Edmund’sCollege,India;M.Sc.,NorthEasternHillUniv.,India;Ph.D.,IACS,CalcuttaUniv.,IndiaProfessor,MicroelectronicsFieldofStudyandVicePresidentforAcademicAffairs

Vatcharaporn EsichaikulB.Acc.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.B.A.,OklahomaStateUniv.,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,KentStateUniv.,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,InformationManagementFieldofStudy

Mongkol EkpanyapongB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniversity,Thai-land;M.Eng.,AIT,Thailand;M.Sc,Ph.D,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,Mechatronics&MicroelectronicsFieldofStudy

Wenresti G. GallardoB.S.,M.S.,Univ.ofPhilippines;M.S.,Ph.D.,NagasakiUniv.,JapanAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,Aquacul-ture&AquaticResourcesManage-mentFieldofStudy

Pham Huy GiaoDipl.Ing.(MSc),BucharestUniversity,Romania;M.Eng.andD.Eng.,AsianInstituteofTechnology,ThailandAssistantProfessorandCoordinator,GeotechnicalandGeoenvironmentalEngineeringFieldofStudy

Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy B.Com.,M.Com.,Bangalore,India;Ph.D.,IndianInstituteofScience,IndiaVisitingAssociateProfessor,SchoolofManagement

Sumanta GuhaB.Sc.,M.Sc.,Univ.ofCalcutta,India;Ph.D.,IndianStatisticalInst.,India;M.S.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofMichigan,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,ComputerScienceandInformationManagementFieldsofStudy


FACULTY MEMBERS

B. Harimurti W. HadikusumoB.Eng.,Univ.ofDiponegoro,Indonesia;M.Eng.,AIT;Ph.D.,Univ.ofHongKongAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,Construction,Engineering&Infrastruc-tureManagementFieldofStudyandAssociateDeanforPromotion,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology

Kiyoshi HondaB.Agr.,D.Eng.,TokyoUniv.,JapanAssociateProfessor,RemoteSensing&GeographicInformationSystemsFieldofStudy

Barbara IgelB.A.,M.A.,TechnicalUniv.,Berlin;Ph.D.,FreieUniv.,Berlin,GermanyAssociateProfessorandDean,SchoolofManagementSaid IrandoustM.Sc.,Ph.D.,ChalmersUniv.ofTech.,SwedenProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&Management;Energy;andPulp&PaperTechnologyFieldsofStudy,andPresident,AsianInstituteofTechnology

Nazrul IslamB.Sc.Eng.,BUET,Bangladesh;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandVisitingProfessor,SchoolofManage-ment

Paul JanecekB.S.E.E.,U.S.MilitaryAcademy;M.Sc.,Univ.ofLondon,U.K.;Ph.D.,SwissFed-eralInst.ofTech.,SwitzerlandAssistantProfessor,ComputerScience&InformationManagement

Juthathip JongwanichB.A.,M.A.,ThammasatUniv.,Thailand;Ph.D.,TheAustralianNationalUniver-sity,AustraliaAssistantProfessor,SchoolofManage-ment

Damien Jourdain B.Eng.,M.Sc.,EcoleNationaleSu-perieureAgronomiquedeMontpellier;Ph.D.,MontpellierIUniversity,FranceVisitingAssistantProfessor,Joint

appointmentwiththeSchoolofEngineering&Technology,andSchoolofEnvironment,Resources&Develop-ment

Voratas KachitvichyanukulB.S.,Nat’l.TaiwanUniv.;M.Eng.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,PurdueUniv.,Indiana,U.S.A.Professor,IndustrialEngineering&Management,andDesign&Manufac-turingEngineeringFieldsofStudy

Yoshikazu KamiyaB.Eng,YokohamaNationalUniv.,Japan;M.Sc,Ph.D.,UniversityofTokyo,JapanVisitingFaculty,RemoteSensing&GeographicInformationSystemsFieldofStudy

Kanchana KanchanasutB.Sc.,Univ.ofQueensland,Austra-lia;M.Sc.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofMelbourne,AustraliaChairProfessor,ThaiNetworkInforma-tionCenter,ComputerScienceFieldofStudy

Kunnawee KanitpongB.S.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.S.,Univ.ofMarylandatCollegePark,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,Univ.ofWisconsin-Madison,U.S.A.AssistantProfessorandCoordinator,TransportationEngineeringFieldofStudy

Worsak Kanok NukulchaiB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.Eng.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,Univ.ofCalifornia(Berkeley),U.S.A.VicePresidentforResourceandDevelopment

Kare Helge KarstensenM.Sc.,UniversityofOslo;MBA,HeriottWattUniv.UK;Ph.D.NorwegianUniv.ofScience&Technology,Trondheim,NorwayVisitingFaculty,EnvironmentalEngi-neering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Akiyuki KawasakiB.S.,Ph.D.,YokohamaNationalUniver-sity,JapanVisitingFaculty,WaterEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Do Ba KhangM.Sc.,EotvosLorandUniv.,Hungary;M.Sc.,D.Tech.Sc.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,EMBA-Vietnam,SchoolofManage-ment

Pisut KoomsapB.Eng.,ThammasatUniv.,Thailand;M.Sc.,Univ.ofLouisville,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,PennsylvaniaStateUniv.,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,Industrial&Manu-facturingEngineeringFieldofStudy

Thammarat KoottatepB.Eng.,ChiangmaiUniv.;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandAssistantProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Donyaprueth KrairitB.S.,ThammasatUniv.,Thailand;M.S.,Univ.ofColoradoatBoulder,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,MassachusettsInst.ofTech.,Cambridge,U.S.A.AssociateProfessorandCoordinator,MBAProgram,SchoolofManagement

Sivanappan Kumar B.E.,Univ.ofMadras,India;M.Eng.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,Inst.Nat’l.Polytech-nique,Toulouse,FranceProfessorandCoordinator,EnergyFieldofStudy

Kyoko KusakabeB.A.,SophiaUniv.,Tokyo,Japan;M.Sc.,Ph.D.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,Gender&Develop-mentStudiesFieldofStudy

Huynh Trung LuongB.Eng.,HoChiMinhCityUniv.ofTech.,Vietnam;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessor,IndustrialEngi-neering&ManagementFieldofStudy


Charles O. P. MarpuangB.Eng.,BandungInstituteofTechnol-ogy,Indonesia;M.Sc.,BogorAgricul-turalUniversity,Indonesia;Ph.D.,AIT,ThailandVisitingFaculty,EnergyFieldofStudy

Brahmanand MohantyB.Sc.,S.A.I.C.E.,India;M.Sc.,AIT,Thai-land;Ph.D.,InstitutNationalPolytech-niqueofToulouse,FranceVisitingFaculty,EnergyFieldofStudy

Masahiko NagaiB.Sc.,St.CloudStateUniversity,U.S.A.;M.Sc,AsianInstituteofTechnology,Thailand;Ph.D.,TheUniversityofTokyo,JapanVisitingFaculty,RemoteSensing&GeographicInformationSystemsFieldofStudyandAssociateDirector,GeoinformaticsCenter

Mousa M. NazhadB.Sc.,Univ.ofTehran,Iran;M.Sc.,Univ.ofConcordiaMontreal;Ph.D.,Univ.ofBritishColumbia,Vancouver,CanadaAssociateProfessorandCoordina-tor,Pulp&PaperTechnologyFieldofStudyheisstillourfaculty

Vilas NitivattananonB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.;M.A.,ThammasatUniv.;M.Eng.,AIT,Thai-land;Ph.D.,Univ.ofPittsburgh,U.S.A.AssistantProfessorandCoordinator,UrbanEnvironmentalManagementFieldofStudy

Athapol NoomhormB.Sc.,KasetsartUniv.,Thailand;M.Eng.,LamarUniv.,Texas;Ph.D.,LouisianaStateUniv.,U.S.A.ProfessorandCoordinator,FoodEngineering&BioprocessTechnologyFieldofStudy

Nguyen Thi Kim OanhDip.Eng.,OdessaHydrometeorologyInst.,Ukraine;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Weerakorn OngsakulB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.S.,Ph.D.,TexasA&MUniv.,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,EnergyFieldofStudyandDean,SchoolofEnviron-ment,Resources&Development

Kyung-Ho ParkB.Eng.,M.Eng.,KoreaUniv.;D.Eng.,SUNYatBuffalo,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,Geotechnical&GeoenvironmentalEngineeringFieldofStudy

Soo-Hoon ParkB.Eng.,M.Eng.,SeoulNationalUniver-sity;M.Arch.,UCLA,California,U.S.A.;Ph.D.,UniversityofSydney,AustraliaVisitingAssociateProfessor,UrbanEnvironmentalManagementFieldofStudy

Preeda ParkpianB.Sc.,KasetsartUniv.,Thailand;M.Sc.,MississippiStateUniv.;Ph.D.,TexasA&MUniv.,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Manukid ParnichkunB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.Eng.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofTokyo,JapanAssociateProfessor,MechatronicsFieldofStudyandCoordinator,Indus-trialSystemsEngineeringcurrentlyFoSCoordinator

L.A.S. Ranjith PereraB.Sc.,M.Sc.,Univ.ofMoratuwa,SriLanka;M.Sc.,Ph.D.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessor,UrbanEnviron-mentalManagementFieldofStudy

Sylvain Roger PerretM.S.,Univ.ofMontpellierIII,France;DSc,EcolePolytechniquedeLorraine,Nancy,France;Ph.D.,UniversityofMontpellierIII,FranceVisitingAssociateProfessor,JointappointmentwiththeSchoolofEngineering&Technology,andSchoolofEnvironment,Resources&Develop-ment

