Mr Edmond Yue Student Exchange Scholarship Program

Q & A with Dr Naveed Anwar, Vice President for Knowledge Transfer

AIT signs MoU with Construction Development Corporation Limited (CDCL), Bhutan

AIT Alumnus Appointed Mayor of Kandahar City

Dr Salin Elected Director, World Aquaculture Society-Asia Pacific Chapter

AIT Team Selected as Finalist in S-Booster

AIT and Chiang Mai University Cohost Ostrom Conference

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Welcome New Students

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Mr Edmond Yue Student Exchange Scholarship Program

Internationalization is one of the key priorities of AIT President Dr. Eden Y. Woon’s vision for AIT. We want to provide our Master’s students broader global opportunities for their further development in order to become responsible citizens of the world. A key way which this can be done is through one-semester academic exchanges with globally recognized prestigious universities. And we are steadily signing up more exchange partners.

But even though students will not have to pay additional tuition, they still have to pay for their board, lodging and airfare. We would expect and want the students to pay something for this lifetime experience. But we hope to supplement that with the Student Exchange Scholarship Program.

In May this year, Mr. Edmond Yue from Hong Kong became the first such donor, providing Thai Baht 1,000,000 (One Million Thai Baht) for a period of 5 years to the Student Exchange Scholarship program. He specifically wanted to help Chinese students from Heilongjiang province.

The scholarship will subsidize half of the student’s exchange expenses. This AIT student must come from Heilongjiang province exchanging to any AIT partner university to be eligible. Student granted for this Exchange Program will be called Mr. Edmond Yue Exchange Scholar.

Ms. Chen, Ying, Master student in the School of Management, is the first AIT student to benefit from the new Student Exchange Scholarship Program. She became the first Edmond Yue Exchange Scholar at AIT, receiving THB 100,000. —half of her expenses during the exchange program at EDHEC Business School, France from August – December 2019.

Q & A with Dr Naveed Anwar, Vice President for Knowledge Transfer

Dr. Naveed Anwar, who has joined AIT as Vice President for Knowledge Transfer spoke with the Institute's Office of Public Affairs (OPA). Prior to assuming the post of Vice President, Dr. Naveed Anwar served as Executive Director of AIT Solutions.

As the first VP for Knowledge Transfer, Dr. Naveed begins with a fresh mandate."The position of Vice President for Knowledge Transfer is not only a new position, it also focuses on a new mandate-that has not been explicitly addressed at AIT before. This role emphasizes and supports important aspects of the vision of the new management team, which is to create an entrepreneurship culture and increase engagement with enterprises. Even though some of the activities in this portfolio are similar to my work in previous positions at AIT, most are new initiatives with much wider scope and impact,” says Dr. Naveed.

Please read the full interview at this link: https://bit.ly/2OrLMdQ

AIT signs MoU with Construction Development Corporation Limited (CDCL), Bhutan

AIT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Construction Development Corporation Limited (CDCL), Bhutan, to enhance cooperation in delivering short courses, conducting training, and offering capacity building courses for professionals. The MoU was signed by Mr. Phuntsho Gyeltshen, Chief Executive Officer, CDCL, and Dr. Eden Y. Woon, President, AIT, on 17 July 2019.

The MoU aims at a closer collaboration in delivering both long and short-term customized professional development courses for CDCL professionals, and developing  postgraduate certificate, diploma courses for CDCL engineers and management.

Mr. Phuntsho Gyeltshen pointed out that while the company is fully owned by the Bhutanese government, it plans to set up subsidiaries over the next two to three years that will operate over the entire Asian region. Mr. Phuntsho was accompanied by Mr. Kencho Tshering, General Manager, Human Resources and Administration, CDCL. The CDCL delegation also invited President Woon to visit the company during his proposed visit to Bhutan in August.

AIT Alumnus Appointed Mayor of Kandahar City

Md. Rafi Hayat, a master's graduate from Urban Environmental Management (UEM, 2018), School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD), has been appointed Mayor of Kandahar, Afghanistan. In a message to Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon of UEM, Hayat thanked UEM and his mentor. "All credit goes to UEM and to my dearest teacher," he said in a message sent on the very first day of assuming the office of Mayor.

Dr Salin Elected Director, World Aquaculture Society-Asia Pacific Chapter

Dr. KR Salin of Aquaculture and Aquatics Resource Management has been elected a Director of the World Aquaculture Society-Asia Pacific Chapter (WAS-APC). The World Aquaculture Society is the world's largest professional organisation in the field of aquaculture with 3,500 members from over 100 countries.

