Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (Thai: สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนานาชาติสิรินธร) (SIIT) is a semi-autonomous institute of technology established in 1992 within Thammasat University. It is located in Pathum Thani, Thailand. Known as one of the premier research universities in Thailand, it offers a range of science, technology and engineering education, as well as related management programs. All of them are international programs, with English language as a medium of instructions. The institute is part of the LAOTSE network, an international cooperation of leading universities in Europe and Asia. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Pathum Thani (Thai ปทุมธานี) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... LAOTSE (Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange) is an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. ... DAAD can have several meanings: German_Academic_Exchange_Service Direct action against drugs, a cover name for the Irish Republican Army This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... International Quality Networks (IQN) (German: Internationales QualitätsNetz) is a multi-year research and academic collaboration funding scheme sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministriy for Education and Research (BMBF). ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Institute of technology, and polytechnic, are designations employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Thammasat University (Thai: ), formerly known as the University of Moral and Political Science (Thai: ), is the second oldest university in Thailand and is one of the most prestigious universities in the country. ... Pathum Thani (Thai ปทุมธานี) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... LAOTSE (Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange) is an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. ... This article is very long. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

Although it is an academic unit of Thammasat University, and graduates of the institute receive Thammasat University degrees, the institute is self-administered and financed (this is more or less like a 'Deemed University' in India.) Deemed University is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. ...

Being a research-led academic institution in nature, from the most recent performance evaluation (Academic Year 2003) by the university, the institute has the highest number of research publications (both in raw quantity and per graduate student heads), compare to other academic units in the university^[5].

History

During the 9th Japan-Thailand Joint Trade and Economic Committee Meeting held in Kobe, Japan in 1989, all of the delegates from the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) realized that in order to enhance industrial development of Thailand, engineers with working knowledge of English are needed. Therefore, it was recommended that engineering programs, where all lecture and laboratory courses would be taught in English by highly qualified faculty members with doctoral degrees, be established. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Japan Business Federation (日本経済団体連合会) is a comprehensive economic organization born in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers Associations). ... Formerly known as the Association of Thai Industries (ATI), the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) came into existence on December 29, 1987. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

A cooperation agreement among Keidanren, FTI, and Thammasat University was reached in 1992 to establish bachelor degree programs in engineering at Thammasat University with initial funds provided by Keidanren and FTI. After two years of operation, the "International Institute of Technology (IIT)" was founded on September 16, 1994. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously presided over the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony of a new building at the Rangsit Center of Thammasat University using part of the initial fund. Then, on June 28, 1996, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand graciously granted the Institute a new name, "Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT)." On October 2, 1997, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously presided over the Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology's Inauguration Ceremony of its name and building. In June 2001, the former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun inaugurated a new campus at Bangkadi Industrial Park. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (Thai สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนานาชาติสิรินธร) (SIIT) is an autonomous technological university within Thammasat University, located in Pathum Thani, Thailand. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Thai: ; Som det phra thep phra rat raat cha su daa Chao fa Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Ratha si ma ku na korn pi ya chat Siam ba rom ma raat cha ku maa ree) is an extremely popular princess of Thailand... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thai: ; IPA: ; Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet;  ) (born December 5, 1927), officially styled the Great (Thai: มหาราช, Maharaja) and also known as Rama IX, is the current King of Thailand. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anand Panyarachun (born August 9, 1932) was Thailands Prime Minister twice, between 1991-1992 and once again in 1992. ...

Administration and Financial

Although it is a unit of Thammasat University, SIIT is financially and administratively separate from the central university system. SIIT's policies and operations are guided and supervised by the Board of Trustees which consists of representatives from Thammasat University, FTI, Nippon Keidanren, and scholars appointed by the university. In addition, the Academic Review Committee (ARC) comprising reputable scholars in various fields provides guidance and recommendations on academic and research matters. The Institute, headed by the Director, consists of four administrative divisions, a library and information services center, and six academic schools, with fifteen academic programs. Japan Business Federation (日本経済団体連合会) is a comprehensive economic organization born in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers Associations). ...

For its financial, as the instiute is an autonomous (semi-private) body of Thammasat University, it gets no funding from the state, thus needs to find and manage its own income and spending. To starts its operation, the institute got initial funds from Keidanren and FTI. Parts of funding are grants from international organizations like Asian Development Bank, locals like industries and the Thailand Research Fund, and individual contributions. The rest of funding is from tuition fees, which is arguably high comparing to other state-funded academic institutes, but the The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. ...