Noppadol Phien-wejB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.S.,Ph.D.,IllinoisatUrbanaCham-paign,U.S.A.AssociateProfessor,GeotechnicalandGeoenvironmentalEngineeringFieldofStudyandAssociateDeanforInfrastructure&AcademicQualityAssurance,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology

Soparth PongquanB.Sc.,ChiangMaiUniv.;M.Sc.,AIT,Thailand;D.Sc.,Univ.ofWageningen,TheNetherlandsAssociateProfessor,Regional&RuralDevelopmentPlanningFieldofStudy

R.M.A.P. RajathevaB.Sc.,MoratuwaUniv.,SriLanka;M.Sc.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofManitoba,CanadaAssociateProfessor,Telecommunica-tionsFieldofStudyandAssociateDeanforUndergraduateProgram,SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology

Sudip Kumar RakshitB.Sc.,LoyolaCollege;B.Tech.,JadavpurUniv.,India;M.Tech,Ph.D.,IndianInst.ofTech.,IndiaProfessor,FoodEngineering&Biopro-cessTechnologyFieldofStudyandVicePresidentforResearch

Bernadette ResurreccionB.Sc.,AssumptionCollege,Philippines;M.A.,Ph.D.,Inst.ofSocialStudies,TheHague,TheNetherlandsAssociateProfessor,Gender&Devel-opmentStudiesFieldofStudy

Jayant K. RoutrayB.Sc.(Hons.).,M.Sc.,Ph.D.,UtkalUniv.;M.R.P.,IndianInst.ofTech.,IndiaProfessor,Regional&RuralDevelop-mentPlanningFieldofStudyandCo-coordinator,DisasterPreparation,MitigationandManagementProgram

Poompat SaengudomlertB.S.E.,PrincetonUniv.;M.S.,Ph.D.,Mas-sachusettsInst.ofTech.,U.S.A.AssistantProfessorandCoordinator,TelecommunicationsFieldofStudy


FACULTY MEMBERS

Edsel SajorB.Sc.,Univ.ofthePhilippines;M.A.,Ph.D.,ISS,TheHague,TheNetherlandsAssociateProfessor,UrbanEnviron-mentalManagementFieldofStudy

P. Abdul SalamBSc.Eng.(Hons),Univ.ofPeradeniya,SriLanka;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,ThailandAssistantProfessor,EnergyFieldofStudy

Teerapat SanguankotchakornB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,TokyoInstituteofTech-nology,JapanAssociateProfessor,Telecommunica-tionsFieldofStudy

Oleg V. ShipinM.Sc.,Univ.ofSaratov;D.Sc.,Inst.ofBiochemistryandPhysiology,RussiaAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,EnvironmentalEngineering&Manage-mentFieldofStudy

Ganesh P. ShivakotiB.S.,M.S.,UdaipurUniv.,India;Ph.D.,MichiganStateUniv.,U.S.A.Professor,AgriculturalSystems&Engineering,andNaturalResourcesManagementFieldsofStudy

Rajendra Prasad ShresthaB.Sc.,HaryanaAgriculturalUniv.,India;M.Sc.,D.Tech.Sc.,AIT,ThailandAssociateProfessor,NaturalResourcesManagementFieldofStudy

Sangam ShresthaM.Sc.,TribhuvanUniversity,Nepal;M.Sc.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,Univ.ofYamanashi,JapanAssistantProfessor,WaterEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Jai Govind SinghB.Eng.,MotilalNehruNationalInstituteofTechnology,India;M.Tech.;Ph.D, IndianInstituteofTechnology,IndiaAssistantProfessor,EnergyFieldofStudy

Sununta SiengthaiB.A.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.A.,Ph.D.,Univ.ofIllinois,USAAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,EMBA-HRM,SchoolofManagement

Peeyush SoniB.Eng.,CollegeofTechnology&En-gineering,India;M.Eng.,Ph.D.,AsianInstituteofTechnology,ThailandSeniorInstructor,AgriculturalSystemsandEngineeringFieldofStudyandCoordinator,AgribusinessManage-ment

Vatcharapol SukhotuB.Eng.,KasetsartUniversity,Thailand;M.Eng.,UniversityofHouston,Texas,U.S.A.,Ph.D.,TexasA&MUniversity,CollegeStation,Texas,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,SchoolofManagement

Marc SourisM.Sc.,UniversitePierreetMarieCurie,France;Ph.D.,UniversitedelaRo-chelle,FranceVisitingProfessor,RemoteSensing&GeographicInformationSystemsFieldofStudy

Mario T. TabucanonB.S.E.E.,B.S.M.E.,CebuInst.ofTech.,Philippines;M.Eng.,D.Eng.,AIT,Thai-landProfessor,IndustrialEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Punchet ThammarakB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniversity,Thailand;Ph.D,TheUniversityofTexas,Austin,U.S.A.SeniorInstructor,StructuralEngineer-ingFieldofStudy

Gopal B. ThapaB.Sc.,TribhuvanUniv.,Nepal;M.Sc.,D.Tech.Sc.,AIT,ThailandProfessorandCoordinator,Regional&RuralDevelopmentPlanningFieldofStudy

Nitin Kumar TripathiB.Tech.,RegionalEng.College,India;M.Tech.,IIT.;Ph.D.,IIT.,Kanpur,IndiaAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,RemoteSensing&GeographicInfor-mationSystemsFieldofStudy

Chettiyappan VisvanathanB.Tech.,IIT,Madras,India;M.Eng.,AIT,Thailand;D.Eng.,Inst.Nat’l.Polytech.,Toulouse,FranceProfessor,EnvironmentalEngineering&ManagementFieldofStudy

Pennung WarnitchaiB.Eng.,ChulalongkornUniv.,Thailand;M.Eng.,Ph.D.,TokyoUniv.,JapanAssociateProfessorandCoordinator,StructuralEngineeringFieldofStudyandCo-coordinator,DisasterPrepara-tion,MitigationandManagementProgram

Winai WongsurawatPh.D.,ManagerialEconomics&Strat-egy,KelloggSchoolofManagement,NorthwesternUniversity,U.S.A.;B.A.S.,Economics&MathematicalCompu-tationalSciences,StanfordUniversity,U.S.A.AssistantProfessor,SchoolofManage-ment

Vilas WuwongseB.Eng.,M.Eng.,D.Eng.,TokyoInst.ofTech.,JapanProfessor,ComputerScienceFieldofStudy

Amararatne YakupitiyageB.Sc.,Univ.ofKelaniya,SriLanka;M.Sc.,AIT,Thailand;Ph.D.,Univ.ofStirling,ScotlandAssociateProfessor,Aquaculture&AquaticResourcesManagementFieldofStudy


• CommissiononScienceandTechnologyforSustainableDevel-opment(COMSATS)

• TheHigherEducationCommission,Pakistan

Philippines• GovernmentofPhilippines• DepartmentofScienceandTechnology(DOST),Philippines

Seychelles• GovernmentofSeychelles

Sri Lanka• GovernmentofSriLanka• MinistryofHousingandCommonAmenities,SriLanka• TheUrbanDevelopmentAuthority(UDA),SriLanka

Sweden• GovernmentofSweden• SwedishInternationalDevelopmentAgency

Thailand• GovernmentofThailand• NationalInstituteofMetrology• SoftwareParkThailand,TechnologyManagementCenter,Na-

tionalScienceandTechnologyDevelopmentAgency• NationalNanotechnologyCenter(NANOTEC),NationalScience

andTechnologyDevelopmentAgency(NSTDA)• NationalScienceMuseum• OfficeoftheNon-FormalandInformalEducation• SirindhornInternationalEnvironmentalParkFoundationunder

thePatronageofHRHPrincessMahaChakriSirindhorn• ElectricityGeneratingAuthorityofThailand• ThePollutionControlDepartment,ThailandandTheSwissNa-

tionalCentreofCompetenceinResearchNorth-SouthSwitzer-land

• NationalElectronicsandComputerTechnologyCenter(NECTEC),NationalScienceandTechnologyDevelopmentAgency(NSTDA)

• CommissiononHigherEducation(TheMinistryofUniversityAffairsofThailand)

• SoftwareIndustryPromotionAgency(SIPA)• EnvironmentalResearchandTrainingCenter(ERTC)

Timor-Leste• GovernmentofTimor-Leste

Vietnam• TheMinistryofEducationandTraining,GovernmentofVietnam• DepartmentofHomeAffairs,CanThoCity• HoChiMinhCityProject300• Petrovietnam• ElectricityofVietnam

UNIVERSITIES

Australia• TheInternationalCentreofExcellenceinWaterResourcesMan-

agement(ICEWaRM)• RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology• DeakinUniversity,Geelong,Victoria

Austria• CentreforGeoinformatics,UniversityofSalzburg,Salzburg

Bangladesh• DarulIhsanUniversity• AmericanInternationalUniversity• InstituteofWaterModelling• IndependentUniversity• BRACUniversity• ASAUniversityBangladesh(ASAUB)• SoutheastUniversity(SEU)

GOVERNMENTS

Austria• AustrianDevelopmentAgency(ADA)

Azerbaijan• MinistryofCommunicationandInformationTechnologies(MICT)

oftheRepublicofAzerbaijan

Bangladesh• GovernmentofBagladesh

China• DepartmentofInternationalCooperationandExchanges,Minis-

tryofEducation• StateBureauofSurveyingandMappingofChina(SBSM),China

Cambodia• GovernmentofCambodia

Ethiopia• MinistryofAgricultureandRuralDevelopment,Ethiopia

Finland• TheMinistryofForeignAffairs

France• MinistryofForeignandEuropeanAffairs

India• GovernmentofIndia

Indonesia• GovernmentofIndonesia• OfficeoftheDeputyChairmanofFacilitiesandInfrastructure,

