WEEK # 21, 22 - 28 May, 2023
In this issue:
C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement Signing
1) The international event, Structural Engineering: Preserving Past, Protecting Present, Building Future
The international event, Structural Engineering: Preserving Past, Protecting Present, Building Future, scheduled to take place on 22-23 May 2023 at the Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok, Thailand holds immense significance for Thailand and the region as it aims to emphasize the critical role of structural engineering in preserving historical structures, ensuring the safety of modern constructions, and shaping the future of the built environment. By bringing together experts, researchers, and industry professionals from around the world, the event seeks to foster a vibrant environment of knowledge exchange, innovation, and collaboration that will contribute to the sustainable development and growth of Thailand's infrastructure sector.
The distinguished guest of honor will be the Governor of Bangkok, Mr. Chadchart Sittipunt, furthur highlighting the occasion's prestige.
If you register now, you can also join the most exciting party of the year, CSi Celebration Party on 22 May 2023, 6:30 PM at Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok, hosted by Ashraf Habibullah, to celebrate the grandeur of Structural Engineering and its invaluable contributions to humanity. This is a rare opportunity to mingle and form new connections that could lead to exciting opportunities down the road. It is definitely a night to remember, an evening of celebration, networking, and fun, with live entertainment, sumptuous food, and free-flowing beverages!
2) Reminder: Invitation to attend Google Appsheet online workshop
Email from Helpdesk 15 May 2023
Dear all users,
Google has recently added "Appsheet" in the available Google Apps for us. Appsheet is a no-code platform to help develop applications that can work on Mobile and Web Browser without having to write a program.
Loxley Orbit Public Company Limited, our Google reseller, is pleased to invite all users to attend AppSheet Introduction & Workshop via Google Meet on May 22, 2023 9am - 12pm. Complete all the information in the registration form here >> Click this link
Objective: AppSheet features for participants to understand the benefits and principles of working with AppSheet. You can use the AppSheet tool to create applications with basic functions.
Who should attend?
Any user who would like to develop or build their own applications but does not have a background in coding.
Any user who has data on Spreadsheet and wants to manage access to data from multiple users or different devices.
Agenda:
- AppSheet introduction (30 mins): Product introduction, UI walkthrough
- AppSheet live demonstration (1 hrs)
- AppSheet hands-on lab (1.30 hrs), Use case: Approval Application
3) Join the AIT 100K Competition and showcase your innovative solutions that align with sustainable development goals for a chance to win 100,000 THB.
The AIT Outreach and Entrepreneurship Committee and AIT Student Union (SU) cordially invite you to participate in the AIT 100k Competition which seeks innovative business plans aligned with SDGs to promote sustainable development. Proposals should address at least one of five SDGs: No Poverty (SDG 1), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7), Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (SDG 9), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), and Climate Action (SDG 13).
Registration is FREE.
Registration link and for more information: https://bit.ly/3NFJEMo
Calling all innovators! Join the AIT 100k competition and change the world.
4) AIT Extension invites you for online live session on “METAVERSE SERIES – 1: Digital Economy – How to explain market size in time”
Date: 31 May 2023
Time: 14:00 hrs. (Bangkok time)
About the speaker: Mr. Danairat Thanabodithammachari
Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Expert
Mr. Danairat has more than 15 years of experience in both consulting and implementation services across multiple industries; Financial, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Public Sector. He delivered IT Solutions and Architecture Blueprints with set up Enterprise Architecture team for many large Oracle ASEAN customers.
With software development background, Mr. Danairat completed delivering the key IT projects with millions users access from worldwide various channels; Implemented Business Process Management (BPM) System and Document Management System (DMS) for Loan Origination Process, Delivered Large Payment Gateway Portal Customer Services implementation integrating to many of Enterprise Core Systems using SO technology, Delivered Identity Management (IdM) and Enterprise Single Sign On (SSO) with governance process for more than 1,000 bank branches. Deliver Enterprise Architecture activities, Cloud Computing Architecture and Strategic IT Roadmap for many of ASEAN customers.
