Complete Fields of Study or Programs in Asian Institute of Technology AIT

No.	Field/Program	Name	Theme
	All	Asian Institute of Technology
16	SET	School of Engineering & Technology
1	AT70(CS)	Computer Science
2	AT71(IM)	Information Management
3	AT74(ME)	Mechatronics
4	AT75(MI)/AT81(MES)	Microelectronics & Embedded Systems
5	AT76(RSGIS)	Remote Sensing & Geographic Infirmation Systems
6	AT77(TC)	Telecommunications
7	AT78(IME)	Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
8	AT79(NT)	Nanotechnology
9	AT80(ICT)	Information & Communications Technologies
11	CE70(CEIM)	Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure Management
12	CE71(GGE)	Geotechbical & Earth Resources Engineering
13	CE72(STE)	Structural Engineering
14	CE73(TE)	Transportation Engineering
15	CE74(WEM)	Water Engineering & Management
16	CE81(OTM)	Offshore Technology & Management
13	SERD	School of Environment, Resources and Development
1	ED70 (ASE)	Agricultural Systems & Engineering
2	ED71 (AARM)	Aquaculture & Aquatic Resources Management
3	ED72 (E)	Energy
4	ED73 (FEBT)	Food Engineering & Bioprocess Technology
5	ED74 (PPT)	Pulp & Paper Technology
6	ED75 (GDS)	Gender & Development Studies
7	ED76 (NRM)	Natural Resources Management
8	ED77 (RRDP)	Regional & Rural Development Planning
9	ED78 (EEM)	Environmental Engineering & Management
10	ED79 (UEM)	Urban Environmental Management
11	ED80 (ABM)	AgriBusiness Management
12	ED81 (EE)	Energy & Environment
13	ED82 (CCSD)	Climate Change & Sustainable Development
3	SOM	School of Management
1	SM71(IB)	International Business
2	SM80(BA)	Business Administration - MBA
3	SM81(SM-PHD)	Management - PhD
4	INTER-SCHOOLS	Joint Programs of Schools
1	I184(DPMM-SERD/SET)	Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation & Management
2	I186(GTD-SERD/SET)	Gender, Transportation & Development
3	I187(UWEM-SERD/SET)	Urban Water Engineering & Management
4	I280(EBM-SERD/SOM)	Energy Business Management

AIT FSR: Road map of AIT with 5 focused areas

Based on the idea of the Board Chair, in the process to prepare the "Road Map" of AIT with a consensus destination as a guiding post for the new President, a key factor to the success of this exercise is the participation of the faculty and staff.

In order for AIT to have focused areas, 5 themes (food, energy, environment, infrastructure and ICT)  have been identified based on matching regional demands with available strengths of AIT. Thus there is a need for all schools to indicate how each FOS (Program) fits into one or more of these themes. Then there must be a plan and the corresponding required resources (human, funds and support facilities).

At this time, the Board Chair wishes to see the big picture of human resources (faculty and students), available today and to be expected in the next 3 to 5 years span, in each field (program). Then it is the responsibility of the Board and the new President to look into how the other needed resources (namely funding and support facilities) can be secured to make the road map achievable.

With this email, I have attached  a 4-year history of faculty and students. In the first worksheet, the faculty strength includes full-time faculty as well as part-time adjunct and short-term visiting faculty. In the second worksheet, faculty strength includes only full-time faculty whose contract is at least 1 year so they can supervise student research.

Could the respective Dean kindly discuss with the field/program coordinators to fill in the figures for 2014-2016? The required data should be returned to Dr Greg within a week. Dr Greg has been assigned to do the follow-up of this matter and is willing to meet you if you have any query.

 

As corresponded by Prof Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Interim President.

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Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/people/profile/worsak
President 
Asian Institute of Technology
PO Box 4 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
Tel: 66-2-524-5535(direct), 66-2-524-6319 (secretary), Fax: 66-2-524-6006

AIT Flexible Winter Program 20 Jan to 7 Feb 2014

 

AIT offers a flexible winter program from 20 Jan to 7 Feb 2014. aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are desirous of pursuing an International career in engineering, technology, environment, development and management fields. 