MinistryNationalDevelopmentPlanning/NationalDevelopmentPlanningAgency(BAPPENAS),RepublicofIndonesia

• TheMinistryofPublicWorks,RepublicofIndonesia

Iran• IranianResearchOrganisationforScienceandTechnology

(IROST),Iran• TheIranianSpaceAgency(ISA),MinistryofCommunicationand

InformationTechnology,Iran

Japan• GovernmentofJapan• JapanAerospaceExplorationAgency(JAXA)• TheNationalSpaceDevelopmentAgency

Korea• KoreaInternationalCooperationAgency(KOICA)

Lao PDR• TheMekongRiverCommission• MinistryofEducation,TheGovernmentofLaoPeople’sDemo-

craticRepublic

Nepal• GovernmentofNepal• NationalCentreforEducationalDevelopment(NCED),Ministryof

Education,GovernmentofNepal• DepartmentofFoodTechnologyandQualityControl(DFTQC),

Nepal• GovernmentofthePunjab,Nepal

The Netherlands• TheMinisterforDevelopmentCooperationoftheKingdomof

theNetherlands

Norway• TheNorwegianMinistryofForeignAffairs

Pakistan• GovernmentofPakistan

As an independent and autonomous institute with international status, AIT partners with public and private sector partners throughout the region and with some of the top

universities and international organizations around the world.

PARTNERS IN 20�0


• AhsanullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology(AUST)• EasternUniversity• ChittagongUniversityofEngineering&Technology• EastWestUniversity(EWU)• AsianUniversityforWomen(AUW)• NationalCollegeofBusinessAdministrationandEconomics

(NCBA&E)

Cambodia• TheFacultyofLawandEconomicsofPhnomPenh;TheUniver-

sityofLyonIIANDRoyalUniversityofLawandEconomics

Canada• UniversitedeMontreal

China• PekingUniversityResourceCollege(PKURC)• ChineseAcademyofEngineering• ChineseAcademyofSurveyingandMapping• WuhanUniversity• TheSchoolofManagement&EconomicsofBeijingInstituteof

Technology• InternationalResearchandTrainingCenterforRuralEducation• YunnanUniversity• GuanxiUniversity• Lingnan(University)College,ZhongshanUniversity• TsinghuaUniversity,TheSchoolofEconomics&Management

Denmark• TechnicalUniversityofDenmark• CopenhagenBusinessSchool(CBS)

Finland• UniversityofOulu• UniversityofJyvaskyla• HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology• HelsinkiSchoolofEconomics&BusinessAdministration(HSEBA)

France• TelecomSudParis-TSP(formerlyknownasNationalInstituteof

Telecommunication)• UniversityofNice-SophiaAntipolis• ScienceProParis(formerlyknownasTheInstitutd’Etudes PolitiquesdeParis)• ESCP-Europe(formerlyknownasESCP-EAP)• SKEMA(formerlyknownasCERAM)• EDHEC• TheInstitutNationaldesTelecommunicationsEVRY• UniversityofLaRochelle• EcoleSuperieuredeCommercedeNantesAtlantique(ESCNA)• ChamberofCommerceandIndustry• HECGrandeEcole• TheInstitutNationalDesSciencesAppliqueesDeToulouse

(INSAT)• TheNetworkofInstitutsNationauxPolytechniques(Grenoble,

Lorraine,Toulouse-France)• UniversityofPantheon-Sorbonne(ParisI)• UniversityPantheon-Assas(ParisII)• UniversityofParis-Sorbonne(ParisIV)–IUE• UniversityofParisDauphine(ParisIX)• UniversityJeanMoulinLyon3• LMLyon• EcoleCentraledeNantes• UniversitePierreetMarieCurie• CentredeCooperationInternationaleenRecherche

AgronomiquepourleDeveloppement(CIRAD)

Germany• LeipzigGraduateSchoolofManagement,Handelshochschule

Leipzig• TheInternationalUniversityofGermany• EuropeanBusinessSchool(EBS),SchlossReichartshausen,Oes-

trich-Winkel• StuttgartInstituteofManagement&Technology(SIMT)• Philipps-UniversitatMarburg• BremenUniversityofAppliedSciences• TechnischeUniversitaetMuenchen(TUM)/TechnicalUniversity

ofMunich

Hong Kong• UniversityofHongkong(DepartmentofRealEstateandCon-

struction)

India• ForeSchoolofManagement• PSGInstituteofAdvancedStudies• TempleCityInstituteofTechnologyandEngineering• AllahabadAgriculturalInstitute-DeemedUniversity• KalingaInstituteofIndustrialTechnology(KIIT)University,Orissa• SriJayachamarajendraCollegeofEngineering,Mysore• VishwakarmaSchoolofInternationalStudies• PearlSchoolofBusiness• PadampatSinghaniaSchoolofEngineering(PSSE)• K.J.SomaiyaInstituteofManagementStudiesandResearch• MotilalNehruNationalInstituteofTechnology(MNNIT)• ShivajiUniversity(SU)• IndianInstituteofManagement,Calcutta

Indonesia• UniversityofSriwijaya• FacultyofEngineering,UniversitasGadjahMada• IslamicUniversityofIndonesia• UniversitasAndalas(UNAND)• UniversitasGadjahMada• InstitutTeknologiSepuluhNopember(ITS)orSepuluhNopem-

berInstituteofTechnology• BogorAgriculturalUniversity• UniversitasKatolikParahyangan• UniversitasPadjadjaran• UdayanaUniversity,Bali• UniversitasMulawarman• StateIslamicUniversity• Pt.DambaIntra

Iran• UniversityofScienceandCulture(USC)• AgriculturalEngineeringResearchInstitute(AERI)• UniversityofTabriz• AmirkabirUniversityofTechnology• IslamicAzadUniversity(IAU)

Japan• SagaUniversity• TheUniversityofTsukuba• ToyoUniversity,• MieUniversity(Tsu,Japan)• KeioUniversity• DepartmentofCivilandEarthResourcesEngineering,Kyoto

University• UniversityofYamanashi,CenterofExcellenceforResearchand

EducationonIntegratedRiverBasinManagementinAsianMon-soonRegion

• InternationalCenterforUrbanSafety(ICUS)Engineering,Insti-tuteofIndustrialScience,TheUniversityofTokyo

• TokyoInstituteofTechnology• InternationalUniversityofJapan(IUJ)• JapanAdvancedInstittuteofScienceandTechnology(JAIST)• NationalInstituteforEnvironmentalStudies(NIES)• NagaokaUniversityofTechnology• ResearchandDevelopmentCenterofNipponKoeiCo.,Ltd.• HokkaidoUniversity• TheNationalInstituteofInformatics,Tokyo• KyotoUniversity,GraduateSchoolofEngineering/Graduate

SchoolofGlobalEnvironmentalStudies/GraduateSchoolofManagement

• UtsunomiyaUniversity• TheUniversityofTokyo• TheUnitedNationsUniversity• TheUniversityofTokyo,InstituteofIndustrialScience,AsianAs-

sociationofRemoteSensing• TohokuUniversity

Kazakshtan• AlmatyInstituteofPowerEngineering&Telecommunication• JSCNewUniversityAstana

AIT PARTNERS


Korea• KoreaInstituteofScienceandTechnology• KoreaInstituteofScienceandTechnology,InternationalR&D

Academy• 1]SKConstruction&EngineeringCo.,Ltd.2]KoreaInfrastructure

Safety&TechnologyCorporation3]KonkukUniversity• KumohNationalUniversityofTechnology• PukyongNationalUniversity• KoreaInstituteofConstructionTechnology• TheHighwayResearchDivisionandAdvancedTransportRe-

searchDivisionoftheKoreaInstituteofConstructionTechnology• KoreaUniversity• KoreaInstituteofGeoscienceandMineralResources• YeungnamUniversity• KoreaUniversityofScienceandTechnology• SeoulNationalUniversity• HanyangUniversity• KoreaAdvancedInstituteofScienceandTechnology• KoreaInstituteofScienceandTechnology• InstituteofEnergySystemsandClimateChange(IECC),TheAjou

University

Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan and His Highness Aga Khan• UniversityofCentralAsia(UCA)

London• UniversityofEastLondon

Malaysia• UniversitiPutraMalaysia

Myanmar• YangonTechnologicalUniversity,Myanmar• MandalayTechnologicalUniversity,Myanmar

Nepal• NationalBankingTrainingInstitute• SouthAsianInstituteofManagement• PokharaUniversity• NepalAcademyofScienceandTechnology• KathmanduUniversity• PurbanchalUniversity• NepalAdministrativeStaffCollege(NASC)• LocalDevelopmentTrainingAcademy(LDTA)

Nigeria• FederalUniversityofTechnology,Akure

Norway• NorwegianUniversityofLifeSciences• NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology

Pakistan• LahoreCollegeforWomenUniversity• MehranUniversityofEngineeringandTechnology,Jamshoro

(MUET)• UniversityofEngineering&Technology,Lahore(UET)• NEDUniversityofEngineeringandTechnology,Karachi• SukkurInstituteofBusinessAdministration(SIBA)• UniversityofEngineering&Technology,Taxila(UET)• NationalUniversityofSciences&Technology,Islamabad(NUST)• TheUniversityofFaisalabad(TUF)• BalochistanUniversityofEngineeringandTechnology,Khuzdar

(BUETK)

Philippines• AsianInstituteofManagement• MindanaoPolytechnicStateCollegePolandSingapore