Mr. Danairat hold Master of Science, Information Technology (Distinguished Student) from King Mongkutklow University Technology of Thonburi Thailand. Danairat has also completed TOGAF Silver, Java Certified Professional, and ISACA member.
For more information and registration please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/online-live-session-metaverse-series-1-digital-economy-how-explain-market-size-time
5) Blood Donation Announcement
Email from the Medical Clinic on 8 May 2023
Dear AIT Community,
The Thai Red Cross Society has been working with volunteer students and staff to collect units of blood from the AIT community. The bloodmobile visits AIT every three months, four times a year, hoping to collect enough units to supply the constant demand for blood.
We again would like to ask for your help. The next visit for blood donation is scheduled on Friday, 2nd June 2023, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. at the parking lot in front of the AIT Conference Center.
Give blood! You'll experience a fulfilling sense of contribution. And the donation process isn't time-consuming. It only takes about half an hour. For more information about blood donation please see the attached.
On behalf of needy patients whose lives you may save, we would like to thank you very much for your time and support.
For further information, please contact; The Thai Red Cross Society
Tel. 0-2263-9600-99, 0-2256-4300,0-2256-4306
Email: blood@redcross.or.th
Website: www.blooddonationthai.com
6) Youth in ICT 2023 Event, organized by the Asia-Pacifit Telecommunity (APT) and AIT
This event will equip young people with the necessary skills to succeed in the ICT industry. Learn from experts in academia, government officials, private companies, and UN agencies through career development talks and experience-sharing sessions.
Register now to secure your place and stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the industry.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3M47ZuC
Date and time: Thursday, 22 June 2023 / 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Venue: AIT Conference Center (physical)
Email: aptyict@apt.int
Website: https://www.apt.int/2023-APTYICT
1) Professional Development Course on "Connecting Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for MEL Operationalization and Result-Based M&E"
Date: 15 – 18 May 2023
Venue: Online
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening perspectives
for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E
- Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
- Key concepts of result-based management
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
- Financial and risk management in M&E
Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL
- Theory of change
- Result-mapping
- Develop result framework/log frame
- Work plan/action and intervention plan
- M&E approaches for donor projects
- Tools for result-based MEL
- Gender perspective in M&E
Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
- Baseline benchmarking
- Most significant changes
- Impact after actions review
- Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
- M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
- Data management and dashboard for M&E
- DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting
Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting
- M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
- Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
- M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
- Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
- Stories from the field
- Donor reporting
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/online-connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and
Date: 10 – 21 July 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening
perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E
- Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
- Key concepts of result-based management
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
- Financial and risk management in M&E
Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL
- Theory of change
- Result-mapping
- Develop result framework/log frame
- Work plan/action and intervention plan
- M&E approaches for donor projects
- Tools for result-based MEL
- Gender perspective in M&E
Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
- Baseline benchmarking
- Most significant changes
- Impact after actions review
- Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
- M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
- Data management and dashboard for M&E
- DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting
Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting
- M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
- Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
- M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
- Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
- Stories from the field
- Donor reporting
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and-result
3) The 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World”
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World” jointly organized by Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS) from School of Engineering and Technology (SET), AIT and The University of Tokyo (OHOW-IIS).
The seminar will be held during 28-29 June 2023, 9:00 AM-16:00 PM at Asian Institute of Technology, RBB Auditorium (AIT Conference Center), Thailand
Date : 28 June 2023 ( Full day seminar)
29 June 2023 ( Full day technical tour)
Symposium Themes
This seminar will include poster presentations by students from each country in different fields, such as disaster prevention, transportation and human mobility, structural, geotechnical engineering for human safety, water, ecology and environment impact of human public health, climate change and green recovery, remote sensing and GIS.
Objective
Sharing research information and friendships to improve presentation skills and among major Asian universities.
