WEEK #26:25 June – 1 July 2018
In this issue:
(i) Administrative Structure and Team
Email from President (19 Jun. 2018)
As has already been announced, the AIT President Designate will join the Institute and take office from 1 September 2018. Subject to the approval of the Board, the AIT President designate will set up his administrative structure and appoint Vice President(s), as well as selects his administrative team including the School Deans. Since the whole process would take some time to complete, I made the following temporary appointments during the transition period to ensure continuation of important parts of the AIT Administration.
Vice Presidents
1. Professor Sivanappan Kumar as Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA), from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018
I would like to take this opportunity to convey our sincere thanks and appreciation to Professor Kazuo Yamamoto and Mr Surendra Shrestha, who will be completing their terms of office on 30 June 2018, and have rendered dedicated service to the Institute in their roles as Vice President for Administration and Vice President for Development, respectively.
I will be in charge of the tasks previously assigned to the VP-Administration and VP-Development until 31 August 2018.
School Deans
2. Professor Voratas Kachitvichyanukul as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering & Technology (SET), from 1 September 2018 to 31 December 2018
3. Professor Rajendra P Shrestha as Acting Dean of the School of Environment, Resources & Development (SERD), from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018
The term of Professor Lawrence S Abeln as Dean of the School of Management (SOM) continues and remains unchanged.
Responsibility Center Directors
4. Mr Kevin Mauritson as Principal / Director of the AIT International School (AITIS), from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018, with the possibility of extension until 30 June 2019 if a suitable successor is not available by 31 December 2018
5. Dr Gabriel Louis Hornyak as Acting Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology (CoEN) from 1 September 2018 to 31 December 2018, while waiting for a new full-time faculty in Nanotechnology to be recruited and concurrently appointed as the new CoEN Director.
6. Professor Nitin K Tripathi as Director of Special & Online Degree Programs, from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2019
7. Mr Osamu Mizuno as Director (on secondment) of the Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (RRCAP) from 20 July 2018 to 31 December 2019
The respective terms of office of other Responsibility Center Directors continue and remain unchanged.
Service Center Directors
8. Ms Watcharin Intha, currently the Associate Director, is promoted to be the Director of the AIT Library, from 1 July 2018
On behalf of all members of the AIT community, I wish to express my sincerest appreciation to Ms Pranee Kiriyanant for her efforts and valuable academic and administrative contributions made during her 10-year term of office as Library Coordinator / Director over the past 20 years of dedicated service to the Institute, even beyond her mandatory retirement after reaching the age of 60. We thank Khun Pranee for her outstanding accomplishments, especially during the difficult period following the flood in 2011, the reconstruction of the flood-devastated AIT Library leading to the inauguration of the modernized AIT Library by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. We wish her an enjoyable retirement she deserves, and happiness in her future activities.
9. Mr Vasvan Songpitakchai is appointed as Acting Director of the Office of Procurement, Inventory & Assets (OPIA), from 1 July 2018
On behalf of all members of the AIT community, I also wish to express my sincerest appreciation for the superb service of Ms Pakkamol Dherapongsthada, who has been working tirelessly and with great devotion on hundreds of contracts after the flood and during the 5-year rehabilitation of the entire campus leading to its current renaissance. She has given 10 years of dedicated service to the Institute, even beyond her mandatory retirement after reaching the age of 60. We wish her an enjoyable retirement she deserves, and happiness in her future activities.
10. Mr Jiraphong Bumpenyoo will continue as interim Director of Human Resources Services (OHRS), from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019. Now that the Institute has become more stable, it shall restart the process of recruiting a new OHRS Director. No qualified candidates have applied for this position since after the flood, a situation that required us to invite Khun Jiraphong, our former HR Head to return as interim OHRS Director. We appreciate Khun Jiraphong’s second round of services to AIT while the open competition and international recruitment of the position of OHRS Director is underway.
The respective terms of office of other Service Center Directors continue and remain unchanged.
Let us all give them our support and utmost cooperation, especially to those given new assignments and tasks.
Thank you.
Prof Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai
President
Asian Institute of Technology
(ii) 7th call for documentaries for the Visual Documentary Project (VDP)
Email from Director, Office of Academic Administration (6 Jun. 2018)
Greetings Filmmakers and Friends!
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University is calling for documentaries for the 7th Visual Documentary Project! Please circulate to all filmmakers in the region. Please help us reach out to young aspiring filmmakers in Southeast Asia!
https://vdp.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/vdp2018/
THEME: Popular Culture and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: a region rich in popular cultural traditions. How do popular music, art, literature, theatre, comedy, dance, sport and film, move people in Southeast Asia? What makes them laugh, cry and feel? Inspire us! For 2018, we open up the visual documentary project to documentaries that capture popular cultures across the region.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Applicants must be citizens from Southeast Asia or Japan.