Spain• UniversitatPolitecnicadeCatalunya• PoznańUniversityofEconomics• EscueladeAltaDireccionyAdministracion(EADA),Barcelona

Sri Lanka• UniversityofVocationalTechnology• SouthAsianInstituteofTechnologyandManagement• SabaragamuwaUniversity• RajarataUniversity• InternationalCollegeofBusinessandTechnology(ICBT),amem-

berofCeylincoConsolidated

Sweden• UniversityofBoras• KTH,KungligaTekniskahogskolan• ChalmersUniversityofTechnology• TheUniversityofKalmar• LinköpingUniversity

Switzerland• UniversityofAppliedSciencesEasternSwitzerland• NationalCentreofCompetenceinResearchNorth-South(NCCR

N-S),CenterforDevelopmentandEnvironment,UniversityofBerneSteigerhubelstrasses3

• SwissFederalInstituteofTechnologyZurich(ETHZurich)andAsianDisasterPreparednessCenter(ADPC)

Thailand• KasetsartUniversity,FacultyofForestry• ChiangMaiUniversity• RuamrudeeInternationalSchool• ChulabhornResearchInstituteandMahidolUniversity• PathumthaniProvinceandEducationalandResearchinstitutions

inPathumthaniProvince• RangsitUniversity• ChulabhornResearchInstitute• AsianUniversity(AU)• SrinakharinwirotUniversity-SoftwareIndustryPromotion

Agency• SrinakharinwirotUniversity-InstituteforthePromotionofTeach-

ingScienceandTechnology• NaresuanUniversity• FacultyofEngineering,ChulalongkornUniversity• ChulachomklaoRoyalMilitaryAcademy• ThammasatUniversity

United States of America• RobertMorrisUniversity• OregonStateUniversity(OSU)• DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics,KansasStateUniversity,

Kansas• UniversityofRhodeIsland,TheCoastalResourcesCenter• InstituteforScientificResearch(ISR),BostonCollege

Vietnam• HongDucUniversity• HanoiUniversityofAgriculture• InternationalUniversity• UniversityofTransportandCommunications• VietnamNationalUniversity• NongLamUniversity• UniversityofEconomicsandBusiness• FPTUniversity• HanoiUniversityofTechnology• HanoiUniversityofAgriculture• HueUniversityofAgricultureandForestry• VietnamPetroleumInstitute• DanangUniversityofTechnology(DUT)• FPTUniversity

Yugoslavia• UniversityofNoviSad,FacultyofTechnicalSciences,Serbia


Sri Lanka• EpicLankaGroupThailand• TheAITAlumniAssociation• TotalE&PThailand(TEPT)andTotalProfessorsAssociation(TPA)USA• SouthernStatesEnergyBoard(SSEB)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Bangladesh• YunusCenter

France• TélécomsSansFrontiéres(TSF)

Germany• KatholischerAkademischerAuslander-Dienst(KAAD)

Indonesia• ASEANFoundation• ASEANCenterforEnergy(ACE)• UNPartnershipResearchFund-OWATERProject

Japan• InstituteforGlobalEnvironmentalStrategies(IGES)

Maldives• TheRegionalIntegratedMulti-HazardEarlyWarningSystemfor

AfricaandAsia(RIMES)

Nepal• InternationalCentreforIntegratedMountainDevelopment

(ICIMOD)

The Netherlands• TheUNESCO-IHEInstituteforWaterEducation• GenderandWaterAlliance(GWA)

Sri Lanka• UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme,RegionalCentrein

Colombo

Tanzania• TheGlobalHorticultureInitiative(GlobalHort)

Thailand• Asia-PacificAssociationofAgriculturalResearchInstitutions

(APAARI)• HabitatforHumanityThailand• TheAsianandPacificCentreforTransferofTechnology(APCTT),

ESCAP• UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammeRegionalResource

CentreforAsiaandthePacific(UNEPRRC.AP)• UnitedNationsEconomicandSocialCommissionforAsiaand

thePacific(UNESCAP)• AsianDisasterPreparednessCenter(ADPC)• CoordinatingCommitteeforGeoscienceProgrammesinEastand

SoutheastAsia• ThaiNetworkInformationCenterFoundation• CoastalResourcesInstituteFoundation(CORIN-Asia)

United Nations• TheUnitedNationsDevelopmentFundforWomen(UNIFEM)

United States of America• InternationalFellowshipsFund,Inc.• InternationalBankforReconstructionandDevelopment(World

BankGroup)• AsianDevelopmentBank• TheBridgeFund(TBF)

PRIVATE SECTOR

Bangladesh• InstituteofMicrofinance• BangladeshBank• DesignPlanningandManagementConsultantsLtd.(DPM)

Finland• MetsoPaper,Inc.

Hong Kong• CSRAsiaLtd.

India• SpeckSystemsLtd.,Hyderabad• GISDevelopmentPrivateLimited,Noida• ModiInternationalStudies,Indore• GlobalReach• UnitedGroupofInstitutions

Iran• ResearchandConsultingCompanyofShakhes-Sazan

Japan• EbaraHatakeyamaMemorialFund

Myanmar• MyanmaComputerCompanyLtd.• Water,ResearchandTrainingCenter(WRTC)• UnitedNetwork-ManagementandBusinessCenter(UN-MBC)

Nepal• NECConsultants(Private)Limited

Norway• NorwegianElectricityandVietnamElectricity(EVN)

Singapore• SkydoorPteLtd• LifeWayHoldingsPteLtd

Sri Lanka• SriLankaLandReclamation&DevelopmentCorporation,Sri

Lanka• CeylincoEducationGroup• SriLankanAirlinesLimited

Thailand• TheSiamCementPublicCompanyLimited• WesternDigital(WD)(Thailand)Co.,Ltd.• ThaiCarbonBlackPCL• TotalGas&Power• Donaldson(Thailand)Ltd.• IBM,Thailand• GlobalSiamGateCompanyLimited(GSG)• BuildersmartPublicCo.,Ltd.• SchlumbergerOverseasS.A.• AmataCorporationPublicCompanyLimited• CommerceSiamInstitute• SodexoSupportServices(Thailand)Ltd.• InnotechGolfCo.,Ltd.• SiamCityBankPublicCompanyLtd.

Vietnam• PortcoastConsultantCorporation

ASSOCIATIONS

Europe• EMEuroAsia(ErasmusMundus)

Myanmar• MyanmarEngineeringSociety(MES)

Nepal• NepalEducationFoundation-ConsortiumofColleges(NEF-CCN)• NationalInformationTechnologyInstitute(NITI)• NepalAirlinesCorporation

AIT PARTNERS


To the Board of Trustees of Asian Institute of Technology

IhaveauditedtheaccompanyingbalancesheetsofAsianInstituteofTechnologyasat31De-cember2010and2009,andtherelatedstatementsofrevenuesandexpenses,changesinfundbalancesandcashflowsfortheyearsthenended.Thesefinancialstatementsaretherespon-sibilityoftheOrganization’smanagement.Myresponsibilityistoexpressanopiniononthesefinancialstatementsbasedonmyaudits.

Iconductedmyaudits inaccordancewithgenerallyacceptedauditingstandards.Thosestan-dardsrequirethatIplanandperformtheaudittoobtainreasonableassuranceaboutwhetherthefinancialstatementsarefreeofmaterialmisstatement.Anauditincludesexamining,onatest basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Anauditalsoincludesassessingtheaccountingprinciplesusedandsignificantestimatesmadebymanagement,aswellasevaluatingtheoverallfinancialstatementpresentation.Ibelievethatmyauditsprovideareasonablebasisformyopinion.

Inmyopinion,thefinancialstatementsreferredtoabovepresentfairly,inallmaterialrespects,thefinancialpositionofAsianInstituteofTechnologyasat31December2010and2009,andtherevenuesandexpenses,thechangesinfundbalancesandcashflowsfortheyearsthenended,inaccordancewithgenerallyacceptedaccountingprinciplesappropriatefornon-profitorganiza-tionassetoutinNote2tothefinancialstatements.

(Bongkot Amsageam) Certified Public Accountant

Registration No. 3684

KPMG Phoomchai Audit Ltd. Bangkok 11 March 2011

Audit Report of Certified Public Accountant

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND AUDITOR’S REPORT


Balance sheets

Asat31December2010and2009

Note 2010 2009

(Restated)

Assets (in Baht)

Current assets

Cashandcashequivalents 4 336,142,199 605,278,622

Currentinvestments 5 419,214,785 236,158,048

Accountsreceivable 6 86,822,019 79,756,827

ReceivablesfromProgramfund 19,083,313 18,675,399

Inventories - 111,803

Assetsheldonbehalfofdonors 9 403,174,130 522,019,500

AssetsheldonbehalfofUNEPRRC.AP 10 158,348,861 204,563,502

Othercurrentassets 56,015,832 41,033,573

Total current assets 1,478,801,139 1,707,597,274

Non-current assets

Restricteddepositsoffinancialinstitutions 5 20,273,741 15,273,741

Propertyandequipment 7 647,514,252 647,171,126

Advancedeposits 43,365 86,073

Total non-current assets 667,831,358 662,530,940

Total assets 2,146,632,497 2,370,128,214

Liabilities and fund balances

Current liabilities

Accountspayableandaccruedexpenses 8 138,241,031 142,607,952

AdvancesfromProgramfund 13 117,884,288 130,032,471

Depositpayables 5,780,128 6,220,147

Amountsduetodonors 9 403,174,130 522,019,500

AmountsduetoUNEPRRC.AP 10 158,348,861 204,563,502

Total current liabilities 823,428,438 1,005,443,572

Fund balances

Endowmentfundbalances 162,857,887 162,304,747

Capitalfundsbalances 647,514,251 646,992,642

Generalreserve 13 512,831,921 555,387,253

Total fund balances 13 1,323,204,059 1,364,684,642

Total liabilities and fund balances 2,146,632,497 2,370,128,214

Theaccompanyingnotesareanintegralpartofthesefinancialstatements.