Registration
If you are interested, please visit OHOW H.P. https://ohow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
or register through the given link below;
Registration: Deadline for abstract submission May 31, 2023 (google.com)
Please be informed that the certificate will be provided to those presenters and participants who registered to join this event on the full day of the seminar.
Meeting with ASEAN and China universities_Tuesday 23 May 2023 at Video-Teleconference Room, AIT Library.
- Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto, President/ Manila, Philippines/ 21 - 24 May 2023
- Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto, President/ Hanoi, Vietnam/ 26 - 28 May 2023
- Mr. Russell Rein, VPA/ HCMC, Hanoi, Vietnam/ 25 - 28 May 2023
- Prof. Shobakhar Dhakal, VPAA/ Manila, Philippines/ 21 - 25 May 2023
- Prof. Shobakhar Dhakal, VPAA/ Hanoi, Vietnam/ 26 - 28 May 2023
- Prof. Dieter Trau, Dean SET/ Hanoi, Vietnam/ 26 - 28 May 2023
- Ms. Chotiros Mongkolchotirat / Hanoi, Vietnam/ 26 - 28 May 2023
- Dr. Manzul K. Hazarina, Director, GIC/ Vienna, Ausria/ 28 May - 2 June 2023
- Dr. Manzul K. Hazarina, Director, GIC/ Colombo, Sri Lanka/ 22 - 26 May 2023
- Mr. Hillson Ghimire/ Jakarta, Indonesia/ 25 -29 May 2023
- Dr. Ekbordin Winijkul/ Chiang Mai, Thailand/ 22 - 24 May 2023
- Mr. Satabdi Datta/ Indonesia/ 15 - 24 May 2023
- Dr. Chutiporn Anutariya/ Manila, Philippines/ 21 - 25 May 2023
- Prof. Joyashree Roy/ Indonesia/ 15 -21 May 2023
- Mr. Anish Ratna Shakya, GIC/ Colombo, Sri Lanka/ 22 - 25 May 2023
- Mrs. Maybel B. Diopenes / Hanoi, Vietnam/ 26 -28 May 2023
- Prof. P. Abdul Salam/ Manila, Philippines & Hanoi, Vietnam/ 21 - 28 May 2023
- Prof. Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh/ Chiang Mai, Thailand/ 21 -24 May 2023
- Dr. Lal Nguyen Huy/ Chiang Mai/ 21 - 24 May 2023
- Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, intERLab/ Paris, France/ 6 June - 2 July 2023
- Dr. Loc Thai Nguyen / Hanoi, Vietnam/ 12 May - 5 June 2023
- Ms. Mae Jordaine B. Diopenes, RRC.AP / 21 - 25 May 2023
- Mr. Huno Solomon Kofi Mensah, RRC.AP/ 21 May - 10 June 2023
- Dr. K.R. Salin/ Darwin, Australia/ 25 May - 2 June 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Malaysia/ 23 - 29 June 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA/ Sri Lanka & Australia/ 1 - 16 July 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Hongkong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
- Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
- Ms. Lucena Talaid, OAAA/ Hong Kong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
- Dr. Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn, Faculty, SET/ London, UK, Oulu, Finland/ 2 May - 30 June 2023
- Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Colombo, Srilanka/ 1 - 5 July 2023
- Ms. Slanee Meeto, AITX / Pattaya, Chonburi/ 27-28 May 2023
- Mr. Kona Venkata Anantha Kiran, AITX/ Pattaya, Chonburi/ 27 - 28 May 2023
Faculty Position:
Faculty Position in Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology [FEBT]
Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources (FAB)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Staff Position:
- Technician, SERD/ FAB/ ASE
- Machine Learning Developer, AI Center
- Lab Supervisor, Irrigation Engineering and Management (SET- WEM)
- Structural Engineer, AITS
- Business Development Officer, AITS
- IT Officer, AI Center
- Business Analyst, AI Center