2. Documentaries should be no longer than 30 minutes.
3. Applicants should make sure they have permission from any subjects that appear in the movies.
4. Documentaries should include English subtitles. Translation and subtitling is also the responsibility of applicants.
*Selected documentaries will be screened in their original languages with both Japanese and English subtitles. However, documentaries that are in English will only have Japanese subtitles added and vice versa.
DEADLINE: 31 August 2018
APPLICATION: LIKE US ON FACEBOOK!
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Visual Documentary Project (VDP) was set up in 2012 by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). The aims of the project are to explore and introduce the rich diversity of contemporary Southeast Asia (SEA) through the medium of documentary films and to create bridges between academia, the SEA filmmaking community and civil society. From 2014, the Japan Foundation Asia Center joins this project as co-organizer to help widely promote the richness of Southeast Asian cultures to people in Japan. As of 2016, the project has linked up with numerous film schools in the region to help strengthen the documentary filmmaking network.
CONTACT: Visual Documentary project vdp@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
(iii) Join “Emerald Quiz – the Year of the Dog” today and have a chance to win an Apple Watch
Email from AIT Library (31 May 2018)
AIT Library would like to invite you all to join an online quiz organized by Emerald. If you have FOUR quiz questions answered correctly before 30 June 2018, you will be entered for a lucky draw to win an Apple Watch. Winner of the quiz will be contacted directly by Emerald. Click www.bit.ly/EmeraldQuiz to find the details and to start the quiz right away!
(iv) Vacant Seats Available for Staff Vans
Email from Office of Human Resources Services (9 Jan. 2018)
Kindly be informed that the available seats for AIT Staff Vans are indicated as follows:
Route 1: Latplakaow - Ramintra - Sapanmai - Phaholyothin km. 27 - AIT, still has 3 seats available (from 4 seats left 1 seat for relaxing space)
Route 2: Sathorn - BTS Morchit - Vibhavadi - AIT , still has 3 seats available (from 4 seats left 1 seat for relaxing space )
Route 3 : Nonthaburi - BTS Ministry of Public Health - Pongpetch - Laksi - Vibhavadi - AIT, still has 3 seats available (from 4 seats left 1 seat for relaxing space)
Route 4: Thonburi- The Mall Tha-pra - Pinklao Intersection- Rama VII Bridge -Vibhavadi - AIT, still has 4 seats available (from 5 seats left 1 seat for relaxing space)
For further communication and reservation, please contract Khun Jirada at ext.5018 or jirada@ait.asia .
(i) EVENTS
(a) Orientation for New Students: 3 Aug. 2018
An orientation program will be organized on 3 August 2018 for new students enrolled in the August 2018 semester.
More details: https://www.ait.ac.th/event/orientation-new-students/
(ii) LECTURES / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES
(a) NRM Mini Workshop on GEE and Drone Applications: 9 Jul. 2018
Natural Resources Management Program, School of Environment, Resources and development, will organize a workshop on “Applications of Google Earth Engine and Drone for Forest Carbon Measurement and Monitoring – Implications for the REDD+ Scheme”.
Date: 9 July 2018 from 9:00 – 11:00
Venue: Room S101
Fees: No fee
Audiences: Anyone can participate. To allow for better arrangement of the classroom, please kindly register here. (currently, we have received 16 registrations)
See More details: https://www.ait.ac.th/event/mini-workshop-gee-drone-applications/
Registration is open until 5 July 2018. Register now.
(b) AIT-Tiger Leong International Innovation & Leadership Camp: 16 – 26 Jul. 2018
The AIT-Tiger Leong International Innovation and Leadership Camp was launched in 2017 by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in collaboration with its alumnus Ir. Tiger Leong, President, Ellipse Enterprise Malaysia. The camp brought together bright and talented undergraduate students from top universities in the Asia who were selected based on their leadership potential and excellent academic performance. The camp seeks to emerge as a premier leadership camp for promising students.
As part of AIT’s commitment to promote and train the new generation of students as future innovative leaders, the camp aims to nurture the entrepreneurial skills of young people and encourage them to be innovative through increasing their capacity and knowledge to become leading citizens. Students can gain new knowledge, skills through a combination of workshops, seminars, motivational talks, and site visits to pioneering industries in Thailand. The camp is facilitated by the Innovation Lab at AIT Solutions, a creativity hub dedicated to bringing together students, industries, researchers to develop innovative solutions addressing important social and economic challenges.
http://innov-camp.solutions.ait.asia/#
(c) ICUE 2018 on Green Energy for Sustainable Development: 24 – 26 Oct. 2018
AIT will organize ICUE 2018 on Green Energy for Sustainable Development from 24 – 26 October 2018 at Thavorn Palm Beach Resort, Karon, Phuket, Thailand.
The organizer has received almost 300 abstracts so far from over 40 different countries.
Still many requests for extension are coming and so the deadline is further moved to 15 May 2018. New submissions can either be abstracts or full papers.
Notification of acceptance for the new submissions will be by 31 May 2018.