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Note 2010 2009

(Restated)

(in Baht)

Income

Tuitionandotherfees 550,239,379 611,127,115

Researchgrantsandcontractserviceincome 95,850,122 176,888,271

Supportoperations 157,675,279 158,743,127

Training 158,612,058 211,535,819

Othercontributions 17,542,478 2,954,699

Facultysecondments 48,723,713 57,582,027

Total income 1,028,643,029 1,218,831,058

Expenses

Salariesandbenefits 11 426,698,740 501,704,567

Materials,suppliesandservices 190,507,029 233,989,845

Contractedservices 230,065,191 179,149,427

Communicationandtravel 65,687,074 71,391,367

Utilitiesandinsurance 49,790,827 53,014,040

Facultysecondments 48,723,713 57,582,027

Total expenses 1,011,472,574 1,096,831,273

Excess of income over expenses 17,170,455 121,999,785

Depreciation 7 63,829,831 66,488,330

Income over (under) expenses including depreciation (46,659,376) 55,511,455

Nonoperatingincome(expenses)

Investmentincome 20,479,158 22,137,693

Gain(loss)onexchangerate (7,100,719) 1,813,565

Gain(loss)ondisposalofassets 128,270 (773,505)

Income over (under) expenses (33,152,667) 78,689,208

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Adjustments to reconcile movement of fund balances

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Loss(gain)ondisposalofassets (128,270) 773,505

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Movement in fund balances from operating activities before

changes in operating assets and liabilities 46,742,270 254,361,127

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Accountsreceivable (14,640,414) 3,923,641

ReceivablesfromProgramfund (407,914) (671,313)

Inventories 111,803 -

Othercurrentassets (17,402,259) (20,226,918)

Advancedeposits 42,707 (86,072)

Accountspayableandaccruedexpenses (4,366,921) 30,595,823

AdvancesfromProgramfund (12,148,183) (139,840,712)

Depositpayables (440,019) (116,986)

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities (2,508,930) 127,938,590

Cash flows from investing activities

Decrease(increase)incurrentinvestment (183,056,737) 373,377,786

Increaseinrestricteddepositsoffinancialinstitutions (5,000,000) -

Purchaseofpropertyandequipment (64,688,092) (36,474,354)

Proceedsfromsaleofequipment 188,078 411,794

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (252,556,751) 337,315,226

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (255,065,681) 465,253,816

Cashandcashequivalentsatbeginningofyear 605,278,622 148,976,413

Effectsofexchangeratechangesonbalances

heldinforeigncurrencies (14,070,742) (8,951,607)

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year 4 336,142,199 605,278,622

Statements of cash flows Fortheyearsended31December2010and2009



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Notes to the financial statementsFortheyearsended31December2010and2009

1 General information

TheAsianInstituteofTechnology(“theInstitute”)isaregion-alpost-graduateinstitution.TheInstituteoperatesonanot-for-profitbasis.TheInstituteislocatedatKm42PaholyothinHighway,KlongLuang,PathumThani,Thailand.

The principal activities of the Institute are providing pro-

grams inengineering,science,advancedtechnologiesandrelatedmanagementandadministration.

2 Basis of preparation of financial statements

ThefinancialstatementsissuedforThaireportingpurposesarepreparedintheThailanguage.ThisEnglishtranslationofthefinancial statementshasbeenprepared for theconve-nienceofreadersnotconversantwiththeThailanguage.

The financial statements are prepared and presented in

Thai Baht. All financial information presented inThai Bahthasbeenroundedinthenotestothefinancialstatementsto the nearest thousand unless otherwise stated.They arepreparedonthehistoricalcostbasisexceptasstatedintheaccountingpolicies.

The financial statements are prepared in accordance withThai Financial Reporting Standards (“TFRS”); guidelinespromulgated by the Federation of Accounting Professions(“FAP”); applicable rules and with generally accepted ac-countingprinciplesinThailand.

The InstitutehastakenadvantageofexemptionsavailableundertheannouncementmadebytheFAPon20July2007andhasnotadoptedthefollowingTAS:

TAS14 SegmentReporting(formerlyTAS 24)

TAS36(revised2007) ImpairmentofAssets

During2010,theFAPannouncedthere-numberingofthefollowingTFRS:

Formerno. Revisedno. Topic TAS11 TAS101 DoubtfulAccountandBadDebts

TAS26 TAS102 IncomeRecognitionForReal EstateBusiness

TAS27 TAS103 DisclosuresintheFinancial StatementsofBanksandSimilar FinancialInstitutions

TAS34 TAS104 AccountingforTroubledDebt Restructuring

Formerno. Revisedno. Topic TAS40 TAS105 AccountingforInvestmentin DebtandEquitySecurities

TAS42 TAS106 AccountingForInvestment Companies

TAS48 TAS107 FinancialInstrumentsDisclosure andPresentation

The Company has adopted the revised Framework for thePreparation and Presentation of Financial Statements (re-vised2009),whichwasissuedbytheFAPduring2010andeffectiveon26May2010.Theadoptionoftherevisedframe-work does not have any material impact on the Institute’sfinancialstatements.

During2010, theFAPhas issuedanumberofnewandre-visedTFRS which are not currently effective and have notbeen adopted in the preparation of these financial state-ments. These new and revised standards and interpreta-tions are disclosed in note 17. On 24 December 2010, theFAPissuedannouncementnumber62/2553concerningthepreparationof thefinancialstatementsofnon-publiclyac-countableentities(NPAEs).TheFAPallowsNPAEstocontin-uetouseTFRSeffectivefortheperiodended31December2010 for preparing financial statements for periods begin-ningonorafter1January2011untiltheFAPannouncesac-countingstandardsforNPAEs.

TheInstituteisanon-publiclyaccountableentityunderthedefinition of the said announcement. Accordingly, as theFAPhasnotyetannouncedaccountingstandardsforNPAEsasat thereportingdate, the InstitutehasnotadoptedthenewandrevisedTFRSdisclosedinnote17inthepreparationofthesefinancialstatements.

Thepreparationoffinancialstatements inconformitywithTAS andTFRS requires management to make judgements,estimates and assumptions that affect the application ofpoliciesandreportedamountsofassets, liabilities, incomeandexpenses.Actualresultsmaydifferfromestimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewedonanongoingbasis.Revisionstoaccountingestimatesarerecognisedintheperiodinwhichestimatesarerevisedandinanyfutureperiodsaffected.

Fund accounting

Toensureobservanceoflimitationsandrestrictionsplacedon the use of the resources available to the Institute, thebooks of account of the Institute are maintained in accor-dancewiththeprinciplesof“fundaccounting”whichisap-propriateforanon-profitorganisation.Thisistheprocedureby which resources for various purposes are classified foraccountingandreportingpurposesintofunds,whichareinaccordancewithactivitiesorobjectsspecified.Withineach

These notes form an integral part of the financial statements.The financial statements were authorised for issue by the President of the Institute on 11 March 2011.


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fund group, fund balances which are restricted by outsidesources are so indicated and are distinguished from unre-strictedfundallocatedtospecificpurposesbyactionofthegoverning board.The governing board retains full controlofunrestrictedfundstouseinachievinginstitutionalobjec-tives.

Thepurposesandobjectsofthefundsareasfollows:

Unrestricted Current Fund (Fund 10)

ThisfundistheoperatingaccountoftheInstitute.Itisavail-able for general operating purposes without restrictions,suchasmightbeimposedbyagrantagencyordonor.

Restricted Fund-General (Fund 21)

Theuseofthisfundisrestrictedtothoseunitsholdingnon-profit making status. This includes: academic-related ser-vicessupportingacademicunitsandcertainadministrativefunctions.

Restricted Endowment Fund (Fund 22)

The Endowment Fund is used where donors have stipu-lated,asaconditionoftheirgift,thattheprincipalistobemaintainedinviolateandinperpetuity.Some,orall,oftheincomefromtheinvestmentsmaybeusedtofurthertheob-jectivesoftheendowment.

Restricted Fund-General Reserve (Fund 23)

Donors and other agencies have granted funds to the In-stituteon thebasis that theprincipal isheld inviolateandinperpetuity.TheincomefromthefundisavailabletotheInstitutetobeexpendedinaccordancewithagreementses-tablishedbythegiftingpartyat thepointof thedonationorgrant.TheBoardofTrusteesstipulatesthatthesurplusoftheunrestrictedcurrentfund,restrictedfund–generalandtheexcessoftheactivitiesunderProgramfundwhichwerecompletedduringtheyeareachyeararetransferredtotheGeneralReserveandthatthefundsmustbeheldforfutureuse.

Integrated facility management (Fund 24)

ThisfundincludestheoperatingaccountoftheInstituteforasset maintenance and for the provision of the Institute’snon-core operations, mainly on integrated facilities man-agementservice.

Sponsored Program Fund (Fund 30 and Fund 31)

TheSponsoredprogramfundincludesacademicprogramsandnon-academicprojects.Non-academicprogramsissub-ject to restrictionsbydonorsorotheragencies limiting itsuseforfundingspecificresearchprojects,conference,shortcourses,workshopsorsimilarprojects.

Capital Fund (Fund 41)

This fund holds the Institute’s property, plant and equip-ment,includinglibrarybooks.