Academics

One of SIIT's academic strength point, that the institute often point out in a student recruitment ads, is its high qualification of faculty members. Every faculty members are doctoral degree holders, with strong research and/or industrial experiences. From the eyes of general Thai students, they give the value to the institute's up-to-date courses, English as a language of instruction (which means language competency, and generally higher salary in the country), and being part of the prestigious Thammasat University. The institute is also considered among academic peers as a research intensive engineering school. Research output-wise, on average, each year each SIIT faculty member produces twice the highest value of national range for international journal publications (0.74 vs 0-0.41) ^[6].

Since not all of prospect students can afford the higher-than-national-average tuition fees, the institute initially faces a slight difficulty to recruit undergraduate students with a very high National University Entrance Examination score. While scholarships and special recruitment programs do help attract a lot of bright students, its average entrance score is still not very high comparing to other leading science and engineering programs in the country – which, in turns, quite affects the image of the institute in the eyes of Thais. Due to latest Entrance Examination score, the school is comparatively easy for most student to get admitted. The average entrance score of admitted student is still low and makes the program not competitive.

However, the undergraduate recruitment situation is improving by years, especially for its IT and management-related majors, which now have relatively very high entrance scores. With its strong science and technology education, the institute has been selected, along with Mahidol University and Chulalongkorn University, by Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), as a destination of selected group of top students from Mahidol Wittayanusorn School and 12 Princess Chulaporn Schools for Science, the country's science schools for gifted students, in a program to mentor junior researchers for national science and technology development. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chulalongkorn University is the oldest university in Thailand [1] and has long been considered one of the countrys most prestigious universities. ... Thailands National Science and Technology Development Agency See also The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) National Research Centers National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC) National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) Thailand Science Park Software Park Thailand... Mahidol Wittayanusorn School is a science school in central Thailand, located in Salaya campus of Mahidol University. ...

For its graduate levels, the institute do attracts a lot of bright graduates, as the institute gain supports from many national and international bodies (and use that as scholarships for graduate students). SIIT is one of a very small numbers of universities which can secure numbers of Thailand Research Fund's Royal Golden Jubilee grants, considered to be the country's most prestigious researh grants for PhD students, for every single year since the program began in 1998 ^[7] — one of the only three which can secure Engineering discipline grants for every single year.

Schools

A number of undergraduate and research-based graduate programs are offered via six schools and one department.^[8] In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... A graduate school or grad school is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelors) degree. ...

School of Bio-Chemical Engineering and Technology 

hosts chemical engineering and environmental technology programs

School of Civil Engineering and Technology 

hosts civil engineering and structural engineering programs

School of Communications, Instrumentations and Control 

hosts communications program

School of Information and Computer Technology 

hosts information technology and computer science programs

School of Management Technology 

hosts management technology and engineering management programs

School of Manufacturing Systems and Mechanical Engineering 

hosts mechanical engineering and industrial engineering programs

Department of Common and Graduate Studies

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Cooperations

The Institute enjoys a strong link with many universities, remarkably with its neighbor Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and a group of Japanese universities and research centers, as well as a network of European universities such as DAAD International Quality Network (IQN) program and LAOTSE network. Locally, a remarkable collaborative network is the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, a group of leading Thai universities in environmental and energy technology area. Asian Institute of Technology environment The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is an international institution for higher education in engineering, advanced technologies, and management and planning. ... DAAD can have several meanings: German_Academic_Exchange_Service Direct action against drugs, a cover name for the Irish Republican Army This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... International Quality Networks (IQN) (German: Internationales QualitätsNetz) is a multi-year research and academic collaboration funding scheme sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Ministriy for Education and Research (BMBF). ... LAOTSE (Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange) is an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. ... The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE) (Thai: บัณฑิตวิทยาลัยร่วมด้านพลังงานและสิ่งแวด&#3621...

The Institute has established both faculty member and student exchange programs, as well as internship programs, with a number of universities and organizations in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. These programs allow faculty members to collaborate with their counterparts in research projects as well as students to have an opportunity to take engineering courses at these universities. Additionally, qualified foreign professors are invited to visit and conduct courses at SIIT regularly. World map showing the location of Asia. ... This article is very long. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

From their proximity location, SIIT, Thammasat University, AIT, Thailand Science Park, and research centers of NSTDA, share some of their facilities, including libraries and laboratories, with each other. In 1998, the Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (TGIST) has been established by NSTDA to further strengthen its collaborations with academics and industries, SIIT is among three major academic institutes in TGIST's "Thailand Science Park Collaboration". 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (TGIST) or in Thai สถาบันบัณฑิตวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีไทย established in 1998 by National Science and Technology Development Agency to develop man force in science and technology and bridge the industry with academics. ...

