Victory in friendly game with Royal Australian Navy

On Thursday 17^th September, Asian University welcomed the football team and support crew from the ship, ‘The HMAS DARWIN’ of The Royal Australian Navy, to the university campus, for a friendly game of football.

It was an action packed game enjoyed by both players and spectators, which was closely lead by Asian U throughout the match with the final result being 3 - 2 to Asian University. Asian U's goals were scored by students Valentino, Pod and Jew.

Many thanks go to the President of ‘The Navy League’, Pattaya, Mr. Peter Thorand who very kindly organized this game and previous events with visiting naval ships.

If you and your team would like to find out more regarding sporting competitions with the Asian University students, in a variety of sports, please contact The Director of Sports, Mr. James Saville at jamesk@asianust.ac.th

Stop Press: On Sunday 20 September, Asian University hosted a game with Maptaput company, SAN Benefit, and the university beat the visitors 10 - 1.

Pui comes back to Asian University.

On Monday 14th September, we were very pleased to welcome three of our first batch BABE (Bachelor of Arts in English for Business Communication) alumni, Ms. Nattamon Sartsatit (Pui), Ms. Tisana Harintharanont (Ngo) and Ms. Roslyn Pitakwong (Gigi), back to Asian U.

Pui very kindly gave a presentation about her career to date. The audience included many of the current BA students as well as students from the College, who have yet to finalise their choices on what subjects to study and at which universities.

Full of enthusiasm, Pui explained how she first won her job at Mindshare, against considerable competition, even for a starter position. During the selection process she gave a presentation, in English, which clearly impressed the interviewers. Mindshare is a media agency, and Pui works in Bangkok for several of their clients including Nike, Warner music Thailand, Bacardi and Ford.

During her four years at Asian university Pui didn’t really understand why she needed to study some of the topics offered, but she has now found that these courses have helped her with her career progression. Pui now understands the uses for these skills, and has found plenty of applications. She mentioned especially the small classes, with plenty of chance to make presentations to peers, and also learning presentation and negotiation skills, summarizing, business English, and others.

Pui explained how, throughout every day we are all exposed to various forms of media: radio, tv, newspapers, billboards, internet, etc. Much of this is subtle marketing and brand awareness.

She asked the audience if they could name brands from the first letter of their name, as written in the advertisements and on the products. Everyone was able to recognize the first C of Coca Cola, the first E from E-Bay, P from Puma, and all the others.

Pui finished by thanking everyone at Asian University for all their help while she was here, and wishing the present students well for their futures.

All three alumni seemed happy to meet up with teachers and other students, and talk about their careers and their time at Asian University with pride.

Pui chats with Dean Robert Shrubsall

Thank you to Ajarn Robert for the photos of Pui.

Summer University photos: a few more

Thanks to ajarn Robert B for these photos.

Gas Engine Based CHP in Thailand: Seminar 3 Sep 2009

A group of engineering students have just participated in a seminar at the Royal Cliff. One of the fourth year mechanical engineering students who attended, China Tosinthiti (Ninja), reports:

Ninja (on left) with friends

“Some of the Mechanical engineering students from Asian University with their lecturers have participated in the “Gas Engine Based CHP in Thailand” seminar organized by the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE) in cooperation with Wartsila Company (manufacturer of diesel and gas engines from Finland), The seminar was held at Royal Cliff Beach Resort, Pattaya on 3^rd September 2009.

The seminar was about cogeneration, combination of electrical and heat energy production mainly by gas engines. The efficiency from conventional power production is about 35% and the rest is released as waste heat, but cogeneration uses the waste heat for cooling and chilling applications and increases efficiency up to 90%. Topics included typical electricity/heat/steam/chill demand for industries and commercials, engines, absorption and compression chilling, boundary conditions for cogeneration in Thailand, fuel properties, engine responses, types and sizes of engines, examples of cogeneration plants in Thailand and abroad, and the future for cogeneration in Thailand.

Speakers for this seminar are very famous professors in energy technology and experts from Wartsila Company. People who attended the seminar were mostly engineers, chief engineers in private companies, admirals of the Royal Thai Navy, lecturers and marketing managers.

Asian University students participated by asking and answering questions. The seminar expands the knowledge of engineering and vision of students for Thailand’s future energy.”

The photographs show the students and lecturers at the seminar.

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An Asian Experience: Summer University 2009

Thirty nine students from thirteen different countries have just enjoyed being a part of Asian University’s fourth Summer University programme. Students came from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, Spain and elsewhere, making it a truly international experience.

They spent a week at the university campus, meeting the students, and learning from them about the Thai way of life. A Thai evening of presentations by the Thai students was followed by an International evening, with the visitors telling everyone about their home countries. Several of the visitors had brought along food and drink from their countries for everyone to share. People either loved or hated the salty licorice from Denmark! However, most people enjoyed tasting the wines. Then a weekend on Koh Samet to relax, including dinner and a fire show on the beach, before enjoying a week at the Jomtien Sea Breeze Hotel. The final week was spent based at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok.

The courses offered the young people a chance to listen to many experts and practitioners to improve their knowledge about business and tourism in Asia, especially in Thailand.

Visits to local businesses gave them an insight into the wide variety of products and services here. They enjoyed seeing behind the scenes at the Royal Cliff and Amari hotels, where they heard about hotel management in Pattaya. They were very impressed by the Bangkok Hospital, Pattaya, where Dr. Iain and Neil gave a presentation and showed us some of their facilities. Other places visited included Mama Noodles production plant (Thai President Foods), Nong Nooch gardens, an authentic Thai meal on the beach at Tung Seafood, Tiffany’s, Henry J Bean, etc. In Bangkok they went to the Grand Palace and the Stock Exchange of Thailand; they learnt the benefits of travelling by Skytrain (BTS) and found plenty of evening entertainment venues to explore. Of course shopping was on the agenda, in both Pattaya and Bangkok, with visits to malls and street-markets.

Everyone enjoyed hands-on classes in Thai Massage, fruit carving and cooking Thai food as well as an introduction to the Thai language and Muay Thai boxing. The students heard about the Art of Meditation from Pra Suchart at Wat Yan, and gave alms to a group of monks early one morning at the university.

The Special Guest speaker this year was Mr. Chung Po-yang (Po Chung) OBE, SBS, JP, a co-founder of DHL International, and a very successful entrepreneur. This lecture was open to the public and Po Chung came with his wife, and told everyone about his life, so far, before telling us about his many business and philanthropic ventures. His talk was an inspiration to the young students who are just starting their working lives.

Some of the comments on the course included “Awesome!”, “Very well organized”, “I liked the chance to talk with the lecturers” and “The mix of international students.”

Staff at Asian University are now starting to plan for Summer University 2010.









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Successes for fourth year Engineering student Pro

Ms. Varittha Sanphuang, a fourth-year electrical and electronic engineering (EE) student, won an IEEE MTT-S (Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship of US $1,500 to carry out her research during 2009-2010 at Asian University. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. Only six students around the world have received this IEEE scholarship this year. She will work on the following research topics, “Analysis and Design of Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Metamaterials and Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Line (NRI-TL) Metamaterials Using Equivalent Transmission-Line Models with New Graphical Tools.”

In addition, she also won an IEEE AP-S (Antennas and Propagation Society) Pre-Doctoral Research Award of US $1,000 during 2009-2010. For this research award, she will work on a similar research topic as above. Her research projects will be carried out under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr. Danai Torrungrueng, a senior IEEE member, at Asian University. These scholarships will be used to support her in attending international EE conferences. She expects to publish journal and conference papers based on her research work. Let’s congratulate Ms. Varittha for her excellent academic achievement.