Capital Fund - Liquid Assets (Fund 42)

Thisfundrecordstherenovations,repairsandreplacementtotheexistingassets.

Agency Fund (accounted for as Fund 50 and Fund 60)

Thesefundsareheldonbehalfofdonorsandotheragen-ciesandaredisbursedinaccordancewiththeirinstructions.TheInstitutehasnotitletothesefundsandtheassociatedrevenuesandexpenseshavebeenexcludedfromthestate-mentofrevenuesandexpenses.Theassetsheldonbehalfoftheseothershavebeendisclosedinthebalancesheetto-getherwiththeassociatedliabilityforthesameamounttotheseotherparties.

3 Significant accounting policies

(a) Basis of preparation

ThefinancialstatementsoftheInstitutecomprisethefundsof the Institute and those of its branch to which it holdstitle.

Branch

The Branch is an autonomous or semi-autonomous oper-atingentitywithinanorganisationwhichdoesnothaveaseparatelegalidentity.TheBranchwillhaveseparatelyiden-tifiableassets,liabilities,cashflows,revenuesandexpensesoverwhichithasaccountability.

(b) Foreign currencies

Foreign currency transactions

Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into ThaiBahtattheforeignexchangeratesrulingatthedatesofthetransactions.

Monetaryassetsandliabilitiesdenominatedinforeigncur-renciesatthereportingdatearetranslatedtoThaiBahtattheforeignexchangeratesrulingbytheBankofThailandatthatdate.Foreignexchangedifferencesarisingontransla-tion are recognised in the statement of revenues and ex-penses.

Non-monetaryassetsandliabilitiesmeasuredatcostinfor-eigncurrenciesaretranslatedtoThaiBahtusingtheforeignexchangeratesrulingatthedatesofthetransactions.

Foreign entities

TheassetsandliabilitiesofforeignentitiesaretranslatedtoThaiBahtattheforeignexchangeratesrulingatthereport-ingdate.

Therevenuesandexpensesofforeignentitiesaretranslatedto Thai Baht at rates approximating the foreign exchangeratesrulingatthedatesofthetransactions.

Foreign exchange differences arising on translation arerecognisedinthestatementofrevenuesandexpenses.


(c) Cash and cash equivalents

Cashandcashequivalentscomprisecashbalances,callde-positsandhighlyliquidshort-terminvestments.

(d) Accounts and other receivables

Accounts and other receivables are stated at their invoicevaluelessallowancefordoubtfulaccounts.

The allowance for doubtful accounts is assessed primarilyon analysis of payment histories and future expectationsofcustomerpayments.Allowancesmadearebasedonhis-toricalwritten-offpatterns.Baddebtsarewrittenoffwhenincurred.

e) Inventories

Inventoriesarestatedatthelowerofcostandnetrealisablevalue.

Cost is calculated using the first in first out principle andcomprisesallcostsofpurchaseandothercostsincurredinbringingtheinventoriestotheirpresentlocationandcondi-tion.

Netrealisablevalueistheestimatedsellingpriceintheor-dinarycourseofbusinesslesstheestimatedcostsnecessarytomakethesale.

Anallowanceismadeforalldeteriorated,damaged,obso-leteandslow-movinginventories.

(f) Property and equipment

owned assets

Propertyandequipmentarestatedatcostlessaccumulateddepreciationandimpairmentlosses.

Donated assets are stated at fair value at the time of do-nation, deemed cost. Subsequently they are stated at thedeemedcostlessaccumulateddepreciation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged to the statement of revenues andexpensesonastraight-linebasisovertheestimatedusefullivesofeachpartofanitemofassets.Theestimatedusefullivesareasfollows:

Campusdevelopment 10 yearsBuildings 40 yearsFurnitureandequipment 5,10 yearsTransportationequipment 8 yearsLibraryassets 6 years

Nodepreciationisprovidedonassetsunderconstruction.

(g) Impairment

ThecarryingamountsoftheInstitute’sassetsarereviewedat each reporting date to determine whether there is anyindication of impairment. If any such indication exists, theassets’ recoverable amountsare estimated.An impairmentlossisrecognisedifthecarryingamountofanassetexceedsitsrecoverableamount.Theimpairmentlossisrecognisedin

thestatementofincomeunlessitreversesapreviousrevalu-ationcreditedtoequity,inwhichcaseitischargedtoequity.AdoptionofthisaccountingpolicydoesnotconstitutefullcompliancewithalltherequirementsofTAS36:ImpairmentofAssets.

(h) Payables

Payablesarestatedatcost.

(i) Employee benefit

Definedcontributionplans

Obligations forcontributionstotheSocialSecuritiesFund,ProvidentFundandInsuredSavingFundarerecognisedasexpensesinthestatementofrevenuesandexpensesasin-curred.

(j) Provisions

A provision is recognised in the balance sheet when theInstitute has a present legal or constructive obligation asa resultofapastevent,and it isprobable thatanoutflowof economic benefits will be required to settle the obliga-tionandareliableestimatecanbemadeoftheamountoftheobligation.Iftheeffectismaterial,provisionsaredeter-mined by discounting the expected future cash flows at apre-taxratethatreflectscurrentmarketassessmentsofthetimevalueofmoneyand,whereappropriate,therisksspe-cifictotheliability.

(k) Revenue

Revenuereceivedfortheprovisionofgoodsandservicesarerecognisedintheperiodinwhichthegoodsareprovidedortheservicesrendered.

Tuition and other fees

Tuitionandotherfeesarerecognisedonanaccrualbasis.

Research grant and Contract service income

Researchgrantandcontract service incomereceived fromDonors/SponsorsunderSponsoredProgramFund(Fund30)is recognised when service are rendered and projects arecompleted.

Support operations

Supportoperationsarerecognisedasservicesareprovided.

Donations

Duetotheabsenceofanyobligationonthedonortomakethedonationandtheuncertainnatureofthetimingofre-ceipt,donationshavetoberecognisedonacashbasis.

Contribution in kind (Faculty secondments)

TheserepresentservicesdonatedtotheInstituteintheformofasecondmentof facultyorstaffandwhere thevalue isestimatedbasedontheapprovedInstituteprofessionalsal-aryscale.Theamountsarerecognisedasrevenuesandex-pensesintherestrictedgeneralfund.



Investment income

Investmentincomeisrecognisedonanaccrualbasis.

(l) Expenses

operating leases

Payments made under operating leases are recognised inthe statement of income on a straight line basis over theterm of the lease. Contingent rentals are charged to thestatementofrevenuesandexpensesfortheaccountingpe-riodinwhichtheyareincurred.

(m) Income tax

NoincometaxprovisionismadeinthefinancialstatementsastheInstituteisexemptfrompaymentofincometaxinac-cordance with the notification issued in the Royal Gazettedated25October,2510B.E.(1967).

ExceptforservicesrenderedbytheConferenceCenter,theInstitute has been exempted fromValue AddedTax (VAT),underSection4(4)oftheRoyalDecreeissuedundertheRev-enueCodegoverningexemptionfromValueAddedTax(No.239),B.E.2534whichwasadditionallyamendedundertheRoyalDecree(No.254)B.E.2535.

4 Cash and cash equivalents

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Bankaccounts 195,685 199,824Fixeddepositswithmaturity threemonthsorless 140,457 405,455Cash and cash equivalents 336,142 605,279

Thecurrencydenominationofcashandcashequivalentsasat31Decemberwasasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)ThaiBaht(THB) 261,434 530,182UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 16,094 21,950VietnameseDong(VND) 58,614 53,147Total 336,142 605,279

5 Current investments

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Fixeddepositswithmaturity morethanthreemonths 439,489 251,432LessDepositspledgedascollateral (20,274) (15,274)Net 419,215 236,158

As at 31 December 2010, fixed deposits of Baht 20.27 mil-lion(2009:Baht15.27million)werepledgedascollateralforbankoverdraftandoutstandinglettersofguaranteeissuedbythesamebank(seenote14).

The currency denomination of fixed deposits as at 31 De-cemberwasasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)ThaiBaht(THB) 402,223 107,108UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 5,703 6,314VietnameseDong(VND) 31,563 48,010Total 439,489 251,432

6 Accounts receivable

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Tuitionandotherfees 59,252 56,282Others 47,847 40,375 107,099 96,657lessallowancefordoubtfulaccounts (20,277) (16,900)Net 86,822 79,757

Reversal of doubtful debts expenses for the year (3,377) (5,009)

Aginganalysesforaccountsreceivablewereasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Current 31,571 36,336Overdue: Lessthan3months 15,850 11,341 3-6months 20,953 13,977 6-12months 5,840 19,376 Over12months 32,885 15,627 107,099 96,657lessallowancefordoubtful accounts (20,277) (16,900)Net 86,822 79,757

Thecurrencydenominationofaccountsreceivableasat31Decemberwasasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)ThaiBaht(THB) 64,795 39,492UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 42,082 53,232SwedishKrona(SEK) - 2,291Euro(EUR) 222 1,074KoreanWon(KRW) - 568Total 107,099 96,657



Furniture Assets Campus and Transportation Library under development Buildings equipment equipment assets construction Total

(in thousand Baht)

Cost

At1January2009 51,105 1,143,812 880,421 17,987 266,959 149 2,360,433

Additions 580 2,517 20,704 133 7,056 5,484 36,474

Disposals - - (471) (3,195) - - (3,666)

Transfers - - (695) 695 - - -

At 31 December 2009

and 1 January 2010 51,685 1,146,329 899,959 15,620 274,015 5,633 2,393,241

Additions 3,492 377 40,365 197 7,122 13,135 64,688

Disposals - - (12,850) (348) - - (13,198)

Foreigncurrencytranslation - (200) (657) (154) - - (1,011)

At 31 December 2010 55,177 1,146,506 926,817 15,315 281,137 18,768 2,443,720

Accumulated Depreciation

At1January2009 44,566 567,057 815,203 10,964 244,273 - 1,682,063

Depreciationchargefortheyear 1,244 28,824 26,481 1,453 8,486 - 66,488

Disposals - - (446) (2,035) - - (2,481)

Transfers - 66 (1,120) 1,054 - - -

At 31 December 2009

and 1 January 2010 45,810 595,947 840,118 11,436 252,759 - 1,746,070

Depreciationchargefortheyear 1,193 29,055 24,152 1,482 7,948 - 63,830

Disposals - - (12,790) (348) - - (13,138)

Foreigncurrencytranslation - (108) 198 (646) - - (556)

At 31 December 2010 47,003 624,894 851,678 11,924 260,707 - 1,796,206

Net book value

At 1 January 2009 6,539 576,755 65,218 7,023 22,686 149 678,370

At 31 December 2009

and 1 January 2010 5,875 550,382 59,841 4,184 21,256 5,633 647,171

At 31 December 2010 8,174 521,612 75,139 3,391 20,430 18,768 647,514

7 Property and equipment

Thegrossamountoffullydepreciatedpropertyandequipmentthatwasstillinuseasat31December2010amountedtoBaht1,073.94million(2009:Baht1,027.35million).