 

The Program fees is 500 US Dollar per week and it includes  accommodation, breakfast and lunch, local transportation, airport pickup and drop, and insurance. Participants have to pay for their own flight tickets, visa fees, dinner and other personal expenses.

 

Application deadline for this program is 15 December 2013.

 

More details about the program can be found on the following link

 

http://www.ait.ac.th/admissions/winter-program/winter-camp-2014#.UpV9HMv-Jom

 

Please disseminate this information to your colleagues and friends, who might be interested to join this program.

 

If you need any specific information, you may contact Interim Coordinator, Admissions and Scholarship Office on this email:winterprogram@ait.asia, or winterprogram@ait.ac.th

Status of Work Permit Application

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> I would like to inform the Community that with the cooperation of our colleagues, and the fast-track process kindly offered to AIT by Office of Pathumthani Provincial Employment (OPPE), 184 AIT expatriates have already obtained their work permit.
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> We still have 72 expatriates who are in the process. I hope all can have the work permit by the end of this year.
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> This is only for your kind information. Finally I wish to thank all staff of GRU for taking this additional assignment most efficiently.
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> With regards,
> Worsak
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Finally AIT thought its required. English Communication Skills for Secretaries.

Years of complaints from students and dissatisfaction with language
skills of many staffs, specially Thai staffs, in AIT the institute
has decided to train them for English language communications skills,
below is the email from acting president
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> As part of staff development program this year, I am pleased to inform you that I have requested the AIT Language Center to help organize an English course for secretaries. The objective of the course is to raise the level of English communication skills, both in writing and speaking among secretaries who lack the proper skills.
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> For this semester, the Language Center can only offer a pilot class of a maximum15 participants. The program will run for 10 weeks with classes organized every Friday (from 4 October 2013), from 2:30-4:30 pm (total of 20 hours). The course will be sponsored by the Institute and will be free of charge to participating staff members who are selected to attend. I also wish to request the cooperation of all unit heads to endorse the staff for this overdue development. I hope that similar types of staff development which should fall under the responsibility of HRO will be organized as required in subsequent semesters.
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> If any secretary feels they need this communication skill, please send your applications to the President's Office (c/o Khun Chotiros, chotirosm@ait.asia) not later than Friday, 20 September 2013. I request immediate supervisors and unit heads of concerned secretaries to support this remedial program.
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> Thank you.
> Prof Worsak

Merit Making Ceremony, 12 July 2013, 9am-12nn

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On behalf of the Office of the President, an open invitation is extended to the AIT Community to take part in a Buddhist Merit Making Religious Ceremony to pray for blessings for our Institute and community.  The program details are as follows:

 

 

Merit Making Ceremony

Friday, 12 July 2013

Board Room, Administration Building

 

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09:00              -      AIT President Offering of food and flowers at the 2 Spirit House

(front and back side)

 

10:15              -      AIT Blessing Ceremony to be conducted by 9 Monks

 

- Food offering to the Monks

 

11:00              -      Monks partaking in the food offering

 

11:45              -      Blessing and sprinkling of holy water on the host and guest by the Monks

 

12:00              -      Concluding Prayers and Recessional by 9 Monks

 

- Partaking of the food offerings by AIT and guests.

 

 

All are enjoined to bring their food offerings as well.  Offerings/Gift Items for the Monks will be available before 09:30.

 

Cash offerings/donations are also welcome.  You may contact Khun Minh (Ext 5028) or Khun Kwang (5026) of the CMO Office for details.  All cash donations after ceremony expenses will be directly given to the monks.

 

This invitation is extended to the AIT Community from all nationalities and religious beliefs.  The Interim President also welcomes other religious communities to organize similar merit making religious ceremonies for the auspicious future of AIT, if they wish.

Farewell message from President Irandoust

Dear members of the AIT community,

 

With the end of my term as the President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) today, 30 June 2013, I am writing to you as I join the most recent graduates of AIT in also embarking on the next leg of our journey as proud members of the AIT family.

 

As in any family, we have not always agreed. But a family we remain.