WAS is run by a Board consisting of elected officers from among its worldwide membership every three years. Dr. Salin was elected a Director of the WAS Board in May 2019 in a worldwide ballot and will serve on the Board until 2021. The first meeting of the new Board was held on the sidelines of the Asian Pacific Aquaculture (APA 2019) Conference, Chennai, India from 18-21June 2019.

AIT Team Selected as Finalist in S-Booster

An AIT team consisting of Mr. Gautam Dadhich (doctoral student ,Remote Sensing and GIS) and his advisor, Dr. Hiroyuki Miyazaki of Information and Communication Technologies, School of Engineering and Technology, have been selected as finalists in S-Booster, a space-based business idea contest organized by the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Their winning proposal was tilted “BlueWatch—Spatial Aquaculture Advisory System for Smart Aquaculture Farms,” in which satellite earth observation and positioning technologies can help aquaculture farms deal with risk management by issuing early alerts. Four finalists were selected among 15 proposals in the Asia Round. The final round will be held in Tokyo in November.

AIT and Chiang Mai University Co-host Ostrom Conference

AIT and Chiang Mai University (CMU) co-hosted the Third Conference of the Ostrom Center for the Advanced Study of Natural Resource Governance (OCeAN) on 11-15 July 2019. Prof. Ganesh P. Shivakoti, founder of the Ostrom Center, stated that the Center focuses on publications, hosting scholarly discussions, organizing and supporting training, engaging in policy dialogue with decisionmakers, and organizing grant writing workshops. This was the third iteration of the Conference, and this year, the Conference theme was “Redefining Diversity and Dynamism in Natural Resources Management in Asia.”

Global Engagements

OUTGOING

Shanghai Ocean University

President Eden Y Woon signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA)with the International Exchange Office, Science and Technology Department,  Graduate School, College of Fisheries and Life Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University (SHOU). In the photograph are President Prof. Cheng Yudong (left) and President Dr. Eden Y. Woon (2 July 2019)

Tongji University

President Eden Y Woon interacted with President Chen Jie (right) of Tongji University (2 July 2019).

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

President Dr. Eden Y. Woon met with Dr. Xu Xuemin, Vice President for Education and International Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (3July 2019).

MoU with Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by AIT President Dr. Eden Y. Woon and Dr. Ouyang Zhiyun, Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Beijing, China (4 July 2019).

Beijing Normal University

AIT President Dr. Eden Y Woon held deliberations with Prof. Dong Qi, President of Beijing Normal University (4 July 2019)

Beijing Institute of Technology

AIT President Dr. Eden Y. Woon met with Prof. Hezhang Li, Vice President, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Dr. Qingqing Xing, Deputy Director, International Office, and Mr. Kun Zhao, Associate Director, Office of International Students (5 July 2019). In the photograph are Prof. Li Hezhang (left) and Dr. Eden Y Woon.

INCOMING

CAS Innovation Cooperation Center

A delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Innovation Cooperation Center, Bangkok  interacted with AIT President Dr. Eden Y. Woon and senior AIT officials (10 July 2019).

Bangladesh Minister of Public Administration

H.E. Mr. Farhad Hossian, Minister of State of Public Administration of Bangladesh visited AIT (26 July 2019).

Workshops/Camps/Trainings

Education Camp and Study Tour for Students from JIS Group Educational Initiatives, India

1-15 July 2019

Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG)

7-10 July 2019

IEEE Xplore Training: Resources & Tools for Research

8 July 2019

Education Camp and Study Tour for United Group of Institutions, India

15-29 July 2019

Summer Camp for Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

22-29 July 2019

Summer School Program for Assam Agricultural University, India

22 July-10 August 2019

Poster Presentation Session by Bridging Program Students

24 July 2019

National Consultation Workshop on Eco-Friendly Water Management for Sustainable Wetland Agriculture

25-26 July 2019

Inception Workshop on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) Trade Hub Project

28 July – 1 August 2019

Effective Faecal Sludge Planning to Minimize Environment Pollution and Protect Public Health

31 July 2019

Welcome New Students!

AIT is getting ready to greet its latest intake of students. The Orientation Day program will be organized at the AIT Conference Center on 2 August 2019.

AIT Annual Report 2018

The AIT Annual Report 2018 is now online.

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