8 Accounts payable and accrued expenses

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Owingtosuppliers 41,866 19,814Provisionforinsuredsavingfundtax 9,365 10,526Advancefromstudents 25,368 23,142Withholdingtaxpayable 8,199 7,119Accruedexpenses 9,700 13,799Payablestostaff 17,028 30,286Advancereceivedfromdonors 782 1,051Others 25,933 36,871Total 138,241 142,608

The currency denomination of accounts payable and ac-cruedexpensesasat31Decemberwasasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)ThaiBaht(THB) 132,982 139,234UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 3,082 3,357AustralianDollars(AUD) - 17Euro(EUR) 2,177 -Total 138,241 142,608

9 Assets held on behalf of, and amounts due to, donors

Theagencyfundrepresentsamountsheldonbehalfofdo-nors and other agencies and are disbursed in accordancewith their instructions. The Institute has no title to thesefunds or the associated revenues and expenses. The fundbalances as at 31 December 2010 and 2009 and revenuesandexpensesfortheyearsthenendedwereasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Fundsreceivedfromdonors 348,417 511,434Applicationoffunds -Salariesandotherbenefits 7,563 5,376-Scholarships 408,108 441,278-Contractedservices 56,685 64,831-Communication,travelandutilityexpenses 4,828 7,844Totalfundsapplied 477,184 519,329 Income under expenses for the year (128,767) (7,895) Assetsheldonbehalfofdonors Cashanddepositsatfinancialinstitutions 142,081 309,480Fixeddeposits 259,805 211,277Accountsreceivableandothercurrentassets 1,288 1,263Total assets held on behalf of donors 403,174 522,020

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)

Balanceat1January: Amountsduetodonors 501,177 510,586 Amountsduetodonors-AITVN 2,827 2,475Deficitfortheyear (128,767) (7,895)Transferstootherfunds (302) (1,162)Foreigncurrencytranslation (424) -Balanceat31December 374,511 504,004 Liabilities 28,663 18,016 Total amounts due to donors 403,174 522,020

10 Assets held on behalf of, and amounts due to, UNEP RRC.AP

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)FundsreceivedfromUNEPRRC.AP 100,233 184,305Totalfundsapplied 142,460 95,203Income over (under) expenses for the year (42,227) 89,102 AssetsheldonbehalfofUNEPRRC.AP Cashanddepositsatfinancialinstitutions 151,813 198,407Accountsreceivable 4,110 3,992Propertyandequipment 2,426 2,165Total assets held on behalf of UNEP RRC.AP 158,349 204,564 AmountsduetoUNEPRRC.AP Balanceat1January 183,877 94,775Incomeover(under)expensesfortheyear (42,227) 89,102Balanceat31December 141,650 183,877 Liabilities 16,699 20,687 Total amounts due to UNEP RRC.AP 158,349 204,564

11 Employee benefit expenses

2010 2009 (Restated) (in thousand Baht)Wagesandsalaries 391,047 455,887Contributiontoprovidentfundandinsuredsavingfund 15,293 16,270Meritexpenses 6,477 11,444Personalincometaxofemployees 5,982 9,513Socialsecuritycosts 5,018 4,679Othercosts 2,882 3,912Total 426,699 501,705



Provident Fund and Insured Saving Fund

TheInstituteanditsstaffjointlyoperatetheInsuredSavingFund,apost-retirementdefinedcontributionscheme.Effec-tivelyfrom1February2004,aProvidentFundhasreplacedthe Insured Saving Fund. The Institute contributes to thefundattherateof10%oftheirbasicsalary,andtheemploy-eescontributetothefundatrates3%to10%oftheirbasicsalary.Effectivelyfrom1April2006,theInstitutecontributesto the fundat the rateof5%of theirbasic salary, and theemployeescontributetothefundatrates3%to5%oftheirbasicsalary.ThefundismanagedbyTISCOAssetsManage-ment Co., Ltd.The assets of the Insured Saving Fund weresubstantiallytransferredtothenewProvidentFund.

12 AIT Center in Vietnam (AITVN)

The Institute has a branch operation in Hanoi,Vietnam ofwhichthepurposeofitsoperationisto:

• Educateandtrainstudents,technocrats,businessman-agersandotherprofessionals;and

• Organizeresearchoutreachanddevelopmentactivitiesaswellasthetransferoftechnologiesasrequiredbytheeconomicdevelopmentofthecountry.

TheresultsoftheoperationswhichhavebeenincludedaspartoftheresultsoftheRestrictedFund-General(Fund21),ProgramFund (Fund30),andCapitalFund (Fund41)weresummarisedbelow:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Income 137,134 142,887Expenses 135,300 104,489Income over expenses 1,834 38,398

Financialstatementsfortheyearsended31December2010and 2009 have been prepared and approved by the man-agementofthebranch.

Significant accounting transactions between the Instituteand its branch were eliminated from these financial state-ments.

13 Changes in accounting policy

Academic Programs under Sponsored Program Fund (Fund 30)

The Institute previously excluded net surplus of on-goingprojects in Academic Program under Sponsored ProgramFund(Fund30)fromStatementsofRevenuesandExpendi-tures.From1January2010,theInstitutehaschangeditsac-countingpolicyforrecognisingtheAcademicProgramsonayearlybasiswhichisinlinewithacademicyear.Non-Academic Projects under Sponsored Program Fund (Fund 30)

Until 31 December 2009, the institute had presented rev-enues and expenditures incurred during the year for bothon-goingandcompletedprojectsintheStatementofReve-nuesandExpenditureswiththebottomlinereversingofnet

surplusofon-goingprojectstoAdvances/ReceivablesfromSponsoredProgramFundinBalancesheet.Toimprovethepresentation,theStatementofRevenuesandExpendituresonly includecompletedprojects’cumulative revenuesandexpendituresaccordingtoincomerecognitionforresearchgrant and contract service income which is recognised asrevenue when the projects or services are completed.Thefinal net surplus (deficit) remains unchanged by the newpresentation.

Theeffectsofthesechangesarerecognisedretrospectivelyinthe2009financialstatementswhichare included inthe2010 financial statements for comparative purposes. Theimpactofthechangeonthe2010and2009financialstate-mentswasasfollows:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)Advances from Program Fund Balance at 1 January before restated 270,310 269,873Decreaseinincomeover expensesofAcademicproject ofprogramfund (140,278) (104,709)Balance at 1 January after restated 130,032 165,164 Total fund balances Fund balances for the year before restated 1,224,406 1,184,572Increaseinincomeover expensesofon-going projectofprogramfund,net 140,278 104,709Fund balances for the year after restated 1,364,684 1,289,281 Income over (under) expenses for the year Income over (under) expenses for the year before restated (47,362) 43,120Increaseinincomeoverexpenses fortheyearofAcademic projectofprogramfund,net 14,209 35,569Income over (under) expenses for the year after restated (33,153) 78,689

14 Financial instruments

Financial risk management policies

Afinancialinstrumentisanycontractthatgivesrisetobothafinancialassetofoneenterpriseandafinancialliabilityorequity instrument of another enterprise at the same time.The Institutedoesnotholdor issuederivativefinancial in-strumentsforspeculativeortradingpurposes.

Risk management is integral to the whole business of theInstitute.The Institute has a system of controls in place tocreateanacceptablebalancebetweenthecostofrisksoc-curring and the cost of managing the risks. The manage-mentcontinuallymonitorstheInstitute’sriskmanagementprocesstoensurethatanappropriatebalancebetweenriskandcontrolisachieved.

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Interest rate risk

Interestrateriskistheriskthatfuturemovementsinmarketinterest rateswillaffect theresultsof the Institute’sopera-tionsanditscashflows.

The Institute’sexposures to interest rate risk relateprimar-ilytoitscashandcashequivalentsatbanksaswellasfixeddeposits. However, since most of its financial assets bearfloatinginterestratesorfixedinterestrateswhichareclosetothecurrentmarketrates,theinterestrateriskisexpectedtobeminimal.

Foreign currency risk

Currencyriskoccurswhenthevalueoffinancialinstrumentschangesinaccordancewiththefluctuationsoftheexchangerate,whichmayaffectgain/lossonforeignexchangecurren-cyofthepresentandfutureyears.