 

Eight years ago, I was honored after a transparent and international executive search and interview process to accept an offer by the Board of Trustees of AIT to become the 8th President of AIT.  At that time, like today, AIT had a proud heritage but as I would find, the institution also had tremendous financial and other challenges that needed to be addressed. With the changes that swept our region as well as the world of higher learning these past two decades, especially since the end of the Cold War, some of those challenges were envisioned. Others, like the great flood of 2011, could never have been imagined. Following an exhaustive internal and external process, the current financial situation was expected, and we had forecasted early in 2009 that AIT would start facing financial problems by the middle of

2013 if we continued business as usual. We had received clear signals from many of our key and traditional donors that the charity model of the past was coming to an end. Therefore our efforts were geared towards developing alternate innovative funding models in the context of the changing and competitive landscape of higher learning aimed at putting AIT on a stronger and more sustainable financial footing.

 

While challenges remain, my message today is not about that or the discord and disagreements that sadly split so much of our community this past two years. Others may choose to dwell there. I do not.

Instead, I seek with this farewell message to celebrate AIT and all that has been achieved, to share good will and express words of thanks, and more importantly to look to the future.

 

The achievements, like the challenges, were many. Together, with the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee that approved all major strategies and provided guidance, and a management team responsible for driving implementation, we sought from 2006 onward to move AIT forward, after stabilizing it financially. Change is never easy and never without controversy, but the Board and management then did not shirk from that responsibility. Instead, we came together, making difficult decisions, and more than that, in the most difficult time, we united -- Board, management, faculty, staff, students and alumni -- once again as a community to recover and rebuild, first from near bankruptcy, and then after flood waters inundated our campus. But never did we lose the AIT spirit and its academic mission. Whatever was done was always with the goal of ensuring an even more international, more respected, more sustainable and more independent AIT.

 

One of our proudest accomplishments was the first graduation ceremony after the floods.  The accomplishment though is that of the students who despite the floodwaters and discord, succeeded in graduating without any significant loss of time.  My congratulations also go to the over 6,000 men and women, who graduated during my years in office.

 

The good will, and words of thanks, that came my way through the years, and particularly after the floods were many. I want to extend my thanks to the many competent faculty, staff and students whose time on campus overlapped with my time at AIT and who I had the honor to work with and learn from, these past years. I would like to thank in particular H.E.

Mr. Anand Panyarachun under whose chairmanship I was appointed as President and H.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag who continued the legacy of H.E. Mr.

Anand. I value their guidance, mentorship and support.

 

This year, AIT turns 54 years old.  No one can predict how the future will unfold, but my hope remains that as the world of higher learning and that of Thailand and the region continue to change, that AIT not just change with it, but that the institution will also anticipate that change before it occurs. Our graduates, past, present and future, deserve no less.

 

I truly believe that history is the best judge of everything and my leadership at AIT will also be evaluated and determined accordingly in future. I joined AIT when AIT was near bankruptcy. Through dedication and hard work, we turned this around in a very short period of time.

The global higher learning landscape had changed significantly since the 1990s and we tried to make sure that AIT started to adapt to this.

We developed good strategic plans with full guidance from the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee. These strategic plans were significantly supported by the international community and strong support from Japan, Norway, Sweden, etc. We achieved international intergovernmental status for AIT, which it rightly deserved. We were in process to put in place a funding model that would ensure long-term financial and academic sustainability for AIT, when things got derailed. Every strategic plan and decisions are well documented and I am sure they will be valuable for future administrations to steer AIT towards a good future. In spite of all the challenges, I am proud by the fact that AIT today is in a better financial position than when I joined as President in mid-2005. It is heartening that we were able to achieve this in spite of the great flood disaster that we faced, the significant budget cuts and freeze from donors, and the recent governance crisis. Particular pride should be taken in the fact that before these recent crises, we were able to build up AIT's reserves from around 7 million Baht deficit to around 550 million Baht surplus.

However, without any core funding, we had to dig into our reserves to make much needed strategic investments into our academic and laboratory facilities and some new initiatives, in the recent past.