For further information, please contact visit our website:
www.icue2018.ait.ac.th and www.icue.ait.ac.th/2018
or contact:
Conference Secretariat at email: icue2018@ait.ac.th
More details: http://eecc.ait.ac.th/events/icue-conference-2018/
(d) 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Seismic Resilience for Safer Cities and Infrastructures: 22-25 Nov 2018
Urbanization is one of the major global challenges of this era. To address the issues related to safety of cities and infrastructure, the 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7ACEE 2018) is being jointly organized by AIT and Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) in collaboration with the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines Inc. (ASEP), from 22 – 25 November 2018 in Bangkok.
Engineers, architects, professionals, students, institutes, universities, and organizations are invited to submit abstracts and share their experience under the theme Seismic Resilience for Safer Cities. Download Abstract Template
All who are submitting Abstracts or papers are also requested to provide a short biography (no more than 100 words) and recent photo that will be published in both the conference program and the conference proceedings.
Open for Abstract Submission - Mar 1, 2018
Deadline for Abstract Submission - Apr 15, 2018
Registration Deadline - Aug 31, 2018
More details: http://acee2018.org/
(iii) COURSES, TRAININGS
(a) LC Bridging Program 2018: 18 June – 26 July
Please be informed that the start of the Bridging Program for this year has been postponed with two weeks to allow more students to enroll. It was noted that for some departments the start of the program comes too soon and that they are still in the process of nominating students.
The updated program dates:
18 June - 26 July (30 hrs of study per week)
Fee: 50,400 THB.
Department 1/2 fee scholarship:
Please note that the AIT-MT has endorsed the opportunity for departments to sponsor students with academic potential with a half fee scholarship. (i..e, the candidate pays 50% and the department sponsors 50% of the fees).
Eligibility:
In brief, the program aims to assist those students with academic potential who do not meet the AIT English language requirements to be ready for admission by August. Candidates eligible to join the program are currently at a level of AIT-EET 4.5 or IELTS equivalent.
Results from the past:
Results from the past have shown that students can make great progress in the development of their English skills over the course of the program and that they feel more confident and better prepared to start their course work in English. Over the years, the LC has been able to prepare all candidates joining the BP to be ready for admission. On average students improve with 0.5 - 1.0 band on the AIT-EET scale / IELTS equivalent.
More info:
Please contact us at languages@ait.ac.th for more information or visit our website http://www.languages.ait.asia/bridging-program/
(b) Chinese Course for Beginners: May-July 2018
The Language Center will organize Chinese Course for Beginners as follows:
Chinese Course for Beginners (15 May – 3 July 2018)
Tuesday and Thursday from 17:00 – 18:30, 2 times/week, Total 20 hours
The course fee is 1,000THB due to the kind support of the Chinese Government through the Confucius Institute. (Refunds are not available.)
Class Size: 15 persons
Register now at the Language Center, Room 216
(c) Chinese Course for Beginners: 5 Jun. – 19 Jul. 2018
The Language Center will organize Chinese Course for Beginners as follows:
Chinese Course for Beginners (5 June - 19 July 2018)
Tuesday and Thursday from 17:00 – 18:30, 2 times/week, Total 20 hours
The course fee is 1,000THB due to the kind support of the Chinese Government through the Confucius Institute. (Refunds are not available.)
Class Size: 15 persons
Register now at the Language Center, Room 216
(d)Thai Language Reading and Writing Course for Beginners: June – July 2018
The Language Center will organize Thai Language Reading and Writing Course for Beginners as follows:
Thai Language Reading and Writing for Beginners
Duration: 5 June – 19 July 2018
Dates: Tuesday and Thursday from 17:00 – 18:30 hrs., 2 times/week, Total 20 hours
Course Fee: 2,000 baht
Class Size: 15 persons
Interested persons please register now at the Language Center, Room 216
(i) Korea House Renovation
Email from OFAM (22 Mar. 2018)
Please be informed that renovation of the Korea House has started from Monday, 26 March 2018 and is expected to be ready soon.
Position: Administrative Staff (Program Officer) (AIT Extension)
Ref. No. 30/18
Deadline: 25 June 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/523
Position: Administrative Staff (Internet Education and Research Laboratory)
Ref. No. 03/18
Deadline: 30 June 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/493
Faculty Position (Assistant Professor or Associate Professor) (School of Engineering & Technology)
Ref. No. Fac 02/18
Deadline: 31 July 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/517
Faculty Position: Associate/Assistant Professor (School of Engineering & Technology )
Ref. No. Fac 04/18
Deadline: 17 August 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/524
Dual position for Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology (COEN) and faculty member (School of Engineering & Technology )
Ref. No. Fac 06/18
Deadline: 30 August 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/526
Faculty Position: Assistant Professor (School of Engineering & Technology)
Ref. No. Fac 03/18
Deadline: 31 August 2018
http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/job/show/522
Position: Director/PRINCIPAL for AIT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (AIT International School) (AIT International School)
Ref. No. 31/18
Deadline: 31 August 2018