At31December, the Institutewasexposed to foreigncur-rencyriskinrespectoffinancialassetsandliabilitiesdenom-inatedinthefollowingcurrenciesinBahtequivalent:

2010 2009 (in thousand Baht)AssetsVietnameseDong(VND) 90,177 101,157UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 63,879 81,496SwedishKrona(SEK) - 2,291Euro(EUR) 222 1,074KoreanWon(KRW) - 568Total 154,278 186,586 Liabilities UnitedStatesDollars(USD) 3,082 3,357AustralianDollars(AUD) - 17Euro(EUR) 2,177 -Total 5,259 3,374 Net exposure 149,019 183,212

Credit risk

Credit risk refers to the risk that counterparty may defaultonitscontractualobligations,whichmayresultinafinancialloss.

Although the Institute has established the credit policywhichincludespoliciesandprocedureswithregardstotu-ition, fees, and other costs, it remains exposure to the riskprimarilyforthesupplyofeducationalservicestoself-sup-portstudents.Whileproofofavailabilityoffundsisrequiredbefore those students are accepted for enrollment (in theform of bank statement, land title deed, or documentaryproof of third party sponsorship), and also advanced pay-ment of the first semester tuition and fees are mandatory.However, these are not sufficient and are not fully consid-eredascollateral in respectof fees for futuresemestersofenrollment.

Liquidity risk

TheInstitutemonitorsitsliquidityriskandmaintainsalevelofcashandcashequivalentsdeemedadequatebymanage-ment to finance the Institute’s operations and to mitigatetheeffectsoffluctuationsincashflows.

Fair values

Thefairvalueistheamountforwhichanassetcouldbeex-changed,oraliabilitysettled,betweenknowledgeable,will-ingpartiesinanarm’slengthtransaction.

The fair value of cash and cash equivalent, current invest-ments, accounts and other receivables and accounts andotherpayablesareapproximatetotheircarryingvaluepre-sentedinbalancesheetduetotherelativelyshort-termma-turityofthesefinancialinstruments.

15 Commitments

Land lease

TheInstitutesuccessfullyrenewedtheleasewiththeTham-masatUniversityon10June2005.Thenewleasealsocon-tains a Memorandum of Understanding between the In-stitute and Thammasat University, concerning academicco-operation,asanintegralpartofthenewleaseagreementtoleaselandfor30yearsfrom19January2001to18January2031intheamountofBaht600,000;onexpiryoftheleaseagreementitwillgivetheInstitutetherighttocontinuetoleasetheland.However,theconsiderationforthisdiscountisthatshouldtheleasenotberenewedandthelandrevertstoThammasatUniversity(University),soallbuildingsandin-frastructureontheInstitute’ssitewillbecomethepropertyoftheUniversity.

Furthermore,theLeaseiscontingentonaMemorandumofUnderstanding(MOU)betweentheUniversityandtheInsti-tute.TheMOUprovidesthattheInstitutewillmakeavailableand fund a total of sixty scholarships over the thirty-yearlifeoftheLease.ScholarshipsmadeinaccordancewiththeMOUwillcovertuitionfeesforqualifiedlecturersfromtheUniversity,selectedbytheUniversity,topursueaDoctoraldegreeattheInstitute.Asat31December2010,theschol-arshipcommitmentamountedtototalingBaht77.8million(2009: Baht 77.8 million).

Service Agreement

On2April2009,theInstituteenteredintoagreementswithSodexo Support (Thailand) Ltd. whereby Sodexo will pro-videthree-keyareasofserviceline,namely1.FacilityMan-agement included preventive and collective maintenanceofacademicbuilding,residenceandfieldzone;2.Manage-ment of hotel service and food & beverage of AITCC, foodandbeverageincafeteria;and3.Managementofthesup-port services of transportation service, campus mail, andsportfacilities.Undertermsoftheagreements,theInstituteis committed to pay management fee, variable provisionandashareofadditionalservicefeetoSodexo,attheratesas indicated in the agreements.The term of the manage-mentagreementisfor5years,countingfromtheeffectivedate.Theagreementscanbeextendedbywritingatleast8weekspriortotheendoftheinitialtermasspecifiedinthesaidagreement.



Bank guarantees

As at 31 December 2010, bank guarantees which were is-suedbythebankonbehalfoftheInstituteinrespectofbankoverdraftfacilityandcertainperformancebondsasrequiredinthenormalcourseofoperationsoftheInstituteamount-edtototallingBaht0.7million(2009:Baht0.3million).ThesebankguaranteesarecollateralisedbyAIT’sfixeddepositsasdiscussedinnote5.

Others

Asat31December2010,the InstitutehadobtainedcreditfacilitiesforbankoverdrafttotalingBaht5millionwhicharecollateralbyAIT’sfixeddepositsasdiscussedinnote5.BankoverdraftsbearinterestattherateofF/D+1.25%.

16 Contingent liabilities

Asat31December2010,therearesevenlabourcasesandthreestudentcases.ThesevenlabourcasesarependingfortrialattheCourtinvolvingwiththeclaimsundertheLabour

Protection Law and the Labour Relation Law. Four labourcases have been decided by the Central Labour Court fa-vourablytothe Institute.However, thesefour labourcasesarestillpending intheSupremeCourt.Otherthree labourcasesarependingfortrialintheCentralLabourCourt.ThethreestudentcasesarependingfortrialintheCivilCourtin-volvingwiththeclaimundertheCivilandCommercialCode.TheManagementbelievesthattheoutcomeofallthesecas-eswillbeinfavouroftheInstituteandtheultimateoutcomecannotbepresentlyandreliablydeterminedorquantified.Thus,noliabilityisrecordedintheaccompanyingfinancialstatementsasat31December2010.

17 Thai Financial Reporting Standards (TFRS) not yet adopted

TheInstitutehasnotadoptedthefollowingnewandrevisedTFRSthathavebeenissuedasofthereportingdatebutarenotyeteffective.ThenewandrevisedTFRSareanticipatedtobecomeeffectiveforannualfinancialperiodsbeginningonorafter1Januaryintheyearindicatedinthefollowingtable.

TFRS Topic Year effective

TAS1(revised2009) PresentationofFinancialStatements 2011

TAS2(revised2009) Inventories 2011

TAS7(revised2009) StatementofCashFlows 2011

TAS8(revised2009) AccountingPolicies,ChangesinAccountingEstimatesandErrors 2011

TAS10(revised2009) EventsaftertheReportingPeriod 2011

TAS16(revised2009) Property,PlantandEquipment 2011

TAS17(revised2009) Leases 2011

TAS18(revised2009) Revenue 2011

TAS19 EmployeeBenefits 2011

TAS21(revised2009) TheEffectsofChangesinForeignExchangeRates 2013

TAS36(revised2009) ImpairmentofAssets 2011

TAS37(revised2009) Provisions,ContingentLiabilitiesandContingentAssets 2011

TAS38(revised2009) IntangibleAssets 2011

Asdescribedinnote2tothefinancialstatements,theInstituteisanon-publiclyaccountableentityunderthedefinitiongivenintheFAP’sannouncementnumber62/2553concerningthepreparationofthefinancialstatementsofnon-publiclyaccountableentities(NPAEs).TheInstitutehasmadethedecisiontocomplywithaccountingstandardsforNPAEsassoonassuchstandardsareannouncedbytheFAPandbecomeeffective.Untilsuchtime,andasallowedbytheFAP,theInstitutewillcontinuetoadoptcurrentTFRSeffectivefor2010andhasnotconsideredthepotentialimpactofadoptingandinitialapplicationofthenewandrevisedTFRSnotedabove.

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Some key terms used in Annual Report 2010

GLOSSARY

AAO AlumniAffairsOffice

ACECOMS AsianCenterforEngineeringComputationsandSoftware

ACSIG AsianCenterforSoilImprovementandGeosynthetics

AIT AsianInstituteofTechnology

AIT Consulting

AIT Extension

AIT-UNEP RRC.AP AIT-UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammeRegionalResourceCentreforAsia-Pacific

American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand

ARCMDG ASEANRegionalCenterofExcellenceonMillenniumDevelopmentGoals

ARRPET AsianRegionalResearchProgrammeonEnvironmentalTechnology

ASAIHL TheAssociationofSoutheastAsianInstitutionsofHigherLearning

AUAP AssociationofUniversitiesofAsiaandthePacific

British Chamber of Commerce Thailand

CLIQ CenterforLearningInnovationandQuality

CoEN CenterofExcellenceinNanotechnology

CoE SDCC CentreofExcellenceonSustainableDevelopmentinthecontextofClimateChange

CSR ACA CSRAsiaCenteratAIT

FoAIT FriendsofAITFoundation

GIC GeoinformaticsCenter

GMSARN GreaterMekongSub-regionAcademicandResearchNetwork

Habitech Center

IIE InstituteofInternationalEducation

intERLab InternetEducationandResearchLaboratory

RIMES RegionalIntegratedMulti-hazardEarlyWarningSystemforAfricaandAsia

RNUS RegionalNetworkOfficeforUrbanSafety

SATU SoutheastandSouthAsiaandTaiwanUniversities(SATU)Presidents’Forum

SEA-UEMA SoutheastAsiaUrbanEnvironmentalManagementApplicationsProject

SERD SchoolofEnvironment,ResourcesandDevelopment

SET SchoolofEngineeringandTechnology

SOM SchoolofManagement

Thai - Swedish Chamber of Commerce

TRF ThailandResearchFund

TSF TélécomsSansFrontières

UNEP UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme

UN-ESCAP UnitedNationsEconomicandSocialCommissionforAsiaandthePacificWHOCollaboratingCenter

Yunus Center at AIT

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