 

I had offered to go on a month-long voluntary leave of absence to allow the Board appointed Fact Finding Committee (FFC) to work independently and hoped to rejoin the Institute for my remaining few months. However, from its initial 1 month mandate in February 2013 the FFC requested for another 60-day extension until 20 June 2013, at which date they were expected to submit their final report. They were unable to meet the extended deadline and the mandate of the FFC was further extended by another 10-days coinciding with my end of tenure as President which is quite unfortunate since I will not be able to officially bid farewell to members of the AIT community and the Institute's other stakeholders and partners. My request and sentiment shared by several trustees was for the Board to appoint an independent and international FFC towards ensuring that it is a fair, open and transparent process. With a non-international FFC which even includes an AIT alumnus who is party to the conflict, the impartiality of the deliberations of the FFC is yet to be seen and their report will sadly be released after I have left the Institute. It is also unfortunate that I was never invited by the FFC to meet and discuss the issues.

 

The long term survival of AIT lies in its internationality, independence, democratic processes, faculty-staff-student quality, creativity and innovation; which all require a sustainable funding model.

 

University presidents come and go. Indeed leaders, whether in business, government or academia, come and go. But what remains is the vital importance of AIT's mission to contribute to the development of human resources of Asia and beyond.

 

Now though is the time for new energy, new ideas and new leaders for a stronger AIT.

 

And to them and to you, my very best wishes.

 

Sincerely,

 

Professor Said Irandoust

President

Asian Institute of Technology

Just a Moment Dear AITians

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It is increasingly alarming, the rate at which INCIDENCES of THEFT in AIT campus inundates the media. AIT has been known for morals, integrity and academic excellence. Her reputation is attested to by the caliber of successful and high positions of AIT Alumni in their various fields  of endeavor.

 

It is appalling, to say the least, how the name of this great institution that has produced highly credible Captains of industries, Engineers, Administrators of high repute to mention just a few; could be dragged into the mud by a few who parade themselves as either students or workers or whatever engagement they have in AIT.

 

Decency will demand that whatsoever is worth preserving should be preserved. Image  of AIT and Stakeholders - Students, Staffers and the Community as a whole - deserve to be preserved.

 

Just a moment, Why should others take delight in causing others to gnash teeth? Hurting , creating a psychological stress and distressing others? These manifest in losses such as bicycles, purses and its content or in part, misplaced items never recovered.

 

In a campus and environment such as ours,the gospel of "ONE AIT FOR ALL" should have taken precedence, where we are lovers of each other. and are particular about our collective well being. One wonders if those that perpetrate these heinous acts read mails  on these and still carry their conscience along.

 

It is high time image tarnishing attitude and behavior stops. The Security operatives should leave up to this challenge and should be sincere. Any person caught in the act of stealing or pilfering should be grilled, investigated and be made to face the law. If found guilty, punished in accordance with the law. Full publicity should be given. This measure may serve as deterrent to others.

 

We deserve a Clean, Responsible Campus and Environment where community members' property are secured. Our energy should be directed at containing or mitigating the natural hazards such as mosquitoes, rodents, epileptic low water pressure, internet pa lava in the dorms, street lights and stray dog and not THEFTS. 

 

As communicated by INWANG AKPAN UDO, CAMPUS and ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

Mr. Benjamin Gargabite (HSD 1986) has passed away

Dear Fellow Alumni,

 

We are really saddened to hear the news of the passing away of Mr. Benjamin Gargabite (HSD 1986). He served our Alma Mater with all his heart and his contribution to the institute is immeasurable.

 

On behalf of the members and officers of the AITAA Mother and National Chapters, I wish to express our heartfelt condolences to Khun Chulee and family, and also to all relatives and friends of Khun Benjie. He was truly a great loss to all of us.

 

We have learned that the religious services started last night, and there will be mass tonight and tomorrow from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Ruamrudee Chapel. On Thursday, his remains will be brought back to the Philippines for the burial.

Thai Students get special Scholarship to study at AIT - fill in the available RTG scholarships and fellowships.

The 9th AIT-RTG Cooperation Plan covers 5 years for the period from 2010 to 2014 with a total budget of 653.21 million Baht. Under this Plan, although the budget for AIT in FY 2012 is 139.55 mB, only 61.32 mB was submitted for the approval of the Thai Parliament. Based on this reduced budget, the first installment of 13.40 mB was released to AIT on 24 January 2012. However OHEC informed that the remaining portion of 47.92 mB has been suspended as the budget was committed for AIT under the original Charter, but not for the new AIT under the new Charter declared by AIT since 30 January 2012. As you know, after a year of legal deadlock, AIT's Board of Trustees has resumed its function under the original charter on 12 December 2012. 

