New post graduate programmes from the Faculty of Engineering

Creating motivation and spirit to prevent the widespread of drugs

At Auditorium 1 at the College at Asian University on the 27 October 2009, Colonel Doctor Sumol Nakchalerm gave a lecture to an audience of College students from grades 10 to 12

Mr. Sirivetch Rodsavas, Grade 10 Science, wrote the following, after attending the lecture.

“I learned about the value of life from the lecture. In my opinion everyone should understand it. If we all understand the value of life, Thailand will be a better place. Some people worship money. They can die for money. They break laws just to reach their monetary goals.

Drugs dealing is understood to yield easy money. Children fall victims of drugs because they don’t understand the true harms of it. Children are eager to try new things and follow their friends. Taking drugs leads on to other societal problems. It’s the basis of child terrorism. Drugs are given to children to wipe out their fears in which they can commit terrorism; sometimes suicide terror. Drugs are also the base of human trafficking, victims of drugs need money to buy more. Children are not capable of employment with sufficient pay to buy drugs. If we all understand the value of life, it will be the key factor that will solve these problems and bring happiness to us all.”

The College students share time and happiness with a group of underprivileged children

From Ajarn Apple and Om

Some volunteer students from the College from grades 10, 11 and 12, Ajarn Sasibussaba Papol and some of the College teachers went to Jing Jai children’s center, Pattaya Klang, Chonburi on Saturday, 12th September 2009.

The children, who are in the center, are poor and have no houses or parents to take care of them. Therefore, our College students gave them lunch, some sweet meal, and some small gifts to the children. Additionally, the volunteers showed dances and songs to entertain the children to make them happy. All the volunteers enjoyed their time, as they made an effort to do good, and they were really happy to spend time at Jing Jai.

Of course it also made them appreciate how lucky they all are.

Engineering students visit Industrial wastewater treatment plant

On Thursday, 22 October, a group of engineering students and lecturers from Asian University joined a visit organised by the British and German Chambers of Commerce. Everyone met at the offices of Hemaraj Land and Development Plc in the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Rayong) where there was a presentation about Hemaraj, its Industrial Estates, customers, and Green Management.

Hemaraj was founded in 1998 and has 13,000 acres in six industrial estates in the Eastern Seaboard. With the current emphasis on environmental issues, Hemaraj publish all their environmental monitoring results on their website. Then there was a short talk about the Constructed Wetlands on the estate, which had initially been used for tertiary treatment of effluent, but is now used for secondary treatment as well. There are two Constructed Wetlands, vertical flow ponds, in series.

The group then visited the constructed wetlands to have a look for themselves.

Everyone drove to The Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Chonburi) to the offices of Waste Management Siam (WMS). General Manager John Hamilton showed us a video about WMS and then gave a short talk before we visited the landfill and the waste water treatment plant.

The photos show some of the students and staff from Asian University on the visit.

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Robot Camp

Earlier this month, around forty boys from Assumption College, Bangrak, came to Asian University for a Robot Camp.

Most of the boys are members of the Robot Club at their college and some have represented Assumption at international competitions in Thailand and overseas.

The boys, aged from 11 to 17, divided into teams to make and programme their robots to play “football”. Goalkeepers or defenders were made by the organisers, and were all programmed in the same way.

The five day camp included plenty of fun activities as well as the serious business of making the robots. Tuition was by Asian University engineering students and some of their friends who had all been members of the Robot Club at Assumption College.

The robots are made using a set of components from Lego, which allows plenty of opportunity for inventive designs, and the programme used is Robolab, again allowing students to design the robots to react in different ways.

At the trial competition, the team of Asian University student organisers (including Muay, and other non engineering students) won. But when they played for the final knock-out championship, the winners were Blooming (from the College at Asian University) and his brother Beamy.

Congratulations to all concerned: the Asian University students for organizing, and the youngsters for taking part.

The winners, brothers Blooming and Beamy

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Asian University Engineering students visit District Cooling and Power Plant at Suvarnabhumi

Generator

On Wednesday October 7^th several final year Mechanical Engineering students from Asian University visited the District Cooling System and Power Plant Co., Ltd. (DCAP). This is located 2km from Suvarnabhumi international airport and it provides 48MW of power to Suvarnabhumi, meeting all of its electrical needs. This is a unique power plant in Thailand because it not only generates electricity from both a gas and a steam turbine but it uses the waste heat to provide chilled water for the air conditioning systems at Suvarnabhumi. It was the first of its kind in Thailand and as a result attracts over 1,000 visitors per year mostly from Industrial and Academic environments.

Thai airways catering

Steam turbine

Upon their arrival the students were greeted by Mr. Darunporn Kamolpus the vice president of DCAP who gave a technical presentation and a guided tour of the impressive facilities. They were accompanied by two lecturers from the Engineering faculty at Asian University, Dr. Rajesh Kempegowda and Dr. James Moran. It was an interesting field trip and gave the students to opportunity to experience practical applications of engineering to compliment their classroom studies.

Heat exchanger

Diesel storage tank

The photographs give an indication of the size of the plant.

Gas turbines

Adsorption chiller

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Commencement Day 2009

Wednesday 23 September 2009 was a very special day for the graduating students at Asian university; Lord Ronald Oxburgh was on hand, as he has been for the past nine years, to confer degree certificates.


The University President, Dr. Viphandh Roengpithya welcomed Lord Oxburgh and the assembled graduands, parents, students, friends and faculty members to the tenth Commencement or Graduation Day. He spoke about the founding of the university and how the alumni from previous years are moving upwards in their careers in Thailand and elsewhere. He wished this year’s graduates success with their lives, and hoped that they would remember their time at Asian University as something special.

Lord Oxburgh then gave each graduand their certificate, along with a few words of congratulation and good wishes. As the university has progressed, new programmes have been added, and this year saw the first graduates from the Master of Science (Management), Master of Education (TESOL) and Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia programmes.


After the formality of the certificate presentation, Lord Oxburgh addressed the audience, especially the new graduates, and spoke of some of the challenges that they will have to face as they start their careers; changing climates, diminishing worldwide resources, and other major issues. He concluded by asking the graduates to thank their families, friends and employers for the support they have received during their time at Asian University. Many of the graduands were not able to be at the ceremony as they are now pursuing their studies overseas, or working in other countries.


Dr. Viphandh also bid a formal farewell and thanked Robert Shrubsall for all his hard work; Robert is retiring after eight years at the University and as the first Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts.


Afterwards, everyone posed with their friends and families for photographs inside and outside the university buildings.


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