Campuses

Operations of SIIT are carried out at two locations, Thammasat University's Rangsit Center and Bangkadi. Both in Pathum Thani, which surrounded with many national research centers, high-tech industrial parks, universities, as well as Thailand Science Park and National Science Museum. The area is now known as the "Technology Cluster of North Bangkok". Thailand Science Park located in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok. ... National Science Museum is a science museum in Thailand. ...

Rangsit Campus

The Rangsit Campus is situated in the TU's Rangsit Center, approximately 42 kilometers north of Bangkok, just next to the Asian Institute of Technology and Thailand Science Park. The center served as the main host for the 13th Asian Games in 1998. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Asian Institute of Technology environment The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is an international institution for higher education in engineering, advanced technologies, and management and planning. ... Asian Games Logo The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

Bangkadi Campus

Located in Bangkadi Industrial Park, the Bangkadi Campus is about 15 kilometers away southeast from the Rangsit Campus. The information technology program moved to this facility in June 2002. The management technology, instrumentation and control systems, and the telecommunications programs also moved to Bangkadi in May 2003. It also houses all new ICT-related programs, for example, a computer science program. In late 2004, the new building Sirindhralai (Thai: สิรินธราลัย), named after Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, has been opened to accommodate the telecommunications, instrumentation and control systems, and mechatronics programs. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The initialism ICT has several meanings: abbreviation for Information and Communication Technology abbreviation for Indochina Time UTC+7 hours Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C., a football team playing in Scottish Premier League International Computers and Tabulators, former name of a British computer industry company Information and Communications Technology intra-company... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Addresses

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Rangsit Campus

P.O. Box 22 Thammasat University, Rangsit Center

Pathumthani 12121, Thailand

Tel +66 (0) 2986 9009, 2986 9101, 2564 3221-9

Fax +66 (0) 2986 9112-3

Rangsit Campus contact list

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Bangkadi Campus

131 Moo 5, Tiwanont Road, Bangkadi

Muang, Pathumthani 12000, Thailand

Tel +66 (0) 2501 3505-20

Fax +66 (0) 2501 3524

Bangkadi Campus contact list

See also

• Education in Thailand — List of universities in Thailand
• Thammasat University — Nihon Keidanren — Federation of Thai Industries
• Education and Technology in Pathum Thani province

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References

1. ^ SIIT website, Faculty members and Contact numbers
2. ^ SIIT 2006 Graduate Catalog and 2005 Annual R&D Report
3. ^ SIIT Annaul Report, Academic Year 2005 p. 6 (averaged over two semesters)
4. ^ SIIT Annaul Report, Academic Year 2005 p. 6 (averaged over two semesters)
5. ^ 12-months duty report (Academic Year 2003) by Quality Assurance Division, Academic Affairs Department, Thammasat University. (overview & criteria, chart chart in Google cache) (in Thai)
6. ^ SIIT Annaul Report, Academic Year 2004 p. 8
7. ^ Awarding of Royal Golden Jubilee
8. ^ SIIT 2005 Undergraduate catalog

• Nishino, Fumio and Taweep Chaisomphob, 1997, A New Challenge for the Establishment of Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at Thammasat University, Thailand, Inauguration of the Institute's New Name 'Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology', Commemorative publication, pp.18-24.
• 10th Anniversary Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
• Commemorative Publication: 10th Anniversary of the Name Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

External links

Institute Websites

• SIIT official website
• SIIT International Office for all international affairs including training, student exchange (in-bound/out-bound), visiting faculty, and scholarships
• Research Groups
  • Ergonomics and Safety Solutions Group
  • Knowledge Information & Data Management Laboratory
  • A New Software for 5-Axis Machining, Optimization, Simulation, and Verification Project
  • Mobile Soccer Robot Group (RoboCup)
  • Image and Vision Computing Laboratory

In the News

• 10th Anniversary Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
• Back to the drawing board (Bangkok Post, 1999) -- about engineering/technology education/research in Thailand
• Engineering & Technology Education in Thailand (TransWorldEducation.com)
• SIIT สถาบันการศึกษาของเด็กไทยหัวใจอินเตอร์ (in Thai) (Manager Online, 16 Feb 2005)
• Sandhya Babel answers a few questions about this month's fast breaking paper in field of Engineering. (ISI Essential Science Indicators, December 2004)

Others

• SIIT Network — Online community
• Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at the Open Directory Project (suggest site)