 

On 7 June 2013, Acting President accompanied by President of AITAA visited the Budget Bureau to seek their advice on how to reconcile and resume the 9th RTG-AIT Cooperation Plan. On the remaining budget of 47.92 mB, AIT was assured that this amount is specifically earmarked for AIT and will be released to AIT in due time. As for the use of this budget, the Budget Bureau advised that AIT should take this opportunity to change its practice. Instead of allocating the budget covering the entire period of scholarships that last beyond the budget year, the budget received for each fiscal year should be used up for that specific year. Thus the budget should cover (1) ongoing students and (2) newly admitted students in the same year. AIT agrees to follow the advice and will implement the budget accordingly.

 

On Monday 17 June 2013, Acting President accompanied by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, Professor Emeritus Dr. Sahas Banditkul, and Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, Acting Vice President for Resource Development, visited the Office of the Higher Education Commission,(OHEC) to discuss the issue on the RTG budget (see attached photo). AIT delegate led by its new Ex-Com Chair were warmly welcomed by OHEC Deputy Director-General Dr. Kamjorn Tatiyakawee.  Regarding the frozen budget of 2012, Dr Kamjorn confirmed that OHEC will release the 47.92 million Baht soon. In addition, as a token of appreciation to the leading role of Ex-Com Chair, a former Deputy Prime Minister, at AIT, OHEC will add to this frozen budget an additional 25 million Baht, which can be allocated as RTG Fellowships. Thus with the availability of this 72.95 million Baht to be used in one calendar year, we must now work harder to attract more number of applications to use the King's and Queen's Scholarships, GMS Scholarships and RTG Fellowships. Up to now, the number of qualified applicants in the stock is not enough to fill all the available full scholarships.

 

Without a direct-sale approach that we used in 2007, it is rather difficult to attract, at this late state, Thai students with GPA equal or higher than 3.5. If any field can get students of this caliber, we can guarantee that these students will be offered at least 48 credits. And for this year, students with GPA > 3.0 from first-tier ranked public universities (e.g. Chula, Mahidol, Chiang Mai, TU, KMUTT, KMITL, Kasetsart, Khon Kaen, Prince Songkla University) may be offered full scholarships, subjected to the approval of OHEC. 

 

So I would like to encourage all faculty members and staff to help approach top Thai students to apply to AIT in your field, even beyond the deadline of 15 June 2013. We will give a special consideration to the late applicants solicited by you. Let me know if you need any support from the Central Administration to go out and recruit such students.

 

Email sent to AIT's stakeholders by Acting Pres Worsak

Revised Budget 2013 Receive Board's Approval

Dear Colleagues

 

After almost 3 months of hard work by the Financial Health and Budget Review Task Force (FRTF), finally the revised 2013 budget has received approval from the Board of Trustees on 20 June 2013.

By the instruction of the Ex-Com, the Task Force has to make three rounds of budget cut to meet the prescribed target, i.e., the total expenditure budget combining all accounts in Funds 10, 21 and 24 must be less than the corresponding actual expense (671.21 million Baht) of the previous year 2012. The Task Force reached the target by exploiting the following cost savings:

 

(1) Infrastructure and IT services (saving = -30.82 million Baht)

(2) Administrative Units (saving = 26.65 million Baht)

(3) Discontinuation of Outreach Centers (saving = -11.41 million Baht)

(4) Roll-back of Salary Increments (saving = -5.45 million Baht)

Total saving = -74.33 million Baht

 

On the other hand, the Task Force has recommended additional budget for the following two items:

(1) Online Database of the Library (+8.46 million Baht)

(2) Electricity Budget due to the Rate Increase (+11.70 million Baht)

Total increase = +20.16 million Baht

Thus, the net saving = -54.17 million Baht

Finally, the total expenditure budget of 2013 is reduced from 724.90 down to 670.73 million Baht, slightly less than the actual expenditure of 671.21 million Baht in 2012.

On the roll-back of salary increments, the Board of Trustees have approved the following guidelines, which will be implemented immediately by HRO:

ROLL-BACK OF SALARY INCREMENT GUIDELINES AS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON 20 JUNE 2013
(All provisions below only apply to employees with salary above 30,000 B per month)
Guidelines	Description	Action	No. of Cases
Provision 1	Faculty Reclassification	Defer reclassification effectively June 1, 2013, until AIT regains financial health	44
Provision 2	2012 and 2013 Salary Increase in Violation of P & P on Employment of Staff: General Work Regulations (PA-1-3-3-IV.c.1.g)	Retraction of Increment retroactively and salaries restored to the level prior to date of violation	34
Provision 3	Employees receiving 2013 approved salary merit increase, despite poor 2012 financial performance of AIT.	Increment to be retracted to 0% retroactively and salaries restored to date before increase.	38
Provision 4	Salary increment due to rank promotion or position change.	No retraction to be made	14
Special Case	Correction of Professorial Promotion date, based on the official approval by the Board of Trustees	Re-compute salary based on the new date of BOT approval	2
		Total Cases Affected	118

 

  

Notes:

 

(1) Although there was a suggestion to implement an involuntary 10% cut in the basic salaries across the board, it is not adopted.

(2) Certain number of raises during 2012 and 2013 were not in compliance with the AIT's P&P. They will be nullified. This affects 34 cases of staff who were given salary increases 2 years in a row. The PA-1-3-3-IV.c.1.g states that staff salary increase cannot be given within a span of less than 2 calendar years.

(3) We need the understanding of all faculty colleagues as the faculty reclassification that was implemented earlier in 2013 has to be suspended until AIT recovers from this financial crisis.

(4) Since AIT performed rather dismally in 2012 (making a deficit of 201 million Baht), it is rather unreasonable for any employee to be awarded a salary increase in 2013. Thus, all salary increments in 2013 will be rolled back to 0%.

(5) The Task Force agreed not to apply the cut to any employee under 30K monthly salary.

At the end, we must realize that budget cut alone will not save AIT. AIT needs the cooperation of all employees to generate more incomes. I have one good news to report. Thanks to the presence of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Sahas Bunditkul, in our visit to the Office of Higher Education Commission (OHEC), AIT has been offered an additional budget of 25 million Baht as a token of appreciation from OHEC on top of our frozen budget of 47 million Baht. So for this August intake, we have 72 million Baht.

With this email, aside from the White Paper on AIT Financial Health distributed earlier, I am pleased to attach 2 files, a Report on Revised Budget 2013 and my powerpoint presentation to the Board of Trustees on 20 June 2012.

With kind regards,

Worsak

 

Get New AIT fellowship for 2013 Enrollment

Good news for students waiting to apply for Master's and Bachelor's degree in reputed universities in ASIA. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) provides you the platform you just needed it.  Now with many more fellowship opportunities for 2013 August semester.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand is offering applicants to its Master and Doctoral degree programs an opportunity to qualify for generous academic fellowships. A large number of no-bond AIT Fellowships are available for students applying for postgraduate programs offered at AIT's School of Engineering and Technology (SET); School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD); and School of Management (SOM). As Asia's leading international higher learning institute, the AIT Fellowships are intended to increase the number of skilled international scientists, engineers and managers required to meet the future challenges of the emerging Asian Economic Community region and beyond.

 

Eligibility requirements to be considered for AIT Fellowships

 

·        Students of all nationalities are eligible.

·        Attain a TOEFL score of 500 or equivalent.

·        Priority is given to Master degree applicants.

·        A four-year Bachelor degree from a recognized university is required.

·        Applicants to MBA programs require a minimum of one-year's relevant work experience.

 

AIT FELLOWSHIPS

 

·        Full Study Cost Fellowships (752,000 Baht Award). This fellowship covers the entire study cost of a Master program. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.

·        75% Study Cost Fellowships (564,000 Baht Award). Recipients pay study cost of one semester, or 188,000 Baht. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

·        50% Study Cost Fellowships (376,000 Baht Award). Recipients pay study cost of twosemesters, or 376,000 Baht. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher.

·        Fellowships for Doctoral applicants vary depending on their academic credentials. Normally, eligible applicants should have attained a Cumulative GPA of 3.5 in their Master program and 3.0 in their Undergraduate program.

 

 

*REVISED:Fellowships cover tuition, but do not cover registration fees, accommodation fees or living expenses.

 

For more information please visit Admissions Website. Interested applicants may apply here or contact the AIT Admissions Office at Tel: 02-524 5032, 02-524 5033 E-mail admissions@ait.asia

 

Application Deadline: 15 June 2013.

Procedure for obtaining revised degree certificates of AIT

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​his is how to get revised degree certificates of AIT 2013

1. The revised valid degree certificates for graduates of 1 June 2012 and 6 August 2012 will be available at Student Office from 3 June 2013 onwards.

2. The original copy of the invalid certificate must be returned first to Registry before revised valid certificate can be issued. The certificate can be returned in person or through mail to:

Registry, Student Office
Asian Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Thailand

3. Certified true copies of the invalid degree certificates can be exchanged for certified true copies of the valid certificate without any fee. If additional copies are needed, please fill up the attached form. AIT will not charge for regular mailing cost but will charge for courier service (DHL).

4. Original and certified true copies can be claimed in person from Student Office or through postal mailing. Aside from cheque and credit card payment options for additional requests of certified true copies, payment via ATM can be made to AIT SCB account with the following details:

Name of Account: ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Account No.: 359-3-00001-2
Bank Name/Address: Siam Commercial Bank PCL, 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Nueng, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand.
Swift Code: SICOTHBK

5. Processing will take 3 working days from the date of request.

For further inquiry, please send email to registry@ait.ac.th.
Thank you.

The request form for obtaining the revised degree can be downloaded from these links:

Link for alumni in Thailand: 

http://www.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2013/announcements/Request.Thai.xls

 Link for overseas alumni: 

http://www.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2013/announcements/Request.Overseas.xls/​

Good opportunities for all AIT Graduates for Extra luggage Service (20 Kg)

Congratulations to all AIT graduates and there is a good news from Student Union (SU) that all AIT Graduates can carry extra luggage of 20 kg in all major airlines.

SU provide additional 20 Kg luggage service upon request on your way back home flight. This is available for almost all airlines. But, I am not sure for low cost airline such as Air Asia.

For those who want this service, please come and register at SU office during office hour. Please bring along the information (Name, ID, Passport no, destination country, flight no., airline and departure date.

Please note that this will take one day working day and we will not accept register through online and email.

Congratulatory message to the students from AIT President Said Irandoust on 119th Convocation Ceremony

Message from President Irandoust to Graduating Students (119th Convocation Ceremony, Thursday, May 23, 2013)

 

Dear Graduating Students,

 

My congratulations to all of you on the occasion of your convocation and AIT's 119th graduation ceremony. Although I am unable to be present with you on this most important day in your lives my thoughts and best wishes are with you. I have always eagerly looked forward to graduations. I fondly remember the AIT graduation ceremonies for their unique family like atmosphere and charm. In any academic institution graduations are among the most awaited of ceremonies and is a culmination of all your hard work and perseverance. It is also a recognition of the important role your faculty members, staff, family, friends as well as donors and partners have played in leading you to this auspicious day. 

 

I will sadly miss being present with all of you in what would have been my last graduation ceremony as President of AIT. I will be completing my second and last term as President on June 30, 2013 and as the end of my term draws near I look back at all the good times we as a community went through as well as challenging period all of us faced in the aftermath of the floods. 

 

I remain positive that with its proud heritage of more than 5 decades of service to the Asian region AIT will continue to prosper. I trust that all of you will play an active role in ensuring that this is indeed the case. I wish to thank all the students who have written to me and sent personal messages for their kind words of support and encouragement which means a lot to me.

 

As you venture out into the world always listen to the voice inside you and be true to yourself in whatever you choose to pursue you in life. You will definitely face obstacles on the way but that is life and one must learn from it. Try and remain strong and keep moving on. I would like to end my message to you with a quote by Herman Melville, who said the following: "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." 

 

Once again, my very best wishes to all of you on your graduation.

 

Professor Said Irandoust

President

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)